Krista Ramsey

              I read the column titled Coach stands by kid charged in DeSales Market crime. The column was about a basketball coach whose player had put on Halloween masks with friends and robbed a store with a fake gun. the coach had taken the kid in as his own in a way and stood by the kids team during the whole thing, Krista wrote to the kid in jail form her and the coaches perspective. I thought the line that says, "And the guys who always takes your calls." This line has an impact because it really shows how much the Coach cares for the kid and shows how much he wants to be there for him, most coaches wouldn't be there as much as he is. The line has informal diction but it has so much meaning behind it that it works as a line. It also is a fragment and starts with the word "and", which adds some cool syntax to it.

            Ramsey uses a lot of spacing in her writing and strong vocabulary. She also doesn't always do her columns just from her specific and her audience isn't always multiple people sometimes it's directed to one or a few specific people. She also adds a lot of opinion to her writing to get her point across and makes you actively read like you're talking to her not juts reading it. For example she says, "The result?", it is almost in a way directed towards you. When she's talking to a specific person she makes it sound like she's talking to you but she's not like, "That probably doesn't surprise you." Overall her writing is very interesting and she makes you get hooked to continue reading by having good lines and flow throughout her columns.

3 Questions I would ask her:

1. What made you become a writer and have you always liked writing?
2. How long have you been writing columns?
3. How do you decide what to write about and then how to go upon writing it?

Krista Ramsey Column

Predictions

     So far I'm on chapter 4 of Divergent which isn't to far but there's been a lot of detail so far. Right now she just had her aptitude test and she found out she was Divergent which means you are more than one faction. The problem is you're not supposed to be more than one faction, it's considered bad in there world since everyone is supposed to have their own role and be in basically one category of types of people. She is struggling with which faction to choose. There's dauntless which is the fearless group and she's always looked up to them. Then there's erudite which is the "smart" people and she's never been bad in school but she worries she won't fit in. Then there's her home abnegation, she loves how kind and caring they all are but she doesn't feel like she fits in, she thinks she's not genuine enough, the only  problem is that's where her family is.

     Beatrice is struggling to decide where to go. There's pros and cons at every single faction she is "fit" to go in. My predictions are that she is not going to go to erudite. I think she feels like she won't fit in enough there and she doesn't always like how they act and treat others. I think she is really stuck between abnegation and dauntless. I have seen the movie so I know what she picks but the book is really leading me to no where like if i had not seen the movie I would have no clue. The book is making you think that if she can get over leaving her family then she'll pick dauntless but if she doesn't think about herself then she'll stay in abnegation. I'm excited to see how the book plays it out and shows how she decides where to go.

Why I Chose Divergent

A few weeks ago I went and saw Divergent with some friends. It was by far one of the best movies I've seen lately. I'm a Hunger Gmaes fanatic which is a big reason why I chose to see the movie and read the book. They both are a different type of society and make you think in a completely different way. You have to think more about survival and making big decisions which sometimes are life and death.

What makes me have the motivation to read and finish the book is how much the movie made me think, just makes me imagine how much I'll have to think with more details from the book. Also I don't nomally read long books and Divergent is a longer book than what I usually read. It being a longer book makes me want to get through it faster and it would be an accomplishment for me to not lose attention and read a longer book. I've only read one chapter at this point but so far it is as good or even better than I expected. I hope the more and more I read the better it gets.

Farenheit 451 Characterizaiton

Clarisse is a 17 year old girl. I see her a skinny, really pretty blonde. I think she would be a very fit person, possibly athletic. I think her personality is really outgoing, I also find her to be smart and clever. She knows things other people don't and she's not scared to talk about all that. I think she is really fearless. She is curious and doesn't follow the way of life everyone else does.  I think she is going to cause Montag to start a rebellion over her memory.

An important quote she said is "You know I'm not afraid of you at all." (pg.11) This is important because it shows how she's not like everyone else, since everyone else is so afraid of the firemen and what they'll do. This quote shows how she's not afraid to be honest about how she feels and what she thinks about the world. An important quote said about her would be "'You are an odd one,' he said, looking at her." (pg.12) This is important because it shows that even other people know that she's different from everyone else and that she doesn't follow all the rules of the society. It shows how people think being deifferent is weird and not normal when really it should be normal and okay to be different, everyone shouldn't be the same and Clarisse knows that.

The movie

I have seen the first half of the movie i haven't had time to finish the whole movie yet. I'm excited to finish the movie though, it has been really good so far. I think Angelina Jolie has done an amazing job representing Susanna as a character.The director has really made the book and movie go together and has represented the book very well. I hope they have a good ending to the movie because if not I'd be very disappointed about it.

Theme

My book has so much go on throughout the whole thing, it is hard to find just one theme.I would say the overall theme is to never let others bring you down because you can one day show them they were wrong. I think this the theme because Susanna was told for so long that she was crazy and kind of that she didn't mean anything. she was left with no one and nothing. In the end she showed everyone they were wrong by getting back up on her feet. After she had gone through so much stuff at the mental institution, she definately proved everyone wrong.

Video from movie about book

This video is from the first 10 minutes of the movie based on the book. This is all I have seen from the movie and it seems to be showing in the book in a good way. I want to see the rest now since it so far has been good. This part of the book is when Susanna gets her assessment which puts her into the mental institution. Hopefully when you watch it, it makes you want to read the book and watch the movie.