Post 7: Book 4 review

                In the 3^rd book of the Maze Runner Series the Death Cure, I believe that Thomas is a hero in the book. I believe that he is an epic hero. I think this because he is on this long and treacherous journey trying to help find a cure for a terrible plague that has taken over the entire world. He is battling with a terrible company called WICKED, who says that they are trying to help find a cure for this disease which is called the Flare. The flare is a virus that eats at the rational part of your brain. After you have the disease for long enough you go crazy never knowing what is right or wrong, rational or irrational. WICKED told everybody that they would find a cure if they had all of the money and the people who are immune.

They made these “trials” to supposedly help find a cure but in reality they just wanted an excuse to torture, destroy and murder a bunch of kids. They tore them away from their families. Thomas was taken from his family when he was just a young boy and had worked for WICKED for a very long time, thinking that he was doing the right thing but during the Maze trials Thomas got put into the maze and saw first-hand how bad the trials were and how bad it was affecting the people in the maze. When he got his friends and himself out of the maze they had to go through yet another trial The Scorch Trials. This was where Thomas and his friends met people who helped them through the maze and then to escape from WICKED headquarters. When they finally got out they found a group called the Right Arm who hated WICKED just as much as they did. They joined up with the Right Arm to help them defeat WICKED and get back their money to try to help save everybody else from obtaining the disease.

Thomas is an epic hero because he has no super powers but he is very brave and he will do anything to save his friends even if it means he has to go back to the place that he hates and escaped from. An example of this is “’ you can drop me off a few miles away and let me hike in. I’ll pretend I’ve come back to finish the Trials.’”(Dashner page 238)  This quote shows how he knew that he was going to have to go back to the place he fled from but he wants to take them down so badly that he will go back to help the Right Arms chances at winning. If Thomas had not agreed to go back to WICKED to help save the rest of his country and the Right Arm then they would not have been able to help stop WICKED from ruining more kid’s lives and wasting more money.

Thomas was so ready to help the Right arm stop WICKED from hurting anybody else that he was not prepared to see his buddy Newt with a bunch of Cranks or people who have the Flare. He contracted the Flare during The Scorch trials. He was just standing in the middle of the rode staring at Thomas. Newt was so mad at Thomas because he had asked him to kill him but Thomas couldn’t kill one of his best friends. An example of this is “’KILL ME!’ And then Newt’s eyes cleared as if he’d gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. ‘Please Tommy. Please.’ With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.”(Dashner page 250) This quote shows how Newt was pleading Thomas to put him out of his memory but Thomas couldn’t do it unless he looked away from him.

I believe that Thomas is an epic hero because he does not have super powers but he goes on a great journey, he has a bunch of friends (allies) who help him, he is smart, brave, and he overcomes his fears to try and protect his friends.

Post 10:Reading Wishlist

Some Books that I hope to read in the Future are:
The Kill Order by James Dashner
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Let It Snow by John Green
An Abundance Of Katherines By John Green
Looking For Alaska by John Green
 These are just a few books that I would like to read in the near Future.

Post 9: Book 2 Trailer

Post 8: Book Talk Presentation

Book 3 Listicle

          The Maze runner has become much more popular since coming out with the movie. The Scorch Trials has especially become popular because people want to read the book before seeing the movie, which will be coming out next year. All of the books in this Trilogy are bound to prevail and sell multiple books. Here are five reasons that The Scorch Trials are interesting and what they tend to have in common with other books that a lot of people are reading now.

Reason 1: Thomas is the Hero

In this book Thomas learns that he is one of the real leader of his group, “Thomas, You’re The Real Leader” (Dashner page 207). He realizes that he has to do everything in his power to get his friends to safety, and has found out that he was one of the founders of the organization that has put him and his friends through everything that they have. Since Thomas helped create the organization he wants to help get his friends out. This is just like the Hunger Games when Katniss is the people from all of the District’s savior and the person who started the rebellion and has to work extremely hard in order to beat the people who have been controlling them for such a long time and help to save all of her friends and save Peeta from the Capital.

Reason 2: He is responsible for the start of everything

Thomas is responsible for the start of WICKED and putting his friends and him for all of these terrible things and he works as hard as he can and does everything in his power to help get his friends out of the mess he helped put them in. Katniss is responsible for starting a rebellion against the Capital and she feels that she has to save everyone that she can and to save everyone.

Reason 3: They fight for their lives

While in the scorch Thomas, Minho, Newt and all of the other gladers before they got saved from the second trials and they knew that they had to fight as hard as they could. “The monster let out a roar this time-a sound almost exactly like the haunted moans of the grievers-and dropped to the ground, thrashing its arms, trying to impale Thomas. Thomas spun away rolling three times as he heard metal tips scraping along the dirt-packed ground"(Dashner page 333).this is just like in the Hunger games when Latinas and her friends go after and fight for as long as they can to beat the capital and bring peace back to the districts

Reason 4: They play Games

The people who made the maze and put the Gladers through the scorch Trials, WICKED, are playing games with the Gladers. They are lying to them saying “He was safe now, rescued and delivered to this dormitory. No more worries. No more Grievers. No more death” (Dashner page 1). This quote shows how Thomas believed that him and the Gladers were finally safe and were done with the maze, when in reality WICKED was lying to them. This is just like in the book Divergent when the leader of Erudite tricks the Dauntless people and makes them go after the Abnegation with a serum.

Reason 5: They have a love Triangle

Thomas is in love with Teresa but when he comes to the Scorch she has to betray him and she breaks his heart. And so while he is in the Scorch he meets a girl named Brenda. She starts to fall for him and he does also. This is Just like in The Hunger Games when Katniss and Peeta have to “fall in love” but her best friend Gale has fallen for her and she feels bad for Peeta and Gale because she doesn’t think that she is as good enough for either of them and she doesn’t know what to do.

My topic matters because it shows just how similar it is to other books in this Genre. I think that The Maze Runner Series is the most closely related to The Hunger Games. They both have great plots and love triangles and heroes and everything that I think about when I want to read an action packed book with just a dab of love/romance.

 

 

How truthfull should a Non-fiction book be?

I think that in order for a book to be considered as Non-Fiction the book should be about 98% to 100% true. I think that if it is any less than it should not be considered Non-Fiction because if books can be considered Non-Fiction but have a pretty good amount of the book not true then what's the point of having a Fiction, Non-Fiction barrier? Oprah says that it is not right to say that everything in a book is true if it actually isn't true at all. I agree with her because if you say that all of it is true but we find out that some of it really isn't true then you begin to wonder if the rest of the book is a lie also.

I think that we do need to have lines between different genres. I think this because if there aren't lines and you need to use a book for a project you never really know if it is actually true or not. Also if you don't know what genre you are reading you will be really confusing. If I wanted to read a specific genre I would never know which book is that genre because they don't have a label. This is why I believe that David Shields is wrong. I also don't agree with Frey that half-truths are ok. I think that if you call a book a memoir, it should be a memoir not a book with a bunch of half-truths. A memoir is meant to be full of truth and what actually what happened not what sounds best. If a writer wants to make a book that sounds really good then make it Fiction.

Post #4 Adapting my Book

1.      I would make this book a film because it wouldn't make sense as a T.V show because it doesn't have the right set up for it like, for example Pretty Little Liars was set up for a T.V show. It also would not work for a musical because it isn't fluffy for one like needed. For example High school music was fluffy with a little bit of conflict to keep it interesting but The Maze Runner is way to intense for it.
2.      You have to keep in order the beginning when Thomas comes up in the box because if that doesn't happen until later then you wouldn't have a movie until he shows up because he is a main character in the story/movie.
3.      In the movie they add a ceremony on the night that Thomas gets there and I think that it added a lot to the movie because it was put in the movie instead of putting in the part where Chuck and Thomas pull a prank on Gally. I thought that the prank was very irrelevant to what was going on in the Glade.
4.      I think that the casting choices that the directors made were very good and that they fulfilled what I was expecting most the characters to look like. Therefore I wouldn't have made any changes to the cast.
5.      Some of the unique parts that I saw in the movie was when Thomas makes the decision to run into the glade and then has to spend the night out there with Minnho and then makes them be the first people to make it the night in the Glade and also the very first person to ever kill a griever. I would keep that and I would have added that part to the book because in the book they just find a dead griever which is a lot less interesting.

 

Book Project one

 

Have you ever wanted to go on an adventure with a favorite character of yours? Well now you can with the characters of Paper Towns. Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q, Radar, Ben, and Lacey all go on adventures, but not the way you think. Margo is a very adventurous kind of girl. Every time she has run away she has left clues as to where she was going. For example: when she ran away to Mississippi she ate alphabet soup and left the letters m-i-s-s. She is best friends with Lacey, and Next door neighbors with Q. They are all seniors in high school. Now you can buy Margo’s notebook that has everything about her feelings to her eccentric plans.

            Wherever Margo goes, she goes with her book. She has to have it with her wherever she goes. She doesn't write normally though. “’I've been crosshatching over that story for years now…’” (pg. 299) this is the way she has been writing just so that nobody can decode it. She has been taking that book with her wherever she goes and writing stories and plans, anything you can think of. “’ this goes back a long way. When I was in, like, fourth grade…’” (pg.289). This shows just how long she has had this book and how much she loved it. If you have her notebook you will understand how she would think when she was making plans and clues for when she left or snuck into places. I think that my idea will work because Margo is one of the most essential characters in this story and without her or her notebook we would never understand the reason for her leaving and how she came up with her clues and plans for getting out.  “If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”(pg.346) This quote to me is telling us that if she hadn't ever thought of all the things she wrote in her book, that nothing would've ever happened, like her running away to Mississippi, and New York, and leaving all of those clues to where she was and to where they could find her. This notebook shows her heart and soul and how she planned everything and how she thought of herself, Q, and her dog. Those thoughts were located in her notebook in her first short story, which she wrote when she was around 10 and then kept changing it up until now and she was still revising it when Q found her in a shack in New York. I believe that this idea will work because I think a lot of people would like to see all of Margo Roth Spiegelman’s thoughts, stories, and plan’s to get out and how she set up her clues. This Idea will make the audience have to read through the entire book in order to see just where the book comes into play and why it is so important in the book.

 

                                                                                                                           Margo Roth Spiegelman has had that book since she was just a little girl in the fourth grade who had a crush on Q and had a great imagination but felt like a paper girl that need to live in a little paper town in a little paper house, so she started planning and sketching and thinking of ideas to where she could run away and the clues that she would leave behind to let her parents and the detectives know where she was without making it very obvious. I believe that by running away to all of these different places and by breaking into some of them she was building up her courage and experience for when she decided that she needed to leave for good. And the book is proof of what she planned and how she figured out to break into some of the places that she did.

What is a Book?

  A book is something that can transport you to a certain point in time in your book. It can take you to that exact moment and can take your imagination to a whole new level. A book is something that you should always have on hand so that at any point during the day you can be transported to your own little world. Your book is like your best friend. Your book can transport you to a different world whenever you want to.

  

   I agree with Joe Meno when he says "the idea of  the book is more important than the actual form it takes..." I agree with this statement because It doesn't matter on what surface you read the book, its about what the words on the surface say. I do not agree with Tom Piazza however because he says "If everything's the same size, there's no perspective." i don't agree with this post because there still is perspective. To me it isn't about what surface the book is on, it's about what the book is saying.

   I do not think that it matters what form a book takes but i also think that there is something to having the book in person. Nancy Joe Sales explains this very well saying"There's something about the physicality of a book, the way it looks and feels and even smells--the notes written in the margin--that makes a living,breathing companion." This shows me how even though e-books are just as good as actual books, there is still something special about having the book in your hands. I also agree with what Joe Meno says in this quote "Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it." i agree with this quote because with a book you have to use your imagination but with a television show or a movie or even a play, you don't use your imagination at all because they have already made up there  mind on what they want us to imagine when we see there production.









post #1

    I read for pleasure. I like to read in my free time to educate myself in a fun and interesting way. When I read I feel as though I am in that scenario. It feel's so real and vivid I feel I could climb into the book and become a part of it.
    I also read to educate myself. while I'm reading don't even know that I'm learning. its interesting when i finish reading and then i look back and really think about how much i've learned.
   i read so that i can expand my vocabulary. while i'm reading i don't even realize that i'm using context clues in order to understand the word.