Lit Book Response. Carpe Diem. Question3

Someone I could compare to Vassar is me. I think we have a lot of similarities and differences. The way we are similar is i like to over acheive in everything i do just like Vassar. I like to be better than some people at times with my grades and most of the time i have to be perfect. I also like to do better than my best. School is also very important to me like it is to Vassar. I mostly think that Vassar and i have most differences. I would never plan ahead two years like Vassar did. I also would never be in a Latin group cause I think that would be to difficult. Another difference is that she is in High school and im in Middle school. I think that Vassar is really different than me but we also did have some similarities.

Diamonds In the Shadow response. 11-11-09 answer of the two questions assigned.

The turning point for Alake was when she talked to Victor when he was at the Finche's house and Mopsy was about to open the two plastic containers to get the diamonds. She was covering for Mopsy because the diamonds was not in the two containers. She took Victor to another place and stalled and when she got the chance she pulled him into the freezing cold water with her and killed him so he wouldn't put harm to Mopsy, Jared, or Mattu. Because, after Alake took him to the water Jared and Mattu showed up in Daniel's car to save Mopsy and Alake. I think that was the turning point for Alake because through the whole book she never talked to nobody never and then she started talking to Victor at the Finche's house after she saw that there was no diamonds in the containers. But, the book said she could only talk to the evil so she probably won't talk again like she talked to Victor.
The character that i think changed the most was Alake. At the beginning of the story Alake was quite, never talked, never communicated in anyway, and never payed attention to anybody or what they had to say. In the middle of the book Alake started to get a little better at that stuff and stopped ignoring people when they talked to her and she started admiring herself in the mirror after Mopsy gave her a hair cut and made her look clean by putting a red dress on her and painting her nails red. Towards the end of the book Alake watched Mopsy type on a computer an email and then tryed it. It wasn't really readable but after Alake tryed it again and spaced the words out she wrote it perfect in the email and it said I LOVE JOPSY! But, it was suppose to say Mopsy. After that Tay brought Alake over a puppy because of what she achieved by typing the email to her. She started to love the puppy very much and she played with it. At the end of the book Alake spoke again finally for the first time in America. She spoke to Victor though and the book said she could only speak to evil but she wanted to speak to the nice people but she just couldn't. So, she probably will never speak again. Then at the very end of the book she risked her life for her friends and pulled Victor into freezing cold water with her so he wouldn't hurt or harm Mopsy in anyway. This is why i think Alake was the one who changed the most from beginning to the end of the novel.

10-16 assignment

I infer that maybe the African family is not really related. Maybe Alake and Mattu was adopted into that family in Africa and then brought to America together. Or, another thing i can infer is that maybe Alake and Mattu worked harder than the other two kids because Alake's face was thin and bony. Maybe, she was starved to death or something like that. Then the book said Mattu's bone structer looked like a statue of some ancient Greek god maybe someone didn't treat him right or he couldv'e been one of the boys that had to go to war. Andre and Clesestine probably was two of the kids that was treated better in Africa so possibly thats why their bone structure wasn't as bad as Alake and Mattu's.This is the reasons why i think Andre and Celestine have a different bone structure than Alake and Mattu. I read the rest of the page and nothing else said anything about their bone structure so i couldn't support my inference.

Each Little Bird That SIngs

After reading the first chapter of this book Each Little Bird That Sings i wasn't very interested in this book and at first it didn't pull me in and get my attention. I almost abandon it but i thought i might read just a little more to see if it got any more exciting. Finally after like the second chapter and a half it started to get more and more interesting. If you are reading a real real boring part of this book and you want to put it down a real exciting part pops up right in front of your eyes. After i got to like the fifth chapter of this book i never wanted to stop reading because no longer was there a boring part. It was always exciting because every problem in this book lead to another one and kept going on and on. It seemed to me in this book the Climax never ends!!!