Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Authors note: I’m writing this piece to interest people in my book. I am also writing this to tell you how in matter of second thing can turn from good to bad.
                                           Good things turn bad
Do you like books? Well I do and these books are my favorite. HOLES and MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD these books have a lot thing in common and things that aren’t in common. They are very good books. The books have very good topics in both books they have to fight for their freedom. They both work hard and it pays off in the end. These books have a lot in common they want to see their family and their always helping someone. I think these book are a lot alike and different they are both good books and they should be read. These books are very good and recommended by me and other friends.            These characters have a lot in common they both have parents that cared about them. In both books they love to talk to their parents. Sam liked to talk to his mom more than his dad but he still would talk to him and Stanley he would talk to everyone he would talk to anyone he could. He also helped Zero talk witch nobody thought he could but Stanley helped come over his fear and he started talking to him. They are both doing a lot of hard things in their life. Sam he is off fighting in the war trying not to get killed. Stanley is off digging holes for something he didn’t do, but he doesn’t care because he meets Zero and they turn out to be best friends.           He is sent to all boys camp because Zero threw shoes that were belonged to a pro and he donated them, and Zero took them off threw them off the bridge and hit Stanley and he picked them up the cops came and he got sentenced to an all boy’s camp. I think this was actually a good thing because then he wouldn’t have met Zero.  They wouldn’t have turned into best friends but all the guys at the camp were friends. I think the main conflict was the three people that were in charge that was a big problem.   Sam dad ended up dying because he was thought of as a trader, so he was arrested and threw on ship and died crossing the sea. Sam wants to be in the war but his dad is trying to stop him but he can’t. Then his Sam needs to take his families gun so he can fight in the war.          I think both these books are good and I think you should read them. I think both books have really good leads and it poled me in to read them. That’s why I think you should read them. This is why I think these books are similar.   

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Anthers note: I wrote this as a text structure piece for school. I also wrote it to get kids interested in my book.                               
                                                                 Main conflict ups
Does your household have hate in it well in my book my brother Sam is dead there is a lot of hate. I mean why would you hate someone when you can love them. You are a family why would you want to break that apart. That were my book comes in his father hates his son Sam. He disrespected his son he yelled at his son he had hurtful thoughts by his dad I mean who does that to their son.
            My book main conflict is anger and the attitude put tords someone. His father thinks of Sam as a piece of garbage. Well this kid all he wanted was freedom for his friends and family who wouldn’t want that. Well in the beginning of the book you can tell his dad is mad because he smashes his fist in the table then smacks Sam. I think this started when he was a younger boy. I think Sam would have made his life better but then he dies.
            I think this anger was never resolved because Sam was never home. He would always fight with his son was yelled at and he got mad when his dad yelled at him. I think Sam would have tried to get a better connection with his dad but then Sam ended up getting shot. But I think they were going to get tight and then he got killed and that was really sad.

                                                                   Main conflict
authors note: I wrote this to get kids intrested in my book. This book has it ups and downs of this stroy. But it is a good book.
Does your household have hate in it well in my book my brother Sam is dead there is a lot of hate. I mean why would you hate someone when you can love them. You are a family why would you want to break that apart. That were my book comes in his father hates his son Sam. He disrespected his son he yelled at his son he had hurtful thoughts by his dad I mean who does that to their son.
            My book main conflict is anger and the attitude put tords someone. His father thinks of Sam as a piece of garbage. Well this kid all he wanted was freedom for his friends and family who wouldn’t want that. Well in the beginning of the book you can tell his dad is mad because he smashes his fist in the table then smacks Sam. I think this started when he was a younger boy. I think Sam would have made his life better but then he dies.
            I think this anger was never resolved because Sam was never home. He would always fight with his son was yelled at and he got mad when his dad yelled at him. I think Sam would have tried to get a better connection with his dad but then Sam ended up getting shot. But I think they were going to get tight and then he got killed and that was really sad.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Authors note: I’m writing this to get my friends interested in my book.
                                                
                                   Families and friends at war
 
Do you have friends or even family in the war? Well in my book a young boy goes off to war and he is fighting for his life. Do you fight for your friends and your family’s freedom well that’s what this boy fights for his. He fights even though his father doesn’t want him to fight. He is always disappointed with his son and he gets mad at his father.   

This book is about how a young boy who always wanted to be in the war and his dream came true. His parents thought it was good until his father figured out who he was fighting for it wasn’t the British he fought for the Minutemen. They fought bloody war and his father thought it was a disgrace because his son was fighting his own people. But all he wanted was freedom for his people and his father didn’t get that.
Were I am my prediction is that Sam dies and I don’t really think his father cares that he dies and it’s sad. I think that his father won’t care that he died and his wife and son will be devastated. But his dad was such a jerk to him and he was just disappointed in his son and that is terrible. Why did his father have to be such a jerk to him he didn’t do anything wrong he just joined up with the wrong team from his point of view.
I think this book you should read because it keeps bring up new ideas. It shows one person can make bad decision and I think that was his father. I think this book is very interesting and it talks about what happened during the war. I think this book talks about some problems that you might have with your friends and family but Sam stud up for both of them and his father didn’t care. That is why this book is pretty sad I think.                                                        

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Authors note: The author’s purpose for righting this is to show you the real definition of family. You don’t always have to be biologically family members; it’s the love you share with one another.

The Hopes of a Family
We have had those days where you’re down, mad, or even sad. That’s the thing, we all have those feeling, but there’s always a family to make you happy. Family gets you through things just like in the Outsiders. The Greasers real families died or didn’t care about them and that’s when they got a new life by being a greaser.
First of all, while many people mistreat the Greasers, they are a great example of how families stick together. Like when bob was trying to kill Ponyboy when Johnny showed up and saved Ponyboy and Johnny ended up killing bob. There is also the one were Johnny and Ponyboy help each other and they also save the children.  Then Johnny happened to get by a falling beam and one of his friends came to save him.
 Also, the Greasers are an example of how a family protects one another, no matter what. When Johnny killed Bob Dally was there to get Johnny and Ponyboy out of site so they wouldn’t be beat up or even killed. Also Dally saved Johnny and Ponyboy from the burning church it was because he loved them and wanted them to be safe. He did this because he cared about both of them.
Johnny treats everyone like a family except his parents his parents don’t like him they don’t even care for him. That’s why he cares for everyone else because he knew that his parents didn’t treat him with respect, so he decided to treat everyone with respect.
Dally never really had a family his parent died while he was going to school. Then when his parents died he wanted to watch after his brothers so he decided to drop out of school and stick to his family and that was his brothers.
I think the outsider shows the problems between the greasers they never really had anyone to love or to care for them until they became greasers. I think if the greasers kept make smart decisions they would be a really good family.