The lovely bone was directed by Peter Jackson, a four time academy film winner.
The beginning of the movie started with a cheesy country song to show how peaceful and happy the Salmon family used to be before the death of Susie. There was a landscape shot to show the countryside of Philadelphia, the state in which the movie took place. After that there was a long shot to the corn field, this then they show Susie’s house. It was used to show a connection between the Salmons house and the cornfield in which Susie was killed. There were lots of close up and reaction shots in the movie to how the characters were suppose to act or for the audience to infer what the next action is going to be. There was a low angle shot at when Susie was taking picture Mr. Harvey’s house, this implies that at the spot where that camera was facing down, something would be hidden there. When Susie would daydream about Ray Singh, the director ordered to use a medium to long shot this emphasizes that Ray was significant to Susie. Before Mr. Harvey killed Susie, he would stare at her. Once the film makers used a frame within a frame shot to show Mr. Harvey spying on Susie as she goes to school, this creates suspense that Susie would be his next victim. An ominous song was played when Susie mother handed her the hat she knitted, well the hat was what was found after Susie was murdered.
There was a dissolve the show the place where Susie soul goes to it was mixed with cloud, the sun rising, a park and the ocean, this pictures were used to represent loneliness that for coming happiness. There was a snapshot on Susie’s bracelet, and when Mr. Harvey threw the bracelet into the ocean and the ocean took the bracelet away, Susie was running in a field and the field began to turn into water and she later drown in it. Light and life effect was used to show life living Susie. There was a long shot of Susie in her tree house, show lowliness, only her and tree and nothing else. Mr. Harvey begins to look for another victim and when Lindsey, Susie’s younger sister ran by his house, an ominous song played and this showed that she was the next victim if Harvey has a chance. There was a time different in the movie; it keeps going to the pass, form when Susie was younger to older. Also they showed how she died and the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed. There was a dolly shot used as Lindsey search Mr. Harvey’s room for clues to link him to Susie’s killing. The effects in the movie were good.
My reaction, I did not like it, the movie skipped some of the most important t and funny scenes that the book had. The book was a lot descriptive that the movie.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The Lovely Bones (275-372) The end
Summary
Susie is in heaven and she got to meet the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed: Jackie Meyer, she was 13 year old. Flora Hernandez; she was 8 years old. Leah Fox was13 years old when she was murdered. Sophie Cichetti was 49 years old and other. He goes around telling people that Sophie was his wife before she died of cancer, although he is a bachelor.
After Lindsey stole the drawings, she gave them to her father who gave it to the police as evidence. Later on the same day, two policemen were sent to Mr. Harvey’s house for inspection. Abigail who denies to her mother that she is not having an affair commits adultery with policeman Len Fenerman in the basement of the mall. Mr. Harvey keeps getting flash back of his childhood and they seem to hurt him.
Ruth Conner and Ray Singh hang out because they were the only people close Susie before she died. Susie’s talks to Ruth and tries to tell them but they don’t believe her. When Lindsey tries to tell Abigail about Susie’s dead she does not want to hear anything about the daughter’s dead. She does not want anything with the family. Lindsey goes to the police station to see what they were doing with the drawing that her father gave to them and instead she found her mother’s scarf in Len’s office. When she asked him what it was doing there he could not answer, then she knew that something between them had happen and it is the reason of her mother‘s behavior.
Everyone on the neighborhood is talking about Mr. Harvey killing Susie. He was afraid that he might get caught so he leaves for Connecticut. After he left, Len began to blame himself for not solving the case involving Susie. He now believes that it was Mr. Harvey but he could not prove it. A hunter later on found Susie’s bracelet when he was hunting. Abigail leaves her family and heads for California.
Mr. Harvey moved to boston because he was being question by the police lately,also Lindsey has prove that he might have kill her sister. The dective called the police and the bones were matched to susie's body. Hal,Sam's older brother is on the invsetigation to look for Mr. Harvey,the dective told Hal that the killer loved to builddoll house and this was linked to Mr.Harvey.
Lindsey just graduated from college and she is 21 years old. she graduated from Temple University. Samuel proposed toher and she said yes. Buckley still sees Susie'swhenever he closes his eyes. Later,all of a suddenly Jack got a cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital.Grandma Lynn flew from her home to meet the kids and Abigail also left california to see Jack in the hospital.Buckley hates his mother because she left the family when he was a child and now she is back.The police decided to give the salmon the bracklet that they found. Len the policeman was sent to give it to them and when Abigail saw him she was angry and demaned that he leave because he almost tore up the family.
Susie enter Ruth Body and begins to talk to Ray. They talk about life and how he has being coping but he does not know that it is susie inside the body.Grandma Lynn dies and get buried.Lindsey gives birth to a girl and named her Suzanna Abigial.Mr. harvey was killed by an icicle when trying to hit on a teenage but was never found because he was buried by the snow. Not the end that I expected.
Quote
“Don’t you want anything” (Sebold 334).
Reaction
This quote is very important because the book is about Susie getting murder and what she wants is for Mr. Harvey to be caught and that her family to come together as before. She wants them to move on with their lives and she want to be alive. It was very awkward when Ruth asked her this question and she did not respond back to her. Maybe it is one of the rules that the dead cannot speak to the living or it was because she did not want to interrupt the future.
Question?
1) Why did the author choose to tell who the killer of Susie was at the beginning of the book?
2) Why did she put Mr.Harvey's dead as a mystery?
Susie is in heaven and she got to meet the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed: Jackie Meyer, she was 13 year old. Flora Hernandez; she was 8 years old. Leah Fox was13 years old when she was murdered. Sophie Cichetti was 49 years old and other. He goes around telling people that Sophie was his wife before she died of cancer, although he is a bachelor.
After Lindsey stole the drawings, she gave them to her father who gave it to the police as evidence. Later on the same day, two policemen were sent to Mr. Harvey’s house for inspection. Abigail who denies to her mother that she is not having an affair commits adultery with policeman Len Fenerman in the basement of the mall. Mr. Harvey keeps getting flash back of his childhood and they seem to hurt him.
Ruth Conner and Ray Singh hang out because they were the only people close Susie before she died. Susie’s talks to Ruth and tries to tell them but they don’t believe her. When Lindsey tries to tell Abigail about Susie’s dead she does not want to hear anything about the daughter’s dead. She does not want anything with the family. Lindsey goes to the police station to see what they were doing with the drawing that her father gave to them and instead she found her mother’s scarf in Len’s office. When she asked him what it was doing there he could not answer, then she knew that something between them had happen and it is the reason of her mother‘s behavior.
Everyone on the neighborhood is talking about Mr. Harvey killing Susie. He was afraid that he might get caught so he leaves for Connecticut. After he left, Len began to blame himself for not solving the case involving Susie. He now believes that it was Mr. Harvey but he could not prove it. A hunter later on found Susie’s bracelet when he was hunting. Abigail leaves her family and heads for California.
Mr. Harvey moved to boston because he was being question by the police lately,also Lindsey has prove that he might have kill her sister. The dective called the police and the bones were matched to susie's body. Hal,Sam's older brother is on the invsetigation to look for Mr. Harvey,the dective told Hal that the killer loved to builddoll house and this was linked to Mr.Harvey.
Lindsey just graduated from college and she is 21 years old. she graduated from Temple University. Samuel proposed toher and she said yes. Buckley still sees Susie'swhenever he closes his eyes. Later,all of a suddenly Jack got a cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital.Grandma Lynn flew from her home to meet the kids and Abigail also left california to see Jack in the hospital.Buckley hates his mother because she left the family when he was a child and now she is back.The police decided to give the salmon the bracklet that they found. Len the policeman was sent to give it to them and when Abigail saw him she was angry and demaned that he leave because he almost tore up the family.
Susie enter Ruth Body and begins to talk to Ray. They talk about life and how he has being coping but he does not know that it is susie inside the body.Grandma Lynn dies and get buried.Lindsey gives birth to a girl and named her Suzanna Abigial.Mr. harvey was killed by an icicle when trying to hit on a teenage but was never found because he was buried by the snow. Not the end that I expected.
Quote
“Don’t you want anything” (Sebold 334).
Reaction
This quote is very important because the book is about Susie getting murder and what she wants is for Mr. Harvey to be caught and that her family to come together as before. She wants them to move on with their lives and she want to be alive. It was very awkward when Ruth asked her this question and she did not respond back to her. Maybe it is one of the rules that the dead cannot speak to the living or it was because she did not want to interrupt the future.
Question?
1) Why did the author choose to tell who the killer of Susie was at the beginning of the book?
2) Why did she put Mr.Harvey's dead as a mystery?
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The lovely Bones (150-275)
So far Susie is dead and the murder is George Harvey and no one else does. They are trying to solve the mystery.
Summary
Buckley is Susie’s younger brother who has a friend named Nate. Buckley later on tells Nate that he sees Susie whenever he looks up to heaven. Mr. Harvey had a bad childhood when he was a kid, his mother who he had a close relationship with left the family and he was alone with his father. It is time for Susie’s funeral. Grandma Lynn is with the family and she teaches the Lindsey how to wear make-up since she is the only one that Lindsey wants to talk to, later on Lindsey tells her that she has a boyfriend. Mr. Harvey attends the funeral but he leaves unnoticed. Ruth Conner, the poet is the only person that Susie talks to; she said that she can feel Susie around which is true. Lindsey finally admits to Ruth that she misses Susie, “More than anyone will ever know” (Sebold 137).
Susie is not the only one that Mr. Harvey had murdered. There was a young girl named Claire and he tried to kill her before but she kept on crying and people came to her rescue. Mr. Harvey used to kill animals, and then he began to kill humans. He tried to stop but couldn’t. In Lindsey’s school there used to be a competition every year and this year it was changed to “How to Commit the Perfect Murder” and Lindsey is not happy with it. Len the Policeman stopped the investigation on the killing of Susie but Jack still think that it is Mr. Harvey who is the killer. Abigail seems interested in Len. Jack goes out to the cornfield to kill Mr. Harvey, he takes a bat as a weapon and he hits Clarissa and boyfriend who then called the police on him. In the Hospital Abigail and Len the policeman began to flirt and kiss. The book later on tells that Abigail needed someone to let out her dead daughter out and Len was the person she chose.
Grandma Lynn comes home and She notices Abigail Strangeness, although Jack does not pay attention to Abigail which many people would conclude was the reason that she later went on to commit adultery. Lynn noticed her behavior and they went for a walk together. While walking, Lynn tells her daughter to stop having an affair and Abigail denies it. Also Grandma Lynn believes that Harvey is the killer.
Jack believing that his theory about Mr. Harvey killing his daughter, he does not give up and when Lindsey asked him who he taught the killer was he told her. The next day, while jogging with the boy’s soccer team, Lindsey skipped practice and broke into Mr. Harvey’s house and stole one of his drawings. He saw her but it was too late before he could do anything.
Quotes
“Lonely I though on earth as it is in heaven” (Sebold 140).
“My humor buried my acceptance” (Sebold 191).
Reaction
The first quote is Susie’s though while she is in heaven. She misses her friends and family and feels alone in heaven. The heaven that she is in is not what she expected. It is not bad but at the same time she is not comfortable. It’s like her soul is not at peace. She is watching down on her family and they are depressed and so is she. The other quote was made by Grandma Lynn when she noticed that Abigail was having an affair with someone. She begins to tell her about her own life. Her husband also cheated oh her and she use her humor not to show that she is worried. These are good quotes because it explains what is going in the book. The quotes give you a foundation of the summary of the book.
Summary
Buckley is Susie’s younger brother who has a friend named Nate. Buckley later on tells Nate that he sees Susie whenever he looks up to heaven. Mr. Harvey had a bad childhood when he was a kid, his mother who he had a close relationship with left the family and he was alone with his father. It is time for Susie’s funeral. Grandma Lynn is with the family and she teaches the Lindsey how to wear make-up since she is the only one that Lindsey wants to talk to, later on Lindsey tells her that she has a boyfriend. Mr. Harvey attends the funeral but he leaves unnoticed. Ruth Conner, the poet is the only person that Susie talks to; she said that she can feel Susie around which is true. Lindsey finally admits to Ruth that she misses Susie, “More than anyone will ever know” (Sebold 137).
Susie is not the only one that Mr. Harvey had murdered. There was a young girl named Claire and he tried to kill her before but she kept on crying and people came to her rescue. Mr. Harvey used to kill animals, and then he began to kill humans. He tried to stop but couldn’t. In Lindsey’s school there used to be a competition every year and this year it was changed to “How to Commit the Perfect Murder” and Lindsey is not happy with it. Len the Policeman stopped the investigation on the killing of Susie but Jack still think that it is Mr. Harvey who is the killer. Abigail seems interested in Len. Jack goes out to the cornfield to kill Mr. Harvey, he takes a bat as a weapon and he hits Clarissa and boyfriend who then called the police on him. In the Hospital Abigail and Len the policeman began to flirt and kiss. The book later on tells that Abigail needed someone to let out her dead daughter out and Len was the person she chose.
Grandma Lynn comes home and She notices Abigail Strangeness, although Jack does not pay attention to Abigail which many people would conclude was the reason that she later went on to commit adultery. Lynn noticed her behavior and they went for a walk together. While walking, Lynn tells her daughter to stop having an affair and Abigail denies it. Also Grandma Lynn believes that Harvey is the killer.
Jack believing that his theory about Mr. Harvey killing his daughter, he does not give up and when Lindsey asked him who he taught the killer was he told her. The next day, while jogging with the boy’s soccer team, Lindsey skipped practice and broke into Mr. Harvey’s house and stole one of his drawings. He saw her but it was too late before he could do anything.
Quotes
“Lonely I though on earth as it is in heaven” (Sebold 140).
“My humor buried my acceptance” (Sebold 191).
Reaction
The first quote is Susie’s though while she is in heaven. She misses her friends and family and feels alone in heaven. The heaven that she is in is not what she expected. It is not bad but at the same time she is not comfortable. It’s like her soul is not at peace. She is watching down on her family and they are depressed and so is she. The other quote was made by Grandma Lynn when she noticed that Abigail was having an affair with someone. She begins to tell her about her own life. Her husband also cheated oh her and she use her humor not to show that she is worried. These are good quotes because it explains what is going in the book. The quotes give you a foundation of the summary of the book.
The lovely Bones (1- 150)
Plot and Setting.
Susie lived in Philadelphia and was killed on December 6, 1973,
Main Character
Susie Salmon- 14 years old who got killed by her neighbor
Jack and Abigail Salmon- Susie’s Father and Mother.
Buckley and Lindsey salmon- Susie’s Brother and Sister
Grandma Lynn- Susie’s grandmother
George Harvey- The Salmon neighbor who killed Susie.
Summary
So far Susie was coming back from home when Mr. Harvey asked her to come into his doll house there he rapes her and killed her. This story is a narration and the main character Susie is the narrator. "Tell me you love me" (Se-bold 16). Hr Harvey tells Susie to say these words before he killed her. Len is the policeman working on the case. He has been gathering up evidence but her parent does not want to accept the fact that their daughter is dead. They found her bone of the elbow. Susie describes heaven as a different dream. Everyone’s heaven is different and it is better than her reality school. Instead of reading regular books they read vogue and glamour and seventeen. In Heaven she befriends a girl named Holly. Ray Singh is a boy that had a crush on Susie and he is the first suspect but her parents don’t believe that he is the one that killed her. Lindsey on the other hand is the true blond of the family; she is the opposite of her sister, Susie. Once she was asked to play on the soccer team she responded saying “I’d say it would be pretty hard to play soccer on the soccer field where it's approximately 20 feet from where my sister was supposedly murdered" (Se-bold 36). Jack feels guilty that he was not there when his daughter needed him.
Susie said that she was not the first that Mr. Harvey and killed. this book gives evidence that he had killed other children by this following details "he knew to remove my body from the field, he knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light from heavy precipitation because he had rob the police out of evidence" (Se-bold 57). Mr. Harvey buried the remaining of Susie's body by dumping it into a sink hole that Susie used to adore. Susie had a bracelet that she wore on the day of her murder and Mr. Harvey throws the bracelet into the lake. While in Heaven Susie wishes for one thing; for Mr. Harvey to be dead and she to be alive but it is impossible. She wanted revenge on Mr. Harvey.
Abigail does not like to be a mother; by the way the book describes her it feels like the kids got in her way of achieving her dreams. Mr. Salmon helps Mr. Harvey to build a tent; he does not realize that he is helping the murderer of his daughter. Afterward, Jack begins to suspect George Harvey is the killer. Abigail and Jack seem to grow distance from each other.
Quote
“You were not there when your daughter needed you” (Se-bold 65).
“There was a window of time during which physical evidence was usually found; that window grew smaller everyday” (Se-bold 69).
Reaction
Jack Salmon feels guilty about the death of Susie because he was not there for her. The quote shows the father is worried and he misses his daughter he is trying to find the person that killed Susie and he think that the killer is Mr. Harvey. This quote came to him while he was lying down on the couch crying about where Susie is? The other quote tells gives us a foreshadowing that the murderer might not be caught. The window getting smaller means that the chance of them finding the murderer might not happen because there is no solid evidence.
Question
1). Why does Susie mother seem too depressed before the death of her daughter?
2). Why doesn’t Lindsey say how she feels about the death of Susie?
3). why does Mr. Harvey like to kill people?
Susie lived in Philadelphia and was killed on December 6, 1973,
Main Character
Susie Salmon- 14 years old who got killed by her neighbor
Jack and Abigail Salmon- Susie’s Father and Mother.
Buckley and Lindsey salmon- Susie’s Brother and Sister
Grandma Lynn- Susie’s grandmother
George Harvey- The Salmon neighbor who killed Susie.
Summary
So far Susie was coming back from home when Mr. Harvey asked her to come into his doll house there he rapes her and killed her. This story is a narration and the main character Susie is the narrator. "Tell me you love me" (Se-bold 16). Hr Harvey tells Susie to say these words before he killed her. Len is the policeman working on the case. He has been gathering up evidence but her parent does not want to accept the fact that their daughter is dead. They found her bone of the elbow. Susie describes heaven as a different dream. Everyone’s heaven is different and it is better than her reality school. Instead of reading regular books they read vogue and glamour and seventeen. In Heaven she befriends a girl named Holly. Ray Singh is a boy that had a crush on Susie and he is the first suspect but her parents don’t believe that he is the one that killed her. Lindsey on the other hand is the true blond of the family; she is the opposite of her sister, Susie. Once she was asked to play on the soccer team she responded saying “I’d say it would be pretty hard to play soccer on the soccer field where it's approximately 20 feet from where my sister was supposedly murdered" (Se-bold 36). Jack feels guilty that he was not there when his daughter needed him.
Susie said that she was not the first that Mr. Harvey and killed. this book gives evidence that he had killed other children by this following details "he knew to remove my body from the field, he knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light from heavy precipitation because he had rob the police out of evidence" (Se-bold 57). Mr. Harvey buried the remaining of Susie's body by dumping it into a sink hole that Susie used to adore. Susie had a bracelet that she wore on the day of her murder and Mr. Harvey throws the bracelet into the lake. While in Heaven Susie wishes for one thing; for Mr. Harvey to be dead and she to be alive but it is impossible. She wanted revenge on Mr. Harvey.
Abigail does not like to be a mother; by the way the book describes her it feels like the kids got in her way of achieving her dreams. Mr. Salmon helps Mr. Harvey to build a tent; he does not realize that he is helping the murderer of his daughter. Afterward, Jack begins to suspect George Harvey is the killer. Abigail and Jack seem to grow distance from each other.
Quote
“You were not there when your daughter needed you” (Se-bold 65).
“There was a window of time during which physical evidence was usually found; that window grew smaller everyday” (Se-bold 69).
Reaction
Jack Salmon feels guilty about the death of Susie because he was not there for her. The quote shows the father is worried and he misses his daughter he is trying to find the person that killed Susie and he think that the killer is Mr. Harvey. This quote came to him while he was lying down on the couch crying about where Susie is? The other quote tells gives us a foreshadowing that the murderer might not be caught. The window getting smaller means that the chance of them finding the murderer might not happen because there is no solid evidence.
Question
1). Why does Susie mother seem too depressed before the death of her daughter?
2). Why doesn’t Lindsey say how she feels about the death of Susie?
3). why does Mr. Harvey like to kill people?
Monday, December 20, 2010
Slam Final Post 230-309
Summary
Sam mother comes rushing to him to tell him that Alicia is in labor. Sam keeps getting nightmares that Alicia is in labor and that he is the only one in the cab with her and he does not know what to do. In labor Sam describes Alicia as “an animal, her breast were five times the regular size, she sounded like a terrible animal. It felt like she was thirty and he was seven” (Hornsby 232). Alicia began to say terrible stuff to him and he was getting frustrated and Andrea told Sam not to be angry because woman act selfish and mean when they are in labor. Sam also learns that since he is having the baby, he would have to learn not to be easily offended.
The baby was called Rufus because the song playing at the time of birth was composed by a singer named Rufus Wainwright. The baby according to the book looks like Alicia. Sam describes Alicia saying that she looked other than his mother. Annie and Andrea argue what the last mane of the baby should be; “Burns” of “Jones”. Andrea made a comment that Annie found offensive. She said that it would be better that the kids live with Alicia so that he would not end up making the same mistake that his great-grandfather, his grandmother and father did which is getting pregnant at an early age. (Genealogy). Alicia made the final decision that the name of the baby was Rufus Jones. Sam begins to live with the Burns in Alicia’s room.
While in college, he encounter an ignorance boy named Jason Garson who told Sam “anyway thanks for looking after my kid, saved me a few quid.” (Hornsby 257). Sam acts like a child and does the same thing that scout did which was kicking him in his genitalia and running away. He assumed that Jason was the father the father of the baby.
Sam’s father comes around to spend time with Sam and Rufus, that same week, Sam and Alicia had a fight because she wanted to see other people and she threaten him by saying “You can forget all about seeing Roof” (Hornsby 287).
In the end, Sam and Alicia finally had sex again and Andrea walked in on them and was very angry. She was upset that they were still acting sexual instead of trying to plan their future. Sam goes back and forth to college; he also gets to spend some time with Roof. Both teenagers began to see other people. Sam was seeing a girl named Alex and Alicia was seeing a boy named Carl.
Quote
“It was all about the families, wasn’t it? That Rufus Jones was going to leave school at sixteen to be a dad and get a rubbish job and get no GCSEs and probably start taking crack. But Rufus Burns would, I don’t know, go to a university and become a doctor or a prime minster or whatever” (Hornsby 247).
Reaction
I don’t think that the quote is really racist because she was right; the family keeps on making mistake that involves them sacrificing their life pleasure because they were being irresponsible. This is a thematic element that involves genealogy because 3 generation of the family so far had made the same mistake. This book teaches the struggle that young teens have to go through and why is it a bad choice to have a baby at an early age. It has a moral learning and it was a pleasure reading.
Sam mother comes rushing to him to tell him that Alicia is in labor. Sam keeps getting nightmares that Alicia is in labor and that he is the only one in the cab with her and he does not know what to do. In labor Sam describes Alicia as “an animal, her breast were five times the regular size, she sounded like a terrible animal. It felt like she was thirty and he was seven” (Hornsby 232). Alicia began to say terrible stuff to him and he was getting frustrated and Andrea told Sam not to be angry because woman act selfish and mean when they are in labor. Sam also learns that since he is having the baby, he would have to learn not to be easily offended.
The baby was called Rufus because the song playing at the time of birth was composed by a singer named Rufus Wainwright. The baby according to the book looks like Alicia. Sam describes Alicia saying that she looked other than his mother. Annie and Andrea argue what the last mane of the baby should be; “Burns” of “Jones”. Andrea made a comment that Annie found offensive. She said that it would be better that the kids live with Alicia so that he would not end up making the same mistake that his great-grandfather, his grandmother and father did which is getting pregnant at an early age. (Genealogy). Alicia made the final decision that the name of the baby was Rufus Jones. Sam begins to live with the Burns in Alicia’s room.
While in college, he encounter an ignorance boy named Jason Garson who told Sam “anyway thanks for looking after my kid, saved me a few quid.” (Hornsby 257). Sam acts like a child and does the same thing that scout did which was kicking him in his genitalia and running away. He assumed that Jason was the father the father of the baby.
Sam’s father comes around to spend time with Sam and Rufus, that same week, Sam and Alicia had a fight because she wanted to see other people and she threaten him by saying “You can forget all about seeing Roof” (Hornsby 287).
In the end, Sam and Alicia finally had sex again and Andrea walked in on them and was very angry. She was upset that they were still acting sexual instead of trying to plan their future. Sam goes back and forth to college; he also gets to spend some time with Roof. Both teenagers began to see other people. Sam was seeing a girl named Alex and Alicia was seeing a boy named Carl.
Quote
“It was all about the families, wasn’t it? That Rufus Jones was going to leave school at sixteen to be a dad and get a rubbish job and get no GCSEs and probably start taking crack. But Rufus Burns would, I don’t know, go to a university and become a doctor or a prime minster or whatever” (Hornsby 247).
Reaction
I don’t think that the quote is really racist because she was right; the family keeps on making mistake that involves them sacrificing their life pleasure because they were being irresponsible. This is a thematic element that involves genealogy because 3 generation of the family so far had made the same mistake. This book teaches the struggle that young teens have to go through and why is it a bad choice to have a baby at an early age. It has a moral learning and it was a pleasure reading.
Monday, December 13, 2010
SLAM Post #4 (179-229)
Summary
So far Sam has a son named Roof with Alicia his ex-girlfriend. He tells his mother who is very angry and devastated. His mother tells his father about the situation and at first the father calls him rude words but later on acknowledges that he is a grandfather and is happy about it. Everyone in Sam’s school knows that he is a father which bugs him. Sam and Alicia went to the hospital to see the baby scan and afterward they kissed. Sam comments that he sees Alicia different after she had stood up for him against her father. Most of the time when Sam breaks up with a girl they are done for ever, but this time after breaking up with Alicia he gets back with her which means he still likes her. Alicia asked Sam if he got sick of her and both replied that they got sick of seeing each other.
Alicia’s mother arranged the kids to go to a NCT class that teaches you about pregnancy. When they got there, there were only older and elder people there. They were embarrassed and did not want to go there again. Annie announced that Mark, her boyfriend would be living with them and Sam does not have a decision. This leads him to think about the consequences of divorce like living with somebody that you do not know which he though was wired.
Alicia parent are consigned about Sam and the baby and that they are going to make an effort with him which includes asking him how he feels about everything, what are his plan for college and his future. They though he was a “hoodie chav who had messed up their daughter’s life” (Hornsby 192). Alicia concludes that Sam would be leaving with her family and they would share a room together like a man and wife. They thought of it made Sam to throw up. Her parents were not in support of it, but they agreed to do it. When Sam’s mother learnt that he was going to leave with Alicia and her family she was angry and upset. She thinks that Sam is throwing away his life and does not want him to end up like his father who is a drinker and a plumber.
Sam is starting college and everything is looking good for him. He is an older brother because of Mark’s little girl and he is the father of Roof. He talks to TH but he does not help him in his situation so he decides to shut him out of his life once more. Sam's friend thinks that sam is screw and Sam agrees with him.
Quote
"Roof, this one Dumpling. Why didn't people ever call their babies their real name"(Hornsby 202.
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It is funny that people would try to come up with names that they thought was unique like Marks baby girl's name Dumplin. I can relate this to the bible that says that whatever the maeaning of your name is is what will happen to you. There was a guy in the bible who changed his named because it meant pain and poverty which his mother was feeling at that time and she gave him that name. He was poor and pain so he changed his named and positive things started to work for him.
So far Sam has a son named Roof with Alicia his ex-girlfriend. He tells his mother who is very angry and devastated. His mother tells his father about the situation and at first the father calls him rude words but later on acknowledges that he is a grandfather and is happy about it. Everyone in Sam’s school knows that he is a father which bugs him. Sam and Alicia went to the hospital to see the baby scan and afterward they kissed. Sam comments that he sees Alicia different after she had stood up for him against her father. Most of the time when Sam breaks up with a girl they are done for ever, but this time after breaking up with Alicia he gets back with her which means he still likes her. Alicia asked Sam if he got sick of her and both replied that they got sick of seeing each other.
Alicia’s mother arranged the kids to go to a NCT class that teaches you about pregnancy. When they got there, there were only older and elder people there. They were embarrassed and did not want to go there again. Annie announced that Mark, her boyfriend would be living with them and Sam does not have a decision. This leads him to think about the consequences of divorce like living with somebody that you do not know which he though was wired.
Alicia parent are consigned about Sam and the baby and that they are going to make an effort with him which includes asking him how he feels about everything, what are his plan for college and his future. They though he was a “hoodie chav who had messed up their daughter’s life” (Hornsby 192). Alicia concludes that Sam would be leaving with her family and they would share a room together like a man and wife. They thought of it made Sam to throw up. Her parents were not in support of it, but they agreed to do it. When Sam’s mother learnt that he was going to leave with Alicia and her family she was angry and upset. She thinks that Sam is throwing away his life and does not want him to end up like his father who is a drinker and a plumber.
Sam is starting college and everything is looking good for him. He is an older brother because of Mark’s little girl and he is the father of Roof. He talks to TH but he does not help him in his situation so he decides to shut him out of his life once more. Sam's friend thinks that sam is screw and Sam agrees with him.
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"Roof, this one Dumpling. Why didn't people ever call their babies their real name"(Hornsby 202.
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It is funny that people would try to come up with names that they thought was unique like Marks baby girl's name Dumplin. I can relate this to the bible that says that whatever the maeaning of your name is is what will happen to you. There was a guy in the bible who changed his named because it meant pain and poverty which his mother was feeling at that time and she gave him that name. He was poor and pain so he changed his named and positive things started to work for him.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Slam, Post 3rd.(100-175)
Summary.
Sam knows that something went wrong when he and Alicia had sex. He does not want to end up like his mother who had her baby at age 216 but that is what it going to happening. Sam goes into the future to see how his life is that was why in post 2 he did not know what had happen and feels like a year went by and he did not live in it. While living his future life, he learns how to clean a baby’s diaper. He lives with Alicia and her parent and things are going alright but he does not fit in with her family. Mom comments that her son are pairs “what a pair” (Hornsby 106). In other words he and his mother had thing in common like having baby in an early age, do not like to answer question in full sentence. Does not know what to do in life at the moment, by the way he is 19 years old but in reality he is 16 years old.
Sam misses his old life when it used to be him and Th. Alicia asks him if he is still in love with her and he does not respond. I think it is over for them. After seeing the future Sam decides that he does not want to be a father and leaves his home in London to Hasting without telling his parent and his pregnant girlfriend. After seeing life was hard for 16 years old he returns home and his mother was very angry and was weeping.
Alicia tells Sam that it is time that both their parent know about the pregnancy and Sam does not feel good about it. Sam continues to say it’s “your” baby and Alicia keeps correcting him saying it’s “our” baby. Sam and parent go to counseling and lies that the only reason he ran away was because of his parent divorce. Alicia parent does not take it well and her father blow up at both children. He said “do you think this is FUNNY?” He begins to compare Sam and his mother about her they both had child at age 16 and he did not learn anything from his mother’s actions. Her mother sat down and was weeping. When they told Sam mom, she took it had be cause Sam did the same thing the did, he did the same thing that she did not want him to do in life and now his dreams are messed up.
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"What a pair"(Hornsby 107).
"Well I walked down the corner and ther was an al-Qaida witha machine gun except he was just a baby"( Hornsby 115).
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The first quote talks about Sam and his mother, Annie having a lot in common like the child situation, also they once went to a chinese retuarant and after eating they were both sick, but in the interview with the conselor result showed that hima and his parent had bad communication.
The Second quote was used when sam was deciding about leaving london and he compares his baby to an al-Qaida and says that he will not let his baby who is the al-Qaida ruin his life, so he decides to leave London.
Sam knows that something went wrong when he and Alicia had sex. He does not want to end up like his mother who had her baby at age 216 but that is what it going to happening. Sam goes into the future to see how his life is that was why in post 2 he did not know what had happen and feels like a year went by and he did not live in it. While living his future life, he learns how to clean a baby’s diaper. He lives with Alicia and her parent and things are going alright but he does not fit in with her family. Mom comments that her son are pairs “what a pair” (Hornsby 106). In other words he and his mother had thing in common like having baby in an early age, do not like to answer question in full sentence. Does not know what to do in life at the moment, by the way he is 19 years old but in reality he is 16 years old.
Sam misses his old life when it used to be him and Th. Alicia asks him if he is still in love with her and he does not respond. I think it is over for them. After seeing the future Sam decides that he does not want to be a father and leaves his home in London to Hasting without telling his parent and his pregnant girlfriend. After seeing life was hard for 16 years old he returns home and his mother was very angry and was weeping.
Alicia tells Sam that it is time that both their parent know about the pregnancy and Sam does not feel good about it. Sam continues to say it’s “your” baby and Alicia keeps correcting him saying it’s “our” baby. Sam and parent go to counseling and lies that the only reason he ran away was because of his parent divorce. Alicia parent does not take it well and her father blow up at both children. He said “do you think this is FUNNY?” He begins to compare Sam and his mother about her they both had child at age 16 and he did not learn anything from his mother’s actions. Her mother sat down and was weeping. When they told Sam mom, she took it had be cause Sam did the same thing the did, he did the same thing that she did not want him to do in life and now his dreams are messed up.
Quote.
"What a pair"(Hornsby 107).
"Well I walked down the corner and ther was an al-Qaida witha machine gun except he was just a baby"( Hornsby 115).
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The first quote talks about Sam and his mother, Annie having a lot in common like the child situation, also they once went to a chinese retuarant and after eating they were both sick, but in the interview with the conselor result showed that hima and his parent had bad communication.
The Second quote was used when sam was deciding about leaving london and he compares his baby to an al-Qaida and says that he will not let his baby who is the al-Qaida ruin his life, so he decides to leave London.
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