This book has so many problems. One is teen depression. There were these two kids names Valerie and Nick. They were both outcasts at Garvin High School, and people made fun of them and bullied them every day. Valerie was once popular but then she realized that she was not like these girls. So she changed to all black and baggie clothes. People started to call her sister death and thats when everything changed. People started to avoid her and call her mean names.
When Nick started at Garvin it was only a matter of time before they became friends. Valerie introduced him to her little circle of friends and they all clicked. Soon the two of them were hanging out together after school, walking to class together, meeting at each others lockers, they became really close. But it wasn't until Valerie went to his house and found out that he loved shakespear, a total dent in the baggie clothed i don't care attitude that he had, that she realized she was in love with him. They were still out casts, and everyone made fun of them. But they were bullied, and were outsiders together.
It all started as a joke. No one thought it would end up in a Garvin high massacre. It was a little red notebook. Nothing huge. A list. But then it turned into a whole bunch of names of people who bullied, and tormented Valerie and Nick.
All the signs were there Valerie just never noticed them. She never realized that she was implying that she wanted the same thing that Nick did, for all of them to be dead. This is why it came as a total shock to Valerie when Nick told her he would "handle it" she didn't realize that he would take out a gun and shoot her worst enemy. Then he started to shoot everyone. It took a while for her to realize this but everyone who he was shooting was on the list. The hate list!!
Valerie does not realize this but as reader I noticed that it seems like Nick just had enough of all of this and went crazy. Valerie insists that he was not depressed and has all these flashbacks of how happy he was. I am not saying Nick was depressed but just sick of all of the people who were giving them a hard time and it was just him for of pay back.
This is why being a reader is sometimes interesting because you have different perspectives and opinions from the narrator. You are forming your own opinions and you get to have a persecutive different from anyone else, with is the benefit of books and not reality.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Social Justice: Deadly Little Secrets
How does the text make you think about justice in the world?
In my book I think that a big social issue is rumors. In the book they all live in a small town so when ever something happens the whole town finds out with in minutes. So when this innocent town gets hit with this big bad "killer", everyone avoids him as though he is a contagious disease. He is immediately discriminated aganst. Everyone talks about him and makes fun of him.
Rumors are hurtful to many people. This book makes that very clear, rumors. Are not something to mess with. Just because someone says something or seems trustworthy it doesn't always keen that they are. For example in the book the secondary character: Ben, has. Supposedly killed his ex girlfriend, so when the main character started to hang out with him and then start being stalked her friends assumed right away that it was Ben. The only one who didn't. Think it was Ben was the one who truly knew him, his only friend. The main character was the only one who bothered to know him before fully making assumptions about him. After she. Got to know him she didn't fully trust him but she waited to know him and then make her own dissuasions and opinions about him instead of listening to everyone else.
This point brings me to the next social issue which is followers and people who think for them self. Kimmy the main characters best friend assumed he was dangerous because of what everyone else was saying. She chose to listen to other people instead of thinking for herself. This is not good because one person who she listened to instead of looking into it was actually the real killer! When you listen to other people or are not afraid to be different it can prevent you from saving yourself (at least in this story).
Sadley I don't think it would be much different in the real world because I think where ever this kid would go someone would find out about the past eventually (secrets never end up in any good) and then the kid would be made fun of, teased, and no one would trust him. I know I can say how bad it is that people didn't trust this kid, but I have to think not only how I feel as an outside reader but how I would feel in this situation myself and I hate to say it but I probably wouldn't trust him anymore than anyone else did. I think that it was really amazing how the main character completely pushed away everyone else's thoughts (mostly) and just focused. On how she felt because it was her gut feeling and her life that was in danger.
This really makes me think about how maybe for me life is okay but there are people going through loads of horrable things because of how humans act, and what some people believe and think is fair and others don't. Ben was lucky because in this book he had someone who thought it was fair to give everyone a shot and go with your gut. Sadly though a lot. Of people disagreed and thought she was crazy for thinking what she was doing could be right. This is like the discussion we had in class because very one has their own idea in this book of what is right and wrong or fair and unfair.
In my book I think that a big social issue is rumors. In the book they all live in a small town so when ever something happens the whole town finds out with in minutes. So when this innocent town gets hit with this big bad "killer", everyone avoids him as though he is a contagious disease. He is immediately discriminated aganst. Everyone talks about him and makes fun of him.
Rumors are hurtful to many people. This book makes that very clear, rumors. Are not something to mess with. Just because someone says something or seems trustworthy it doesn't always keen that they are. For example in the book the secondary character: Ben, has. Supposedly killed his ex girlfriend, so when the main character started to hang out with him and then start being stalked her friends assumed right away that it was Ben. The only one who didn't. Think it was Ben was the one who truly knew him, his only friend. The main character was the only one who bothered to know him before fully making assumptions about him. After she. Got to know him she didn't fully trust him but she waited to know him and then make her own dissuasions and opinions about him instead of listening to everyone else.
This point brings me to the next social issue which is followers and people who think for them self. Kimmy the main characters best friend assumed he was dangerous because of what everyone else was saying. She chose to listen to other people instead of thinking for herself. This is not good because one person who she listened to instead of looking into it was actually the real killer! When you listen to other people or are not afraid to be different it can prevent you from saving yourself (at least in this story).
Sadley I don't think it would be much different in the real world because I think where ever this kid would go someone would find out about the past eventually (secrets never end up in any good) and then the kid would be made fun of, teased, and no one would trust him. I know I can say how bad it is that people didn't trust this kid, but I have to think not only how I feel as an outside reader but how I would feel in this situation myself and I hate to say it but I probably wouldn't trust him anymore than anyone else did. I think that it was really amazing how the main character completely pushed away everyone else's thoughts (mostly) and just focused. On how she felt because it was her gut feeling and her life that was in danger.
This really makes me think about how maybe for me life is okay but there are people going through loads of horrable things because of how humans act, and what some people believe and think is fair and others don't. Ben was lucky because in this book he had someone who thought it was fair to give everyone a shot and go with your gut. Sadly though a lot. Of people disagreed and thought she was crazy for thinking what she was doing could be right. This is like the discussion we had in class because very one has their own idea in this book of what is right and wrong or fair and unfair.
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