After leaving off at the end of a battle, I was excited to finish my journal and continue reading. Although the book is good, I wouldn’t say it can truly compare to a book like Ender’s game as the cover may state. Even though Red Rising does have it’s uplifting qualities, I just did not feel as though it truly made me feel immersed. I was generally curious as I read, although I wasn’t as inlove with the character’s like I was in Ender’s Game. Pierce Brown didn’t spend enough time building the reader’s relationship with Darrow. I grew to Darrow progressively, but I always anticipated for him to die and for someone else to take over because the connection I had with him was next to nonexistent, which would have made the transition into a new main character much easier. …show more content…
Because of Brown’s lack lustering amount of background information, I have to assume that his involvement to social media and technology is where he gets the motivation for some of his vocabulary such as “commTech” and “MedBots”(Brown 325). Brown has a very unique writing style. What Brown lacks in character development, he replaces with writing style. I found it hard to make notes on the character’s because he never gave me much reason to care about the character’s until they were killed off like insects. While the bonding between reader and character is scarce, his use of writing devices such as similes come in an abundance, “pawns in a giant chess match”(Brown 284) and “You’re mad as a Red.”(Brown 280), both quotes are said by important characters, but they are referring to characters that have no ties to me as the
The ending of this book was a cliffhanger. In my opinion that is the worse kind of ending, but that’s how that writing persuades the reader to get the next book in the series. Without giving too much away about the end of the story, it was very unexpected. To be
There are several things that I like about this book. First off, I love historical fiction, and this is the genre of this book. Also, despite the author being too descriptive, the book went at a steady pace. For me, pace usually determines whether I will read the book or not, and I never really hesitated, or thought about changing books.
Enders Shadow is a parallel novel to the hit book Enders Game. Bean, the main character, is a homeless child living in the hectic streets of Rotterdam in about 2170 after escaping as a child from an illegal laboratory. The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an alien race. As the army needed more generals, they would start to train kids. Bean was recruited to go to the army school to become a general. While at school, Bean would go through a lot of crazy and shocking things that would help him become who he is.
The author really keeps the reader own edge and guessing what will happen next throughout the pages. I find that I can connect to the book on a cultural standpoint from living in the Appalachian Mountains .It is very interesting to me that she based this on her own family history. The book starts out telling two completely different stories,
...Never have I read a book that actually picked me up, and placed me into the book. This book actually took me into a battle, then to a quiet town, then into the battle again. Sometimes Brooks even got me to feel the ambiance or mood of certain things or places. Never has a book done that to me. I don’t think I would recommend it for a student looking for comedy, or a laugh, but I would recommend it to everyone else. This book covers tons of different genres, in a matter of a chapter or two. This book has captured me enough to continue reading the trilogy of Shannara.
Overall, this book was enjoyable to read, it wasn’t incredible, but it was good. The characters made it easy to root for them. This book is not for the faint of heart, due to some gory descriptions, however I liked it and would recommend reading it.
had a shocking ending and was a fantastic book. The main point in this book
What I liked about the book was the mystery. I loved not knowing what was going to happen next, and having to figure out the story. It was very unpredictable, though at times it became confusing. I could defiantly imagine myself in the book. There was heaps of different mysteries being solved, and it made the end very dramatic. It was great, I could not stop reading! The book was great, even though I do not usually read this type of books. It was very interesting and I really enjoyed it. The author did a great job.
This book exiting, intriguing, and very fascinating. It is exciting because as soon as Ender arrived at the battle school
The author has made sure to keep the reader informed, while still confused throughout the book. However, despite the ambiguity in the book, nothing has been left unexplained and the reader can wander off to interpret the entire story in several ways. The author has used foreshadowing strikingly, and it has been done so skilfully, that the reader finds himself awestruck with the connections that can be made once the book has been read.
Ever since I was little I remember playing games where I would fight the bad guy and win the girl in the end. This never seem to affect me or make me wonder what small effect it had on my thought process. In games such as Zelda, call of duty, assassin creed, gears of war, Mario, and even halo you play as a white heterosexual male. The idea of playing this way never seemed to phase me as a young child. As I grew up and became more aware of the difference of people and the need for other as well as myself a need to be able to connect and find one 's self in different place such as games, movies, and TV shows. I became aware of the one sided views that video games seem to have. Then I realized that it was seen as acceptable to only have the one sided displayed due to the lack of speaking out on the need for change.
...erwhelming that it makes the reader feel as if they’re a part of the fictional world created in the story. If Cortázar’s audience responds to “Continuity of Parks” in the same manner The Reader responds to the novel, the end of the story will feel like a vivid dream where it becomes hard to separate the real world from what they were imagining. A true author’s responsibility is to create a world compelling and stimulating enough to allow the reader to lose their self within it. However, losing yourself can prove to be somewhat of a dangerous act, as it’s no coincidence that The Reader’s novel concerns themes of murder and betrayal. The story ends with a suggestion that the immersed reader is, at least metaphorically, on the brink of death. Cortázar implies that becoming engrossed in fiction is both a goal worth striving for and a way of losing hold of your identity.
In the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card he introduces Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the third in a family of child geniuses, is selected by international military forces to save the world from destruction. Before being chosen Ender wears a device called a monitor that allows the heads of the military to see things as Ender does. Ender's brother Peter and his sister Valentine also wore this monitor, although neither was selected, and they didn’t have it for as long as Ender, and Peter hates Ender for this. Peter hates Ender, and even when the monitor is taken out it does nothing to decrease Peter's anger. The same is true of Ender's schoolmates, and he is forced into brutally beating the leader of a gang of bullies in order to protect himself. Although Valentine tries to protect Ender from Peter, he is only saved from his brother when Colonel Graff of the International Fleet comes to take Ender away to Battle School. Ender leaves behind Valentine, who loves him, in order to help save the world from the buggers.
At several places in the book, I felt that certain things are unnecessary explained. The author took a long time to evolve the plot and actual storyline. I have to drag myself from page to page in the initial chapters of the book because of the slow pace of the story. Though the choice of words was interesting in the start, the poor sentence structure ruined the effect of good vocabulary. Interactions between the characters were dull and instead of entertaining, they only served to aggravate the reader.
This lesson is designed to review and reinforce a few important concepts about plants (e.g. Needs, parts, sequence of planting) and to also guide the students through applying a few scientific inquiry (e.g. Making observations, experimentation, discussion, reflection, reporting results etc.). The students have previously planted corn and bean seeds and today’s lesson has provided the students a chance to see the results of the planted corn and bean seeds. Additionally, seeds have been planted under and growing under the following conditions: without water, and without soil. The students see the results of these seeds planted under these conditions for the past week. Two plants in particular have already been grown their growth has been