Blog-ger #11: Red is For Remembrance

            Stacey is really having a hard time coping with her soul mate's death. I expected someone's death to be demoralizing, but she is totally head over heels. Jacob sounded like a great guy. Stacey sounded like she was going to eventually marry him. But now that he's gone, she's got a lot bigger problems...
            This guy Tim sounds like a real stalker. He actually left his clique of friends just to get rejected by Stacey. But I feel like he doesn't intend on stopping there. Stacey lied and said that she had a boyfriend, when obviously she didn't. This blew me off my toes because I was expecting her to break out into tears. It seems like Jacob caused her a lot of stress and the way she is talking about him doesn't give me a good feeling. Stacey shouldn't be using her issues to wiggle out of situations. Maybe she would have said she had a boyfriend even if she didn't know Jacob, but the way that she used him as a shield to save herself was really right-off-the-bat.
            Amber isn't helping either. Amber is Stacey's best friend and has been since they met in high school. But now that they're in college, Amber needs to be really there for Stacey with all that's going on. The way that Amber is acting, as if nothing really happened, pissed me off. Like a lot. How can she be so selfish when her best friend is going through probably her most traumatic experience. Amber needs to be Stacey's guardian angel, but when she's busy sucking on her friend's popsicles and bragging to Stacey, she isn't getting anything done. At all...

Visual Art Response

             Icarus. The story of a man told right through the very thick acryllic paint that made him. That small red dot showing his very soul. Icarus is a painting that was made by the french painter, Henri Matisse. Matisse was a very famed artist. Icarus was obviously one of his signature paintings. It tells the story of a silhouette that fought for his freedom. I think the art shows that no matter what, fighting for what you deserve is right. Fighting for the 99% is what you should be pumping. Make a motto, do whatever it takes. Because what you fight fr is what makes you. It displays your persona.

Extra Credit Option

When I see the Heart of Icarus,
I see the sun rising and setting,
I see that army of freedom fighters.
I see that man walk atop the hill,
And say,
We did it.
We did it.
We went hand in hand and fought off that oppressing force of,
Distraught.
Of disrespect.
Of differing chances and opportunities.
We stormed the forges of hate themselves, and we,
We accomplished what we have set out to do.
Icarus, has inspired the minds of all guardian angels,
And we,
Did it...

A Response For the Record

             When I think of a cardboard box, I think of a man or a woman, deep in the tidal waves of poverty, hiding. Hiding from what they never wanted to be afraid of...Themselves. Everyday, they cower to the back shadows of their makeshift box of what their lives have become.
              Reading "Bilingual in a Cardboard Box" made me want to say something that would take everyones' spirits and bring them to the light. The light of the sun rising and setting. The light of happiness, and not the despair of the darkness. I feel like this poem really showed how the different opinions a speaker can have on one subject, can almost be contradicting! The speaker, Javier Pina, demonstrated the ways a double sided poem is very unique. The way he put opposites of the life of Mexicans and Americans in one poem made me think. Is he the kind of person that can only love their homeland? Their own native culture? But what if he wanted to say something else? Maybe he wanted to say that the eyes, ears and speech of Americans can be blind, deaf and mute. That maybe the way we may see a youngster beaten to death in America, and having guilty bystanders walk by. That maybe the way we may see a youngster beaten to death in Mexico, and having other Mexicans try to save the kid. What if Javier Pina wanted to tell us something about his view on how the world can be tested for its plausible involvement?

ALL STAR NOMINATION!!!!!! YOU KNOW YOU WANNA HEAR IT!!!!!!!Or read it. Either way is really fine. Your choice... NO PRESSURE

          I VOTE NATHAN. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                   HE EXHIBITS A VERY UNIQUE WRITING STYLE THAT I RARELY EVER SEE. HE WAS ABLE TO CREATE A SITUATION ABOUT HIS STORY, BUT IT WASN'T ACTUALLY PART OF THE STORY. THAT IS A VERY DIFFERENT WAY TO INTERACT WITH YOUR BLOG AND I THINK HE HAS DONE A GREAT JOB SHOWING WHAT THIS BLOG REALLY MEANS TO HIM. EXCELLENT JOB NATHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...!!!...!!!...!!!...!!!

Blog-ger#10: Peak

        Josh made a really bold move. I thought that was the end of Peak's trip, I thought that Peak was going home. But oh noooooo!!!!! Josh had faked his blink and played a cruel trick. Peak was obviously upset and didn't realize it was a trick, but none the less, it happened. Josh faked Peak's removal off the mountain, just to please the other climbers. Earlier on in the story, the other climbers were aghast to find that all of their money that was used to climb Everest was money funding Peak. This didn't settle well in the other climbers' stomachs, but it was the daring truth. So, the only way Josh was to bolster his chances of getting Peak to the summit, was to try and call the bluff of the other climbers. This was a terrible idea. Although, I think Josh made the right choice. He was the one to put the news out there anyway, so he must have had a plan. That is a very interesting trick and worked very well on the oblivious climbers. I do also think that the way he executed it was a little harsh. Peak was very demoralized and not particularly expecting it.

Blog-ger#9: Peak

     I think this book can help a lot of people. The style and craft of the book, can actually relate to a lot of kids our age. Not many books can do that. Peak is the kind of character that you really feel like you can be put into their shoes the most. He has the same social life as a lot of people. There's always someone who's a maggot, that you really hate, but they won't leave you alone, even though you don't even talk to them. For me this is someone like Chance. For Peak, it's Holly. Even for other people, I'm their maggot. I feel like everyone has a maggot and they don't really look at it in that aspect.
     Another perspective of the book that is open wide for connections is person you can really talk to, that won't freak out at whatever you say or do, unless it's in a comedic manner or POV. That being said, I think that if your reading this, that you are already thinking of someone that you can really talk to and won't freak out at whatever you say or do, unless it's in a comedic manner or POV. For me, it's someone like Cassidy or Zach. For Peak, it's Sun-Jo. Everyone has someone they can talk to about anything in the whole world.
      Something else to look into is the admirable figure in our lives. Almost all people aspire to be the person they look up to. Someone who knows your out there in the world, and they are trying to help you, and trying to inspire you to do things and to take risks. For me, this is probably someone like my brother. He is always ahead of me in sports and almost everything... except maturity, but that's not important. For Peak, it's his dad. Everybody knows that they are either being admired or trying to admire someone. Everyone has someone that makes them dream of the future or what they hope to become.