Blog 6 The Notebook

I have started to read the book The Notebook. The book starts off by giving a detailed conclusion of one of the main characters, Noah Calhoun. He is a guy who was a relaxed and lonely man. He recently moved to this little town called New Bern and he moved into one of the oldest houses in this town. His whole life since he was young he has had a dream to restore the house and make it look new. Later on in the chapter, it starts talking about how he feels it is his fault that he is lonely. Then he starts remembering about the day that he had met his first love; summer of 1932. He explains how that summer haunts him up to this day because of all enjoyable memories he made.
While I started reading this book I noticed that they make a lot of "Memory Moments". One of the most important memories that the author has talked about is when Noah remembers the memories about that summer with the girl. "They rode in canoes and watched summer thunderstorms, and to him it seemed as though they'd always known each other." The author wrote this sentence because he is explaining how much love he showed towards her. So I think this flashback memory that Noah had explains to us the beginning of his story. It also shows us who this girl was to Noah which will be important later in the story.

Justin Timberlake Blog 5

As I continued reading the biography of Justin Timberlake, I started reading a different part of his life. Putting aside his present career. I am now reading a part where it started talking about his childhood years. His whole family was all about music and arts. So he has been surrounded by music his whole life.His mother, she played several different types of instruments. His dad was a bluegrass singer and led a church choir. His grandfather was a guitarist. With all this music, it is not surprising that he began singing at a young age. His school years were not so good. He got made fun of by other kids because he had very curly hair and lots of acne. To not feel as bad, Justin decided to join sports. He also joined violin and choir classes. He progressed his talent during this time and got to a level where his performing arts were getting to a high level. His mom later decided to sign him up for a television show to be part of it. He was very lucky because he got the role. And from there his acting skills were started.

Justin Timberlake Blog 4

The nonfiction book I have started to read is about Justin Timberlake and it is by Marcia Amidon Lusted. So far the first chapters are about how he has been rising in his career. Like that not only is he a singer, but he is also an actor and dancer. He has already a Grammy Award-Winning singer and songwriter. There was a certain time period where he took a break from music recording and writing. So he concentrated more on television and movie. He has been in voice of characters in several movies like Yogi Bear and Shrek The Third. He was also took roles in movies like Bad Teacher, Friends with Benefits, and In Time.  In 2011, Timberlake started being a frequent guest on the comedy television show Saturday Night Live. 
I can connect to this biography about JT to a magazine that I read about a year ago about this same guy. The first chapters that I have read so far talk about how all the events that lead him to where he is now. The magazine also explained how from when he was a young adult he has been in bands and acting and how those events lead up to where he is now. In addition, Timberlake has raised lots of money for all he has done since the time back then.

Room Blog 3

As I continued to read the book Room, I finished it off and was surprised by the ending. After Jack had jumped out the truck and told the man on the street what was going on, the guy called the police to chase after Old Nick. Then Jack told the police that Mom was in Room. Eventually, the police found Mom, saved both of them, and charged Old Nick for several charges which leads him to 25 years of life in jail. Afterwards, Mom and Jack started going to a mental hospital to try to recover from the past. It was extremely difficult for the both of them to cope with the outside world, since Mom hasn't been in it for the past seven years and Jack has never even been in it. They're situation that was lived in Room was attracted by the public so this made it even harder for both to live a normal life. Eventually, they both end up moving to a place of their own and get their own rooms. One day Jack asks Mom if they can take a visit to Room. Jack says a last goodbye and they leave.
Towards the very end of the book, both characters changed their  perspectives of life. Jack became more open to the world. Although, Mom continued to be the same sad person, but understood that she had to change so that she could have a better life. Towards the end, I also noticed that it said that Jack was forgetting about Room and began to look at the outside world differently. He wasn't as scared as he use to be. Which is good news at least for him. In my opinion I think that Mom will eventually cope to her life because she has something to live for, which is Jack.

Room blog 2

As I am continuing to read the book Room there were many important events that I read about. One of the biggest events that I read about was that Mom told Jack about the truth about they're life. She told him of when she was a 19 year-old college student when she was abducted by Old Nick, had another child who died while in her stomache, and how Old Nick broke mom's wrist while trying to escape from Room. Mom decides to plan an escape with her son far away from Old Nick. She planned to fake that Jack had a fever and diarrhea so that Old Nick would take him to the hospital, but Old Nick didn't care so he did not take him because he thought Jack was going to tell authorities about Room and about how they were hidden in it. Mom did not give up, so she told Jack that he was going to have to pretend to die so that then mom would roll him up inside a rug. Then Mom would tell Old Nick to take the "dead body" in his truck somewhere where he could not be found. This plan worked. Then Jack jumps out of the truck when he is taken which Old Nick notices and starts following Jack. Jack runs into a guy who was out walking his dog and is rescued by the him; the guy calls the police and tells him what he remembers of the license plates of Old Nick's truck.
I stopped reading here because I knew that it was going to get more interesting and I wasn't going to stop reading. Hopefully, the ending will be awesome and will leave me surprised.

What I think about the last pages I have read, I think that I could make a connection to a news report that I saw on television. It was pretty much the same story but with a girl and her mom. This book has been one of the saddest books I have read. I can predict many things that are going to happen. Like I can tell that Jack will get help to rescue his mom, and at the end they will both be out since the mom is smart and knows the right things to do. Hopefully, the end of the book will be a jaw-dropping moment.

Room blog 1

The book I have started to read is called Room by Emma Donoghue. It is about a mom who got kidnapped and has been trapped in a little, little room with her son. The boy does not know though that they are kidnapped so he just thinks that that is how life is supposed to be lived. The room they live in is only like  11 ft by 11 feet. Mom has not been in the outside world since Jack was born so Jack has never been in the outside world. They spend all day, everyday in this little room trying to live normal. They don't have much to eat or do but they always rely on Old Nick to hopefully provide for them. Old Nick is the guy who has Mom and Jack trapped in this room. For Jack, Old Nick is just a normal guy who comes home every night and does things to Mom while he is put in Wardrobe so that he doesn't see anything. Everything sounds so illogical but it is how they really live.  It's a great mystery of what you think is going to happen next. So far I think this is one of my top readings.

The main character in the story is a little boy Jack, and the mom. Jack is a boy who barley turned 6. He was born in the little room, which is the setting of the story. Every night, Jack is put in Wardrobe when Old Nick comes back. Jack never asks himself why he sleeps there; he just listens to his mother. For Jack, the room is the only world he knows; but for mom, Room is a nightmare prison but she tries to cover it up just to give her son a normal view of life. They both have totally different perspectives of Room. In which for them, they both try to live it normal.

                       

My Goals for 2015

One of my academic goals that I have is too get my work turned in the day it is due. The class that I have more trouble with is in Language Arts. I procrastinate too much and leave all my work to do last minute. This gives me a lot of stress because then I try to do the work during class, but instead of this helping me, it leaves me more behind in class. So the effect of this is that my grades go down in that certain class. Therefore, this is why that is one of my academic goal. 

One of my personal goals this year (not as important as the rest) is to let my nails grow out. So I will have to stop biting them like I do now. It has been sort of hard because trying to stop biting my nails was my New Year's resolution like two years ago. I still have not accomplished it. No matter what,  I'm going to try my best to stop doing this annoying habit of mine.