Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Breaking Dawn

(Spoiler) Breaking Dawn is about a girl named Bella who lives in Forks, Washington and is married to a vampire named Edward Cullen and she lives with his family of vampires.So far she has gotten pregnant with Edward and has a half vampire half human fetus living inside her. Her best friend Jacob (the werewolf) and his pack are trying to get to Bella to destroy the dangerous fetus inside her for fear it will cause danger to the people of forks.
I think Breaking Dawn is more interesting to read than the other books in the Twilight series because it has a whole different perspective from inside the mind of Jacob Black. When Stephanie Meyer writes from Jacobs perspective it seems more relaxed and smoother to read. Also since Jacob is werewolf he can hear in the minds of his pack. It's almost as if it were dialogue when he hears another wolfs thoughts and responds to them in his mind. When Meyer writes though Jacobs mind and describes Bella it is more soft comforting way than Edward or Charlie (Bellas father) would describe her.

If I were in Bellas position I would go insane . Bella wants to keep the baby because she loves it and its apart of her. Yet i understand why  the pack wants to destroy it. If a half vampire half human baby  was growing inside me and breaking my bones and starving me from the inside I would want it out. So there is two ways to go and knowing that this baby could kill me yet loving it i would have to take it out. I would rather live and killed the baby knowing it could have killed others, than it killing me and then living on to possibly kill more people.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Julius Ceasar

      I am reading this book in drama and I picked it because i was born on the ides of march which is also the day Julius Caesar was stabbed. I was always told that the ides of march is a dangerous day but i never knew why . In sixth grade i was told a brief summary of the story of Julius Caesar. I was told he was a very powerful and corrupt tyrant that many people worshiped and a large group thought he was a conspiracy. I was also told his best friend Brutus was one of the few that stabbed him.
     I really like reading Shakespeare because the old language is hard to understand and i feel like i have to put two totally irrelevant things together for a passage to make sense. Also there are a lot of double negatives in his writing which can get confusing. Overall i really like the story line even though it is a bit crazy and somewhat gruesome I think it's a cool story. There is a big sense of who as power over whom and what these separate conspirators can get out of killing Caesar. Some want the power Caesar had for themselves and others just want to make thing s right and have justice over Rome.
    I also just went and saw the movie Anonymous  which is about the conspiracy if Shakespeare was a real person or not. This movie shows the other possibility that there was a person called Edward De Vere  who wrote all of these plays we know "Shakespeare" as the author of. The movie shows the possibility that Edward De Vere was a person high in Monarchy and could not publish these political plays under his name for he will be arrested. This conspiracy says that he wrote the plays and used the ghost name "William Shakespeare" as the author to protect his identity.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Eclipse

After reading more of this book i feel like  it has a motif with the eyes. Stephenie Meyer has this way of describing eyes. When she describes the eyes of vampires its interesting how people who are not one of the Cullens, eyes are described differently. She doesn't just say Aro's eyes are red she says his eyes are a deep crimson and the irises are hard like candy. When Stephenie Meyer describes the Cullens eyes it's like you can picture it clearly. For example she says Edwards eyes are a tawny melted gold that smoldered Bellas' eyes, his pupils were dark small dots against the warm inviting gold.

One thing I always wonder is what if this is just one big dream that some girl had while in a concussion  and she is actually some city kid who is like 11 years old. That would be a very interesting thing but i think that might loose the magical feel you have when your into the Twilight series. I think that Twilight got very popular one because it's a very good series and second because of the movie. I think people got more interested in it when the movie came out. The same thing happened with J.K. Rowling's  Harry Potter.

I think that when you read a book and then see the movie it kinda ruins your experience reading it. When you read a book you create all these images in your mind. You picture what the characters look like and the settings and specific places look like . When your watching the movie for the book your watching the producers images of the book and the pictures he made in his mind. It kind of tears away all the images you made for yourself. That's why people are always saying the book is way better than the movie because they prefer the way they pictured it to the way the movie makers did. I like both the book and the movies for Twilight but the movies always cut out some parts or are less descriptive than the books.