The Hunger Games illusion vs. reality

The Hunger Games is really a book about illusion. When Katniss is in the arena during the games she doesn't know what to believe. She doesn't know who to trust who is sincere and who is doing things just for show. The Hunger Games are recorded play by play from cameras for each district to see. Every time someone in the arena makes a decision they are conscious of the cameras watching them and all of the districts watching them also. Doesn't this remind you of how we live today always watched by security cameras and surveillance cameras.
 Most people don't understand that the main reason that the book might show that all the poeple in the arenas are watced are to keep tabs on them and make sure they're alive. Also it brings in the theme of technology and the fact that it may rule their lives. When they are acting just for show it gets in their minds how they have to watch what they're doing.
When she was picked it was also like the fact that people get drafted and pushed into conflicts that they have no intention of fighting and that the innocent people of the world have to deal with the fact that they have no say in the choice of fighting or not. I think when Katniss doesn't know to believe in Peeta or his decisions she stays more wary and alert. It's good for the brain when your not completely always sure of things and when she has to act for the cameras as a different person than she feels inside its confusing and more difficult for survival.
 

The Hunger Games

      The Hunger Games is about a dystopian world where the main character Katniss is chosen to enter the Hunger Games with a boy named Peeta Mellark. They will be fighting against 24 other kids from the ages of 12-18, to the death.
       One big problem that goes on in this book is justice. In the reaping  process it is unfair each year starting at the age of 12 children have to put their names in to the hunger games. the names become accumulative because the next year you have to add your name twice and the next three times. Also to get a years supply of grain and food you have to add your name again. so the poor who need more food have more of a risk for getting picked.

  

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.

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.

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.

Eclipse

This is my first time reading Eclipse and like other books by Stephenie Meyer, I love the writing. I think in this book you have to pay attention to smaller details whereas in the other books of the  Twilight series you have to pay attention to the bigger picture. Also in this book you have to have read the others to really understand whats going on because there are small details that you remember while reading this book.

From what I've read so far in this book it seems that Bella (the main character) is braver and more sure of herself. In New Moon she has a phase of depression, that was harder to read because it was slow, which made her seem vulnerable to the world and now that Edward (her boyfriend/ vampire) is back she has more confidence and is yet still scared. She somewhat looses her best friend (and werewolf) Jacob, which makes her sad yet rebellious. Also she is still being hunted by a vampire and the Voultori is at some point going to check and see if the Cullens (Edwards family) have turned her into a vampire yet, which also makes her scared and anxious. She wants to be turned into a vampire very quickly, which brings out how sure she is of her future and her confidence builds when she talks to Edward about it.

Jacob doesn't want Bella to turn into a vampire so quickly because they are best friends and when she changes she won't be human anymore. The love that Jacob has for Bella seems everlasting even though he doesn't love her more than a best friend or sister. I think Bella takes advantage of Jake's love because it seems like she hates him and then forgives him and then hates him again and he always is apologizing to her. She truly does love Jake like a brother or best friend but doesn't seem to know how to express that to him. She always worries for his sake and he is always in the back of her mind which shows she cares greatly about him.

new moon

        I love New Moon because you can never expect  whats going to happen. The suspense keeps you reading. Right when it starts to get boring it turns around and the action starts up again. When I read Twilight for the first time I loved Stephenie Meyers' writing because it captured me. I reread Twilight last week an I felt as if I could go deeper in to the story. I just finished New Moon and felt the same way.
       New Moon deals with a lot of trust. In the beginning Edward tells Bella he doesn't love her any more and has to leave her.Bella loves Edward so much she trusts him and lets him leave. Then she and her old family friend Jacob Black become close friends. She is attached to Jacob so much she will trust anything he says. When he turns into a werewolf and semi-abandons her, she truly believes he isn't her best friend anymore. Later on Bella saves Edward from exposing himself (a vampire) and finds out she trusted a lie. Edward loved her  and left because he thought it was safer for him not to be around Bella. 
       I think that trust is something that has to be built up over an amount of time. When you fully trust someone you have to know that they won't let you fall, that they can hold your deepest secret and won't tell a soul. I think best friends have to have that kind of trust because a best friend is someone you rely on and you can't rely on someone you don't trust. My best friend in the whole world has been my friend since the 3rd grade and  we can trust one another with anything. When Bella says she and Jacob are best friends I don't believe that they can trust each other enough for that. It shows when Jacob turns into a werewolf and can't see Bella, she doesn't trust him enough to stay away from him.
     Trust is an important part of life. You have to know who exactly your trusting and what your trusting them with. When you think you trust someone, say, with a secret you have to think of the consequences of what happens if the secret gets  let out. If it does, you might not be able to trust that person.