POV & Summary

Summary
I am close to finishing the book "Counting by 7's". The climax is finally arriving.Will Pattie take in Willow? Will Pattie Quang-Ha and her sister Thi Mai finally get a place of there own? It almost seems as if the book is slowly and slowly coming to an end without me realizing it. So far we come to realize that Quang-ha and her family are living in a garage. This is a bad thing because living in a garage is not safe. During the book Pattie let Willow stay in the garage. I also came to a part where Pattie has been saving up money, from that money I can infer that she wants to adopt Willow. 

Point Of View

I think the point of view for "Counting by 7's" would be First person point of view, because the book has a lot of I, me or mine. I know this because in the beginning of the book it says "I don't tell anyone that what makes this work is wax." It has the word I so I know its first person point of view because it has the character kind of as the narrator. Willow would be the first person point of view because she always used I, me and mine. I would like to read Second person point of view because in books like that the author uses You, or your. I think that means its your self in the book because its saying you or your.

Summary and Genre

Summary

The book Counting by 7s is really starting to heat up. The climax is finally starting to reveal. Whats going to happen to Willow? Is her councilor going to help Willow? The book is finally starting to have a turning point. Willow lost the two most people she loved in the whole wide world. Now there gone. What is she going to do next? How will Willow do it?  Reading Counting by 7's really brought my attention. Willow was adopted and she wasn't really used to having people who cared so much about her. Willow is very quiet, but very very intelligent. Put your self in Willow's shoes. How would you feel if you got back from school and you heard that the two most people you love in the whole wide world is now gone.? All I think about when I read this book , is how Willow is going to find a new family , and if she will.

Genre

Counting by 7's  is more like a teen fiction book, it can also fall for realistic fiction because it can happen in real life. I enjoy reading teen fiction because I'm a teen myself so it's easy to understand what certain girls are going through, especially if its a girl teen fiction. Im a big fan of Teen fiction. I would like to try new genres like mystery,horror,autobiography. When I came across Willows councilor , I didn't seem to find that much interest in him because he was pushing Willow too much. He underestimates Willow and I didn't like that fact that the character in the book is like that. I did like Willows parents a lot because even though they adopted her they give there everything to her. Willows parents are like every kids dream of having cool chilled parents. 

Counting by 7's summary and Character trait

        
Summary

  I have been reading the book Counting by 7's. In the book we meet this girl name Willow chance and she is adopted. Willow is attending middle school and she is preparing to take a standardized test that is administrated for all students in the state of California. I kind of thought of it as the ISATS. Anyway, Willow is a very intelligent 13 year old. Willow in 17 minutes and 47 seconds finished her standardized test. When I read that I was in shock because most kids take the whole 90 minutes to finish a test, but Willow finished in 17 minutes and 47 seconds. Willow had received a perfect score. No one in the that middle school has ever gotten a perfect score on a standardized test. Suddenly teachers began to get suspicious. Willow was called down to Principle Rudins office. On page 36 Principle Rudin talks to Willow. "Willow, do you know why your down here?" Principle Rudin said. Willow made the decision by not answering hoping that she would just say why she was down at her office.

"You cheated." I pictured Willow having a blank face.
"I didn't cheat on anything!". As a reader I know that she didn't. She's just that smart.

Character Traits
In the book counting by 7's the main character Willow has many traits. Pages 30 through 37 explains how Ms.Rudin was accusing Willow of cheating on her standardized test. On page 27 Willow and Ms.Rudin talk back and forth about how she was "cheating". Ms. Rudin said "Willow do you know why your down here?" "No" said Willow. "You cheated".
I wanted to say "Your left elbow displays the firth form of psoriasis an erythrodermic condition characterized by intense redness in large patches. A course of 2.5% cortisone cream application combined with regulated exposure to sunlight–– without sunburn of course– would be my recommendation for relief"
But i didn't.
From reading that I can infer that she is smart.

Goal's for 2015 Blog

My academic goal for 2015 is, to pay more attention in math. To ask more questions that give me a better understanding of what the topic's about. Last year I didn't really focus that much. Now that its the new year I want to show my teachers that I am capable of doing way more. I wanna be able to show my peers , staff and teachers that I can go out of my way to help people when they need it. I personally feel that I wasn't at my best last year. Now I personally feel that Ive grown more mature and I have a better understanding of how I want to be seen and known as. Im very confident because I know that i'm going to be able to show my teachers. I have no doubt.!

My personal goal would be to help more out around my home. I want to be able to help my parents when they need help. I helped here and there last year with things around the house but i didn't really help put a lot. This year I want to show my parents that they can count on me more than they did last year. I think my parents deserve more help around the house because I am older where I am capable of doing my own laundry and dishes and certain things my parents do for me sometimes. I wanna show mostly to my mom that I can take responsibility and do laundry , cook, clean,etc. I want to do this because Im at an age where its time to step things up. When I mean step things up I mean to help out.

Dead Is not an option Note and Notice (Tough Questions) 12/11/14

             I recently finished reading Dead is not an Option.  Dead is not an option is about a teenage girl named Daisy Giordano.   Daisy is saying good-bye to nightshade High and getting ready to go to college, but there hasn't been any acceptance letters. Daisy's other main focus is if her and her boyfriend Ryan are going be in the same college. But thats not the only thing she has on her mind. There is a Vampires vs Shifters going on at Nightshade High. Things are starting to get really intense between the Vampires and Shifters. The conflict is carrying over to the Giordano's home. Daisy's two older sisters, Poppy and Rose have boyfriends. Poppy is dating a vampire, while Rose and Daisy are dating Werewolf's. Daisy starts to investigate that involve mysterious new people in town and some people she's known from the past like her nemesis, celebrity chef/ Sorceress Circe Silvertongue. 

                                    (Tough Questions)

Tough Questions for those who don't know what it is, its when your reading and the character asks himself a really difficult question. 

While I was reading Daisy, asked herself "Would Nightshade survive a war between the vampire and shifters?". This question makes me think about what can happen. Since things are getting so intense wouldn't that mean that anything can happen at any moment? Meaning that if there were to be a war of Vampires and shifters, Nightshade will be totally destroyed and gone. What would happen after the vampires and shifters get into war? Will vampires and shifters finally get along after they have war? or will they keep things how they are now? Find out buy reading this amazing book! (Dead is Not and Option by:Marlene Perez) You wont believe what happens!!

Diary Of Anne Frank Character Analysis

I am currently reading Anne Frank.  So far Anne has just been writing in her diary and explaining how life is during the time of the holocaust. In her diary she writes "Dear Kitty," I found that to be really interesting because of how she mentioned "Kitty".  As I was reading more into the book , Anne was very worried about her dad that was ill. Anne's dad had high fever, cough and he didn't seem to be good. Anne's family then started to run out of food little by little. It would be a mission for them to get food because they live in an attic that their living in to stay. Anne's character is very wise. In the book on page 44-45 she says "I love them;  but only because they are Mummy and Margot. With Daddy its different. If he holds Margot up as an example, approves of what she does praises and caresses  her, then something gnaws at me inside, because I adore Daddy. He is the only one I look up to. I don't love anyone in the world but him.He doesn't notice that he treats Margot different from me. You can tell that Anne wants her dad to treat her just like she would to Margot.

Holocaust Blog

I believe that there are many reasons to why many people were bystanders at the time of the holocaust. Majority of the people figured that if it had nothing to do with them then why bother to get in to something thats not affecting them. Many people were terrified of Hitler and Nazis so they decided not to intrude. I feel like many other  people didn't stand up because they felt like if someone does it with me then i'll do it. Honestly I would've been a by-stander because how would I know that other people would stand up and do the same for me and many other people like me.? What if I do decide to stand up and nothing happens? Nothing changed and everything is the same. I would risk my life for nothing. I found it shocking how Schindler saved so many Jews. Schindler was a business man and convinced the Nazis that if they were to take the Jews from his cookware factory that he would fail. After time of him bribing the Nazis for the Jews to stay he finally convinced him. Schindler saved so many lives and he saved in in a clever way.