I have recently started reading the book "Dope Sick". So far the book is about a kid named lil J and he is hiding from the cops. He is beig accused of shooting a cop. H has met this guy named Kevin and Kevin is replaying his life moments on television so that he could see what's wrong.
There is a particularly moment in his life that caught my attention. Lil J has a son. But he can't be part of the baby's life because of the mothers grandma. Lil J is willing to take care of his baby but the baby's grandma doesn't want him in her house. Now I find that kind of weird because usually it's the complete opposite. Usually if a girl is pregnant the mother wants the baby to have a father to take responsibility of it. They wouldn't want their daughters to raise a baby by themselves without any money.
So my question is why would the grandma do that to her daughtr and Lil J? Does she not want him there because o what he does? Is she trying to look out for her daughter and keep her away from what she thinks Is a bad influence. Yes Lil J is in the streets and he does drugs and sells it but does that mean it's goin to effect him being a good father.
The grandma of the baby has to except the fact that her daughter chose to be with this guy. She loves him and she had a baby with him. Is the mother just thinking about herself and what she thinks is better. Does she care about what her daughter thinks. She can't live her daughters life. She had her turn she should let her daughter have a turn to deal with her own life.

At what point do you find yourself resisting the book, characters, or author?

I have recently started reading this book called "perfect chemistry". I'm not so far into the book but here is a moment in he beginning that really did break my heart.
Before I go into that I'm going to explain the book alittle bit. So there is this boy named Alex and he is involved with the Latin kings ( in case you don't know that is a gang). And then he gets stuck with Brittany as his lab partner.they are both from completely different worlds. Brittany is a rich white girl and Alex is a I guess you could call it low class Latino.
So he hing that broke my heart was when one morning Alex and his brother Carlos got into a fight. They were going at it and Carlos said to Alex that people will think of him as a gang member. But then his brother said to him that he can do better than that and Carlos knows it. Alex is a gang member. He knows that that life style isn't easy. And he doesn't want his little brother to go through that. It makes me want to cry because Ale wants to save his brother and doesn't realize that there is still hope for him and he can get out of being in a gang.

HOw does the book make you think about justice?"

Right now I am reading the book "Fade" by Lisa McMann. In the book there are a teenage couple working on a case. They have to find out who the sexual predator is in the school (the predator is a teacher). This is a secret case and nobody can know about it.
In the book, the Captain (which is the boss of Cabel and Janie) doesn't tell the school community about what is going on. She keeps it a secret. All these teenage girls are at risk and the Captain doesn't keep these girls on point with what's happening.
I feel like that's how it is in today's society. Nobody is doing anything to get these perverts locked up in jail where they belong. To me these police don't care about anything. I don't know if I'm saying that because of the facat that I don't like cops but whatever. It's like they would study the case and then a year later they find the predator. Do you think it should take that long to find 1 person.
Also I've noticed how in the book they have the kids doing the work. The Captain is just there to collect the information, get the warrents they need, tell them what they need, and she's the one who puts them in jail. That's basically all she does. Now doesn't that lead you to think about how sometimes in society the adult figures just don't care. They act all lazy about the issue and just don't care. If it ain't there problem, if it isn't their child being raped they just don't care. The only thing they do is aware their kids of hte dangers and that's it. They just say,
"Sweetie, if you see someone wierd looking at you just walk away" or " Make sure you walk around with a group of friends so nothing happens"
Is that even enough? Shouldn't there be more awareness of this problem. There are a couple of things society does to help stop this problem. There are websites where their are the names and addresses of these rapist. I'm sure there are organizations to help the victims recover.
I don't think that people are too worried about this issue. Their too laid back as if nothing is going to happen to them. It may be true or it may not, who knows. But you should at least be aware of the issue.

"WHAt really hard things are happening in the text?"

In the book "Aries Rising" there is this girl named Logan. She has two bestfriends named Chili and PAige. Logan is a unpopular girl who nobody in the skool really pays attention to. Logan really wants this Kid named Nathan(he is the most popular and cutest boy in the school) to pay attention to her and also she really wanted toget into this summer camp for writers but she knew that Mr.Frankenstein (Mr.Franklin) wasnt gonna give her a good recommendation.
Logan finds this book in her fathers things and the book is called Fearless Astrology. Supposedly this book is supposed to transform your life. Logan uses this book to get what she wanted, NAthan and the good recommendation. SHe uses astrology to try to figure out deeper into Mr.Frankenstein and NAthan. She finds out that NAthan is a Leo and Mr.Frankenstein is a Taurus. She uses the characteristics in this book to help soften up NAthan Mr.frankenstein and a whole bunch of other people. LIttle by little Logan began being known as "Astrogirl". At the beginning of the book Logan was this loser who nobody cared about and know everybody is all she ever talks about.
The social issue in this book is popularity. Now everybody in her school wants her to do birth charts to finnd out more about their sign and stuff. But before they wouldn't even say hi. All this reminds me of how people i general like to take the easy way out of thingsor they cheat in order to do or get somewhere in life. INstead of Logan solving her own problems with her own mind she uses some book to do the work for her. So basically thanks to that book she got where she is now. There was a moment in the book where everything was falling apart. Nothing was going as planned for her. Logan felt insecure about her decisions and didnt know what to do. The only reason she felt that way was because of the book. The book couldn't help her in that situation. SHe felt useless. BUt then everything went abck to normal thanks to the book again. There are some people in life now a days who either have someone or something solve their problems or they just dont solve them at all. THanks to that book she became known in her school, she became popular.

Some oftye things that I learned abot E.b White makes alot of sense in the book. For example E.B White's caber was piano manufacturer. That would explain why there is a piano in the book where Stuart gets in the piano to fix it. Also I foun out hat his son was some sort of boat maker. That would explain why Stuart is so into boats and sailing.
One of E.b White's favorite subjects were modern society, failures of technological progress, and the pleasures of urban and rural life. Stuart little is a book that is taken place in a city. The city is urban life right? So I'm noticing that E.B White was sort of using his life to write "stuart little". He probably feels comfortable writing about his life.

Archetypes

In the book"Charlotte's Web" it is pretty obvious that Charlotte is the mentor. Mentor's are known to teach characters new things, bring there self esteem up, have their backs and etc. Charlotte firs all these characteristics. Wilbur is always curious and has many questions to ask and Charlotte is always there to answer them. She always makes him feel good about himself whenever he's feeling down.
A mentor is always the wisest ones. Their the ones the come out saying these weird phrases an you have to guess what it means. Charlotte sometimes says these things that I think Wilbur doesn't catch.
At the end he character most of the time ends up following in the footsteps o their mentors. And I'm sure Wilbur will put to use everything he has learned from Charlotte and eventually he'll teach it to someone else.

connecting annotations

pg.61- "what does sedetary mean?"
pg.63-"were you serious when you promised you would keep them from killing me?"
pg.64-"may i go out to my trough and see if I left any of my supper?..."
pg.67-"what does gullible mean?"

   I've been noticing that ever sice Charlotte showed up Wilbur's been super curious. I mean he's always been curious with the other other animals but there's just something different about him and Charlotte.
   In the beginning of the book Fern took carfe of Wilbur like she was his mother. She fed him from a bottle and took care of him. She even put him in a stroller with her doll!
   Some people may seem freindship between but I see something different. I see motherhood. And right now this motherhood is being passed on to Charlotte. Now she's the one acting like Wilbur's mom. Sometimes Charolotte would correct Wilbur in what he's doing, she makes him feel better when he's sad, and she teaches him lots of things.
   It's sort of like a mother teaching her son about life because she know's that one day she's not going to be there and he has to learn how to take care of himself.
 In the end we all know that Charlotte dies. And I think that Charlotte accomplished that goal of teaching Wilbur.
   This sort of reminds me of me in a way. Mostly everybody in my neighborhood watched me grow up. They seen me when i was a little baby,to toddler, to I guess a teenager. And since they have watched me grow up  they have a special admiration for me. And now Wilbur's all grown up and every body cares for him. They watched him grow and become a big, smart, nice, pig.

Chapter 8: when fern starts telling her mom about what happens in the barn?

I would like to know if Fern has friends to talk to? If she does then why would she go to her mother and tell her about what happened in the barn. This book seems to be taken place in the past. So I don't know what traditions they had and stuff. But I do know that right now ( I guess it's sort of the future) kids don't really conversate with their parents about what they did, or who they go out with, or who fought who. There is usually a friend they have to talk too.
Now I have to take into consideration that Fern lives on a farm in like the middle of nowhere. But still couldn't she just call a friend up nd say " hey listen, today on the farm this and this happened." Or if she doesn't have a friend she can always talk to Avery about things.
If you go to your parents with some crazy story about animals talking in a farm their obviously not goingto believe you. So you would have a better chance telling someone around your age that story.