Dear Jodi,
I finished your book and it was amazing. It was a book that I actually enjoyed and could really relate to. You showed just how high school works, and the consequences it brings when kids bring other kids down just to make themselves feel better. The only thing I was kind of disappointed with was that I kept hearing from other people how amazing the ending was and how shocking it was. But, I was upset when I predicted it because now I feel like I read the entire book knowing that Josie had shot Matt, making it pointless. But actually, it wasn't pointless at all because the way you wrote it shows why Josie did what she did. And, to be honest I think this book should be read in every high school because every single kid knows exactly who picks on who and who the popular crowd is, there just happens to not be a single person who can change it themselves, you need every single person in the school for this stuff to end. Yet, we all know it never will happen that way so we chose the path where it all leads up to the same thing of kid after kid getting picked on, and every once in a while someone standing up for them. Nothing changes, and life goes on, but will it go on or will a kid like Peter Houghton arrive one day at our school and end the lives that we thought would go on forever and never actually get hurt because "nobody would actually do that at our school, because our school is safe". But, how am I suppose to feel like this can't happen when our school sounds the exact same as Sterling High. It's weird, but it's true that anything can happen, good or bad. The thing is you learn the punishments, but you don't know the punishment until it happens in front of your very eyes.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Post A7
*Vocab*
1. litany (279): a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession
2. recuse (282): to withdraw from a position of judging so as to avoid any semblance of partiality or bias
*Figurative Language*
1. "What if Detective Ducharme already knew...everything?" (273). Only if you have read the entire book would you know that this is an example of foreshadowing. It is an example of foreshadowing becasue Josie is scared he already knows what she did even though you don't find out until the end of the book. The use of tone in this part allows the reader to feel like Josie had something to do with the shooting in the school that day.
2. "...how questions would build up like the pressure inside a champagne bottle" (274). This is an example of a simile because Jodi uses the word like to compare how the questions feel for Josie.
3. "Josie thought, the words rising like welts in her mind. Welcome to the club" (274). This is an example of a simile because Jodi uses the word like to show how Josie feels towards her mother.
*Quote*
"Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt" (391). The importance of this quote is that some people never do realize they are hurting someone just to feel better about themselves. And, it can lead to pretty bad things, without anyone expecting it to happen at all.
*Theme*
After finishing the book, I think the theme was to learn that just because there are things you don't like about yourself doesn't mean it is alright for you to bring someone else down just to bring yourself up. Because once you realize what you've done, you can't go back without getting hurt again, so your stuck in a world you don't want to live in.
1. litany (279): a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession
2. recuse (282): to withdraw from a position of judging so as to avoid any semblance of partiality or bias
*Figurative Language*
1. "What if Detective Ducharme already knew...everything?" (273). Only if you have read the entire book would you know that this is an example of foreshadowing. It is an example of foreshadowing becasue Josie is scared he already knows what she did even though you don't find out until the end of the book. The use of tone in this part allows the reader to feel like Josie had something to do with the shooting in the school that day.
2. "...how questions would build up like the pressure inside a champagne bottle" (274). This is an example of a simile because Jodi uses the word like to compare how the questions feel for Josie.
3. "Josie thought, the words rising like welts in her mind. Welcome to the club" (274). This is an example of a simile because Jodi uses the word like to show how Josie feels towards her mother.
*Quote*
"Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt" (391). The importance of this quote is that some people never do realize they are hurting someone just to feel better about themselves. And, it can lead to pretty bad things, without anyone expecting it to happen at all.
*Theme*
After finishing the book, I think the theme was to learn that just because there are things you don't like about yourself doesn't mean it is alright for you to bring someone else down just to bring yourself up. Because once you realize what you've done, you can't go back without getting hurt again, so your stuck in a world you don't want to live in.
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