Monthy review

In the beginning of Maximum Ride : saving the world and other extreme sports, by James Patterson, Max and the flock, including Fang, Nudge, Angel, Gasman, and Iggy, had just escaped a Itex corporation and are now heading toward Texas. Once they get into Texas they start there basic planning, which is to locate a safe area, be aware of any erasers and to get through the day. While in a local park of Texas, the flock is sleeping silently in the tree tops and branches, all except fang, who is on his blog and receives a message from an untraceable source. The message says "The flock has gone bad, one of you is a traitor". Maxes voice comes back and tells her that all of the erasers had been retired and that of the DNA recombinant labs are being found and shut down. As the flock is finding out more about them selves and gain new abilities they also encounter stronger enemies and must take down Ter Borcht and his evil plan. While all this is going on, Max discovers something about herself and she's not going to like it. 

 

Question #3 What are the weaknesses of this book, in your opinion?

 

As far as the book goes, I think that it is a well written book, but there are some faults that could be fixed. The first problem is that Max, who is the narrator throughout the book, seems a little to childish. Her reaction to some of the situations that she is put in make her seem like that she couldn't be taken seriously as an young adult.In the book, there is one scene where Max and the flock wake up in a white room with no windows and they are all strapped to a medical bed with restraints so that they can't escape. After a while Anne walker, head of Itex and who cared for them  while being under protective custody, walks in and talks with Max. Anne tells her that everything that they have experienced has been all in their minds. Max in complete in her most sarcastic voice says " This is a toally new tack. I truly did not expect that" Pg 118. As Anne goes on trying to convince Max, she snaps " What was the memory of living with you supposed to test?" "How I would react to a two-faced control freak who didn't have a maternal bone in her whole body?" Pg 119. After a coupe of days being at the school Ter borcht decides that there existence is meaningless and decides to kill them. Max and the flock  re all caged up in a single Cage, waiting for their death. Max and Ter Borch are talking , and he's going on about his plan to annihilate the worlds population by half in an effort to eliminate all sickness and anything weak and to leave nothing but the strong, smart and those who surpass all others. After his sch-peel, Max sais "And if you look in a dictionary under 'delusional megalomaniac' you'll see your picture" Pg 154. It just seems like in a serious situation when your about to die, you shouldn't be laughing in the face of death. One other small fault that Ive noticed at the end of each two page chapter, is that the last paragraph has a lot of drama toward the end. ITs not that i dont like it, but if your going to have that much drama toward the end of one two page chapter than the chapters should be longer so that the drama can build up to something.

 

Question#8   Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters.

 

Out of all of the relationships there have been so far in this book, the one that interested me the most is with Ari and Max. Usually their relationship has been mortal enemies, but this time they aren't, theyre more of allies in this book. While Max was confined to her one room bed and restrained to her bead, Ari had been told to take Max out on a tour of the school, where they talked alot, none of what they said had been close to being anything threatening. While they were talking, Ari had revealed that all the recombinant DNA experiments have an exportation date. That included Ari, Max and the flock.While they were talking about how he had died and came back and talked about the expiration date, Ari has a sad tone when he talks, he seems almost as if he's trying to reach out to Max and ask for her help to get him out and just rescue him. After Ter borcht had told the flock to say their goodbyes, Angel comes up from behind with Ari and says " Good-Bye" with a steel cold stern voice and then he falls, Ari then busts the flock out. They all fly toward the woods and hide for a long time, after they make a temporary camp, Max bluntly asks him if whats he's doing is a trap. He sais no and then sais " No. I know that theres no hope for me, but a part of me hopes that you can escape". Afterwords Max and the flock have a discussion to keep him or get rid of him. You have a giant wolf man whos tried to kill Max mulitiple times and has also injured Fang twice and making him come close to death. Half of the flock wants to keep him and the others want him gone, so Fang takes Iggy and Gasman and they head to California. So now its Max, Nudge and Angel along with Ari. I feel pretty Bad for him, He was just a seven year old kid who didn't want to do this and now he's turned into what looks like a bad rag doll that's been stitched over and over again. And now the only thing he wants is Max's help.

 

Lit letter 3

As we come to an end toward our book, Max and the others have been captured by ter brocht and they give them a series of test to see if they are worthy enough to survive the by-half plan. The by-half plan is to reduce the world by half but the only ones who are allowed to survive are those who are smart, strong, or have some sort of special thing about them, sound kind of like hitler? Ari who is with ter brocht, is told to give Max some tours basically, they tour around and Ari tells Max that everyone has an expiration date, and you wont be able to tell when until it appears on the back of your neck. there was one chapter when they were interviewing them to see i they had adapted any new abilities, and of course they are all being uncooperative, and nudge says " i can eat nine snickers in one sitting" pg 139. After the interview tor berch goes on some rampage saying how they will not survive the plan and then he leaves, then Gazzy says " I vil destroy de snicka bars !" mocking ter borch with his creepy exact mimicry of people, which i thought was kind of funny.


When Max and the others escape, Max decides that they should head toward Europe and destroy the Itex cooperates over there. When they find the Itex cooperation in London, MAxs voice appears talking about the hydra and saying how when you cut one head two more come back in its place, so he tells Max "The Hydra itself must be destroyed, Max, THe whole thing at once. This is just one head. Find the body and kill it" pg 219.I like this just because its brings some mythology into present times, and kind of tells us what Max needs to do to prevail and win.

Our final blog.......

So this is our last blog post, and for some reason i don't really feel like doing anything special for this one. Frankly I'm quite tired, hot, irritated, and sick as hell. There are a couple of things tho that i feel i want to say but I'm not sure if I'm going to get through all of them. For starters it was a good year and i hope that the next two following years will be just as good and fun. I did a lot better academically this year than i had done last year so that was a pretty good accomplishment for me this year. I'm a little worried for next year tho, junior year is supposed to me the most stressful of them all. That's when everything matters out of all your years. So I'm going to have to actually try and might have to do my homework so that i don't sink like i did toward the end of water polo season. If you do sink its kind of hard to maintain everything while trying to pull yourself back up, so next year i wont do that.

One thing that I'm pretty concerned about, is the parcel tax. If that dose not pass, then most of us are pretty screwed. I know for a fact that swim and water polo are going to be cut. I heard a hell of a lot of our schools sports are going to be cut. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do if it does get cut. I'm probably going to have to join my coaches U.S.A team until the summer time comes around and then go back during the school season. Not to mention that theres going to be hella students over at out school. I'm pretty sure that the government doesn't want measure e to pass, if they did then they wouldn't have had a mail in poll instead of booth. Most people are going to be UN aware of the fact that its going to be mailed in, and we only one by thirty votes last time, so you better get your parents to vote yes on measure e.

I'm so juiced for summer, we basically have one week left. One week of actual school and then a week of testing which is only for half the day, and then we are out for a nice long two and a half months. I'm really excited, I'm going to be working at Wood minster theatre and getting my drivers license and going to Washington D.C to visit. And i have my summer league, witch i have my first meet tomorrow, getting to see all my old friends and hang out with them for the day. I'm probably not going to be in Alameda at all this summer, so I'm not going to see anyone, oh well.

It seems like our lives are starting to move at a much faster pace than i would like. Its like eating a really good dish, but not having enough time to savor its flavor.

-Saucee Niplzz

As for the rules of love, i pearsonal...

As for the rules of love, i pearsonaly dont believe that there should be any, its your life so do what you want, but unfortunately thats not how it works. There are never any spoken rules but there are a shit load of "unspoken" rules. The unspoken rules are a bunch of crap rules that are implied as soon as you join a group of friends or a clique. I think that the one rule that everyone knows is that if a guys and a girl are dating, and she breaks up with him, but he still has feelings for her, than any other guys is not allowed to ask her out. but if he breaks up with her than he is allowed to ask her out, but he might not want to for a couple of weeks just because there is all that break up drama if they had been going out for a while.

Whene people say "nice guys" and "nice girls", theyre referring to those people who beleive in good safe fun and they wont break any rules. Im not sure if a nice guy or girl would kiss on the first date. im not sure if thats actually something that really matters. But they definetly would stay out all night, they would probally be home by a ceartian querfue for bed or dinner. Another thing a good guy or girl would not do is have sex until they are married, they are supposed to wait until they are married and stay pure virgins until that time comes.

these rules are first placed when we are in our infancy stage when we still think that the opposite sex has "cutties" and then it progresses over time. The next step from there is that guys make some sort of pack in their lives that no girl will become friends, or the bros before hos rule, and then as when start getting up to high school, more and more rules are placed, creating the unspoken rules.

yay i have a new way to sign off on my blog post

i really hate being sick, its so boring. Im stuck at home with nothing to do, i cant do my homework until i get school loop and that dosen't come out till around five o' clock. The only thing i can do right now is my blog post and my lit letter. Being sick, there is no bright side to it, even if you have a day off, you have to make up everything that you missed from the previous day, or if your me you have to make up everything that you missed from the last two previous days. Im listening to itunes right now while im doing this and i need some new music, dose anyone have any good music, I dont care on the genre as long as it has a good melody or beat to follow. Who caught glee last night? That show is really the shit, I hella thought that santana and the other girl were gonna go at it. I was a little dissapointed tho, because you only got to see sue once, and i like it when her and will talk shit to each other.

On another note, who's ready for summer vacation? we have thirty days left! And the week before the last i believe is finals, and then the last week we dont aaaannnnnnyyyyttttthhhhhhiiiinnnnggggg, at all. Im hella looking forward to summer, im working at Woodminster Theatre witch i did last year and i made some money so i thought that it would be a good idea if i worked some more shows and earn more money.And im going to get me permit online so i can start driving around and then after that im gonna wait till i can get my liscense. Im also going to be doing my summer swim league, witch will be pretty cool. And i think im heading up to washington state for a week or two. The only thing that im the least bit concerned about is getting sunburned. White people like me burn hella easily. At the beggining of polo season, it was eight a.m and we were in the big pool doing some laps after we got our polo portion out of the way, and just from doing that i got burned, just from going to practice, thats kind of sad.

Sutherland, if you get this, something that you should do for a quick write is for us to say what we would do if the parcel tax did not pass. There are alot of us who are in sports, even mutliple sports. I have no idea what i would do if the parcel tax din't pass. I probally would have to find a new school probally, and that not even joking, i might have to move to San Leandro High and swim there. That or find another local team that i could swim with until my summer league. But what about all the other people who are in like football or baseball. Im not aware of any local teams for them, so where would they go? There would be alot more kids out on the streets till later times probally. And more kids to get hooked on drugs probally. But thats if the parcel tax dose not pass, and its not looking so well right now.

-Saucee nipplez

So we are now starting the nex book i...

So we are now starting the next book in the series of maximum ride, Maximum ride: saving the world and other extreme sports, by James Patterson. Max had just escaped Itex and her evil clone eraser, and they are now looking for more itex branches and are out to destroy them. In the begening Max and the others are in tree tops in a local park with everyone asleep except Fang who is reading his blog and then he recieves a message saying " One of you is a traitor, the flock has gone bad" (pg 18). But who could possibly be a traitor, Iggy's blind, nudge i dont think would, gazzy and angel are way to young, Max is the leader, the only logical answer for me is Fang, but he recieved the message so how could he?

While in Dallas, Fang makes the executive choice to go to a football game. Natrually, Max is on high alert, worrying about erasers, being spotted, some getting kidnapped, etc. Max pulls over Fang and asks him why he is questioning her authority and Fang says that instead of worrying about the erasers finding, that they'll find the erasers instead: "then we'll know where the tornado is" (pg 21). After being exposed on national television and through out the internet, Fang suggests to the flock that they quit running and find a perminent home. Max says that they need to continue to save the world and to defeat itex once and for all. After discussing it in front of the flock, Max gives in and goes with fang to go and find somewhere to live. While out and about, Max and Fang still argue and she dives down in the sky lands and cries. Now Fang being the natural pimp he is, lifts up her chin : Max says "What the heck are you doing" and Fang replies " changing your mind" and then he kisses her. Wow i really did not see that coming at all. I wonder if they are going to hook up at all.

my sacrifice (sorta)

On Monday, Mr.Sutherland gave us a quick write to see how life would be if we had to give up something for two days. Everyone thought that two days was to easy so he bumped it up to a week. He told that  those of us who were commited enought should give that particular thing and try to go with out it for a week. So I thought that i should try and give up soda for a whole week.and see if that works out and see how my body would be able to handle the change and from there try to move my goal gradually up to just not drinking soda at all.I thought that this would be a legit item for me to give up seeing how i drink excessive amouunts of Dr.pepper a day.

After lunch on Monday of May third, i gave up my soda. That evening i had just gotten done with my homework and had ate dinner, it was about six thirty or so and i had a mayjor craving for a soda, i could feel a nice cold dr.pepper running down my throat. From that moment i realized that givin up soda for a week would be alot harder than i had anticipated.he same night i had a dream, it wasnt anything special, just me at my house at some sort of party. In the dream i opened up a dr.pepper and chunged it in a single breathe, after doin so i thought to my self that i was'nt supposed to be drinking this and then i threw down the can, woke up and had to go to morning practice.

On May fourth after practice, my dad had driven me and my brother home, my mom took my little brother to practice and I was home alone. Generally i spend a good amount of time on the computer, and whats in that same room? All of my soda, theres even a can or so in the fridge. I thought that i could easily just take one and just throw the can outside so that no one would know. But then when my week is up, that woulnt be a true accomplishment. so i just grabbed a glass of water and drank that instead, but it wasnt satisfying enough, it felt like eating tofu, you can down alot of it and still feel empty.

I did manage to find a temorary alternative, tea. Not hime made iced tea, or hot tea, but those quick pack that you dump in water and then shake it. Im not so sure how heathy they are for you, but its a hell of alot better than drinking soda that has anywhere from 100-200 calories. My mom haded me an ice cream bar the other day and it only had 70! thats pretty cool. So when i do go to lunch today and they ask me what i want to drink, i have to get a water and mix it with my packet and have my instant tea. but on the bright side i got everything else thats not a soda, like juice, slushies and whole bunch of stuff. Even better, i only have four more days.