Reading Post 6

This week I continued reading Eon by reading pages 184-284. I know, I know, its the bare minimum. I just haven't had much time to read lately. Especially since AP tests are coming up. To be perfectly honest, I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to manage another hundred pages for next week. Too many things are going on at once! But I really have been enjoying my book. The plot's slowed down a little bit, but I think it'll pick up soon. Most likely I'll be reading this book for the rest of the school year. Its about 550 pages, so it'll take me awhile. Maybe that's a good goal. Finish book before finals. There we go.

Reading Post 5

This week I read 48 pages of Tina Fey's Bossypants and another 70 pages of Eon. I found it much harder to find time to read this week because we started reading a new book for AP Lit. Most of the time I really wanted to sit down and read Eon, but I couldn't because I felt obligated to read White Noise for class. I still really love Eon. However, I wasn't a huge fan of Tina Fey's book. To be honest, I thought Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (and other concerns) was funnier. I don't think I'm going to finish Bossypants.

Reading post 4

This week, I read 114 pages of a book called Eon. I really wish I had more time in my day to read, because I love this book. Its kind of like a cross between Eragon, The Last Airbender, and Mulan. Its a fantasy book that somehow doesn't seem farfetched even though it's about dragons. The story is about a society where women are considered to be extremely inferior to men and are not allowed to hold any positions of power. In order to fulfill her destiny, sixteen year old Eona masquerades as twelve year old Eon in order to become a dragon's apprentice, a position of power that is highly rare and respected. I'm really crappy at explaining it, but it's a really good book. I would recommend it to anyone who liked Eragon.

Notes 2 & 3

“You can own the earth and still,

 All you’ll own is earth until

You can paint with all the colors of the wind.”

            In the clip and song “Colors of the Wind” from the Disney movie “Pocahontas”, the soft whispering wind blends with vibrant brushstroke illustrations to symbolize the intangible beauty of nature. As Pocahontas  tries to convince John Smith to treat the Earth properly, she sings about the wonders of nature. Accompanied by a gentle murmuring wind, she mellifluously sings of images of nature such as “hidden pine trails of the forest” and “sun sweet berries of the earth.” With these literal images, the movie illustrates colorful landscapes and vivid environments. However, Pocahontas not only describes visual images, but also imperceptible concepts of nature such as “the voices of the mountains” and  “the colors of the wind.” Because wind lacks visual color and mountains do not speak, she suggests that the wind and the mountains exemplify a greater theme  that not everything beautiful can be seen. By expressing wind as a force of nature both magnificent and invisible, Pocahontas conveys the idea that nature is complicated and not simply something humans can manipulate and use.

“No one can tell me,

Nobody knows,

Where the wind comes from,

Where the wind goes.”

          A. A. Milne’s “Wind on the Hill” depicts wind as a mysterious force that is impossible to capture.  The repeated phrase “where the wind goes” demonstrates alliteration that emphasizes the wispy nature of the quiet wind blowing over the hill. At the same time, when the wind “flying…as fast as it can” is described with the use of alliteration, a sense of urgency emerges. The narrator’s incapability to keep up with the wind emphasizes it’s intangibility, while the conflicting tones of quiet and hurried contribute to the mystery of the wind itself. The narrator’s confusion toward where the wind comes from and why he can not keep up with it establishes his inferiority to the greater forces of nature.

Reading Log 3

Over spring break I read a book called Evermore, which was 320 pages. Not gonna lie, it was pretty much just chick lit. Your basic "absurdly normal teenage girl falls in love with mysterious guy that turns out to be magical" kind of story. I still kind of liked it though. The problem is, it's one of those books that was turned into a long series, and I can't decide if I want to spend my money buying the other five or six books. I'm thinking probably not. Though every once and a while it's nice to just relax and read a book that requires minimal brain capacity to read.