Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Text-to-world

In the novel, I am Number Four, there are lots of things that I could connect to.  One Text-To-Self connection I can make with this book is I share the same Name as the main character in the book.  Me and the main characters names are both John.  One Text-To-Text oconnection I can make is to Harry Potter.  This book relates to Harry Potter because Harry can use magical powers and Jon Smith in my novel can use powers also.  One Text-to-World connection I can connect with is that in the novel the people need to survive and live through that people are trying to kill them every day.  People in real life want to kill other people every day also.   

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

451 post

In the book Fahrenheit 451 there is a man who lives in the future.  This mans name is Guy Montag and his job is called a fireman.  In this book the fireman start the fires instead of taking them out.  this is a distopian future because the government has taken over the world.  The government makes it so that the people in the society cant think for themselves.  The government doesnt allow people to read anymore.  The firemans jobs are to go around to houses with books and set them on fire.  But the problem is that Montag steals books from the houses he is about to burn.  This is highly illegal in the socviety today.  Montag soon relizes that the society in the book is very wrong.  He learns this from talking to the Head of the Firehouse, Beatty.  Beatty is a man who would put his job infront of everthing.  One night, Montag sat down with Beatty and Beatty told him everthing.  He told him how all the book stoped and how the Government was killing the really smart people in the society.  The Government would tell the family and friends of the person that they got hit by a car or got shot just on the street.  They would never tell them that they were just killing them because they looked and talked smarter the the norm.  Montag is now trying to stop the government and hes trying to find a way to keep steeling the books.  He will continue to get smarter and learn more about the society then and the society in the past. 

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

i am number four(first post)

I am now starting a new book called I am Number Four.  This novel is about a man who is very strange and not like other people.  He is from a different planet and there is only nine of his kind.  He left his home planet because the mockidorians were trying to take over the planet.  The mockidorians are very strange because they have to kill the rest of the nine people from the home planet in order from one to nine.  The man in this novel has to change his name, move, and stay under the radar for his life so the mockidorians cant find him.  When someone dies from the nine people, the rest of the people get a scar on there leg with the symbol, in there language telling them that one is dead.  In this point in the story the man named Jon smith is number four and three people have been killed before him.  This means that he is next in line to face the mockidorians.  There are many things key to survival in the world at this time.  When the people are together they are very strong.  But when they are together, they are a lot easier to find and to kill in order.  In the book now, the people are eather desiding to stay split and try to stay hidden, or meet up and tey to take down the mockidorians with the rest of the people.