Sugi's Blog Reflection

My best blog post is probably Characterization and review of Micheal Vey: Battle of Ampere. The link is here http://sugisreadingblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/characterization-and-review-of-battle.html. I'd say it is probably my best post because i actually had a voice in my writing. I wasn't just stating facts about a book but telling them and I even went on a little rant (good or bad, I don't know). A quote showing my voice is " For example "The Hunger Games" was carried till it had nothing left which took you to a civil war plot instead of "hunger games", needless characters, Katniss getting addicted to morphine and constantly hiding in a stupid closet crying the whole dang time. I could keep going but ill just say plainly it was the worst ending of a series i have ever read, saw, or even played. I literally threw the book out when i was done.". Now I realize there is kind of a run-on sentence but I just got into it. I was expressing my deep, deep, deep, hatred for Mockinjay by Suzanne Collins. I don't just rant the whole time either. I talk about the characterization in Battle of Ampere as well as the plot of the book and compare it to the two books before it. For example " The story line is quite cool in theory, but this book is very anti-climatic. It's not very deep in emotions or characters, i could sum up the main character Micheal Vey as the literal exact same as Shia Labeouf's  character Sam from Transformers.". I talk about how the plot was slow and boring. It tried to have all this rising action and build up, to literally and ending that takes 3 pages only. I also make a connection to the almost exact same characters MIcheal Vey the protagonist of Battle of Ampere and Sam WitWicky from the Transformer films.

My goals for next Trimester are to read more complicated and harder literature. Maybe even some older novels like The Odyssey by Homer, I'd also like to read the Sherlock Holmes series. The TV series and movies are great so that must mean the books are amazing. I also have an idea of a story. I am no writer and am not a great story-teller but I'd like to try to put my idea down on paper. I keep thinking about different things in my idea of a world. I would really like to improve on my writing skills. As of now I am not to good, but I love reading and have always kind of wanted to make a book of my own. I think I have a really cool idea too. All that's left is to try. Christopher Paolini wrote Eragon when he was 15, its not impossible for me to write either.

Ideas and themes in Divergent

I got Divergent for Christmas and I finally got around to reading it. I bet most people have either read the series or heard of it, it is a bigger series than I originally thought. When I started reading it I kind of thought it as another series trying to get big money on a post-apocalyptic plot. I changed my idea of it after the first couple of chapters. It is an idea of its own, and to my joy only had one thing in common with "Hunger Games" the main character is female. The idea of people being categorized in factions is a very interesting topic. You see how people cling to the faction system and loose the emotions that aren't recognized in their own faction. Well they at least try too. There is Dauntless, Abnegation, Erudite, Amity, and Candor. The trials for Dauntless Faction are very interesting to me. Veronica Roth goes into psychology with fears. People face there fears and realize their fears. They spend time with their fears to lose their fears, staving to be fearless. A theme i think is present through this book is people aren't always one type of person or just generic and singular. People and their Emotions can not be controlled that is the beauty of being human. If i had to choose a faction hands down it would be Dauntless. What is your faction? http://www.divergentfans.com/page/faction-quiz Try this quiz and find out!

Characterization and review of "Battle of Ampere"

So overall the plot and story of The Micheal Very series i think is alright but in the third book it starts to lose that and gets anti-climatic and lots of other things. This third book "Battle of Ampere" is not the ending of the series. There is at least one more book left, but i presume they will ring this series dry of all its worth as many series do. For example "The Hunger Games" was carried till it had nothing left which took you to a civil war plot instead of "hunger games", needless characters, Katniss getting addicted to morphine and constantly hiding in a stupid closet crying the whole dang time. I could keep going but ill just say plainly it was the worst ending of a series i have ever read, saw, or even played. I literally threw the book out when i was done. I just hope to avoid an ending like that for this series. The series isn't quite as good though so i won't be as angry if the ending isn't great. The characters are abundant in Micheal Vey series, as there are seventeen electric children (some good,some bad). The Author Richard Paul Evans tries to make each one unique and personal and understandable but he doesn't quite get there. One character dies in the book and everyone in the "Electroclan" is in complete shock and misery. At that moment my thoughts were  "meh, didn't give a crap about him anyway. He was only cannon fodder from the beginning.". After this there was about ten pages on them just moping the whole time and some characters moped the whole rest of the book. Who cared about him! You literally had no emotions or  strong connections to him in either of the two books before or at least that i could remember. The story line is quite cool in theory, but this book is very anti-climatic. It's not very deep in emotions or characters, i could sum up the main character Micheal Vey as the literal exact same as Shia Labeouf's  character Sam from Transformers. Like they are the exact same! Who is a nobody, has lady problems, and is weak as a twig but is somehow super-duper special by some miraculous crap and gets a ridiculously hot girl and saves the world. What? Yeah i mean the idea is great and like i said the story line isn't that bad. But has a great loss of depth in both characters and plot, you can predict everything that happened in this book from the first couple chapters. Overall this book was very disappointing.

The Ordeal

I'm going back to Neverwhere for this one scene near the end of the book. It's "The ordeal" that the main character Richard has to go through to get the key. When he steps into the room or that's the London below's Black-Friar station. He sees pictures and drawings of thousands of people that went through the ordeal and no one has succeeded. The ordeal starts and so does the ridiculous confusion. Richard enters this trance where his own mind drives him crazy. All the signs in the station say to end his life, people that walk by say he is pitiful and should just end it and in all this his sanity withers away like a dead rose. His remaining sanity talks to him and tells him he needs to listen. Richard wakes up from being blacked out. He is lying in his own vomit and has a ragged beard, his eyes are solid red bloodshot. He crawls to the tracks while being battered trampled kicked and stomped on. He stands up and is about to jump but then he listens. He steps onto the train filled with body's that had all killed themselves. The past people who had tried to pass the ordeal. Richard takes the train back to new world he had passed, even so he doesn't even know he is Richard anymore. Dang this chapter was like any other chapter i have ever read.