Krista Ramsey Introduction Activity

Here is the URL to her blog post:
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/02/15/krista-locking-into-the-magic-of-legos/5521245/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

Ramsey talks about the greatness of LEGO'S and how they affect a child. She goes on to talk about the life skills they teach you and why every parent should fully encourage LEGOS. She says, "With Legos, kids build sturdy little creations – which, in turn, build sturdy kids. ?" at the very end of her article. It leaves of with an idea of what LEGOS do to kids. When i was a kid i couldn't sop playing with them, I had countless ships, city's, cars, and other ideas that I could build. I got better and better the more time i spent building. She gets across how little kids felt and the influenced me. Some questions I would ask the writer Krista Ramsey are how do you get a voice so apparent in your writing, How does she know what LEGO's are like for kids, and how to infuse choice of diction and syntax into writing?

Comparing Allegiant to Mockingjay

I have read Mockingjay  by Suzanne Collins and I am reading Allegiant by Veronica Roth currently. These books are very similar, heck the whole series are very similar. Both the main characters are female, both are post-apocalyptic, both are a trilogy, both have too much romance, and both are having their last movies are getting put into two parts. I mean they needed to do it for The Deathly Hallows, but not for these series as well. Even though they are similar in many ways to the naked eye but even their meanings and themes are fairly similar. At least they seem that way to me. They both are about morals, more specifically morality of a society. Now it is basically impossible to explain this without spoilers so I will just keep it at that. But I assure you these books are one in the same,  I am not saying this a bad thing. They are different in a good amount of ways, and I started reading Divergent after  good amount of time since reading Mockinjay so it didn't really bother me. If you have read one of the series and u liked it you should definitely read the other

Divergent series relation to Maze Runner series

So I am now on the third and final book in the "Divergent" series by Veronica Roth, the book "Allegiant". Now I noticed this in the first book, but the relation really came out in the second and third books. This series is very similar to "The Maze Runner" series by James Dashner. Now a movie is coming out soon for the "Maze Runner" series and a movie just came out for the "Divergent" series so I will try to leave all spoilers out, but there might be slight hints to what happens later on.

So the reasons these books are very similar are abundant. To start they are both post-apocalyptic books, but then again about every other young adult book now is. Veronica Roth's story takes place in a walled in, half burned out, grim looking Chicago(One of the best city's ever). While Dashner's is in a maze, so not much similar there. There are multiple small similarities through each series throughout their plots and themes. But the main huge similarity is the plot of each book. Now if you didn't already know "The Maze Runner" is about way more than just a maze, I mean seriously way more. It's one of those twists/enlightenments that almost make the first book irrelevant, it remains relevant though and was the bases of the themes and whole drive of the story. Now Roth's plot is very strikingly similar. Roth's series like Dashner's first takes place in a both physically and mentally cut-off world, they have no idea why they are there they just are. They solve the problem within the their own seclusion and yay everything's happy and normal now! Nope the opposite happens, they then find out about the world they live in really really sucks. Then a whole massive plot happens diminishing the old one. If you haven't read either of these books or just one I have two words for you, read them. 

Trailer for maze runner:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-iSYVmMVY&feature=kp