13 reasons why

I am currently reading the novel Thirteen Reasons Why. I have not finished this book, I am about half way through and I love this book so far. In this novel so far the main character has killed her self, and in thirteen tapes it explains why. In the book she has changed majorly from beginning to where i am in the book right now.
She changed through out the book as in the beginning she was a happy freshman who just moved to a new town and ready to start a new adventure. She then meets her new friends and they ditch her for new ones at the beginning of the year which does not bother her to much but still irritates her. Then she meets a boy and he decides to tell the entire school that a kiss went way more then it actually did to get his reputation up. Then she meets another girl Courtney who she thought she was friends with but was just another person who ditched her in the end and was spreading more rumors about her.
She dramatically changes and becomes more depressed and not wanting to be around with the more people that let her down and put her down. She is starting not to want to hang around people because she thinks there is no one out there that means any good and just wants to be friends. She pretty much starts to give up on life and trying to do anything. She is no longer that happy girl and falls into a state of depression and not caring about anything including her self.

13 reasons why

We are reading thirteen reasons why right now as a class read. I have not finished the book, I am about to the middle of the book. Its about a girl who killed herself and is now sending around tapes to the people that she blames. I think in this book as of right now she is being very sensitive about everything that happened. I have been through high school and everything she is going through right now i think is something that an average everyday high school girl goes through. Rumors and harsh things that upper class men say is just the way high school is, you just can't let it get to you. In the reading she meets friends in the beginning of the reading and when they start going to school they eventually separate and go of in there own direction. She gets very upset by this and I just see this as a everyday school thing. You meet new people and forget about the friends you had. Also she meets her first kiss and he tell everyone that they did more than a kiss. That in my eyes is a normal freshmen boy who is just trying to be cool and fit in. He is trying to fit in with the upper class men and get is reputation up to be a popular kid. Yeah is wrong and it does make you angry i'm sure but things like that eventually die off and everyone forgets about it. But i haven't finished the reading yet so it could be that these events lead up to bigger events that could changer her life and make her not want to be here anymore.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

I Just recently got done reading the last Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowleing. The last book is called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. The main Characters in this book are Ron, Hermione and Harry. This is a book from a series and happens to be the very last book. In the series Harrys parents are killed by the evilest wizard and his name is Voldemort. He is the only boy who lived and now he is out to kill Harry. Ron and Hermione are Harry's best friends and have been through everything thick and thin.
I think that all of these characters are worth praise not only in this book but throughout the whole series. They all are very brave and never give up on each other or themselves not matter how close to death they might be. Hermione risks her life in the book by going with harry to hide out and look for the rest of the Horcruxes to help defeat Voldemort. She goes with him to dangerous places to help to look for these because they will not win without them.
Ron should be praised for the same reasons. All though he does leave them because he is sick of the constant worry he still comes back to help them. He stays strong and he keeps going even though one of his brothers gets killed by death eaters. They both sacrifice so much to help there friend to live.
At the every end of the book Harry is faced to Lord Voldemort to fight. He sacrifices him self to save Ron and Hermione because he would have killed them first. Harry is given a choice to stay in heaven or go back to fight, he chooses to go back and fight to end the murders for one and for all and he ends up winning. All these characters deserve praise for there courage and sacrifice.

Speak.

I read the book Speak by Laurie Anderson back in high school as one of our “literature circle” projects. I just recently re-read the book and I forgot how much that the author made the book so realistic. In high school people are mean and just follow what is in style or what the popular kids are doing. You see this in Speak when she calls the cops and everyone is mad at her and will not even speak to her. When they do it's negative and mean. I wasn't the most popular in high school so I had some times when people would give me hard times and its does hurt. I can't even imagine how its feels to be raped and not a have a soul to speak to or talk about how she is. The books really opened my eyes on not to make fun of people and not to judge because you never know what someone is going through. I understand how she cannot trust anyone and she will never probably will be able to, at least I know I never would be able to. It's awesome how she is able to kind of help herself by drawing the tree in her art class. I think that it helped her be a strong person and helped her cope through her tragedy until she was able to talk to someone. I also think that all though what happened to her she is still a caring person. She wanted to tell Rachel so bad throughout the book that Andy her new boyfriend had raped her, to protect her to make sure it didn’t happen to Rachel also. It is sad when she does tell her and she calls her a liar and tell her that she is just jealous, even though that they had been friends since little kids she still turns her back on her. I think about that I don't even know If I would be able to do that to my best friend. I love the book and I think that it ended perfectly and was very pleased with it. I will defiantly be reading more of her writings.