Amulet

This book was another engaging addition to the series Amulet. I can’t say it was my favorite book in the series but it’s also not the worst. I’d say the first on was the worst and I am only saying this because there wasn’t enough action and instead there was a lot of introducing. In the first book a girl named Emily finds an amulet and wears it. Then she can’t take it off so she decides that she has to keep it. Emily’s mother then gets into deep trouble and Emily has to go with her brother to save her mother. In the second book they ended up getting their mom but it turns out that she was poisoned so now she and her brother have to go on a mission to get medicine for the mother. The third book was pretty interesting, it was good versus evil and Emily who is on the good side learns more about the magic stone and it makes her more powerful and it lets her know more about the enemy that they are fighting. So I think that I will read the forth book but only if I can find it at my school. 

Martin Espada

Argumentative Essay

In the three poems I read by Martin Espada they all had a similar theme which was a form of racism. Martin Espada was a smart poet and made the reader think while they read the poem. The author didn’t tell the reader who was from anywhere and instead he made us infer like if the person was white, tan or if he was dark skinned. In one poem there is a person who keeps getting his name mispronounced and so he says he wants to take people hostage. In another poem Spanish speaking was banned in the bathrooms. The meaning of these poems is that if you are mistreated accidentally or purposely you should not take actions that will hurt people or ones that you will regret. \

            In the poem about the new bathroom policy by Martin Espada Spanish is banned and even though I am not in this situation I know it is wrong. In this poem kids are speaking Spanish in the bathroom and since the principle didn’t understand what they were saying he banned Spanish speaking in the bathroom. People are discriminated a lot just like the kids in this poem but I still don’t think bad actions should be taken.

            In the other poem the person wants to take action for when he thinks he is being made fun of. In this poem people mispronounce his name either purposely or accidentally but he doesn’t really care because it happened a lot of times. The person in this situation says that he wants to take people republican tourists hostage and that he wants a bilingual SWAT team to tell him to be reasonable. He says this because his name was probably not originated from here and that’s why they can’t pronounce it. I understand what the person with the difficult name to pronounce is going through. So he basically wants to do this because he felt that people weren’t trying hard enough.   

            In conclusion, Martin Espada wanted the reader to know that people are being discriminated and that they do want to take action because of these small problems. But I think that even if a person is being discriminated but not too harshly they should not take actions that can put many innocent people and people that were being discriminative at risk. So I think people should do something if they are being discriminated or hurt but nothing that will put people in danger.

            

Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie

            I haven’t read too much this week and I decided to read other people’s blog post and I realized that most people barely had book summaries and instead it was mainly about how the book related to themselves and how they can relate in any way to the book. So this blog will mostly be about how I can relate to Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie. A friend of mine had a younger brother and I barley ever see him. But his parents are close friends of my parents so I guess that makes us friends. So, I kind of don’t fell right when I speak about this but oh well. His younger brother had a disease and so his time was going to be up soon and no one could change that. Everyone was nice to him and they were always visiting him. At the time I was young so I don’t remember all of it. I didn’t read the book yet and so i couldn't relate to it at the time. Well i still can't relate to the book but that friend of mine probably could of related to the book at that time.

Drums Girls & Dangerous Pie

I am reading Drums Girls & Dangerous Pie and even though I did read it a while ago I decided to read it again but this time to catch some stuff that I wasn’t able to catch before. I ‘m not done with the book yet but I kind of forgot what happens in the book. I am up to the part where Steven and his mom go to the emergency room and when Steven’s brother Jeffery has a fever. This is the part where they inform the mom about Jeffery having leukemia. I have got to say, this part of the book was sad but I have never cried about a seen in a book and never will. Nor have I ever cried during a movie, they are just not touchy enough. I guess I did feel sad for a movie but whatever, the part where Steven finds out is the part that is touchy. It’s because I have a brother, but he’s older, and life would suck without my bro. So I can kind of relate to this book, but my brother would probably be able to relate more. By more, I don’t mean I have leukemia but I mean that he’s my older brother just like Steven is Jeffery’s older brother.