Post 10- Reading Wishlist

1. Gone Girl  by: Gillian Flynn

2. The book Thief by: Markus Zusak

3. Cinder by: Marissa Meyer

4. Safe Haven by. Nicholas Sparks

5. Last Song by: Nicholas Sparks

6. Fallen by: Lauren Kate

7. Maze Runner by: James Dashner

8. The selection by: Kira Cass

9. The Elite by: Kira Cass

10. The One by: Kira Cass

Post 9- Book 4 review

Dear audience,

My name is Tally. You may have heard my story before, but you have never heard what I've had to say about what happened at the smoke. Anyways I’m writing to you to give you clarity about it and even to map it all out for myself.

So I grew up in a town called Uglyville where all the uglies live before they turn pretty on their 16th birthday. My best friend growing up was Peris, we did everything together. Everything was perfect until he turned 16, became pretty and left me for two months alone in Uglyville. There was no way I would survive without my best friend for two whole months. I did. It was lonely but I managed.

 So now I'm going to skip ahead to when my life got complicated.... One night I was feeling really lonely so I decided to sneak into New Pretty town where Peris lived. Maybe if I saw him all this waiting for two more months would be worth it. Boy was I wrong! Not knowing that I would cause a scene I went anyway. Now you could probably guess this was way illegal but I had to see him soon!

 Getting into New Pretty Town was easy but seeing Peris was not. I had to wear a mask so people wouldn't see my ugly face. Once I finally found Peris he said what you would accept, and what I should have, I don't recall his exact words but it was something like “Why are you here?" or “You shouldn't be here!". Not the welcome I expected..... So after our little chat I pulled a fire alarm, bungee jumped of a skyscraper and ran from the city officials. Then things got crazy.

 While hiding under a bush I met Shay. Little did I know that I would end up betraying Shay who later became my best friend? Anyway Shay was adventurous, I was not, and she and I went far past Ugly Ville boarders to the Rusties old cities. It was the most fun I've had since Peris. We both had the same birthdays so we'd turn Pretty together1 everything was perfect... almost. One problem Shay didn't want to turn pretty ever. Why not I didn't know at the time. She had friends that lived in a place called the Smoke, a place where people lived off the land and stayed ugly forever. A week before my birthday Shay asked me to come with her to the Smoke and I refused. In case I changed my mind she left clue on how to get there.

 The day of my sixteenth birthday I was scared but super excited to turn pretty! That was the big day! Or so I thought..... I was brought to special circumstances where I saw the scariest pretties ever. They brought in to this mean old ladies room who questioned me about Shay who had disappeared. Great. I told them that we had left the city but never had we gone to the smoke. They said only if I helped them that I would ever become pretty or stay ugly for the rest of my life.

 What should I have done? If I could go back and change the decision I made to help the pretties I would. But what ended up happening is that I traveled to the Smoke, almost killed myself, fell for David, and betrayed people who had become my family. They trusted me; he trusted me. Now I don’t think ill ever see them again or even if I do they will never forgive me for leading the government to the Smoke.

When I got to the smoke I feel in love with it. Everyone and everything was full of life, live, and the spirt that you would never see in the city. So I destroyed the pendent the government gave me and it set of a tracking signal to uglyville.

I betrayed them, but before I had a change of heart. It doesn’t matter what happened and I just hope someday they will forgive me. Especially David.  So there you have it my story. I am now in a government jet watching the people and place I had come to love suffer.

Post 8- Book 2 Trailer

Post 7- My Book talk

Post 4- Adapting book2

So I'm reading The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, this book is a spy themed novel about a man who was found by some sailors in the Mediterranean Sea. He has no recollection of where he is or even who he is. Then e wakes up on a small island in the care of a drunken doctor....... So this man was found in the sea and no one knows who or where he came from, He's half dead, and has no memory. Great? Not so much because apparently his past that he can't remember came with some freaky baggage....... He has a lot of people after him to kill him- but doesn't remember any of them- and he also has super-fast fighting reflexes. So basically he is on this journey right now trying to figure out who he is and stay alive.

So first of all this would be a great TV show adaptation because of the mystery and length of the book. You could even split the various books in the series into cliff hanging seasons that all lead up to one finally.

5 most important decisions:

1. The first major thing you would need to put into the show is the dramatic tone that is in the book. Without making it cheesy of course, Bourne (the main character) is constantly facing danger and fighting with himself to try to remember so the show would need to have that dramatic feel in order to make the tone of danger and confusion present.

2.  You would also need to create Bourne's role as was in the novel. Bourne is a mysterious man who has unbelievable reactions to danger. His role is what makes the Bourne Identity what it is. His skills are what makes every situation in the book and now in the TV series  exhilarating and a cliffhanger in  every show to the viewers.  So by saying true to his character in the book and incorporating that into the TV series you will attract more of the fans of the book when you incorporate his role versus if you were to change his character in the TV series.

3. Another very important decision when thinking about making the board and identity into a TV series is the distribute Tatian of the events the book throughout the series. There are several events in the book that make the book what it is and I feel thatyou can stretch that throughout the several series of the show.The most important scenes from the book will be incorporated into the several series with additions of new characters and new plots a new many issues or problems the board has to figure out throughout the show's.

4. Another key character would be the doctor. The one who born falls in love with in the book, she was very important in the book and will continue in the TV series to be just as important with helping foreign figure out who he is and why he's there and helping him overcome Carlos and fight. In the in the TV show she will be more of a main character in the viewers will get to see her side of the story as well as Florence and what she goes through in fighting Carlos and solving the mystery of Bourne.

5.with the series they will need to be a specific feel that the audience recognizes from the book to be incorporated into the TV series. There needs to be a sense of danger excitement and illusion. Will be background music throughout that will give that feel of danger and the illusion of someone always watching just like in the book. This will make sure that the TV series,  all giving a new perspectives of the book will stay true still in most sense bringing the audience and the fans of the book to become excited about the new series.

Post 6- Book 3 Listical

 

 5 reasons why Tris is aggravating:

Her stupidity harms others: Tris makes decisions based on what she thinks is right in the moment. Although having quick reactions can be a good thing many times it’s not. In insurgent she offers herself up to the enemy so that they can test her to make a powerful simulation that can control people like her (divergent). So what your thinking is probably something along the lines of wow she just saved everyone the erudite was going to harm, but in the reality the test were going to help erudite control the people who would stop them in the end. So Tris gave herself up and this would help control the divergent not save everyone else.  

Plays the "16 year old girl card": Tris is 16 years old and has come a long way since leaving abnegation and going to Dauntless. She is strong and knows how to fight. Yet she still manipulates people by playing I'm that helpless little girl card. Like in the book she had other plans to secretly go behind dauntless and while they tried to take down erudite she would try to save some of it. So she said she was not prepared to fight because of the traumatic experiences lately instead. So she went behind everyone's back and did what she wanted. 

Obsessive: Throughout the book Tris constantly obsesses over one thing after another and then they come back again and again. For example Four. She obsesses over him constantly, always wondering if he still likes her. Why he likes her? What's he thinking? For periods of time this certain obsession fades but then another arises. Will, she keeps bringing up Will, which in her defense is sad but it's constantly "I killed him" and she has 100 million thoughts about it. Finally just the list of people that have done her wrong. Every time a person is added she goes over everyone on that list and what they have done.

Anger = clouded judgment:  When Tris gets angry she loses all of her abnegation values and lets someone know it. She usually lashes and becomes violent. For example Caleb, her brother, worked for a women named Jeanine who had Tris "killed" and he pretty much stood by and let her do it. So a few months later when she and Caleb were on speaking terms he said something jokingly and she punch his face repeatedly and said " I'm gunna kill him!" . Now I understand why she was upset but she has done it many other times with Peter as well.


The world revolves around her: Tris is a leader and there is no doubt about that. Although her leadership skills get the characters in the book out of trouble, she acts like the world revolves around her. Tris is very head strong and wants what she wants when she wants it. In the book she has that " I am always right" attitude, for example when Tobias messes up she has to make sure he knows she was right even though he obviously knows. I just get this tone that she feels that everyone should follow her and if they don't there always wrong.   

 

Post 5- Truth in a memoir

I have very simple views on the topic whether or non-nonfiction needs to be true or not. Personally I think for a book to be consider nonfiction or a memoir it must be 100% true or its fiction based off a true story. If it isn't totally true it never happened like that at all or it is totally made up, now does that sound like nonfiction? If your story is full of half-truths than half of the story is a lie and that's fine if you own up to it. Although I do believe Frey and others should own up to making up things and exaggerating.

 

Half-truth stories can be very good but you lose the “ah” that it actually happened then if it really did.In conclusion I feel like there needs to be a line between genres because then false will be confused with true. People tend to read based on genre and it’s a way for them to find what they’re interested and taking away genre would mess something almost equal to a book system. .