Blogging assesment #1

The main character in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is Guy Montag. Guy is a firefighter but he doesn't do what you think he would as a fireman. In the future time that this book takes place in all houses are fireproof there fore there is no need for firefighters to put out fires. You might be wondering what he does if he doesn't put out fires, he creates fires. He and all the other fireman are trained to incinerate books and owning books is illegal, therefore whenever someone is found with books the firemen are called to burn the books to ash. I think its an odd process but it puts everything in a completely different perspective to the reader.

Guy has an interesting personal life and its on the verge of being destroyed. Hes been a fireman all his life since he was able to work. Recently he had to burn a house that had books in it and the lady that owned the books wouldn't leave the house and was burned with the books. This event made Guy wonder what was in the books that a lady would take her life to stay in a burning house with her books. Towards the end of part one Guy revels to his wife that he has been hiding books in the house and wants her to read them with him to figure out whats in the books. His wife is blown away at what Guy has done not only has he gone against everything his job works to stop he has also broken the law. I think he does this because of the trouble hes going through in his life. On page 62 Guy states,"I might even start reading books". This quote is so important because this shows how Guy is beginning to change his life he no longer wants to be a fireman and burn books. Hes also questioning his marriage and wonders if he loves her and if hes happy, which makes me think his life is going to start changing dramatically soon.


This is what i think he would look like.





This is one of my best blogs because of all of the amazing writer’s voice. For example, my personality is showed in this quote, “You might be wondering what he does if he doesn't put out fires, he creates fires”. I think this shows how I write very well. When I write I will often try to talk to the reader. This accomplishes that task by saying what the book says and then what I think, along with what the reader thinks. By doing this it helps to keep the reader intrigued and focused on the writing. For some, this will excite them and make them want to keep reading. As a writer this is the ultimate goal, to entertain the reader.

 

I also incorporated some very elevated diction and syntax into my blog post. For example, I said “He and all of the other fireman are trained to incinerate books and owning books is illegal, therefore whenever someone is found with books the firemen are called to burn the books to ash". In this sentence there are many areas that show high end diction. Instead of saying that the firemen burnt books, I changed burnt to incinerate to intrigue the reader. Another example of amazing syntax in this sentence is how I expanded the sentence without making it a run on sentence. I had a few different ideas but they were all on the same topic and because of the well-used commas, the sentence had a very smooth flow to it. With elevated diction and syntax put together it draws the reader in and makes the writing much more stimulating.

Dangers of the jungle

Gato has successfully escaped a dangerous animal from the jungle this time, which he is very lucky to have done. This left me wondering if he would go back in the jungle. Having nothing to do all day really took its toll on Gato, so it made him want to go back into the jungle. I am beginning to think that the Jungle might be a place where he can go to relax and escape from everyone who looks down on him in his village.

After Gato had gone into the village a few more times people began to notice. His village is very small and talkative so word gets around fast. His family had heard the news and his father had yelled at him for being so stupid, and his mother cried. It was his Grandmother that got to him the best out of everyone. She told him that their were many monsters in the forest, such as the demons in the river with blue fire in their eyes that will hypnotize you and eat you whole. She also said their are big trees with roots that are covered in thorns bigger than knifes that will kill you slowly as you hang from their trunks. After all of the stores Gato is told I wonder if he will stop going in the forest or if he will continue and quite possibly get hurt or even killed.

Gato in the jungle

Gato has now quit soccer and is faced with a lot of free time. Theirs not much to do in his village other that soccer or work. You aren't allowed to work until you are at least 16 so Gato must find something to do. Gato has always wondered what lays in the jungle, no one ever goes there. Since he is so bored he makes a trip into the jungle unaware of the dangers inside.

As gate goes into the jungle he encounters huge trees, damp mud, and humidifying air. Gato thinks theirs not much their at first. While Gato was about to turn around and go back to his village he hears everything go quiet in the woods. He's smart enough to know what the deadly silence means, theirs a dangerous animal near him. Gato responds to his first reaction, RUN. He is running out of the jungle as fast as he can not knowing where the animal could be. Luckily he makes it back to his village unharmed. This leaves me wondering if he will ever come back to the jungle or if he will stay out.

Gato's Perspective

 Now that Gato has quit soccer, the main and only thing to do in his village he is left with a lot of free time. In his village you can not go into the jungle to chop down trees if you are a kid therefore Gato will have to find something to keep him busy. For him things have always been below him, not only because he is very tall but for other reasons too. When he is in class he always is looking down at the paper or the pencil. The most common insendent of him looking down is when he plays soccer.

He's said quite a few times that he isn't the best at soccer. If you aren't good at soccer you most likely have trouble controlling the ball, therefore you will spend a lot of time looking at your feet instead of the field. Now that he is done with soccer he is trying to find ways to entertain himself, one of which is going into the jungle. He doesn't go into the jungle to chop down trees, instead he goes simply to explore the wild. I don't know what he will find which is why I'm so interested to see what happens these next few chapters.

Keeper setting

I am reading the book Keeper by Mal Peet. I choose this book because I too was once a soccer goalie. I have read some really good pages about the setting of the goalies hometown. His name is Gato and he lives deep in the jungle isolated from the outside world. As far as he knew there were only two things that he knew about in the world, soccer and cutting down trees.

His town is far from any other civilization and was practically build overnight. All the homes are made from white blocks and a tin roof and most of the time they are very crowded. Their is a red dirt road that comes to the town from somewhere very far away and after passing the town goes into the jungle. The main vehicles that use the road are the log carriers to pick up all the logs that the people have cut down. In the town people would crowd around the bar because it had a TV which was very rare for that area. Then after the game all the people will go into the town square which is a field of grass shaped like a soccer field and no matter the score will show off their tricks, have games, and pretend they are the different players. The town is truly a soccer crazed town.

Keeper

I have just picked out the new book Keeper by Mal Peet. For those of you who are wondering what a keeper is, its the same position in soccer as a goalie. In the sport of soccer you have 11 on the field at all times 10 of them use their feet to dribble the ball and try to score a goal. The problem is theres one person who doesn't play be the rules for the other 10 players, and that would be the keeper. The keeper in any game trys to block all the shots from the other team to prevent them from making a goal and can use any part of their body to do so as long as their in the 18-yard box. That position can be very powerful if used properly.
Then my book comes into play, the reason I want to read this book is because I used to play keeper and still do occasionally when my team doesn't have someone who knows how to play the position. When I first started out in goal I did really well because I was so tall, but then I took it to the next level. During 6th through 8th grade I really focused only at becoming a better keeper through training camps ands extra practice, I became a very crucial piece of my team. The importance of a good keeper can't be stressed enough. If the team has a good keeper then the other team can be as good as they want but the keeper will block all or most of the shots, but if the team has a bad keeper than even the worst of shots can result in a goal. Therefore i really want to read this book to see what the keeper can and can't do and to see if he has struggles and how it plays out.