Outside Reading #4

"I thought I’d explained it clearly before. Bella, I can’t live in a world where you don’t exist." (Meyer 509)
This quote from New Moon, made me think about how much people depend of the ones they love throughout their lives. In the book, Bella doesn't think she can survive without Edward, and Edward feels the same way. He was even willing to kill himself if didn't exist.
In real life, sometimes when an old ladys husband dies, theres a possibility she will die too within the next 6 months of his death, of a broken heart. if she makes it past 6 months, she will survive. This also shows that people depend on one anothers love to live. Once you find and experience being with the the person you love most in the entire world, it seems really hard to live without them. Almost like you've forgotten how. Like once they've emotionally become part of who you are, they become physically a part of who you are. So, if they're no longer around, for whatever reason, you're not whole. How can you live without that other person if they complete you? If they make you who you are.

Outside Reading #3

"As I stared at his too beautiful face, trying to understand the change, it suddenly struck me that I was really here, in Edward’s arms." (Meyer 488)
I like this quote because it tells you how Bella is living in the moment. In real life, people spend their lives stressing for tests, interviews, taxes, everything that they have to do in the future. This isn't necesairly bad, but if you spend your entire life worrying, then you're just wasting it away and not taking the time to truly enjoy life. I prefer to live in the moment, and not take every moment for granted. If i am able to forget about that huge test i have next week, and relax and have a good time for a couple hours, I am in a happier mood, and i feel better that i am living everyday to its fullest. We only have a short time to live our lives, so why not try and make it the best you can? I don't think worrying about what i have the next morning, week, or month. It just brings everything down. I like that Bella is soaking up all the happiness she can, instead of wondering when he will be gone again, or how long she has with him. She's just trying to make it as good as it can possibly be.

Outside Reading #2

"Yeah, I’ll always be your friend. No matter what you love." (Meyer 409)
Once Alice comes back, Bella is worried that her and Jacob's friendship will be at risk, since Alice and Jacob are enemies. Jacob reassures her that it doesn't matter to him.
Sometimes, friendships are ruined because people have a hard time accepting the way people really are. For example, some people let their friendships go down the toilet just because one of their friends hangs out with someone that they don't like. Or if you're best friend tells you they are gay would you stop being their friend just because you don't agree with it? I would hope not, because if you really love someone, why would it matter what they love, who they are friends with, or what they do with their spare time? A lot of the time, especially in high school, people get so caught up in what others will think of them, that if their friend does something that would embarrass them, they try to avoid their friend and stop being friends with them, just so that people don't judge them, just because their friend does something that isn't cool enough, or accepting among their peers.
I really liked this quote because it shows that Jacob doesn't care about who she's friends with, and he loves her for who she really is. Those things aren't important to him.
If everyone stopped trying to impress people, and stopped caring so much what people think of them then I think there would be a lot less fights, and more people would be friends. Anyways, what does it matter, in ten years will it really make a difference in your life who you were friends with at the time or what you did or if you were cool enough?

Prefix poem

The six sextuplets, were born on the sixth, of the sixth month. Their parents were planning on them singing in a sextet. Their room was shaped like a hexagon, and they rode around the town on a fancy hexa-cycle.

Spontaneous Poem

I bounce and boink my banana. And I eat an eggroll from Kirstin. I thrust through school with my bracelet from Afghanistan. I hide like a pencil under the book. Laugh and speed at the pary tree. It tastes sweet when I drink Koolaid 18 times. My tailbone smells like lavender, and I write a poem while I yell, slip, jump, and run into Kirstin's big toe.

Blog Post #1 Outside Reading

For my book this quarter I chose to read New Moon By Stephanie Meyer. It is a book dealing with loss, hope and coping. When Edward, the boy Bella is in love with, suddenly leaves the town of Forks, Bella is left heartbroken. She withdrawals herself from hanging out and talking to her friends, she sits in her room trying to hold on the only memories she has of Edward, since he took all photographs and gifts he gave to her before he left, to make it seem like he never existed. This doesn't make it any easier for Bella. She cries herself to sleep every night, her entire body aches at the thought of him, and every night she wakes up screaming for her night terrors. Eventually, she meets up with her old friend, Jacob. Immediately she connects with him and feels safe. Slowly, she begins to feel a little better than the 6 months previous after Edward left. One day Jacob starts to teach Bella how to ride a motorcycle. She is wants to do something rebellious. Bella starts to ride on the motorcycle, and she can hear Edward speaking to her. She comes to the conclusion that Edward will speak to her in her mind whenever she has a rush of adrenaline. She starts to do all kinds of crazy things. I think this book is a good example about how people feel and what they do for the one they love. Love and loss make you do crazy things.

So Much Depends On

So much of spring depends upon

The wind lifting my hair from my shoulders

The rustleing of crisp leaves in the cool soft breeze

The buds slowly covering the bare naked branches

The smell of the fresh earth in the warm bright rays of sunlight