9/22 Book Check Discussion Post
I am currently reading The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord. It is about the Allied evacuation from France in World War II that would have ended the war had it not have been successful. I am 151 pages into the book. At the beginning I was a little bored because it starts off a little dull with a description of the Allied forces predicament with explained the setting. Then the pace of the book really picked up and I found myself not wanting to put the book down. There are several tough questions and problems the Allies have to solve with the Nazi's bearing down on the small town of Dunkirk on the English Channel. There are no real main characters in the book because the story is told fro a tone of different perspectives. The author is good at making you feel suspense even though you know the outcome is good for the Allied forces. Overall, I cannot wait to read more of this book because it is so well written and you can see the human values in every single one of the characters in the story.
I am currently reading The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord. It is about the Allied evacuation from France in World War II that would have ended the war had it not have been successful. I am 151 pages into the book. At the beginning I was a little bored because it starts off a little dull with a description of the Allied forces predicament with explained the setting. Then the pace of the book really picked up and I found myself not wanting to put the book down. There are several tough questions and problems the Allies have to solve with the Nazi's bearing down on the small town of Dunkirk on the English Channel. There are no real main characters in the book because the story is told fro a tone of different perspectives. The author is good at making you feel suspense even though you know the outcome is good for the Allied forces. Overall, I cannot wait to read more of this book because it is so well written and you can see the human values in every single one of the characters in the story.
9/28 Book Check Discussion Post
I am currently reading Unstoppable by Tim Green. I am currently on page 313 in the book. I had to switch over to Unstoppable from my book from last week because it is due back at the library soon. An element from this book that I would like to bring into my life is the courage and drive of the main character, Harrison. Harrison never gives up, from when he is in an abusive foster home, to when he has to start at a new school with a new family, or when he gets sick with cancer but he never gives up the fight to survive and get back to doing the things he loves. Harrison exhibits the qualities we should all try to live our life with... a can-do attitude and a fearless, live every day to it's fullest mentality. Again and again is most commonly used in this book, with Harrison always paranoid that things are going to good to last, which foreshadowed him getting sick.
I am currently reading Unstoppable by Tim Green. I am currently on page 313 in the book. I had to switch over to Unstoppable from my book from last week because it is due back at the library soon. An element from this book that I would like to bring into my life is the courage and drive of the main character, Harrison. Harrison never gives up, from when he is in an abusive foster home, to when he has to start at a new school with a new family, or when he gets sick with cancer but he never gives up the fight to survive and get back to doing the things he loves. Harrison exhibits the qualities we should all try to live our life with... a can-do attitude and a fearless, live every day to it's fullest mentality. Again and again is most commonly used in this book, with Harrison always paranoid that things are going to good to last, which foreshadowed him getting sick.
10/5 Book Check Discussion Post
I am back to reading The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord. I am on page 200 and the book is still a little dense, but I guess that's what I get for reading a book about a mass evacuation. One of the main character's in my book, King Leopold III of Belgium, loses all his power when his forces surrender to the Nazi army. Leopold went from running a country and it's army to being humiliated and a prisoner to the Germans. Even Leopold's allies don't like him because he surrendered and left their flank exposed. Right now in my book, everyday people of London are volunteering to help with evacuations at Dunkirk which shows a high level of bravery and the willingness to go unarmed through enemy territory to bring back their fellow countrymen. It sounds very suspenseful, but knowing what is going to happen takes a little bit of excitement out of the book.
I am back to reading The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord. I am on page 200 and the book is still a little dense, but I guess that's what I get for reading a book about a mass evacuation. One of the main character's in my book, King Leopold III of Belgium, loses all his power when his forces surrender to the Nazi army. Leopold went from running a country and it's army to being humiliated and a prisoner to the Germans. Even Leopold's allies don't like him because he surrendered and left their flank exposed. Right now in my book, everyday people of London are volunteering to help with evacuations at Dunkirk which shows a high level of bravery and the willingness to go unarmed through enemy territory to bring back their fellow countrymen. It sounds very suspenseful, but knowing what is going to happen takes a little bit of excitement out of the book.
Some of my annotations from The Scarlet Ibis
Some of my annotations from Angels in the Snow
Closing Argument Reactions
From watching these closing arguments, I can tell that both lawyer's defend their client's by proving that the case is not a question of guilt, but a question of race. Atticus saying that Mayella broke the unspoken code of a white woman loving a black man and the lawyer in "A Time To Kill" telling the jury to picture the kidnapped girl as white show that the lawyer's presenting similar defenses for their client's. I found the lawyer in "A Time To Kill" was more convincing because while Atticus has a persuasive closing argument, the other lawyer's argument is full of emotion and calls into question the decision of the jury had the girl who was kidnapped been white. I think that both trials will end in the men being found guilty. Tom Robinson is black in a southern town where he has been accused of raping a white woman, so he never really has a chance of being aquitted, and if a black man murdered two white men at any time, especially in the time when "A Time To Kill" is set, the black man has almost no chance of winning that trial. That is why I think both men will be convicted, even if that is the wrong verdict.
From watching these closing arguments, I can tell that both lawyer's defend their client's by proving that the case is not a question of guilt, but a question of race. Atticus saying that Mayella broke the unspoken code of a white woman loving a black man and the lawyer in "A Time To Kill" telling the jury to picture the kidnapped girl as white show that the lawyer's presenting similar defenses for their client's. I found the lawyer in "A Time To Kill" was more convincing because while Atticus has a persuasive closing argument, the other lawyer's argument is full of emotion and calls into question the decision of the jury had the girl who was kidnapped been white. I think that both trials will end in the men being found guilty. Tom Robinson is black in a southern town where he has been accused of raping a white woman, so he never really has a chance of being aquitted, and if a black man murdered two white men at any time, especially in the time when "A Time To Kill" is set, the black man has almost no chance of winning that trial. That is why I think both men will be convicted, even if that is the wrong verdict.
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