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Friday, 11 August 2017

Cat In The Hat Reading Log

Cat In The Hat by Dr. Suess is a novel on boredom that leads to adventure and excitement in an instant. This book by Dr. Suess is very popular that most families will know today and is one of the books that are highly recommended.

Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and Conrad and Sally are bored out of their minds. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door like he owns the place and he introduces them to their imagination, and at first, it's all fun and games until things get out of hand, and the Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back home.

This novel introduces The Cat in The Hat is life. I breathe Cat in The Hat near the start of the movie he is immediately made out to be a fun loving, full of energy, and an imaginative cat. The Cat in The Hat comes from a world of imagination that the cat is from but then he is introduced to this new world with new thinks to make up Conrad and Sally's of fun. The Cat over does it but Conrad and Sally always had to clean up the cats mess.

Conrad and Sally are immediately introduced at the very start of the book and seem to be very bored just like every other day. They don't know what to do but they are intertwined with a Cat in a Hat through the whole book that was crazily fun for them but Conrad and sally always would have to clean up after the Cat. As the Cat was teaching Conrad and sally things they were also teaching the Cat things about not making a mess every time and to also on tidying.

Thursday, 10 August 2017

The Lorax Reading Log

A novel called The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. A well-known author with well-known novels across the whole world, The Lorax is also a very well known novel around the world too. This is a very recommended book and movie to watch as it has various characters and themes all through out the movie and book.

Twelve-year-old Ted lives in a place with no signs of nature; no flowers or trees grow in the town of Thneedville. Ted would very much like to win the heart of Audrey, the girl of his dreams, but to do this, he must find that which she most desires: a Truffula tree. To get it, Ted delves into the story of the Lorax, once the gruff guardian of the forest, and The Once-ler who let greed overtake his respect for nature. 

In this novel, we meet The Lorax near the start of the novel when he first appears from the sky in front of a man who was starting to make a living in cutting down the Truffula tree but The Lorax keeps on telling him about how the wild life needs the trees to survive as he quotes ¨It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become¨. He keeps on trying to reason with the man but it all was not enough so he warns the man that if he doesn't leave by sun set he will set his wrath upon the man but it did not work so he went and never returned.

In the novel The Lorax, we are introduced to a man called The Once-ler a man who sets out to prove to his mother and father that he will become a successful man one day. The Once-ler comes across a forest of Truffula trees that he starts on cutting down and makes a scarf but it was so soft he rung his family to come down and see. The Once-ler's family come down but then they all start cutting down trees and making a profit when all the life is being polluted and while he and his family are overwhelmed with greed. The Once-ler thought he was doing something good but instead he was doing something awful and that's how nature was ruined for Thneedville.

Monday, 7 August 2017

Hunger Games Reading Logs

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a book on sacrifice, romance, survival, and instinct. This novel has a very strong connection to real life imp articular as it is a lot on survival and instinct. This is a very recommended book to read from everything that will happen. 
  
The Hunger Games first starts off in district 12 in where a woman called Katniss Everdeen is introduced and is sent into columns of boys on one side and girls on the other and they had to be 12 to 18 to be picked for the reaping. Katniss's sister gets picked out and then Katniss says "I volunteer as tribute" and then she is picked rather than her sister and a boy was then picked out called "Peeta Mellark". Katniss and Peeta then end up in the capitol and then trains and gets sponsors for the games to help. The games begin and they lost track of each other and Katniss is being hunted by a group and Peeta Katniss manages to escape with dropping a type of bee's nest that killed a lot of the group below. Peeta survives and with a couple others but now Katniss and Peeta have teamed back up and have taken down the remaining districts except for one, with dogs under them and with Peeta, Katniss and the other district member fighting on the roof top Katniss and Peeta killing him. Then an announcement comes out saying there can only be one remaining tribute and Katniss and Peeta decided on to kill themselves with poison berries and another announcement said they both are the champions. 
  
In this novel, we have been introduced to Katniss Everdeen the woman who first volunteered to be a tribute in the reaping. She is a very outstanding woman in the games as she has very good instincts and survival skills because of living so far from the capitol the further out you are the poorer your district is. So, Katniss always used to survive off poor conditions and rough weather so it really didn't matter what you threw at her, her instincts were always quick and sharp deciding on the situation. As Katniss was getting slowly through the games she became more aware of her environment because of everything that has happened from the beginning of the games. 
  
In this novel, all throughout the book we are introduced to all the districts from 1-13 and they all have to do with supporting the capitol for example, District 1 is the luxury and class because they are the closest to the capitol and with a district, that is not near the capitol is usually the ones that have to do the dirty work, for example, District 12 is the coal mining district so the further district away you are is where the more horrible things that you will have to do for a job in that district. All of the districts are all still treated like foreigners from the capitol being the center and most powerful out of all the districts, for example, the massive army they have and all the weapons they have. Most districts have very poor conditions from districts five to thirteen and all they can do is fend for them selfs, family and friends.