Gym Candy 2 - Pat Murphy

I have been getting very far in the novel “Gym Candy,” by Carl Deuker. It’s very interesting, and I see a great resemblance to one of my high school best friends. I don’t exactly want to mention his name because you could easily look him up. But he was an all star in grade school JFL leagues, and was watched by high school couches. Just like Mick, my best friend made it on varsity freshman year. But like anyone in sports, not playing or not being the best stinks. Being a human, we strive to win in my eyes. Like Mick, I love supplements!!! I have probably tried almost everything at GNC as far as creatine or protein powders. Unfortunately, I am very jealous of Mick. His daddy pays for his supplements; I always have paid for my own stuff which can add up if you have ever been to GNC. Mick, than joins his local gym… As I stated in my first couple sentences, this book reminds me of a friend of mine. Well, as soon as he was old enough to go, he joined Gold’s Gym. But as far as a trainer who suggests steroids? I believe that’s very illegal and he should have lost his job!!! That part upset me, when someone wants to be all they can be, I wouldn’t suggest an illegal solution that will destroy his body. The book is kind of slow moving, so I’m hoping him being on drugs really gets things stirred up!!!!

Fahrenhiet 451 - Free Week

For my free blog this week, I chose to do it on the second part of Fahrenheit 451. Last Blog, I lift off where Clarissa was killed and how she is the opposite of Mildred. Throughout the book, Ray Bradbury has many technological predictions. It’s awesome how someone could write a book in the fifties-sixties and it’s a futuristic book and today his predictions came true. Such as a robot dog, ear buds, wall televisions, and even the nuclear bomb. He tried to make the book symbolize the cold war and it does in a few ways. Such as, he uses “censorship” throughout most of the book. People were not allowed to do whatever they wanted; their “fire-proof” houses were burned down from the books. The books’ ending is quite interesting, it ends with a nuclear bomb hitting the city and Montag was watching from the woods, with the people who had memorized entire books. They state that they are going to start a new world and try to redo things without judging and everyone being happy. I recently just finished a paper on happiness in the book, and for mine I chose to write about Beatty and his mind games towards Montag. He sort of tricked Montag into doing what he wanted throughout the book, such as burning the houses, he claimed that’s what we have always done. Beatty was the smartest character in the book, he explained the books to Montag, and used his knowledge to “better” the world. Overall, the book was pretty different. I liked it some ways, but the overall story was quite bizarre.

Gym Candy - Pat Murphy

For the book project I decided to pick Gym Candy. I am kind of behind because I finally just got the book so I am going to have to read it in a matter of two weeks which is fine because it is about everything I love. It’s about a boy named Mick Johnson. It begins off with Mick explaining his early years and how he was introduced into football. I believe this book is going to be very interesting, because I read an online summary which says it’s about a kid who had the decision between not playing on the football team or taking steroids and maybe playing college football and making it big. Unfortunately, I believe that if I was in this situation and steroids would truly get me where I wanted to go I probably would take them. But thank god I have never needed anything like that or even have gotten into this situation in my life. I am really curious what it takes for him to realize he doesn’t need the drugs and where he goes from his high school football team. This same thing happened to a lot of my friends in high school and this really would let me know their insight on the subject without actually asking them why, or what happened. I am extremely siked for this book and I already know it is going to be a good read.

Fahrenhiet 451 - part one summary (Free week)

For my blog this week, I decided to give my opinion on a new book I am reading for English 111. It’s the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It’s a very interesting book, and after our teacher explained the first part of the book to us, I had noticed a lot of symbolism throughout it. The book starts out as Montag (main character), a firefighter, tells of some of his experiences. He’s a little different than most firefighters though, he starts fires instead of putting them out. He’s uniform has symbolism; it’s a black suit, with a salamander on the arm. The salamander resembles fire; it’s like a fire-ish creature. Later, he meets his interesting neighbor, Clarissa. She’s a little wacky and out of it, she puts him in a very bad mood, ruining his night because she couldn’t stop asking personal questions but she cared and had emotions. He finally gets home, opens his door, finds his wife, Mildred sleeping, but kicks a empty sleeping pill bottle, she had overdosed on sleeping pills, and he had to call an ambulance. It was interesting how the ambulance workers weren’t like professional to me. But apparently his wife does this a lot having her blood pumped out and having new blood put in. Also known as blood doping if you were really interested in sports, Olympians use to do this before competitions. But when she wakes up the next morning, his wife doesn’t remember a thing and shows no emotions. Mildred and Clarissa are exactly the opposite, its emotions and caring vs. focusing on her wall TV’s. I was very upset that Ray Bradbury had Clarissa killed so early in the book, I mean I knew it was going to happen, but I figured he could let us meet her family and get a better sense of why she is the way she is. This is some of the symbolism and summary of the first half of the book. It’s very interesting and a very well known book.

Jessica Davis - Project Blog 4

Jessica Davis started out the book as a good person in my eyes; she was new just like Hannah at the school. Jessica and Hannah Baker started the book as friends. They use to go to Monet’s café almost every day with Alex Standall. But Jessica stopped going, but Hannah thought maybe it was the rumors? Or possibly she will start going again, so Hannah kept going thinking she would hopefully see Jessica there eventually. But Alex made a hot/not list and put Hannah on it as “Best Ass” to get back at Jessica. Soon, Jessica thought that Hannah Baker was with Alex and they were together in a sense. She was very angry at those rumors she had heard. She went to the Monets cafe, and she punched Hannah in the head which scarred Hannah and hurt her deeply. It was not true but Jessica stilled believed it. Later in the story, Jessica was very drunk at a party and passed out. She was out in a room and her so called friend, Justin let his buddy have away with her before he had to go. Sometimes I wonder if Hannah and Jessica would have still been friends that she wouldn’t have been raped and Hannah would have saved her best friend. So many questions and such a good book.

Clay Jensen - "These tapes shouldn't be here. Not with me. It has to be a mistake" Project 3

Clay Jensen and Hannah Baker were the two main characters in the book “Thirteen Reasons Why.” The book starts with us wondering why Hannah had killed herself; well Clay gets a box on his front door step. The box was full of thirteen tapes from Hannah Baker; she was wanting him to know exactly why she killed herself. During the entire book, Clay discussed his opinion about the tapes. He decided once he found them, to listen to the first seven tapes right away and try to figure out what was going on. I think it’s funny he didn’t read number eight tape, because that was the tape that was all about him. He was actually one the thirteen reasons why Hannah Baker killed herself. Clay Jensen was always had a crush on her. But it was awkward between the two and it kept him from knowing about her distress. His reason was that he failed to do what was right like all the others, he may have been the “good guy,” but he failed to step in and help Hannah baker when she most needed it. I still believe he isn’t exactly the one to blame. Personally, people have bad days and get picked on. We sometimes don’t do anything about it and just watch, well Clay did just that and I feel he shouldn’t be held fully accountable for her death.

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- Ever since starting the book, I imagined Clay as the Even Stephens character with curly hair.

Justin Foley - "Just Relax" Project 2

Justin was overall, was one the earlier contributions to Hannah Baker’s suicide. Hannah Baker was new to school and she met Justin Foley. She looked forward to her kiss with Justin so much! They had gone to the park, and kissed! But being a bad friend and not a good person, he started rumors all around the school about Hannah Baker taking her shirt off and the two doing more than just kissing. Nobody at the school really knew her so her first impression was started by Justin Foley as being a “tramp.” The huge second thing about Justin Foley that is absolutely horrible, is the case of rape. He was involved in the rape of Jessica Davis when she was passed out. The entire tenth tape was all about this incident. Hannah Baker blamed herself for this, she was trapped in the closet and she blamed herself for not stopping it. She may have been able to, but also at the same time, Bryce could have beaten her or done something stupid. But it all happened when Justin Foley was trying to get his “groove” on and it didn’t happen between him and Jessica so he left the room. Later he let his buddy Bryce get some action, even knowing Jessica was passed out and tried to be the “cool” kid and let his buddy “get some” before he left early. Justin I believe really made a contribution to the suicide to Hannah Baker and would have to live with it forever knowing he let Jessica get raped.

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-I picked this link because during the rape scene, I thought of Justin almost just waiting outside the door. In my mind, he had his arms just like this and tried to act cool, just like this guy.

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- I picked this image because in the Book, I imaged Justin telling all his buddies about the fling with Hannah at the park kind of in a huddle. I think guys sometimes they like to brag about what they have done with girls.

Lastly of the links for Justin - http://personalfinanceandinvesting.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/snowball.jpg
- I picked this link because Hannah referred to when Justin told people he took off Hannahs shirt as a "snowball."