Discuss some of the hardships or conflicts your book's protagonist experiences. How do they handle these problems? How do these problems effect the characters in the book? Remember to include the name of your book in the answer.


In my book, This World We Live In, some of the hardships Miranda, the protagonist, experiences are feeling of love, the loss of people she loves, and surviving in the frozen landscape of the world she now lives in. Miranda handles the problems in just four short months. She handles the problems of love for the new comer Alex by at first she doesn't really like him but as the story goes on her feeling for him turn to love and they keep their love for each other a secret from everyone until they plan to leave. She handle the loss of people she loves by writing her feelings in her diary and by believing in tomorrow. She handles surviving in the world that has come to be a year after the moon was hit by an asteroid by eating just enough to get through the day and by doing things like breaking in to people's houses to get things they need to keep going. These problems effect Miranda by her having to make difficult decisions that changes all of their lives when the weather causes major problems for all of them.

How do characters change or evolve throughout the course of the story? What events trigger such changes? Remember to include the name of your book and your characters.


In my book , They Never Came Back, the characters Cathy and Murielle evolve through the story by at first Cathy is trying to keep the events for five years ago form coming back to her memory and Murielle is mad at her parents for leaving her behind when the fled the country five years ago. The events that trigger Cathy to remember the events from five years ago are when one of the kids at summer school mistakes her for his cousin, Murielle, who disappeared five years ago, this mistake of identity causes her carefully hidden secret to start to unravel and she realizes that she needs to stop hiding and just be herself. The events that trigger Murielle to change is when the FBI try to get her parents out of hiding so they can arrest them, and she realizes that her parents really do love her and that her parents love being free more then her so, she has to get over that and just be glad for the people that she already has that love her.

If you could be any character from your book, who would you be and why? Give me at least one specific example as to why you would choose to be this character.


If I could be any character from my book, Gone, I would want to be Janie. I would want to be Janie because she independent and determined. Also, I want to be her because even though it would be scary to get sucked into other peoples dreams and eventually go blind and lose the loss of my hands I think it would cool to see what other people dream about. I also would want to be her because she has Cabel and he sticks with her through everything and I think that's what true love really is about, even though people have problems and their flaws someone who truly loves you looks past them and stays with you through what ever and that's what Janie and Cabel have. I want Jaine most because she knows what her future holds for her and will always have people who are looking out for her and she will never be alone.

Using the MAD-GLAD-SAD approach, determine the tone of your book. You can classify your whole book, or a portion you read this week during class. Determine first the overall tone, is it mad, glad, or sad. Then choose the word from the worksheet that best fits the tone you have chosen. Be specific about why you chose this particular word to describe your choice for tone. As always be sure to include the title of your book.



I would say that the overall tone of my book, The Dead and the Gone, would be SAD. The main character Alex is sad and mad at the moon for being pushed closer to earth and causing all of things that destroys the future he once dreamt about and for destroying his family. Throughout the book you see how he gets really angry at times and sometimes takes it out on his sisters. Also, you see all the terrible things that they have to go through just to stay alive. The word that I think the tone is, is SOLEMN. I would say it's solemn because all the things that Alex has to do just to keep his two sisters alive and the sacrifices he has to make just so they can survive. Alex also, has to take a lot more responsibility because neither of his parents are around to help them. I also chose solemn because there really isn't any really positive things that go on in their lives and Alex is always very serious throughout the whole book. This is why I think solemn is the tone of this book.

Pick out a passage that strikes you as particularly profound, interesting, makes you think or upsets you. If the passage is really long then focus on one smaller part, the essence of it. Why of all the words and passages in this book, did you choose this one? What is the author's message, and what does it mean to you? If this question makes you think of a book you have previously read, use that one. Always be sure to include the title of your book in the answer.


In the book I'm reading, Some Girls Are, one passage stands out as profound to me. The passage is "Hallowell High: You're either someone or you're not." I chose this passage because I think that some people in high school believe that they have to be someone. Also, that there are some people who believe that it isn't cool if you aren't someone. I think that this passage could be easily relatable to any one who has ever been to high school because there is always those girls/boys who everyone knows and hates, but deep down they wish that they were one of them. I also think that people want to be known so they don't get teased or picked on by the other kids. I think that the author's message is that in high school you are either that super popular person that everybody hates, but secretly wants to be, or you are one of those people that just fades into the background of everything. Also, that if you are someone there are certain things that you have to give up in order to be that person everyone knows.

What would life be like if you were best friends with the protagonist of your book? What kind of life does he or she lead? Would this be a positive or negative relationship? Would your family and friends approve of this person? Be specific.



The book I'm reading is called "Life as We Knew It." If I was firends with the protagonist, Miranda, it would be a strained friendship, because of the all the horrible things that are happening in the world with the moon being closer to Earth. She leads a hard life because she has to help her family to get through these tough times with the moon being closer to Earth, food and oil being so scarce, no electricity, and extremley cold weather. This would be a positive and negative relationship. It would be positive because we could talk to each other about everything that has been going on and be there for each other to lean on. It would be negative because it would be hard to see each other and talk to each other with the air being cloged with ash form the volcanos and it being really cold and not safe to go outside alone due to gangs and violence. My friends and family would approve of her because she is kind, understanding, and cares for all of her friends and family. It would be nice to have a friend like Miranda if this really did happen to us.