Reading Log week 3

1 hour    "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee    pgs 324- END
Changes Over Time: In the beginning of the book, Scout was afraid of Boo Radley. But by the end, when Scout realizes he saved her life, left items in the hole by the tree, and put the blanket on her during the fire, she has a different perspective of him. She also gets more mature throughout the story, and feels more for others.
              "Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad."
               This shows that Scout felt more thankful for Boo for what he gave to her and Jem. She also feels bad for not giving back, which shows her maturity. In the beginning, she cared mostly about herself, but by the end, she realized to open up.

2 hours    "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan    pgs. 1-81
Details: Percy has lost his memories, and ends up fighting gorgons, monsters that turn to dust when hit, but come back to its normal form eventually. He finds his way to Camp Jupiter, a camp of demigods of Roman God descent. He meets Reyna, the leader, Frank, a demigod of unlnown descent, and Hazel, a girl with a curse and a tough past. Percy still remembers Annabeth, and vague memories of Greek, Camp Half- Blood, and friends.
                   "So you still don't remember any memories?" Reyna questioned.
                   "Nope not at all," Percy answered.
                  Percy doesn't remember any memories, but will eventually put together the pieces. Even though he isn't treated well by others at Camp Jupiter, he still stayed together and is determined to get his memories back.

Reading Log Week 2

1 hour    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee    pgs. 253-291
Different Perspectives: When Scout wants to invite Walter Cunningham to the house, Aunt Alexandra strongly dissaproves, saying Walter is trash, and would be a bad influence on Scout.
              "But I want to play with Walter, Aunty, why can't I?"
              She took off her glasses and stared at me. "I'll tell you why," she said, "Because he is trash, that's why you can't play with him. I'll not have you around him, pickinng up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what. Your enough of a problem to your father as it is."
               Scout and Aunt Alexandra have different perspectives of Walter Cunningham, causing disagreement, and in the end Scout feeling frustrated, since she didn't get what she wanted.

1 hour    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee    pgs. 292- 323
Ethics: In the timeframe of this book, white people are easily dominant over black people, or Negroes. After Tom Robinson, is stated guilty for rape, he is sent to prison. Despite Atticus's thoughts that Tom has a chance to get out of prison, he ends up trying to escape and is shot and killed.
           "We had such a good chance," he said. "I told him what I thought, but I couldn't in truth say that we had more than a good chance. I guess Tim was tired of white men's chances and preferred to take his own..."
            Tom was put in a paradox. He is frustrated with the ways of white people, and wants to solve things his own way by escaping the prison, but knows he has a slim chance of escaping without death. He ended up taking his own path, but was killed in the end.
            

Reading Log Week 1

1 hour     To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee      pgs. 170-216         
Details: Scout and Jem sneak out of the house to follow Atticus to his office. They get there and find many men around Atticus. When Atticus finds them, he is surprised and scared.
            "I thought it was a fine surprise, but his(Atticus) face killed my joy. A flash of plain fear was going out of his eyes, but returned when Dill and Jem wriggled into the light."
             Atticus was scared when Scout came into the office. She interfered with Atticus's and the mens' business. The men were cold- natured people, and Atticus didn't want the kids in the middle of it.

1 hour     To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee    pgs. 217-252
Patterns: Repeatedly, Jem tries to have Scout do as he tells her, but Scout always refuses with a threat.
             Scout would say often, "You gotta make me first," or "Who do you think you are?" after Jem would try to make her do something.
             Even though Jem is older than Scout, Scout always hates how Jem tries to "boss her around." She always yells at him, threats him, or even fights him, because she hates feeling belittled.