Three Questions- Leo Tolstoy

Genre: Fantasy

Q5: Describe the main characters. How is she/he like or unlike you? How interesting is she/he to read about? 

The main character is the king he  wants to always be correct, like doing things at right time, listening to the correct people. He never wants to be doing something wrong. He asks questions to other people, he does not want to figure  things out on his own he needs to have an answer from someone else. I fond quit interesting because sometimes i am also like that, I would want to be correct, therefore I ask many people questions because I expect them to have the right answer and the king was exactly like that in the story. 

Elements of the genre fantasy are  medieval universe, magic power, talking Animals

The elements that are used in this fantasy is the medieval universe.

The way people interact through this short story, is that people rely on other people, and do not think for them self sometimes.

Harry- Rosemary Timperley

Genre: Mystery, Horror
Q12) What is an exciting or horrifying or sad or funny part of what you have read.

The horrifying part is when Christine's adoptive mother find out that the imaginary friend of her child is her brother, and that he past away and is a ghost.  The only way he is going to disappear is when he gets his sister Christine. Another horrifying part is when she comes running to the school asking for her child and they say that ''her brother called for her. the mother just found out that he is a ghost and the only way he would leave is when gets his sister back. The mom runs home  looking for her child and can not find her. In the end they do not know where she is, and the police is looking for her. The only people that know the story is the mother and the woman who saw the brother die. That scared me a lot, and I already hate horror movies, therefore this was quit scary.

Elements of the genre horror are supernatural creatures, Ghost, fantasies, science fiction
Elements of the genre Mystery are suspense, action, clues.

The elements that are used for horror are ghost and for mystery they used suspense.

After reading this short story I learned that people have trouble understanding each other. That  you cannot understand some ones problem or what they are going through unless you know the history behind the story.

Do they hear you when you cry- Fauziya Kassindja

Q13) How has the writer used their own personal life in what you have read?

This novel is non fiction that means it's a true story. Fauziya Kassindja has put her personal life in to this novel by talking about her religion, family, traditions in her home country and the way she lived.   Fauziya Kassindja was islamic and is from Tongo, she is the youngest out of the family. The reason she fled to America was because her dad passed away and her Aunt got her a husband and before she gets married she has  to go under female circumcision. On trying to flee the country she is caught at the immigration country and is arrested and put in jail.  She has been in Jail for quit a while and she has given up hope. She became friends with a law student  Layli Miller Bashir, and she is trying to get her out. During the case she wanted to go back home. The case they even mentioned the tradition of woman circumcision, and that it's not right, in the end after all that fighting they won the case. She tells in the end that the people in her tribe are good people but people do bad things, and that if something is tradition does not make it right.

Sister- Rosamund Lupton

Q15) If you are only part way through a text make some predictions about how it will end.
  Genre: Mystery
This novel is about  how a girl gets missing and her sister is looking for her, but the police finds her dead. The police is sure it's her because they found her school card.Her sister does not believe that her sister is dead therefore she starts  looking for her and interrogating people she was in contact with. She is also interrogating people because she does not know why she go killed. My prediction for this book is that the sister finds her sister and the police turns out to be wrong. The reason I think that the sister finds out that her sister is alive because  she is finding out more secrets about her sister.  Another prediction is that she actually is dead but they find out more about  the sis and  she turns out to be a different person they taught she was. During that process they also find out the reason she was killed.  These are my predictions for this novel.

Teenagers would rather lose TV than internet or mobile- Charles Arthur

                                         

 Newspaper: Guardian
Q6: What ideas or issues are explored? What is your opinion about the issues?

The Article is about that children from 12-15  in the UK prefer internet or mobile over television. They got this result by making a survey. In the article it does not tell exactly what the issue is but  because of all the data saying how much the internet, mobiles, and television are used in the UK. I think that the issue is that  children are getting more addicted to social network. I agree with this issue because of the way the article was being discussed and the results of t how many people preferred mobiles and the internet over television. Another reason is that I even  prefer the Internet or mobile over television and in my house the t.v. is hardly ever put on.  I am most of the time on the internet because you have everything on the internet you can watch movies, talk to friends, play games, read books, homework etc. The mobile you can text , call friends, play games, listen to music and go  on the internet. You can multi task on mobile phones and the internet but television you can only watch television. The reason All of this is happening is because Technology is increasing. I think that being addicted to social network is that  you study less, and you can become fat because you do not do exercise. But it's also a good thing because you become better with technology and that will be good for later on.

                                            mobile phones

                                                          internet

                                                         Watching television

Paradise-Praveen

Q7: How does what you read connect to your own experience??

This poem is about  That There is so much in the world you have to do and sometimes it gets to much that you just want it to go away. Whenever you fall asleep it seems like it's al gone because you start to dream of to your own little paradise, where there is no problems and drama. I can connect with that because sometimes, I just have so much work, so much drama and it is getting to hectic that when I g to bed I just dream that I am in my own world , and that there are no problems in that world and I can just relax.

The Necklace-Guy Maupassant

Q12: What is the exciting or horrifying or sad  or funny part of what you have read??

The sad/ Funny part about this Short story is, that there is a woman named ''Mathilde an she is very snobbish. She Has a rich Husband named Loisel. Mathilde was invited to a event. She wanted to look perfect, but she had nothing to wear, as a solution she asked her husband for money to buy a expensive gown. He did not mined a gave her the money. she bought the dress. She did not have any necklaces, and her husband was not going to give her the money for the necklace therefore she went to borrow one from her friend Madame Jeanne Forestier.  The necklace is very expensive. She goes to the party and everyone loves her outfit. When she gets home the necklace is gone.She was looking  everywhere for the necklace. To buy her self some time she told her friend that it was getting repaired because it broke. Her Husband and her couldn't Find The necklace, so they started looking for a store that had that necklace, they found one but the necklace was really expensive, it cost 36,000 francs. Therefore her husband used all of his  savings and borrowed money from people. The Couple fired the maid. Mathilde has to do all the chores at home. After 10 years they had payed all there depth. Mathilde Looks older than she is, she has dried fingers,skin etc. She went to her friend one day who she borrowed the necklace from and told her the story, and she said “Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine was false. At most, it was worth five hundred francs!” 

I found that so funny, but also sad,  because all that pain she went through was for nothing.

                                                             When she was dancing at the party.