The Witch of Blackbird Pond
(Author: Elizabeth George Speare)
Kit must have had a lot of courage and made a lot of sacrifices in order to go to America, which was “halfway around the world,” as many people of the settlement called it. Seven trunks weren’t enough for staying. She must have had lived in a much higher way in her country at England with her grandfather than her present home. Her dresses were fashionable and expensive in America; most of the town folks had plain clothes on which were more suitable for working than Kit’s dresses were. (No matter how modestly she tried to dress out of her clothes, they all didn’t seem modest compared to the way the other people of the town dressed up.) It surprised me how her uncle had charmed her aunt in a way that enabled her to travel across an ocean to be at his side. It made me curious of how they met and how they parted, how they fell in love. He was such a person who insisted on following the ways of God, protecting his own rights, and dressing modestly. It must have had enraged him to find out that Judith was soaking Kit’s ways of
I so very wished that Kit would be more careful. She openly said to whom she was going and didn’t seem to care about what the other people thought of. It was ridiculous what people believed: how a true witch always stayed afloat on water and how the innocent would drown and sink like a stone. Everyone, as long as they relaxed and lied down, they would be able to float with no effort. Not only did Kit swim in the water in order to retrieve Prudence’s doll for her, she swum in a place where it was thought of swimming: it was a witch’s work.
Prudence gained so much from Kit. She was able to read, write and also gained something similar to love from Kit. She was partially despised by her mother (she was told that she was too stupid) and by her father, who believed the words of his wife. It was from this act that Kit was able to be freed from the trial. At the trial, Prudence showed her parents her ability to read and write. This convinced the father hat his wife was wrong and felt deep gratitude to Kit. It was him who took back his testimony.
Thank goodness that the constable and the constable’s wife were kind to Kit. The didn’t treat her roughly. They gave her food and helped her get cleaner a bit and also gave her a quilt so that she might not be too cold. The Constable’s wife even gave comforting words to Kit, that the place wher she was in wasn’t a place for a female. I think that kindness helped ease their guilty minds as the constable and his wife discovered that Kit wasn’t a witch and that she was guilty. If she had been treated like scum, I’m sure that they would be obliged to express their apologies.
Her uncle’s true personality was revealed. His love and care was revealed in a way for those he cared for. When Kit was taken away, he tried his best to protect her. Although he had not welcomed her in the beginning when she had told him she would stay at his house (she had done so with no letter of warning him- he had been reluctant and he had told her that it took a while of pondering; it showed that he grudged her living with them. It was clear that he had become fond of her.)
I do not think that William ever loved Kit. I think that he was only fond of her, as he didn’t try and help her out of trouble when Kit was accused of being a witch. I do think that Nat loved her, since he risked getting into jail as well by trying t help her; he was the one who brought Prudence to the trial. Thank goodness that the world had at least a little bit of justice left. She was declared innocent. Her only crime was to lure a young girl into disobeying the orders of her parents. It was a happy ending, after all. Judith married William, Mercy married John, and Kit was in love with Nat, who loved her back. They were to go aboard Nat’s own ship: The Witch. Nat even named a boat after Kit. That might show how much he loved Kit.
The Big Bang Theory
(Author: Karen D. Fox)
I was able to find out that all the evolution of science started in Ancient Greece. Nearly everything connected with civilization started off in Ancient Greece. I was able to learn a lot of facts:
The Greek philosophers took a huge step into rejecting the existence of gods. People, like Lucretius, said that nature was free and wasn’t controlled by the hands of divine beings, that nature itself only went that way by itself. He also added that no one would ever be able to control the beings and acts of nature. He might have had been surprised by what he himself said as well as other people did. To deny the existence of the gods! To deny what e had been taught over and over again since he was a young child. This gave me the idea of how hard it was to deny old beliefs and customs. The Greek philosophers also mapped the night sky. It was amazing how patient they were, how they ever got to notice with their bare eyes and many hours and years of observation that they were able to notice six stars that didn’t move along the sky with the others. No one knew then what it might have been caused by, but no one then found out. So many people had different hypotheses about the sky, none of which were able to be proven by any tools – they didn’t have any. It was remarkable how many people thought of the wrong things. The author gave an example: some one thought that the earth was surrounded by fire and that the sun was a hole in the sky which gave them light and were the great ball that they saw during the day. I guess these kind of random explanations lead to the hypothesis in which the sun orbited the earth.
So far, I thought that Galileo was a great person for being able to invent the telescope that helped him observe the night sky so much. It shocked by to find out that someone else had invented it first but he took the credit for it by fitting two lenses together in a tube ad getting a patent for it. It was sad how he was forced to sign papers that the earth was the center of the universe, that the sun definitely circled the earth, not the other way around. I wished they would let him off, but he was subjected to house arrest for the rest of his life. If his friends were not allowed inside, I’m sure that he might have gone mental for the lack of human consolement and company; I’m sure he wasn’t the solitary type.
Just because of one person – Aristotle – so many people were killed or tormented. Although their idea wasn’t entirely his idea, he had made some changes with the facts that he had learned from Plato. With his powerful voice, he had been the one who widely spread the earth being the center of the universe.
Newton’s laws were explained in this book. He said that the law of gravity made all things stable and pulled toward an object with the greater mass. He believed that God helped the universe become more stable, his hand moving here and there to rearrange the planets and stars in all kinds of directions.
Einstein’s theory of relativity is told in this book that it was related to t makings of the atom bombs and the expanding of the universe. The story about Einstein arose a few questions: How were the theory of relativity related to and contributed to the formation of nuclear bombs? Were there any explanations about the theory of relativity made? Why did Einstein so refuse to accept his mistakes? The only question that I’ve been able to answer to myself was the last question: Einstein was greatly admired by many people and by admitting his mistakes; it might reveal that some people were better and smarter than him. I guess he hated to get out of the “spotlight.”
I read on to find out about our universe being a flat universe, how there might be other universes, what something in space that can be seen to earth will look like when viewed from earth on a spherical universe. I read on to the M-theory and the string theory. In the M–theory, there are eleven dimensions. This kind of world is supposed to exist if a similarity is supposed to be seen and understood in the various string theories that have evolved over the years. Wish he book gave some more information about the theories but the books didn’t give much more information. I can I understand the concept when I don’t know what they are.
My hunger for knowledge has increased. Will there ever be any books with information contained about the string and M theories? Will the great jigsaw puzzle of the history of our universe ever be revealed?
The Giver
(Author of the book: Rick Riordan) Jonas is in a community in which life is “perfect”. No choices, no differences, the people of the community all in a happy place, believing that the choices they made and their Elders made were for the best. The stage of “Sameness” and “Climate Control”. No one starving, the weather perfect, nothing different than the others. Their futures already decided for them. During the Ceremony of the Twelve, Jonas is selected to be the new Receiver. He experiences a lot of memories, learning what a world he was living in, a world with no choices or feelings. People who say they are angry only felt a little exasperation, people who say they are sad only experienced a shallow portion of the tiniest amount of grief; the people of is community knew nothing about real feelings. “Stirrings” are prevented, the wanting of the citizens, by ordering the people to take pills preventing them and to report them if they are taking place. Everything doesn’t have colors, only gray. No colors. Color, something Jonas recognizes as beautiful. He realizes that the phrase “release” wasn’t such an honor after all when he ses a baby get released and killed just bcauseof the fact that he weighed less than his identical twin. He notices that the people sent into the Releasing room were killed by taking a shot. When the baby under the care of Jonas’s family is about to be released (the baby had been with the family because the baby didn’t have well sleeping habits.), Jonus risks everything and goes off to a journey of Elsewhere where Gabriel, the baby, would be safe. Jonus releases his last strength to protect Gabriel and to get to Elsewhere where he believed the peope there were waiting for him. This is a wonderful book, charged with the suspension and the tragedies. It creates fear for me, for all that we have done, it is only done as a result of a world with no feelings-like psycopasts who have no feelings at all (at least no deep feelings for others and themselves). I believe the reason why this book is so beautiful is because the contents are full of love and the pursiut of justice, in which all people have the right to make choics for themselves, experience the beauty of colors and real feelings, of grief, hunger, knowing who ther family is, and most important of all, deep love.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
I decided to read another series, of Percy Jackson. I’m ten and I believe this is a great series.
Book One
-The Lightning Thief-
(Note: this is in my own words.)
Percy Jackson is going to be kicked out of boarding school- the Larry Boarding School, a place for special treatment for kids-and it is not the first time he was kicked out. When he is going on a trip to the beach with his mother, his friend, Grover, appears out of nowhere and says that Percy’s life is in danger that very moment. He discovers some facts, loses his mother, saves Grover, and learns some facts about who he is after joining the Half-Blood Camp, the safest place on earth for half – bloods. Also, he starts socializing. Soon, he is determined that he is the son of Poseidon- God of the Seas- when a sign comes. After ten days, the sumer solstice comes. It’s a matter of time for Percy and his two friends to ease the tension between th two sides (Zeus v.s. Poseidon) and top the wars that might happen. They have to retreive the lightening bolt of Zeus and the Helmet of Darkeness of Hades. Both gods think Percy is the thief and so is after him. As time passes, it is revealed that the Oracle was right. Percy was betrayed by whom called himself a friend of his: Luke betrayed him. Luke was the thief of both objects and the God of War had caught him but had decided not to tell anyone that Luke was the thief. Luke turned his back and went to Kronos, a Triton who was the father of the Big Three. Percy senses that Kronos in the Underworld, the deepest, darkest pit of Tartarus, is slowly regaining strength and power.
Book Two
-The Sea of Monsters-
Tyson became Percy’s friend, later known to be a Cyclopes and hishalf-brother. Grover, Percy Jackon’s best friend is on a quest to find the great god Pan, who was believed by the humans to be dead since two thousand years agon. Grover, and all the other satyrs believe that the humans are wrong and all of the bravest have been on a quest to find the great god Pan and wake him from his sleep. Percy keeps dreaming strange thngs every nightand eventually find out that Grover was in serious trouble. He knows that Grover needs his help. Percy finds out Grover became a captive of a giant, of whose possession the Golden Fleece is now in. And that’s not all. With Luke running off, Thalia’s tree had been poisoned, weakening the magical boundaries around Camp Half-Blood. Chiron is blamed and fired. Now a prisoner from the Underworld comes teach the campers in an unfair way. Percy and his friend Amanda goes to find Grover. After a long time of strugling, the Golden Fleece is brought to the tree of Thalia, heals it from the poison, Grover is safe, and so is Tyson. The magical boundaries of thecamp has strengthened and Thaia, the daughter of Zeus who had given up her life to protect her friends- whose spirit was part of the tree- came back to life.
Book Three
-The Titan’s Curse–
Grover found another two demigods in a military school. It was the last day of erm. Percy Jackson, Annabeth, and Thalia comes to lead these two demigods to camp Half-Blood. Unfortunately, their vice principal, Dr. Thron, is a monster and h senses two children in the gymnasium are demigods- half-humans and half gods. Percy Jackson is the first to find out where they are, tries to follow them, and gets caught as he was trying to rescue Bianca di Angelou and Nico di Angelou. Thalia, Grover, and Annabeth omes to his aid. Thanks to the Hunters, Dr. Thorn (who used to be a manticore after he trasformed) However, Annabeth falls down a cliff. Bianca, the older of the two demigods, joined the Hunters. They return to camp, then a prophecy is spoken. Three Hunters and two campers are chosen to go but one is harmed and so, Percy gains permission to join them. He had been having dreams about Annabeth, and came to conclude that Annabeth was is terrible danger and Luke was behind it. Annabeth and a goddess has been captured and has been holding up the sky. Atlas was free and Percy tricks him into holding the sky again. Bianca and Zoe (a Hunter) was lost. Thalia joined the Hunters sp that she wold never reach sixteen. However, Nico is angry at Percy bcause of the death of his sister, Bianca.
Book 4
-The Battle of the Labryinth-
Quintus arrived at Half-Blood camp. Mr. D. was busy preparing for the war, so Chiron had to hire Quintus to help him . Percy keps having dreams about Dedaleus- the designer of the Labryinth. He also dreams abou Luke trying to find Dedaleus. Peryc and ANnabeth soon finds out why, They find the entrance to the Labryinth and it is at the heart of Camp Half-Blood. Percy gets help from Rachel as well, a mortal he met in Hoover Dam and in the school he escaped from. Nico is with the ghost of Midas, and in his despair, he tries to bring his older sister, Bianca, back to life, from the Underworld. Nico is still angry at Percy for letting Bianca die. The gostof Midas is planning for something and Nico falls into the very trap, thinking that the ghost of Midas would help him. Percy and his friends fell into Luke’s trap. After escaping from the trap and death, they head back outand Percy went back in because he knew that Luke was still in there. Soon, he opens the coffin in which the body of the Titan Lord, Kronos, was supposed to be. However, the body was Luke’s. It seemed that Kronos had taken Luke’s body. The scythe, the weapon which Kronos used to slice his father up and which sliced Kronos up by Zeus and the other gods. There is trouble for Percy and the others, for Kronos is now back, and the war had weakened the gods. There was no doubt that Kronos would try to take over power and destroy Olympus.
Book Five
-The Last Olympian-
Percy and the Half-Blood Camp are busy preparing for war, against Kronos and his side. Percy’s father, Poseidon, God of the Seas, Earthshaker, etc, is busy preparing for a war of his own- against the old spirits of the ocean: Oceanus, etc. Percy and his friends encounter demons, monsters, Cyclopes, and Titons. The gods (Poseidon excluded from the gods that are fighting him) are barely able to stop a huge giant-a Titon, even if they are fighting with all their might. That giant was heading for New York City, destroying everything in its path. Percy and the rest of the camp are restless. The Titons were planning on taking over Olympus, where the Olympian Gods’ bases of their powers were on: their seats (their thrones) in the halway of Olympus. If those thrones were to be destroyed, the gods would easily become overcome and defeated. Percy soon finds and realizes that, so he followed Nico di Angelo and bathes in the Styx River. Percy knew that the reason Luke’s body hadn’t been incdinerated when Kronos took over his body beause Luke had also bathed in the Styx River. After the huge war, Percy is able to get immortality but refuses, because he didn’t want to leave his friends behind. Rachel had been the prophecy and she would become the Oracle, as it later turned out, which was why she was able to see through the Mist.
Harry Potter saga
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The following questions are about the first book, Harry Potter and the Socerer’s Stone
The following questions are about the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The following questions are about the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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