5 Reasons Why Perks of Being A Wallflower was a good book
1. It was a story about growing up
In Perks, you learn about the daily struggles of growing up as a teenager from Charlie’s perspective. You get to fully understand what it’s like to be a high school student from his point of view by learning about not having friends to start out high school, making new friends, and parties.
2. The way it was written
The way that this book was written, was extremely interesting to me. Instead of it being just an actual book, you get to learn about Charlie’s life through letters that he has sent out to a random person. This format was very cool to me because I did not expect this going into the book, I thought it was going to be a normal story like all books do, but I was caught off guard in one of the most pleasant ways possible. When I first started reading and noticed this, I thought I was going to hate the idea of it being written in letter form because I have never read any book like that before, but I was wrong. It was very interesting to me and I enjoyed hearing all of his thoughts.
3. The main character went through a huge change
In this book, Charlie, the main character started out his new year at high school by being, as you would say, a very shy person. He came into school and didn’t have very many friends at the beginning due to the fact that he was very shy. He didn’t talk to anybody and nobody talked to him. But, after a while, Charlie makes 2 new friends and his life was forever changed. Charlie was no longer the shy kid in the back of the classroom, he was out doing something with his life, taking risks, having fun. It was very fun to watch Charlie go from the kid that nobody knew to being one a very social, outgoing kid. This is the reason why Charlie is my favorite literary character.
4. This book is very relatable and real
Usually, books that are written about high school avoid some of the many problems that can occur with some teenager’s lives. For example, this book talked about how Charlie had gone through major depression at this book due to the reason his friend killed himself, social awkwardness, making new friends, trying drugs and alcohol and going out to parties. This book captured it, in the best possible way. This book made me feel as if I was at these parties with them, experiencing it. The characters in this book were all very relatable as well, you can’t not fall in love with this book.
5. The buildup of Charlie and Sam’s relationship
This book handled the situation of love between two people, better than I have ever experienced. It talked about how from day one, Charlie had always liked Sam and that he wanted her in every way possible, but it took a while for Sam to feel the same way back to him due to her having a boyfriend in the midst of all of this. It was very interesting hearing about all of these thoughts through Charlie’s perspective and that is the reason why it was so raw and real to me because you got to through a head of a love-crazed teenage boy and it was very well done. This was the reason I stayed reading was so that I could hear about how their relationship ends up, and I don’t want to spoil anything, but wow. It was good.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Post 6: Book 3 Listicle
Reasons why "Every Day" is different from most books
1. The main character doesn't have an actual name
Since "A" doesn't know what his birth name was due to the fact that he bounces from body to body every new morning, he/she has decided to call himself/herself the letter, "A". I use such words like "he/she" and "himself/herself" due to the fact that the main character doesn't know if he/she was born a boy or a girl. But throughout the rest of this article, I will be referring to A as a guy since that is what he mostly is throughout the book.
2. A wakes up in a new body everydayEvery day, A wakes up in a new body. It has been this way since the way that he was born. A has never had a set body and he has never woke up in the same body twice in a row. But to me, this is what made the book interesting. You got a chance to experience new characters, boy and girl, and learn about all their lives and their daily struggles.
3. Even though A wakes up in a new body, A is still in love with the same girl
This is the most interesting part of the book and the part that kept me reading. Even though A wakes up in a different body everyday, he still is in love with the same girl. This girls name is Rhiannon. He falls in love with this girl while he is in the body of a boy who is Rhiannon's boyfriend at the time. This is a daily struggle for A due to the fact that he is in love with her, but she doesn't know how to respond because she is weirded out by the idea that A changes bodies everyday.
4. It is a rule of A's to not mess with peoples lives while he is in their bodies.
A is a very nice individual and he thinks that if he was to mess with someone's life while A was in that body, that karma would come and somehow make his life terrible. There was a few instances of this happening though in the book, but the main example is A coming to Rhiannon and confessing that love that he has for her. “You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?"
I shake my head.
"You try to leave the lives the way you found them."
"Yeah."
"But what about Justin? What made that so different?"
"You," I say.”
5. This book never has a set plot
Due to the fact that A wakes up in a different body everyday, there is a new plot every chapter. Some days A will wake up in a town like Seattle and other days he could wake up in a town all the way across the country. This makes the story hard for me to follow, but it makes me intrigued due to the fact that it gets into detail about the area he is at and the people in his new family that he woke up with.
Conclusion:
All of these reasons are the reason why this book, was the best book that I have ever read. You never know about what kind of struggles that A was going to wake up with the next time he woke up or how his relationship with Rhiannon was going to end up which made you want to keep reading on. This, along with the Fault in Our Stars, is one of those books that once you start it, you do not want to put it down. I recommend this book HIGHLY.
1. The main character doesn't have an actual name
Since "A" doesn't know what his birth name was due to the fact that he bounces from body to body every new morning, he/she has decided to call himself/herself the letter, "A". I use such words like "he/she" and "himself/herself" due to the fact that the main character doesn't know if he/she was born a boy or a girl. But throughout the rest of this article, I will be referring to A as a guy since that is what he mostly is throughout the book.
2. A wakes up in a new body everydayEvery day, A wakes up in a new body. It has been this way since the way that he was born. A has never had a set body and he has never woke up in the same body twice in a row. But to me, this is what made the book interesting. You got a chance to experience new characters, boy and girl, and learn about all their lives and their daily struggles.
3. Even though A wakes up in a new body, A is still in love with the same girl
This is the most interesting part of the book and the part that kept me reading. Even though A wakes up in a different body everyday, he still is in love with the same girl. This girls name is Rhiannon. He falls in love with this girl while he is in the body of a boy who is Rhiannon's boyfriend at the time. This is a daily struggle for A due to the fact that he is in love with her, but she doesn't know how to respond because she is weirded out by the idea that A changes bodies everyday.
4. It is a rule of A's to not mess with peoples lives while he is in their bodies.
A is a very nice individual and he thinks that if he was to mess with someone's life while A was in that body, that karma would come and somehow make his life terrible. There was a few instances of this happening though in the book, but the main example is A coming to Rhiannon and confessing that love that he has for her. “You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?"
I shake my head.
"You try to leave the lives the way you found them."
"Yeah."
"But what about Justin? What made that so different?"
"You," I say.”
5. This book never has a set plot
Due to the fact that A wakes up in a different body everyday, there is a new plot every chapter. Some days A will wake up in a town like Seattle and other days he could wake up in a town all the way across the country. This makes the story hard for me to follow, but it makes me intrigued due to the fact that it gets into detail about the area he is at and the people in his new family that he woke up with.
Conclusion:
All of these reasons are the reason why this book, was the best book that I have ever read. You never know about what kind of struggles that A was going to wake up with the next time he woke up or how his relationship with Rhiannon was going to end up which made you want to keep reading on. This, along with the Fault in Our Stars, is one of those books that once you start it, you do not want to put it down. I recommend this book HIGHLY.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Post 5
In my mind, I have always thought that in order for a book to be considered non-fiction, that it has to be 100% true. I think that if there are any elements in stories that are not true, or even that are just stretching the truth, that it should not be considered to be non-fiction. Non-fictions definition is, "writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history." This means that it is written about real things that have happened, so if you're even stretching the truth like Frey did in saying that you were in jail for 3 months when you were really in for a few hours, that the book that says that in it should not be able to be considered non-fiction at all. But, if you are going out and publishing it, and you claim that it isn't a non-fiction piece of writing though, than that is okay. The only wrong thing that Frey did was that he considered the book a memoir. If he didn't do that and just went out and tried to get it published, then I think he would have been much better off, even though it did make his book more interesting. I don't think that people need to distinguish different genres in books because quite simply, a book is a book. A book can have genres in it like fantasy, fiction, non-fiction, etc, but, that is not what the book is.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Post 4: Adapting the Book
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Some challenges that a filmmaker would have in adapting The Wolf of Wall Street to a movie, would probably be capturing actually how extreme the book is. The book sometimes get into some serious detail about what is going on, which is what I find to be the most exciting, but I just think that filmmakers would have some troubles portraying that.
One scene that I think would be essential to add to the film would be when the Duchess is teasing Jordan. Jordan had just recently cheated on her, but wants to become intimate with her. This is a must show in the movie because it is very interesting but also very funny at the same time. This was probably my favorite part in the book so far and I would not want to see it be left out of the movie. One other scene that I think would be a must to keep, is when they are in the workplace and it shows Jordan getting so mad and serious to the point to the point where he takes the fish out of the fishbowl and eats it. This part in the book shows how serious he is about his work and it would just also be very interesting to see actually happen. Jordan eats the fishbowl because a new employee is cleaning the fishbowl when he shouldn't be and it made him super mad. One final scene that I think must be in the film is that they should show how the company became to be. It started out to be very small and then Jordan built it up to be one of the biggest companies in all of the world.
One part of the book that I would want to cut out if it was made into a movie is when it shows Jordan talking to his driver. His driver isn't a talkative person at all so I feel as if that it wouldn't be needed in the movie. During the beginning of the book, it sometimes described their "conversations" and was very boring to me and it seemed unneeded. One other part that they should leave out of the movie is when the Duchess gets so mad at Jordan that she throws glasses of water on him. I feel as if they were to make this into a movie scene, that it shouldn't be just glasses of water and that it should be buckets, if anything. This part for me just kept going on and on even though it was only a few pages, but it was very boring to me.
Some challenges that a filmmaker would have in adapting The Wolf of Wall Street to a movie, would probably be capturing actually how extreme the book is. The book sometimes get into some serious detail about what is going on, which is what I find to be the most exciting, but I just think that filmmakers would have some troubles portraying that.
One scene that I think would be essential to add to the film would be when the Duchess is teasing Jordan. Jordan had just recently cheated on her, but wants to become intimate with her. This is a must show in the movie because it is very interesting but also very funny at the same time. This was probably my favorite part in the book so far and I would not want to see it be left out of the movie. One other scene that I think would be a must to keep, is when they are in the workplace and it shows Jordan getting so mad and serious to the point to the point where he takes the fish out of the fishbowl and eats it. This part in the book shows how serious he is about his work and it would just also be very interesting to see actually happen. Jordan eats the fishbowl because a new employee is cleaning the fishbowl when he shouldn't be and it made him super mad. One final scene that I think must be in the film is that they should show how the company became to be. It started out to be very small and then Jordan built it up to be one of the biggest companies in all of the world.
One part of the book that I would want to cut out if it was made into a movie is when it shows Jordan talking to his driver. His driver isn't a talkative person at all so I feel as if that it wouldn't be needed in the movie. During the beginning of the book, it sometimes described their "conversations" and was very boring to me and it seemed unneeded. One other part that they should leave out of the movie is when the Duchess gets so mad at Jordan that she throws glasses of water on him. I feel as if they were to make this into a movie scene, that it shouldn't be just glasses of water and that it should be buckets, if anything. This part for me just kept going on and on even though it was only a few pages, but it was very boring to me.
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