Blog Reflection

         While keeping this blog, I have definitely learned that I'm not consistent. I thought I would be better at that but I was wrong. For the amount of posts that I did publish - I can say that it is different from writing in a notebook. Things work smoother and faster. Typing/writing on a blog is liberating because you can type/write as much as you and not worry about running out of space and turning pages unlike a notebook. You can fill up a notebook until it runs out of pages but online - you can keep going unless there is a character limit. On this blog, there is no limit so there are endless things you can write about. 

      When you're writing on here, a blog, that you're supposed to contribute to - you're writing as an author. You write as an author as well as essays and homework. So I do believe that you have an online because you have an identity for everything, (in my opinion). Keeping this blog gave more opportunities to expand vocabulary and expressing ideas that you wanted everyone to read. If I had kept up to date with this blog I would have tried to express my ideas and elaborated more because even though I published some posts - I personally didn't feel as if it had been my best work. Overall, this blog was nice to have because writing in a notebook tires you out - and typing does too sometimes. 
     
 I don't see myself keeping this blog because I have established that I am not consistent and I'm forgetful. But, if I were to keep a different blog, it would be among my outside interests (writing, photography, etc.) But this blog has helped through the entire school year - I just wish I could've put more effort into it. 

Revised Post

       Indecisiveness is when you can't make choices quickly and/or struggle making decisions. In the book, Everyday by David Levithan, the main character, A is indecisive. A is indecisive because they don't make their decisions quickly and are very inconclusive. Their problems make their life/lives very difficult to live. Especially because A is in love with a girl named Rhiannon - and his condition of living is out of the norm.
      A is indecisive about their decisions because they don't know what choice to make. A has a condition where they wake up everyday in a different body, boy or girl. A can't decide whether to tell Rhiannon about his condition - which is why he's inconclusive. "If I've gotten used to my life, could somebody else? If she believes in me, if she feels the enormity like I do, she will believe this." A has faith in Rhiannon, but still is unsure of telling her. Yes, he tells her eventually but it's a difficult decision. Just as his decision to put their love life on the line. "There might be a way to stay, but I can't. I'll never be able to stay. Murder. When it all comes down to it, it would be murder to stay. No love can outbalance that." The dread that follows A once they leaves is indescribable. A's only made their decision in the end because they were tired of living in a life where they always had to drive to meet each other.
"I am not the only one. There are others. I cannot wrap my head around this. What if they are in the same school as me? What if the boy in Montana wasn't lying?" A's mind is really scattered all over the place.
    In conclusion, when you can't make a decision, and if you do - you struggle and you are never satisfied. Or maybe, you do feel the struggle was worth it - but A, didn't feel that way because they had to give up their one true and first love.

More Than This by Patrick Ness

          In the book More Than This by Patrick Ness, the main character Seth, bottles up his emotions for most of the book. Filled with guilt, confusion, and sadness affects him. His flashbacks make it much more difficult than it needs to be to get over heartbreak and the guilt clawing at the back of his head. 


        Seth deals goes through with a lot of sadness and pain throughout the story - Mostly when he gets in his head and remembers all the horrible things that happened before his suicide. Seth keeps having flashbacks to moments where his boyfriend and himself were together. All the memories are vast but in the end, he remembers why he killed himself. His last straw was when he found out Gudmund wasn't even technically his at all. Seth's life was crashing down little by little and he was miserable. "I thought Gudmund was my more. It didn't matter how crap everything else was." Guilt. Seth is filled with guilt for what happened to brother. The idea that his parents blamed him for everything was always in Seth's head. "I'm going to let you choose. I'm going to let you choose which one of the two of you comes with me Seth." "I thought if I said he could take Owen, I'd be able to raise the alarm  better." His thoughts eat at him until he speaks what he's feeling. But, there's still confusion. Seth doesn't know where he is or why he's there, and neither do the other two people there - Tomasz and Regine. Waking up bandaged in a coffin isn't ideal. They all got hit - or shot - in a certain part of their head that kept them away from everyone else - everyone else is also in a coffin but in a prison near Seth's house.

     
        I, myself was confused for a bit by this book but not for an immense period of time. The author portrayed all these emotions and more very strongly. The characters face difficulties but manage. The flashbacks helped a lot because after them, the characters show how they feel about remembering certain moments.

Blog Review

http://extremelyslappy.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-do-characters-interact-with-those.html

I read Jessica's response to 13 Reasons Why, and I chose to read this specific one because I had read the book, and wanted to see another person's view on it. As I read Jessica's response, I kept in mind that she was responding to a question; How do characters interact with those in higher power? The examples she used definitely benefited her ideas. They were carefully picked out because in this book, there are many examples to discredit the characters, but Jessica chose what fit the question and did it justice.

As stated before, I did read the book. I never thought about about how characters would interact with people in higher power. I agreed with all of Jessica's points because they were accurate. She mentions how in-denial Clay (a main character) is about the truth and how that makes him a clear character that deals with someone being in higher power than him. "Some people who typically deny or try to be oblivious that there is someone higher than them." This statement made me rethink what happened in the book, because it applies to Clay perfectly. Throughout the whole book, he was clearly in-denial and was unaware of why Hannah had included him in the tapes. Jessica also mentions how Courtney's (another character) actions make her the person who is faced with higher power. "Ignoring and even becoming nervous to the truth is a normal reaction to have when faced with this higher power." The paragraph on written about Hannah was definitely my favorite because it was so accurate. Jessica mentions how Hannah is determined on to overthrow and overrun those that are in higher power than her. The rumors she dealt with, which led to her suicide, where made by people who had more power than her. Overall, the descriptions, examples, and Jessica's own interpretation were really strong and all went together. I think that's why this post stood out to me.

This post made me think about how the question being asked and answered applies to many other things. In the real world, there will always be someone who is considered higher or more powerful than you - And that affects you or it doesn't. In books, the main character is dealing with a problem that is troubling them because they feel they can't do anything because the problem is bigger than them; hence higher in power. As well as movies; in movies there will be a big dramatic problem that's eating the character(s) away, until it is solved (for awhile) and then it can come back and start bothering them again.