Nonfiction reading response

According to the article "The Tianamen Square Protest" by Veronica Majeroi and Merrill Perlman, the biggest pro-democracy in Chinas history was held within the year of 1989. Thousand of prople were killed after peacefully protesting on the streets of China. These were grad students, either shot or mowed down by the armys tanks. 

One of the main people envolved with thos protest was Shao Jiang. Three of Shaos friends were killed during they're  protest. "Shao spent two months in hising before he was arrested by military police". Chinas government would not allow political reforms or greater personal freedom. Shao was forced to face 18 months in prison. The author wants the reader to see really how unfair the rules are in China. Thousands of people were killed because they wanted personal freedoms and poltical reforms.

After reading this article, I have come to understand that Chinas president at the time was probably veryunreasonable. They killed thousands of protested when better procautions could of been held. This article has also made me appreciate the amount of freedom we have here in America. 

Opal

In the book opal by Jenifer Armentrout, Jennifer creates this beautiful, magic relationship between main characters Katie and Daemon. In the first book of this sequel it shows how much Katie and Daemon really cant stand eachother, but now its like they're joined at the hip.

After Katie fids out Darmon and her sister are aliens her life becomes under threats.

    Katies is a very clumsy person. Being she is so clumsy she is always in likfe threating situations. Daemon has the ability to heal people. After Katie being healed so many times she became mutan. She is now half human half alien.

    Daemon is so in love with Katie tht when she got kidnapped for being for her mutation Daemon puts his life at risk jut to save her an get her back. Daemon was also outcasted from his "circle" (alien family) for being in love with a Human.

The Lovely Bones

    In the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, I felt myself resisting a lot because, there are a lot emotions and intense scenes in this book. In the book it gets straight to the explict parts within the first few pages of the book

    On page 12, Mr. Harvey (The old man that lives on her block that eventually rapes and kills Susie) tells Susie, "take off your clothes... I need to check if your a virgin... Your parents will thank me for this". 

    The whole book is mostly based off Susies perspective and Susies thoughts. Susie watching her family mostly but also other people. While Susie is in heaven there is this part that she sees her father telling  her little sister that they found something they believe to belong to Susie. An elbow. Her sister then throws up and you can sort of feel her pain... You can sort of see how they really care for Susie.

John Green TFIOS

The Fault in Our Stars is written off the perspective of Hazels life, a sixteen year old with terminal cancer. Hazel attends a support group to please her mother, this is where she meets Augustus, a cancer survivor. Their relationship grows fast, after seeing that they shared the same understandings.

Even though this book is filled with the love/relationship of Hazel and Augustus there is also tragedy. I felt myself really pulling away at intense parts of the book. For example when we found out the cancer had come back, lets be honest, I think that was an emotional scene for all of us. Or when Hazel pretty bad new... Heart breaking actually about Gus. Its like... you connect with these characters and, when they suffer or die... You kind of too.

I also felt myself pulling away mot only ay intense parts.. But alson at what they would say "regular times".

When Hazel and Gus are having dinner they start screaming and going crazy, but theyre having fun so they dont really cares whos looking. There were people constantly people looking or treating them differently because of their physical apperance, but they didnt care.

All in all the restitance I felt shows that this book can be very intense at time, or very non sholonte, anf just living in the moment kind of. I really enjoyed though how this book wasnt a cliche kind of book really. It was the cold hard truth, and thats what made it very real and intense and made me want to pull away at times.  

Before I Go

     Adam, a disinclined rock star and Mia, and professional cellist have met again after three long year. Three years after a terrible accident. After Mia's family dying in a car crash, and her almost dying herself, Mia struggled for her life in the hospital. After recovery Mia then got accepted into a college in New York, but Adam decided to stay behind in Oregon. After agree to do a long distance relationship, Mia cut Adam off of all communication completely. 

   Adam broke into deep depression, and that's how his band hit record came out. Adam is also in a relationship with the famous Bryn. The problem with them is, they never really see each other, but when are together they are constantly fighting. Bryn is always confronting Adam with questions or arguments about Mia. Saying stuff like, "why don't you go go back to your ghost, I'm tired of competing with her...".

   Adam usually has his bottle of pills with him at all times, he suffers with anxiety. He constantly has to take his pills when hes feeling pressured or anger, he really just takes it for anything, during interviews, talks,etc. When Adam and Mia meet again three years later at one of Mia's concerts they end up going out for dinner, a walk, and even her secret places. During this time I see that Adam hasn't reached for his pills not once.

Adam says himself that he feels safe, and secure with Mia. Later in the book Adam breaks up with his current girlfriend Bryn for Mia. Mia helps Adam with his anger, helps him quit smoking and so much more. Life for famous couples are hard but they think they can get threw it.

            Emma, a teenager from 1996, has just gotten a new Windows 95 desktop computer. When Emma’s former best friend/ neighbor, Josh, comes over for a visit and gives Emma and new AOL software, she is befuddled when a strange site named Facebook pops up, and even more confused when she find out she is a member of this website she has never heard of nor been invented yet and, the fact that this page is her life 15 years from now! After a few hours on the site she has found pages for Josh, and other friends, and that it’s filled with unexpected marriages, deaths, pregnancies, etc. Emma and Josh soon discover that they can change their futures by changing little things now. Every time they log in to Facebook they see that everything changes by the little actions they are doing now.

             Josh gets his message that he grows up to be marry the most popular girl in school, but Emma’s future is not all that great. She finds that she grows up to be in an unhappy marriage with a man named, Jordan Jones Jr., and by her status update, “Hit my sixth month of unemployment. They say it’s the economy, but I’m starting to believe it’s me.” You can see that she is unhappy in her department of work too.

            Teenage Emma tries very hard to change her future, while teenage Josh is trying hard to keep his. After Emma and Josh trying hard to change/ keep/ help their future lives, they’ve realized to just live in present day, rather than obsess over future.