Week #7

The last week before we went into break was a busy week. We got to turn in our projects and write our 2nd in class essay about our books. I think I did good job on my essay I tried my best to concentrate on it. My essential question was how does the author create his/her characters in order to make a the story a love one? In "Finding Perfect" by Susan Mallery, Mallery made a good job creating both of his characters in a way that makes them so lovely and beautiful together. Just like in the Nicholas Sparks books the characters are good looking making them a perfect couple. Also the both characters carry a past that doesn't let them trust again. Raoul the main character in "Finding Perfect" was hurt by his ex wife, because of what happened to them Raoul wouldn't trust Pia (the other main character). It wasn’t Pia’s fault which made the story intense. They both face bad backgrounds which makes the reader want them together more. Just like in any love story we wish we could talk to the characters and let them know they are wrong and that they should love that person who they have on their side. Also in love story we wish we could be on the characters place and have that loving partner that only exist in love books, movies, or fairytales. All this feelings that come to the reader while reading a love story are all the same, so that’s also something I have notice in love books.

Finding Perfect by Susan Mallery

This week i started reading my second book. It's called "Finding Perfect" written by Susan Mallery. The book is a romance book just like Nicholas Sparks books. My essential question is how does the author portray a love story through the characters? Meaning how does the author chooses his characters in order to make the book a love story. What do the characters have that make the book look so lovely. Most of the times the authors makes that perfect man and woman that people would want to have. Also they make love look so perfect but in the reality world we believe is not so we live love through books. Susan Mallery is a bit different from Nicholas Sparks but I can see how she draws her characters. The book is about a woman named Pia in where she is going through breakdowns because she doesn't know if she should have her friend's Crystal babies. Crystal past away from a sickness and left the embryos to Pia so she could have them. Pia doesn't understand why her. While this is happening she is helping a football players that is living in her city, this guy happens to appear right when they told her that Crystal had left her the embryos. She was suppose to help this guy but couldn't concentrate so she told him what was going on and instead he helped her. This guy kept bumping into her and apparently he knew Crystal's husband who died in war, and this guy was there when it happened. Pia is scare to have the babies but feels like she has too and the football player just wants to be there for her. This is how far I have gotten into, and it's getting good.

Blog #5 Week of 11/1-7/2010

This week we been working on our tragedy project and writing an essay about tragedy. For the essay we summarize what he learned from the tragedy articles we read and explain how we define a perfect tragedy. I used Aristotle, Oedipus, Miller, Krutch, and two other stories I picked from the internet. The first three paragraphs I explain the components they see in a perfect tragedy than I go into what I say. I agree with Oedipus when he stated that tragedy only happened to noble people but that's how it was back then or in places where there are a lot of heroes. On the other side I agree more in what Miller stated tragedy happens to the everyday man. And I gave the example of homeowners who lose their home because of the lack of money. Now for my project Diana and I are working on a letter written by the mother of one of many guys that died while crossing the border. The organization that received the letter by this mother has many names of people they have found dead in the desert while crossing the border. They do this to let people know in Mexico that their family member has passed away. Diana and I think that this a tragedy that keeps happening and will continue happening because there is people still looking for that American Dream and risk their lives to cross the border.