Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Significant moment

I have found a couple of significant moments in my book"Radiance Descending".One of them that i wanted to share is"we need your help.You cant go on forever as if you dont have a brother," his father said. He let the sneaker drop onto the floor.It will be see different--if we're seen together," Paul said after a moment".I learned alot about the character Paul and what he's going through with that excerpt.Basically Paul is the type of person who is embarrassed to have a brother that has down syndrome and he thinks his life is going to be ruined because of his brother "Jacob". Thats a big struggle for Paul as you can see, it's really hard for him to accept that jacob is his brother and also to try and be happy with knowing about jacob.What i predict is going to happen next is that paul will be thinking more and more everyday about trying to accept jacob the way he is sooner or later.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

My New Book...

   Im reading a book called Radiance Descending by Paula Fox. I barely started reading the book today and the main macharacter is a boy named Paul. Something important that you should know about him so far is that he is a mean boy and he doesn't care about hurting anybody's feelings, well at least that's the impression im getting from what ive read so far. This story is taking place mostly in pauls house, its in the past, i dont think theres anything important about that, i barely started reading this book so im not so sure where and when it takes place very good. Here is a significant moment from the book"Later, in the afternoon when paul came home from school and raced into the kitchen through the back door, forgetting that Jacob had ever been born, she was there to remind him."Please," she said."Turn around and look at Jacob when you go to school in the mornings.It will make him happy.You dont even have to smile." the background of this significance text is that paul has a brother and he has down syndrome, his name is Jacob, and Paul doesnt like him, he refuses to even say hi to him on his way to school. His mom tries to make him turn around to even look at him and that will make jacob happy but Paul doesnt even do it because as i said, he doesnt like Jacob just because he is different.I choose this quote of the story and thought its significant because its a good chance for me to say that having a brother,sister,aunt,uncle,mom,dad,cousin or any kind of relative being "Different" doesnt mean we have to mistreat them and make them feel any more different than they already know they are, in other words we have to just love them the way they are because that's the way its suppose to be. I left off on a good part when Paul was flashbacking to where Jacob was first born and how everybody didnt treat him included in the family no more. My prediction on what will happen next is that he will continue to tell more and what happened when Jacob started existing in his life and his parents's life.