LAST BLOG POST :O

<–––– I love this drawing :O I DON'T OWN IT, BUT I WISH I DID CUZ I WISH I COULD DRAW THAT WELL :O




Well, there are the questions I'm going to answer for y'all. So... yeah.

* What did you learn about yourself as a reader from creating and keeping up with your blog?
I learned that I connect a lot of things to books. Whether it has a lot to do with the book or if it's just a connection I sort of randomly think of, I can usually write a bit about the book.

* In what ways did you benefit from the experience?
I think I learned to make more connections, and actually say them and rant off a bit. I'm not the type who likes to talk about a book, like if I'm asked about a book face to face, my reply will be "Oh, that's a good book" or "I effing hate that book" or whatever.

* Is writing online different than in a notebook? In what ways?
Of course it is. For notebooks, I feel like I can't really write as much. I don't have free spirit or whatever, and I always limit my writing. I think this is because I can't think clearly and just want to get it done and don't feel like writing one sentence on one page.

* In what ways can writing online be liberating? Limiting?
First of all, I don't know what liberating means. Dictionary away!
Okay, so liberating... I can just say things easier on blogs and all and whatever. It's just easier to express my amazing self (conceited). I don't think blogging is really as limited as notebook-ing, at least for me. I guess notebooks are great for diaries and that stuff 'cuz you don't want some random person reading every single thing you do or whatever, but this is a freaking book review, so ya know. Yeah.

* Do you think that people are more real online or do we create online personalities that project the best of ourselves? Or something else?
I don't know. I just rant about what I think, so I guess it shows my "true self". Or something. I don't really talk about books well by, well, actually TALKING 'cuz I sorta stutter and all, and I think writing a blog is more organized than just talking because you can GO ALONG WITH IT and THINK and that leads to CONNECTIONS and INFERENCES which can be awfully FAR FETCHED (trust me, I know -____-" ) but you can still think more clearly, I believe. So yah.

* Do you think that teenagers abuse the freedom that being online gives you on sites like facebook? Do people type things they would never say to a person's face? Do you think this is a good or bad thing? Why?
Well. Hmm. I thought we were talking 'bout bloggin' and all but chu know, that's cool. Course it's bad to type meanie things or whatever, but why people say to a computer, I don't know. All I know is that internet fight are a waste of time -_____- It's like, really peoples, do you have nothing better to do than to scan the screen for whatever amount of time, waiting for a notification of some sort saying "So-and-so responded"? Really? That's lame. And no, this is not my attempt to start an internet fight, 'kay? I would say this in "real-life" too, not just through a bunch of little buttons to a big screen.

* Can you imagine yourself keeping up this blog or creating another one? What would it be about? What's your opinion of blogs in general and why?
Hm, I think if I were to start another blog, it would be song reviews :D I don't think that I could write a lot about books, I'm not like that, but, chu know, Reedie tries her bestest. (As you may remeber, earlier I said all I care is if I like it or not). I usually like all books, so yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Also, I think blogs are cool, cuz you can totally share all your awesome ideas :)

Have fun in other high schools, guys! :O I'll Miss ya! Well, some of you, anyways -____-'' XD

Love and Rockets,
REED :D

To Kill A Mockingbird~ Spoilers, YAY

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I'm pretty sure that whoever reads or has heard of the book To Kill A Mockingbird has wondered why this book has this title. I guess you'll have to read it to find out (MWAHAHA THAT MEANS DON'T READ THE REST OF THIS OR IT'LL SPOIL SOME OF THE BOOK)

Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, her brother Jem, and their father live in Maycomb, Alabama.
)I didn't realize Scout was a girl until her brother told her to stop acting like a girl, and Dill said that she was anyway.) At first I thought, since the book was published in 1960, that that was the time it was plotted in. However, it takes place during a few years of the Great Depression. When I found this out, I finally stopped comparing this to my parents because I thought that this was what it was like for them when they were growing up. At least, I hope it wasn't.

In the book so far, there isn't really anything about the Finch family living in poverty, though, but maybe it's just that the entire town is horribly poor? I don't know. However, once in the book, during school, the teacher screams because a bug crawls out of a boy's hair. She tells him to come back to school when he's taken a bath, but in his family, they only go to school when they feel like it. Once a year, on the first day.
This made me think about how poor people live, especially if you were poor BEFORE something like the Great Depression.

"Back then", or whatever, cursing was like a really bad thing. Nowadays, people curse all the time. But in the 1930's and such, it was considered as a sin or something. Scout starts "cursing" and says "hell", and she gets in trouble and is yelled at. BUT~ people say means things about black people, because back then, nearly everyone. Was. Racist. Really, people call them... bad things. So yeah.

Imagine how much we've progressed since then. Their telephone was like half of a jump rope attached to a tin box. Now, we have these awesome things that look like they could teleport us (iPhones). I mean, imagine that poor boy with soot all over his faec and cooties and lice all in his hair. We take a shower everyday, he probably has once in his life. ( Like that king who only took 5 baths in his lifetime. [EW] ).

By the way, what do y'all think about marriage? or being engaged? You know how, when you're little, (at least for girls) you're all like "I'm going to marry a Prince" and all that, like you're going to marry Aladdin or find your Prince Charming? Isn't that cute, when little kids do that? The whole little skit, like, "We're engaged" whole thing? That's what it's like in this book, at the moment. Scout and Dill are "engaged", but Scout is only eight, and I don't know about Dill. Do you really think that little picture could last forever, or will it be torn apart?

That should totally be the end of a movie trailer.

Love and Rockets, Reed


By the way, if you ever get a gun, shoot as many bluejays as you'd like, just not any mockingbirds. It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.