Twilight #6

When I was finished with the first book I decided to move on to the second book in the series called New Moon. While I was reading this book, I found out that Jacob Black was a werewolf. After finding this out, I think that these books are very unrealistic, and I don’t really like how many mystical characters there are. It is too much of a mix of Harry Potter and a normal book. Once I finish this book in the series, I do not think I am going to keep on reading the books because they are so unrealistic and there is always a new thing that goes wrong. After reading just one and a half of the books in the four book series, I think the other books would get really repetitive. Also Bella is even more of a whiner in this book than she was in the first one. She also takes a lot of unnecessary risks just to hear Edwards voice, which I think is stupid and I wonder why Stephenie Meyer even puts this in the book because it is so stupid.

Twilight #5

The movie, Twilight, and the book are very different in my opinion because they tweeked alot of the plot for the movie by adding and leaving out some of the plot from the book. For instance, in the book Bella seemed to have a very good relationship with Charlie and made him dinner all the time. In the movie however they didn’t really talk and they always went out for dinner. Although the movie and book had a lot of differences, there was one scene that seemed to be a very good representation of the book. This was when they played baseball in the field. I thought this a good representation because it seemed just how I had pictured it while I was reading the book. If I had to choose between the book and the movie to say which one I liked better I would say it was the book because it went into more details. Also, the acting in the movie was terrible in my opinion.

Twilight #4

After reading Twilight, a scene that continues to stick out to me is the battle scene with the other vampire, James. I liked this part because it was a very intense battle and it made me want to keep reading. This battle was a lot like some battle scenes you see in movies or TV shows, a battle versus good and evil. A TV show that I watch everyday after school which always has one of these intense battles is NCIS because they always have to put a bad guy facing punishment behind bars. Or sometimes, the bad guy gets killed by the good guys for not cooperating, like not putting his gun down or something. Getting killed by the good guys is just like what happened to James when he gets killed by the Cullens for trying to kill Bella.

Twilight #3

Twilight, the book that I am reading, in my opinion can relate to a lot of movies and books because it is a typical love story. It reminds me of the movie the Titanic. I think this because Rose and Jack come from two different worlds, which is just like Edward and Bella. In the book however it isn’t money that is separating them, it is that Edward isn’t human. Also just like Titanic when Jack and Rose were willing to do anything for each other, and Jack died so that Rose could live. That is like Edward and Bella because they are willing to do anything for one another. Bella is willing to give up her normal life so that she can be with Edward forever. Twilight can also very easily relate to Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet because there love is also forbidden.

Twilight #2

In the book, Twilight, Edward, the main Cullen character, always tried to protect Bella even though she is a huge whiner in my opinion and always complains. If I were Edward I would not put up with that. I do not understand why he is even slightly attracted to her. Moving on from that, I really liked how sophisticated the Cullens are even though vampires are some of the most unsophisticated people in the world. I think it is interesting how they try to fit in with the rest of the world. The chapter where they went to go play baseball was very interesting. I thought it was cool that the author would have it in there because even if the Cullens are vampires they still like baseball, which can be known as the American pass time. After reading the chapter about them playing baseball and then watching the part of the movie where they play baseball, I think that it is very interesting about how they portrayed it. Although it was exactly how I imagined it, if I were the makers of the movie, I wouldn't have had them climbing up trees, but just running super super far so they wouldn't have had to use those terrible special effects.

Blog #1 for Twilight

After reading the beginning of the book, the one thing that sticks out to me is how much of a self-centered downer Bella is. First of all, when she gets into town, she can barely squeeze out a 'hi' and a nice smile for her dad. I do not care who you are in the car with and what your history is with them, one must be able to do more than what Bella did, especially because it is her dad who she hadn't seen for a long time and she is going to be living with him for the school year. Second of all, her dad, who is nice enough to pick her up from the airport and let her live at his house for the school year, also surprises her with a car! I feel that Bella should been slapped and have had the car taken away because with her 'enthusiasm', she could have made a person with the highest self-esteem feel bad. Also, she has nice people throwing themselves out to be nice to her, especially the girls dream of Edward Cullen. With the tone of this book, I can just see this self-centered downer not cracking a smile and looking not one bit grateful for all of the things she needs to be grateful for. This may just be me seeing how popular this book is, but it is the one thing that stuck out to me when reading the beginning of the novel, Twilight.

Tiger Woods Overcoming Odds

I watched this video of Tiger Woods playing at the 2008 US Open. This shows how he overcomes odds because first of all, in the video, you see tough shot after tough shot that you see him make. Above all of his hard shots that he keeps on making, he has a torn acl tendon. This is huge because winning one of the most prestigious golf tournaments in the world is one thing, but winning it with a torn acl is another. In order for him to win, he clearly had to overcome the odds. This relates back to my life because in the summer of seventh grade, I broke my glove-hand thumb in a baseball game and continued to play with it for 5 innings. This shows how I overcame the odds like Tiger Woods because my injury, like his, was to a part of the body which was needed to be health in order to play well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhOW_vUrCFo