Kira Kira

Kira Kira

1. Choose a particular situation in the story and describe how the character reacted.  Would you act similiarly if it was you?

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Begining: Lynn, Katie and their family, moved to a white town, with only a few japaneas people. Katie, and Lynn and their family are very poor, and Katie (the younger sister) always talks about how she wants to buy 7 houses for her parents 1 day.

Middle: The authour talks about the parents jobs, and how they had a new baby brother named Sammy. Later on in the book the mom interacts with some white people. Sammy, Lynn and Katie went on a picnic, and Sammy got stuckin a trap, but he got rescued, thanks to an American guy who took him to the hospital. Lynn also met a friend named Amber who changed Lynn's perosnality, buy making her more girly, and making her wear lipstick.

End: At the end of the book, Lynn dies, because of a sickness that she has. Now Katie tries her best to do better in school, and make Lynn proud.

Towards the end of the book, when Katie finds out that Lynn died, the authour did not add much deatail about her reaction, so I assumed that she was okay, however later on in the novel, that mention that Katie cries alot, because if lynn. This tells me that she was upset but if i were in Katies shoes, I would have been crying when I found out that my sister died. Therefor what I am trying to say is that the authour should have added more information about the thoughts and feelings that Katie had so that the reader will understand the mood better.

Wait till Hellen comes

http://www.epd86.org/DLMC/wait.html

If you could become a character in the book and had the power to change one of the events, how would you use your power?

text: Heather slowly put her hand in hellens."youre so cold,Helen," she whispered. "Why are you so cold?"

"Because I am alone, becausenobody loves me." ....

"Promise you'll always love mebest," she whispered fiercfuly.

"But what about daddy?"Heathers eyes filled with tears.  "I can't love you more then I loved him. I can't.

pg. 152-153

After reading this, i can see how Hellen is just trying to get Heather to love her, and nobody else.I likeed the way Heather reacted, when Hellen said that. However I didn't like how Heather still wanted to be with hellen. If i had the power to change this event, i would change it by Heather yelling at Hellen, and telling her that I can't like her more than my own father. In short,this is how i would use my powers to change this event on the story. Heather constantly stands by hellens side, and follows her, but now it was her time to be assertive.

I thought it was great book because there was a lot of tention exciment and thrilling scenes

the call of the wild

the call of the wild  

 http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Call-of-the-Wild-Book-Summary.id-48.html


 Write about a part in the story where you agree or disagree with something a character says or does.


pg. 27-28


Buck acts very introverted, when he is around Perrault and Francois. On thees two pages, it talkes about how thees two dogs intimidate Buck. Bucks responce, to their meaness, is just ignoring them. Perrault, and Francois yelled, and threw things at Buck, until he ran away. I disagree with the way he acted, because if I was in Bucks position, then I would not act passive, i would actually do the same to them, and act tought, so that they will not bully me.This is why I disagree with Buck, about this situation.