The End of a Mockingbird

                            I finally finished reading the book "To kill a mockingbird"by Harper lee. This book was very different from any book I have ever read because the book i never read about that really wasn't about action which this book really didn't have. The main character in this book really didn't grow that much on the outside as much as she did on the inside. She really grew on the inside by learning a lot from what happened to her through out this book. Her father and her brother really helped her grow by the advice which were very interesting. She grew through the racism in the little town of Maycomb by sticking with her father and her brother Jem. This book was really helped to write about my COA project because my project is on sexual abusing which this book has to do at the end where Atticus the father of the main character of this book represented a black man that represented. By the end of this book Scout became mature even though she didn't reach adulthood and learned a lot about life that was both bad and good.
                            The people that helped Scout grow up affected her both in a good way and in a bad way. The person his her life that mostly affected her life was her father Atticus. Atticus was probably the smartest person in this book because he was the one that taught and encouraged Scout to do things that would teach her a smart lesson but not as a punishment. Another quote that he said that really stoke out to me was "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" This was very interesting and weird quote because it means that you will never learn how a person lives it ill you actually live their life. Scout's father really helped her by teaching her many important things but also put her life in danger. When Atticus represented the black man who supposedly raped a girl. Bob, the father of the girl that got raped lied that Tom, the black man, raped his daughter and Tom was considered guilty and sent to jail. He later tried to escape but got shot to death. In court Bob got kind of embarrassed by Atticus and the judge so he wanted revenge against him. He tried to get revenge on him by rapping/attacking his daughter Scout. But luckily the strange kid named Boo Radley appeared and helped them. Boo Radley had opened up because he never came out of his house before in till now. Boo stabbed Bob and killed him and saved Jem and Scout. Scout's father put her in danger and almost got her killed for trying to save a black man from getting put into jail. This was something that changed both Atticus and Scout because in a way they both opened up in different ways that made them think differently about each other.
                         At the end of this book Scout really didn't grow as much as the outside as much as she did on the inside. Scout learned a lot of things and grew throughout the book. The experiences that happened to her throughout the book made her grow. The most important part of this book changed her and made her grow up. This was when Boo Radley helped her and her brother Jem from getting attacked by Bob. When this happened Scout and Boo started to relate to each other. They related to each other because in different ways they both opened up and became older. Boo opened up by finally getting out of his house and Scout opened up by learning that Boo isn't who she thought he was. After this happened, Scout matured because when she saw Hi Boo" but then she corrected herself and said "Hi Mr. Arthur. This shows that she matured because she now saw Boo as another person, more like an adult because he opened up as well as she did.
                        By the end of this book almost everybody experienced coming of age. Everyone in this book except Scout and Boo changed and matured into different people. Every book that I have ever read never ended like this. The end of this book was very kinding because Atticus and his kids started to read book together at night on a couch like a family. The things that happened to her and what she experienced will probably help her when she reaches adulthood because now she knows what life is really about and that life isn't easy but could be very difficult and hard which Harper Lee was trying to say about coming of age.

About the Mockingbird.

                       In this book that I'm reading there are two main characters. The book that I'm reading is called "To kill a mockingbird". To me this is one of the slowest pastest book I have ever read because they really don't talk about mockingbirds except once. I really don't know if this book is really how to kill a mockingbird or if someone in this book is suppose to be a mockingbird. The setting of this book is probably in the south because almost all the characters talk in a southern accent. So far the main characters haven't done anything interesting or dangerous that I really like to happen in books which makes get really board at some times.
                       "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird" This was a very important lesson that the main characters father told her brother Jem (This was said on page 103). When I read this I thought the book was going to get better and that the book was going to get more into killing mockingbirds but it was just a lesson about mockingbirds that so far I have read. Atticus, the father of the main character, said this to Jem because in the book Atticus neighbor explain that it's wrong to kill a mocking bird because the only thing that mockingbirds do is bring music into our hearts and do nothing bad which makes it a sin to kill a mockingbird. Before I read this book I never even knew that it was wrong to kill a mockingbird because I thought they were just normal birds but now I know that they are more then that. By the end of this book I wish to find what Harper Lee(author) meant by "To kill a mockingbird" because right now it's very confusing to understand what or who the mockingbird is.
                        In this book, the main character has a lots of protagonists that help her and influence her to do things. The person that helps and teaches her stuff is Atticus, her father. He also influences her to do things that help her learn things. One thing that Atticus influenced her to do with her brother is to live with a cranky old lady for a couple of days so that they could interact with her because they never had the best relationship and she would always insult her and Jem. At the end they became closer but unfortunately the old lady died. Her brother Jem is some what of a trouble maker. He influenced Her to be a look out when he wanted to leave a note to a horrible neighbor named Radley. Jem got really close to getting shot by a shotgun because he heard Jem coming to his backyard. The main character lucky escaped and so did Jem without getting unharmed. Atticus and Jem may both have different influences on her but she's still alright and living happily.
                         So far I could not relate to anybody in this book because no one really describes or relates to me in anyway. The main character and her protagonists do almost everyday things that normal kids do which really doesn't make me get interested to this book and gets me confused from time to time. There are only a couple of things that get me interested in this book and that's some of the crazy things that the main character and her family get trapped or get involved in. If it wasn't for this I probably wouldn't keep reading this book. This probably connects mostly to the world because there are some crazy things that happen to people these days which is sometimes very good or very bad.

The Solar System

            The article that i read is a very important article. I read this article some time ago but i decided to read it again. this article is about new discoveries in our solar system. This article is about how scientists discovered a new planet. The new planet is very similar to many planets but also very different. This planet can be dangerous and both a good place to live. This discovery could be very interesting to people that love science or like to learn about planets.
            The New planet is very big and very hot. The new planet can reach up to be 2,000 Fahrenheit. Because of the intense heat of this planet scientists can't really go up to space and go to the planet or they can die of the heat. Also the planet is 50 light years away. The main idea of this article was that theres more out there then just the 9 planets which is now 10. This is the main idea because the author gave this new planet as an example of many more things out there in space then just stars and sky which many people think is only up there. This wasn't the only new planet discovered but other two planets named Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f. Like the new planet these other planets are also very far away which is 1,000 light-years away
           This was one of the best articles I ever read. I don't usually read or write about science but this article caught my eye and got me very interested on space. I always wondered on what else then planets, stars, and the sky was up there and this article really helped me out on learning more about our solar system. The main idea of these planets was my favorite part of this article. This is my favorite part because I heard about a new planet on the news a long time ago and I didn't know if it was true but now I do because of this article. Probobly this article could be interesting to almost everybody because people might want to learn about others planets besides the one we live in now, which is Earth.

Life Doesn't frighten me

           The poem that I read is called "life doesn't frighten me". This poem is about a person who said that he/she isn't afraid of many scary things. The poet gives many example of things that he/she is not afraid of. readers could think that the reader is trying to convince herself that she's not afraid of anything. Others readers may think that she really is scared and she saying things in this poem that she really is scared of. The thesis of this poem is that she she's really not scared of anything and she's talking about it in this poem. At the end of each stanza she said, "life doesn't frighten me at all" which gave me this idea.
         This was a poem that i read a long time ago but I read again. The poet was trying in this poem that she isn't afraid of anything. She backs this up by giving examples of things that are dangerous like what she said in the poem, "Lions on the loose". She also used many things that happen in everyday life like, "Tough guys fight, All alone at night". The readers uses this to show what she's not afraid of or what readers may think she really is afraid of. Many readers may think that the poet wrote this to show that she/he is afraid of the things of what the poet is talking about and is trying to convince herself that she is not afraid of these things by writing this poem.
         This poem can really relate to everyday life. This poem can also relate to almost every person in this world. This poem relates to life itself because it talks about many things that a lot of people are scared of like snakes, alone in the dark, strangers in the dark,shadows on the wall, big ghosts in a cloud, etc. all of these things were talked about in this poem. No one should not find something in this poem that their not afraid of because everyone is afraid of something which the poet explains that she is saying that isn't which readers may think different of.

The Life of Guy

               The poem that I read is called Please "Don't take my Air Jordan's" by Regie Gains. I read this poem some time ago. This poem was about a young man who's desperate on staying cool. The guy has no money but gets cool gear by through worst ways possible, stealing and killing. The thesis of this poem was that you shouldn't steal or kill for things because you might end up how this guy is living which nobody wants. Regie Gains wrote this poem to introduce what you shouldn't do and why the things this guy did in this poem is not right.
               This thesis has everything to do with the main character. The main character seems to be living a sad life because in the poem he said, "and i gots no job no money at all". The main character seems to really care about his reputation in school because he''s always getting new gear. he has no money so he has to steal his gear. He keeps stealing from the mall and never gets caught. Now the main character needs new gear but he can't steal because he said, "but security's tight at all the shops, everyday there are more and more cops". This meant that there are more police guarding the stores where he robs his clothes and shoes. I infer that the main character won't stop stealing because at the end of the story he was so desperate for shoes that he shot a gut and took his air Jordan's. The main character won't probably stop stealing in till he gets caught shop lifting and goes to prison for a long time.
                   This poem can really relate to many people that lost their ways in life. Not many people live like the main character of this poem but some do live a similar way. A person can become like this main character by not being loved or not having someone to take care of them like parents. People like this aren't really happy with there lives and live with gangs or the streets. There are many people in this world that live like this and aren't loved or doesn't have a choice. I believe that people should not live a life of crime because it isn't right and it's not a way of life. People like this should change really find help and change their way of life so they can live a good and happy life which is what almost everyone wants.

The Life of a Maus

            The book that I started reading is called Maus by Art Spiegelman. This book talks about the author as he was in part of the war back then in the 1900's. He was Jewish like many others. Nazi's where killing millions of Jews. this took part back then in World War 2. He was one of the few survivors who escaped through out the war. He was one of the lucky ones who the Nazi's didn't capture and kill. He wrote this about this too show what happened to millions of Jews in the war and what happened to him. Many Jews would be proud of Spiegelman for writing a story about what happened to him and all the Jewish people that died.
              In this book he wrote about himself in it. He made himself into a mouse and all his Jewish friends. He made the Nazi's people  pigs which demonstrated what they really were. This book reminded me of n article i read that had to do a lot with this book. They both had the event of the holocaust which was a bad time where all the Jewish people were punished but as well killed. the Nazi' people didn't only kill Jews but as well as homosexuals and others who weren't considered normal people. The two authors have a lot in common because they both could of been in the war where many Jews were killed. both might have written this book to show the terror of the Nazi's.

About The Holocaust

              The article that I read was about a dangerous time that affected many people. The most affected were the Jews. back in the 1940's Jews were treated like trash. This happened at the time where World War 2 began. The  people that attacked the Jew's were racist people known as the Nazi's. The Nazi's killed over 6 million Jew's because of their race. Even though the Jews were being killed, they weren't the only ones. Nazi's also persecuted homosexuals and other people who weren't like regular people. The main Nazi was Hitler who was like the leader of the Nazi's. Many Jews were being killed so German's build camps and different types of shelters to protect them during the war. But this didn't stop the Nazi's from attacking them.                                                                        
             In this article the author was trying to convey what the Holocaust was and what happened through it. He also wanted readers to know who were the victim's of the holocaust and the despicable people that killed them. These events were very important in history which was probably why this author wrote it. The author might have written this because he could of been one of the survivors in this war and wanted to write about it. This remained me of a book that I almost finished which was also about a Jew survivor that had also survived in the war. He wrote about this in a book called Maus. these two authors could really connect to the Jews that were killed our imprisoned through out this terrifying war.                                                                                                                        
              I could really not connect to this article because first of all I'm not Jewish or born in the early 19 hundreds like the people that were killed. I feel that no person should be killed because of their race or because their different. A question that i came up with after i read this poem was why attack Jewish people. All Jewish people didn't have to do anything in this war but they were killed in vain. After the war ended almost every Jewish person was devastated. Many Jew's moved away from their country and moved to the the U.S. Many Jewish people also went to Israel. In all of the wars that have occurred in history, to me the Jews have been punished most of all. Now Know one is killed because of their race or because their different, especially Jewish people who have suffered most of all.