Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Romeo and Juliet


                In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters are Romeo and Juliet. The other important characters are Montague, Lady Montague, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Benvolio, Abram, Balthasar, Tybalt, Sampson, Mercutio, Prince Escalus, Paris, Friar Lawrence, and Apothecary.
                The prologue for Romeo and Juliet pretty much explains the important parts of Romeo and Juliet.
                Romeo and Juliet started off at a gas station. At the gas station, a fight began between the Montagues and the Capulets. Sampson bit his thumb at the Capulets, and Abram started questioning Sampson if he’s biting his thumb at them. In Romeo and Juliet, biting your thumb at someone is a sign of defiance. Then the fight starts when Benvolio enters and Tybalt finishes talking. At the end of the fight scene, the prince had to interfere with them and threatened to stop fighting or be killed. After the prince said that, the fighting stopped and the Capulets and Montagues had to meet the prince.
                I think Shakespeare started of the movie with a fight scene is because he probably wanted to prove how much the Capulets and Montagues hate each other. Through out the movie, Romeo meets Juliet and fall in love as soon as they saw each other. I still don’t know why or how they could fall in love in the first time they saw each other and al ready want to marry each other.
                Romeo and Juliet is at first a comedy, but then it turns into a tragedy. There’s a lot of fighting towards the end of the play and a lot of people die…

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The New Prophecy: Moonrise

The New Prophecy: Moonrise is also one of the books about cats written by Erin Hunter. The New Prophecy is like the second series of the Warrior Cats series. It isn't about Firestar anymore. This time it’s about Brambleclaw, Squirrelpaw, Crowpaw, Stormfur, Tawnypelt, and Feathertail.
Brambleclaw and Squirrelpaw are from Thunderclan. Tawnypelt’s from Shadowclan. Crowpaw’s from Windclan. Stormfur and Feathertail are from Riverclan. People are destroying the forest where the cats lived so they, except for Stormfur, were chosen by Starclan to save their clans from danger. Starclan’s a group of warriors that are dead. They’re the four clan’s warrior ancestors.
                In the book, there are two cats that came from Riverclan. There is also a tribe of cats that need help to kill an evil cat called Sharptooth. Sharptooth goes and kills and eats the tribe cats whenever he wants to. The Tribe of Endless Hunting (the tribe cat’s version of Starclan) sent the tribe cats a sign that a silver/gray cat would save them from Sharptooth. If you read the book you’ll find out that one of the six cats died.
                Throughout the book, Stormfur’s sister Feathertail falls in love with one of the six cats. The cat is from another clan so Stormfur’s worried that there might be trouble. He tries hard to get his sister to stop loving him but he fails. He couldn’t do anything about his sister’s love so he just wishes she could be happy with the other cat.
                The New Prophecy: Moonrise is a book for cat lovers. It’s about cats on an adventure to save their clans. Erin Hunter describes the cats in the book really well. He also describes the setting really well, too. If you get to read the book, I hope you like it.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Demonata: Lord Loss

    Demonata Lord Loss by Darren Shan is a horrific book. Darren Shan also wrote the Cirque du Freak series. The Cirque du Freak is about vampires and Demonata is about demons, but he changes the ways a little bit. He also adds in some minor characters that affect the way the book starts and ends.

    Darren Shan changes the characteristics of the creatures in his books. Like in Demonata, the demons are different in what we used to think about demons. Humans are usualy the innocent ones, but in Demonata, the humans are the ones that have to summon the demons so the demons would appear. And in Demonata, you can't use magic unless there's a demon around. And only a group of people could fight demons.

    The main character in demonata is a guy named Grubbs Grady. He's kind of big for his age. He doesn't realy fit anywhere, so he just stands near a group of people to make himself look like he's a part of them. Another character is Grubbs' uncle, Dervish Grady. Dervish knows magic and uses his spells to help fight demons. He's a pretty tall man that used to have spiky hair, but he got onler an lost hair. Dervish lives in a mansion that was once a palace that ned by a murderous tyrant. The palace broke down an Dervish turned it into a mansion. The other charactor is a boy named Bill-E Grady. His real name is Billy Grady. He is kind of chubby and has a lazy left eye. He know some magic because Dervish taught him. Lord Loss isn't really a character, but he's pretty important to the series. Lord Loss is this floating bag of skin that has two legs and eight arms. His skin color is a lighter shade of red. His eyes are crimson red. And he doesn't have a heart. Where his heart should be, it's realy just a hole filled with snakes.

    The Demonata books is a book for people who likes to be scared. Unlike the Cirque du Freak series, the Demonata series is scary. I recommend not readin it at night time. Darren Shan describes the demons and people perfectly. Unfortunately and fortunately, he describes the massacres that happens in the book perfectly. If your not ready to be scared, then don't read the book. In the book, Grubbs parents made a decision to save Grubbs and let them die without him because they loved him. Would you risk your own lives to save someone you love?

Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Last Olympian

The Last Olympian is the last book of the Percy Jackson series. The Percy Jackson series were written by Rick Riordan. You dont realy have to read the books before it to understand whats going on. You just need to know the characters. The main character is Percy Jackson, Annebeth Chase, and Grover Underwood. The book is told from Percy's point of view. In the book, it always gives alot of information away about whats going to happen next. Those information are usually given away when half-bloods have dreams.
(spoiler alert) In the book, Percy goes through many adventures to try to defeat the Titans. The book is based on Grrek gods in the present time. Every hero in the book has to go to camp Half-blood so tey could get proper training exept for children of Hades(god of underworld/death). In the book, the characters help each other an their friends alot. sometimes even risking their lives.

This book is recommended to people who like Greeks gods, people risking lives, people disapearing mysteriously, and people dying. It's also for people who likes reading how people help friends. The Last Olympian isn't a book that's full of suspence. Sometimes the book may surprise you with unexpected attacks from the Titans. It's also thats very VERY detailed. Very little of the book doesn't have detailed.

The book's not only about the Greek gods, but also about the Titans(immortal beings that lived before gods). The king of Titans, Kronos, wants to kill the gods so he could come to power again. (spoiler alert) Like most books, they always end in a good way. In the end, Percy doesn't defeat Kronos physically, he defeats him by convincing Luke(the body Kronos took so he could be alive) to kill himself so he could destroy Kronos with him. would you kill yourself to kill somthing evil within you so it wouldn't harm others?