book 3 final project

My horror genre book I chose was Flower in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. In my book V.C. Andrews wrote the fiction tale of a broken family who is forced to live stuffed in a tiny room connected to the attic in the house of their religious and abusive grandma. This is the first book in a series of five about the Dollanganger family and their struggles.

The book started out with a perfect family of six two happily married parents with four younger children, but then tragedy struck. On the fathers birthday the family had set up a surprise birthday party for him they were waiting for him to come home when two police officers arrived and told them that their father had died in a car crash. After that they lost everything and had to move out of the house thinking they had nowhere to go but the mother took them to their grandparents house who they never knew existed. The mother told them that they would be rich from all they inherit but withheld a lot of information from them. In the book it shows carries first thoughts about the new living conditions “I didn’t like her I wanted to go home. My lips quivered. I wanted daddy alive again.” When they got to the house their mom Corrine explained that she had married her half uncle and for that their religious grandparents had disowned her, but she had written them letters and they let her stay with them. What the grandfather didn’t know was that she ever had children and he can never find out so the four kids are stuffed in small room connected to the attic locked in so no one knows they even exist. The plot keeps adding new problems when they solve one problem and their situation keeps getting worse and worse. One problem that occurred while up there is their little brother got really sick and they didn’t know what to do since they couldn’t leave the room. Other smaller ad worse things popped up in the book making it have an amazing plot. There were eight main characters in the book the four main were the kids Chris the oldest, Cathy the middle whose point of view it’s told from, and the youngest twins Cory and Carrie. There was the mom Corrine and her parents the dying sick grandpa and the strict abusive grandma. Cathy and Chris were rounded characters who changed a lot throughout the book. Carrie started out as a young innocent sweet girl with little responsibility. As the book progresses she become more independent, strong, caring, and has grown to be like the twins new mother. A quote Chris said to Cathy showing how she has matured was “do you think I don’t know that you are more of a mother to Cory and Carrie than she is? Do you think I failed to see the twins only stared at their mother, like she was a stranger?” the same thing happened to Chris as Cathy, he became more responsible, mature, smart, and strong willed, and stayed an optimist. The mother Corrine also changed throughout the book. She started out as loving, caring, and an attentive mother. But throughout the book she becomes greedy, meaner, and barely cares for her children any more. One of the reoccurring themes in this book love, a quote from the book to support this is, “Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.”

I would rate flowers in the attic a 7 out of 10. I give it this rating because it was a good plot and something was usually happening. I also wanted to find out all the secrets hidden within their family and lives. I also think it was a very well written book. What I didn’t like was in around the middle of the book the things happening with the kids was getting really weird and creepy, but I guess it’s supposed to be since it was a horror. So overall it was a well written interesting yet quite weird book.

the history of horror

My genre is horror. This genre is intended to frighten/spook readers by inducing feeling of fear and terror. When I think horror he one author that comes to my mind when I think horror books is Stephan King. He wrote a ton of horror books some popular ones are Cujo, Carrie, The Shinning, Misery, and Salem’s Lot. The first three of those books have been made into movies and Carrie was just recently remade. The two old classics that were pretty much the start of horror are Dracula and Frankenstein. Those books also contain three of the most popular characters in horror books,
vampires, zombies, and mad scientist. Other popular characters are demons and ghosts and psychopathic murderers. To be a horror book some characteristics your book should include are suspense, mystery, eerie settings, creepy characters, and provokes an emotional, physical, or physiological response. Some awards that are given specifically to Horror Fiction are horror hall of fame, reaper award, and scream awards.

  The book I chose is Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. It is about a family whose dad has recently died and the family has to move in with their grandparents they didn’t know they had. What the kids didn’t know is their parents are slightly related so their abusive grandparents disowned their mom. Their grandpa can’t know they ever had kids so the kids are locked in a room attached to the attic where they have to live until their grandpa dies. So far my book kind of fits into the horror genre, it has the element of creepy characters because of the strict religious creepy grandma. It also has an eerie setting because of the huge dark dusty attic they have to spend most their time in, and it also provokes an emotional response because of their dead dad and the way they have to live their life now. But maybe as I read on the book will adapt more characteristics of a horror book because at times it seems like a normal book with kids playing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_fiction

snow day blog

I used to hate reading I would pretty much never read and the only books I used to read would mostly be the books we had to read for school or random books in the classroom for when we had to silent read. I also would read mostly in school and not really at home. but now I have learned to grow a love for reading. I used to only read the school books which usually weren't about topics I liked so I never really read books I liked. I would always think why would I read the book when I could just watch the movie version of it. I then realized that the books are usually ten times better than the movie even when I thought the movie was good. I figured out in middle school that I actually enjoyed reading. I noticed that when we had to read a lot of more books for school and some of them happened to be subjects and genres that I enjoyed to read. and after that I started to grow a love towards reading. the books that interest me are usually something that relates to me or that is interesting and I haven't experienced.I like books I like to read are mostly realistic fiction and science fiction like the fault in our stars and the hunger games. I have changed as a reader since this tri because the two books I read for this class have become some of my favorite books thirteen reasons why and water for elephants. also this class has helped me find more time to read and helped me understand book and reading more like how to better analyze the text or better intemperate books. so now I like to read during some of my free time and don't dread having to anymore.

where the wild things are

i think that the film adaptation of where the wild things are was a pretty successful one. I think this because it was based off a picture book so they had to infer and add a lot of things into it to make it a longer movie. spike jonze made up names for the monsters and made up a more developed plot about max and how he ruled as their king. he also had to add dialogue into the movie which I think he did a good job picking the voices of the monsters and what they said. i also think that they did job of picking the editing between scenes because it all flowed really nicely. I also think the music choice was a little weird but it fit well with the movie since the movie is a little weird and it matched the mood at the time of the movie. I like how they changed the film angles and shots because it would let you see the setting then zoom up o everyone or a specific person or thing. I liked the costume choices of the characters in Where the wild things are. I liked he look of the monsters and how max's wolf costume got wet dirty and dry and didn't stay the same throughout the movie. I also think that it was really cute hoe they added max's doodles o the logos in the beginning because it adds character to the movie. I think the setting of the island was really cool. I thin it was smart to make some of it a desert some of it a beach and some like a forest. I personally did like this movie. the movie got a little weird at times but over all it was pretty good. between the movie and the children's book I would probably pick the book because it is less weird and its just cute. the movie made me feel many different emotions, some parts it was funny some were happy some were sad and you didn't know how it would make you feel next. I think that all the characters were so different and that made it hard for them to be happy which is what they wanted max to help them with. I like how they had them wreck the houses in the beginning so they could build a bigger and better one together that they could all fit in. although I overall liked the movie there are some things I didn't like about this movie. one o the things I didn't like was the names of the monsters. the boy monsters were named girl names and it kind of confused me because I didn't know who they were talking about at times. I also didn't like how max ran away and then went into the woods and then just showed up in a boat already sailing away. I think that they should have done it like in the book how he imagined his room turning into a forest then finding a bot then sailing away. but over all I think it was a good film adaptation.

blog 5

One of my favorite books from the ones I’ve read is the fault in our stars by john green. I think that this would be a good movie and it is currently in the making of a movie that will come out later this year. This book has many fans and is very popular so as a movie it would do well because all its fans will probably want to go see it. I think that this book would make a good movie because it has a good intriguing plot, I could not put this book down I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. I also really like the characters in this book, especially the two main characters Hazel and Augustus they connected really well and I would like to see how the actors portray their relationship in the film. You could relate in different ways to a lot of the characters because they were all different in the ways they looked, acted, and personality wise. Also the topics of this book many people would be able to connect with like love, relationships, and cancer. Since so many people have had relationships, loved people and have/have cancer or have known someone with cancer I think a lot of people would enjoy this book as a movie. This book is a tragic yet heartwarming story and many people especially girls will love to see it as a movie. As a director to this movie I would specially pick out the cast. For the role of Hazel Lancaster I would chose Anna Sophia Robb because I have seen her play a role in different movies and TV shows and have played them all very well and I think she would make a good hazel because she has acted shy and outgoing parts. I would pick Nolan Gerard Funk to play Augustus Waters. I chose him to play him because I think he fits the physical description pretty well and from his acting experience from the show awkward his character in that show was a lot like Augustus so I think he would act it out very well. In the actual movie they are making they chose Nat Wolff to play the role of Isaac. I think that it was a good choice because I haven’t seen many shows or movies with him in it but I would picture Isaac looking like him. He probably is a pretty good actor though so I think that that was a good call to make him act the part of Isaac. While making the movie I couldn’t fit the whole book so I would have to make some cuts. Some parts I would leave out in the movie are simple and small parts of just hazel in her room hanging out and sleeping in the middle of the book because that’s supposed to be the old hazel in the begging before she met her new friends at the support group.

final book 1 project fan experience

All fans of jay Asher and Thirteen Reasons Why need to get their hands on this new fan product. If you have read and loved the book then this product will be perfect for you. There is now a new coffee mug cup that you can fill up with hot chocolate just like Hannah did. This coffee mug is designed like the ones at Monet’s Garden café and coffee house; it will have a reusable lid and cup but will look like ones you buy at the coffee house, and it will have a sleeve on it that says Monet’s Garden with the mug logo next to it. It will also have a part where you can mark off what drink you put in the cup that’s also washable so if you have a different drink you change it.

This idea comes from the book because when Hannah Baker first moved to the new town she always went to Monet’s Garden with Jessica Davis and Alex Standall. In the book she says “we both got hot chocolate. She ordered it thinking it would be funny. But me? I always order hot chocolate.” This relates because she got hot chocolate and drank it in a coffee cup, obviously. Also later in the book when Clay is listening to the tapes and visits the places she has marked on the map he stops by Monet’s Garden because of Hannah, but he didn’t order hot chocolate like he said he wanted to but he did order coffee. In the book it says, “In honor of Hannah, I should order a hot chocolate. At Monet’s, they serve them with tiny marshmallows floating on top the only coffee shop I know of that does that.” The coffee house was a special place to Hannah Baker. She would always go there with them to talk about her problems and just have a laugh when she was having a hard time. Hannah says “Monet’s garden was our safe haven.” This showed how much she loved and needed that place before they stopped going there, how it helped her out when she was feeling sad and without that it lead to her downfall.

I think that my idea will be pretty successful. I believe this because everyone drinks hot beverages and they need a mug or cup to put their drinks in so of course a coffee mug is a good idea people will always use them. When they go to the store and see that coffee cup will draw them to it if they have read the book and make them think about the book keeping and what else the author has been writing. It will broaden the audience because when someone has the coffee cup and their friends ask them why does it says Monet’s garden on it they will tell them about the book getting them interested in it. That also means the book will receive more attention.

 

book 1 overview

the book i read for my first book was thirteen reasons why. it is about a girl who had killed herself and recorded tapes with 13 sides about the thirteen reasons/people she killed herself andf the main character clay gets the tapes and it shows how he is feeling and reacting to the stories she tells on the tapes. i think that this is a great book, you can connect to it even if your not suidial because of all the stories in it. it makes you think alot about how even small things you dont even know will have a bad outcome can snowball into something big. i think that alot of people would like to read this but mostly girls would want to read it. out of five stars i would rate it 4.5. even thouigh its sad its a good story and i still enjoyed reading it. i think that it made up to my expoectations because ive heard its a good book and i though it was going to be great and it was, i read alot of it at one time. thogh i really liked the book i didnt really like how it ended, i wish that they explained it more and showed what happened and didnt just cut it off. i also didnt like how they didnt show how her family reacted when she was dead. but over all i would say it was a great book