Informal Dicton!

Well this week was kind of boring for me, mostly homework and the normal stuff. But the high light of this dragging week is that I got the new Taylor Swift album that came out Monday! I was so excited to buy the album I could hardly stand still on Monday. And after school, my wish came true! I got to buy the album on ITunes which was the pride and joy. I felt like I had all the power in the world when I pressedd the buy button.
And every since Monday, I can't take the ear buds out of my ears, the songs are so amazing! And every person I walk by in the hall, I have to tell them what I am listening to even if they don't ask. In four days I have managed to know all the words to all fifteen songs on the album. And I am quite proud of myself. This week has been made a whole lot better just by my favorite artist and 15 songs!

Extra Credit Blog: Writing about Writing

To pick just one if my writing assignments would be like asking a mother to pick which child of hers is her favorite. Which I would hope, that most mothers would answer impossible. The point is that I love writing, and when I write I feel that it makes my opinions and thoughts readable to anyone who wants to sit themselves down and read it. But if I had to choice one, I would unwillingly pick a piece of writing that I wrote in 7th grade about which candidate the public should elect for president. I think that this essay stands out to me, because during the process of writing this, I think that I found my voice as a writer. Before 7th grade, my writing was just putting words together and getting a good grade. But as my English teacher, Mr.Haefer was explaining that this election was very important, and would most likely change every thing that we thought of as the perfect president, I felt that I wanted everyone to know what I thought. And as soon as the essay was given, I ran home and started researching and making opinions on everything that each candidate had said, so I guess I became a little obsessed to be honest. I wanted to be knowledgeable, and most importantly I wanted anyone who read my essay to know that they should vote for who I would have voted for.
I think I am proud of this piece of writing so much, because I found that writing can be anything you want it to be. If you want a tragic love story, you can write it. And if you are like me in the 7th grade, and you wanted to write an essay that would hopefully change everyone's vote on the presidential election, you can do that.

Outside Reading!

I choose to Read the Bean Tree's because I didn't think any of the books seemed that interesting to be truthful. But I was pleasantly surprised when I started reading my novel. I really connected with Taylor and her drive to get away from her town once she is out of high school. When I was reading, it felt like I was just talking to a friend who was telling me her story. Through Taylor's struggle's I see that the author didn't want the reader to assume that she was just a teenager wanting to get away, but that she wanted to find a new life. And on the way to her new life, she is blessed with a beautiful baby which she chooses to deal with.
When Taylor finally decides to stop the car and settle down where she is, she ends up in Tucson, Arizona with her new baby Turtle. Arizona is a far way from her Kentucky life but she loves the change. This was the part of the book that really got me interested. That Taylor being young women could just drive and drive and just decide to stop and Tucson and make a life there. The setting to me seems wonderful, and it appears to be the perfect place to be the back drop of change from Taylor and Turtle.
Well a novel that I feel could be compared to The Bean Trees would be Pretty Little Lairs, which I read last year. And in that novel one of the main characters, Aria goes through many changes like her parents getting divorced, and her one and off again relationship. And I know that these novels aren’t exactly alike, in any means. But I think that Taylor and Aria are both going through changes in life that are very important which makes them similar in that way.
For a creative project I haven’t put to much thought into it right now because we haven’t had much direction and I am not done with the book. But I am thinking that I want to do a project on Teen Mothers and the struggles that Taylor has to face and all Teen Mother's have to face everyday.

Extending the Theme

My all time pet peeve is women being discriminated against just because they aren't a man. So when I was reading through the book, the parts that really stood out to me was when the women in the book where thought of as not as good as a man. One part that really stood out to me was when Atticus explained to Scout that Miss Maudie could never be on a jury because she is a woman. I was amazed that the United States could ever do that, when a woman was thought as less of a human being than a man. And I know that there was times that where a lot worse to women, and I feel strongly about women being equal because I am a young women and I don't want to be thought of as any less than a man. I think I feel so strongly about this because I grew up in a family with strong women, and my mother is the strongest women I have ever meet and she taught me to be strong women and that I am just as good as a man.
Along the lines of women being discriminated against, I really connected with Scout because I was that little girl that was the Tom Boy and got left out from the "just for boy stuff" Even like the little things, like when Scout has to go home because she can't be in the peeing contest with Jem and Scout. When I was reading I went back to those days when I was left out of the boy stuff, because I was a girl. So I took the main theme as Scout trying to find herself and growing up as a girl with a tom boy side.
After reading this book it opened my eyes to the stereo typical girl and boy roles. I guess during my childhood I balanced on that line and my parents where very supportive but at the same time I had the "Aunt Alexandra" who wanted me to go straight into the girl role. And I think by me being a tom boy, I am more stubborn now because of it, and I think Scout was too. She was stuck in her ways and just wanted to be able to do whatever she enjoyed. And she liked her overalls and hanging out with the boys.