Contest :]

Im entering in a contest... :]
[the button on the sidebar will take you to it!]
BUUT.. i can only enter 2 pictures...
sooo... i need opinions!!

i'm thinking about the one above in color...?

Help is much appreciated!!

In Cold Blood...

" Perry Smith's life had been no bed of roses, but a pitiful, an ugly and lonely process toward one mirage or another..."

This book made me feel like a horrible person and a sympathetic and caring one.

I hated Dick for what he did, and how easily he got over it. I mourned for the Clutters, disgusted that someone would erase an entire family. I cried for Holcomb- I wanted to get  up in front of the whole town and tell them it was going to be okay. I wanted justice-I wanted Dick to pay for what he did.

Good so far?

Perry.

Oh, Perry.

While reading the book, I didn't hate Perry as much as I did Dick [Capote! Stop being manipulative!], but I still thought he deserved a punishment.

But.

Ah, there's always a "but"!

I had to go and watch "Capote"--NOT the whole thing! I don't recommend that!-- and when Capote was shown interviewing Perry in that prison cell, I could tell Perry was scared, I could feel it. and I could even sense regret as he told Capote his story. I wanted to save him! I felt bad for a murderer! Then, when Capote went and said his final goodbyes, I cried. Dick was joking around and being a jerk, But Perry was scared

sad

afraid...

of leaving Truman,

of leaving the world,

of himself,

of what was waiting for him.

And I cried! I felt so pathetic! I sat in the back corner of my English class and cried.

Now, I know!

They were only actors. It was a movie. 

But, seeing Perry portrayed as a person was the first time I saw him as human.

When i was reading, I just thought of him as a murdering...thing. I was stuck in my own mind. I didn't want him to become a person because I didn't want to feel bad for him. I put up a wall.

Capote tried soo hard. He pounded on the wall-beat at it, tore at it, trying desperately to get me to see Perry the way he saw Perry. It took some actor's portrayal and two movie scenes for me to let him win.

I love when books do that-when they pull soooo much emotion out of you.

I'm still not sure what I think of Perry. I am not condoning what he did,

but now he's a person.           

To Kill a Mockingbird...

   

"Hey, Boo..."

Yay! A school book I [mostly] enjoyed! Book One kinda bored me, but I still enjoyed it. I'm not a big fan of description-especially over 100 pages of it...

Book Two was great! The characters developed soo much more. I loved each one- even the ones you weren't supposed to!

I wanted to rip Atticus out of the book and just sit and talk with him. And I would love to have Boo as my neighbor!

I also enjoyed the first-person narration. It was a new perspective that i would't have gained if it was told in third-person.

Bekah Grace

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Catcher in the Rye

"People never notice anything..."

Okay, I understand this is just Holden talking to a therapist,and it's one of the greatest pieces of American Literature,

but come on.

Nothing happened! I only liked the end with his sister. Otherwise, I wasn't much of a Holden fan. I guess if he was a bit more crazy, I would have been more interested, but initially, I didn't realize that there was anything wrong with him in the first place. Maybe a more interesting plotline and more than one well-developed character? I don't know... just my thoughts...

Pride and Prejudice...

 

I have to start with one of my favorite books of all time. it just happens to be one of the first books i read this year...

"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you..."-Mr. Darcy

I want a Mr. Darcy-awkward, funny, stuck-up, antisocial, charming, confused and altogether lovely. You can't help but love him! Even though he's an aristocratic snob, you adore him.

Elizabeth is another perfect character-soo easy to relate to. She comes from an average [but hilarious!] middle-ish class family. She has no spectacular talent. She's average...or, according to some, "barely tolerable", oh, Darcy!

You cannot help but fall in love with the Bennet Family! Funny and loving Mr. Bennet, crazy and marriage-obsessed Mrs. Bennet, sweet and quiet Jane, strange and ignored Mary, young and naive Lydia, and younger and energetic Kitty. They provide ninety percent of the humor of the book.

The book is a perfect balance of everything. You have romance with the Bennet girls. You have the mystery behind Mr. Wickham, Georgiana, Darcy, and Mr. Bingley. You have the humor from the Bennets and the awkwardness from Mr. Collins. Everything is perfectly balanced.

It's in 3rd person. So, of course, i spent most of my time yelling at the characters when their perception of a situation was wrong. When Mr. Collins was proposing to Elizabeth, i told him not to waste his time. When Jane was upset over Bingley, I told her that everything was going to be okay. I told Elizabeth she was stupid and just postponing the inevitable when she refused Darcy's proposal. I was very involved. From the first sentence, Jane Austen had me in their world.

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