Guided Response

In the book Hate List, I’m going to be talking about Valerie and how she has changed so far in the book. In the beginning she is just sitting at home recovering from her injury, and she doesn’t go to any of the celebrations that the school is giving her for saving their school and for stopping the shooting. As school starts to draw near she starts to thinking about not going back to school. I respect that she had the courage to go back to the same school that think she is the enemy, but to here she doesn’t know what to think. In the middle of the book she starts to change and realized that by her going back to school she is showing everyone that she is not ashamed to go back and get a education, and that even though she may have played a part in the shooting she is not letting it stop her from living her life the way she wants it to be, and by also living her life she wanted it to be before the shooting. She has changed a lot because she gain the courage back and she stop letting the things that was so little to her before the shooting become a big thing to her in her life. She also learned that she had to change the way she thought about life because Nick is not around anymore to help her thru her problems but if she ask for help she can have her problems solved just like Nick helped her fix the problems before.

Hate List

I’m reading the book Hate List, and so far it’s really good. It starts off tell the news report about what they seen at the school and how they think things happen. It then goes into the interview of what the kids seen happen. By just reading the first couple of chapters of the book it seem like it going to be a good book. As you first start reading the book you can really put yourself in their shoes and see how they actually felt, and it makes you feel scared because it makes you wonder how you would react if this type of thing happen to you while you were at school. I can’t image something like this happening at my high school, just thinking about something like these it make me wonder how I would react if this really did happen. I feel sorry for Valerie because she doesn’t know if she is the hero or villain. In my eyes she is both, she is the hero who saved girl that she hates the most and she is the villain also because she made the list with her boyfriend. I don’t think I could go back to a school where I know I played a part in what happen at school, because I know that everyone there would hate me for what happen. It would be so hard for me to learn and just act normal because I would always know that people would be talking about me behind my back. This book is really interesting and I can’t wait to read on and figure out what happens next.

I So Don't Do Mysteries

The book I So Don’t Do Mysteries, it’s about a girl who is asked by her friend to help her figure out who stole her favorite bracelet and to also figure out why they broke it. As they get closer to figuring out who did it along the way they also discover things that they wish they would have never found out it get to the point to where they have to be careful around friends not to say the wrong things. Also little do they know is that one of their friends (they don’t know which one) is telling everyone what they are saying and telling the person who stole the bracelet everything too. As they continue on with the search they find the bracelet broke and wonder why, as the put the bracelet together to try and figure out why it was broke they discover that the bracelet held a secret that if it fell into the wrong hands could be very bad and dangerous. I like this book because it keeps you guessing and it like you are part of the search. This book also made my look at my friends to see if they really were my true friends. It made me think about what I would do if I found out one of my friend stole from me and didn’t have the guts to tell me, this book really gets you to think about your own personal life to see how you would react if all this would happen in your life.