Wayward: What the work tells us about right and wrong

This book has a good amount of conflict centered over the idea of wright and wrong. A character, David Pilcher, is the creator of a town in the future of earth where humans have become mutated, twisted things. He keeps the townspeople in the dark about what the outside world is really like, but they are slowly gaining knowledge. the townspeople are also fenced in with a perimeter of electrified metal. One of the main conflicts is the internal conflict with the main character, Ethan Burke deciding whether he agrees with Pilcher or not. One of the main questions that I would say is asked throughout the book is whether or not protecting people against their will is right or wrong.

Wayward Independent Reading Book text-to-world

This book I am reading I have already started and I am a decent way into it, today I will be making a text-to-world connection that I have previously thought about while reading this book. In the book a town is sheltered from the outside world of a changed earth in the next century. The unknown threat to the townspeople is actually the remnants of humanity, morphed and disfigured by increasingly unstable genes. Humans, now four legged, translucent, hunting predators, evolved into these twisted things as their gene pool became increasingly worse. I have connected this to our world today because in our world similar things are happening; People rely more and more on technology, obesity is up, sickness spreads quickly, etc. People are just progressively  getting weaker and weaker just like in the book when they evolved into the twisted creatures. This connection is a good one because I connected the book's main conflict to someting very, very similar in real life. Who knows, maybe the author was intending the reason humans morphed into these things to actually be what is happening in society today. Everyday we hear more and more about conflict, sickness, and violence. This is one of the closest connections that I have ever been able to make between a sci-fi book and the real world today.

Practice Post: Fahrenheit 451

In this post about Fahrenheit 451 that we just started in class I will be making predictions about what happens later on in the book based on what I have read so far. In the book we have been introduced to the main character Guy Montag, his wife Milldred, a strange girl Clarisse, and the fire captain Beatty. Montag has been talking with the strange young girl and has maybe had some of his life views changed. We also see that Montag has stashed books in his vent (Books are illegal). Due to the fact that he is a fireman, one who burns books, and he is harboring books, I belive his cover will be blown and he will end up being hunted by Beatty. This will have an effect on both his wife and Clarisse and would turn his whole life upside down. I think this mainly because of how he talks to Clarisse and also because he may decide to open up the books he stashed and read them.

Final Reflection post

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             In my best blog post, I was doing an analyisis of the beggining of the book Wayward while citing textual evidence. I think that this is my best blog post because in this post I included a interesting quote from the book that went along well with my analysis. Part of my analysis read, "Using this thought we can assume what life is like outside of the town. It's not fun. this quote is describing his thoughts on the "Townies"... Reading this quote we can clearly tell that he misses being in the town but he finds it better to know the truth of the outside world and what the earth is really like." I think this is good because the quote went into good detail about how life was and I capture that well in my analysis.

As for my reading this trimester, I think I can improve by reading nightly and trying to finish a minimum of 2-3 books a tri. I can improve my writing next tri by working on adding more dialogue into my stories than I did this tri. This tri I am happy with my writing in the fact that I thought it flowed smoothly and had good transitions.

Post...

While I am reading this book, I have been constructing a sort-of movie in my mind, casting actors, thinking of locations to shoot, imagining camera angles. I have to say... a movie of this book wouldn't be half bad. It has an interesting plot, a decent amount of action, a good mystery, and some shady characters. Now I am hoping I get to see this be a reality, but at the same time if it doesn't end up the way I imagine it, I'll be kind of upset.

Character Analysis: Ethan Burke

As I move further into the book Wayward we begin to learn more about the main character Ethan. We learn that even though he has agreed to help run the operation as sheriff in the town, he doesn't agree with how it's run. A time when we see this is when he is called out of the town into the side of the fake mountain overlooking the town, here he takes a elevator down a shaft to meet with the man who funded the project to preserve the human race. Ethan shows signs of his lack of respect for this authority by making smart mouth retorts and half paying attention. We get the main vibe that he doesn't like these things when the book describes his feelings as he watches the wall of monitors that have thousands of camera feeds hooked up to it, watching over all the residents of the town, some are even in the bathroom...

Wayward book recommendation

I am recommending the book Wayward and also the book Pines by Blake Crouch. I enjoyed reading and still reading both of these books. The first book Pines is a Sci-Fi book set in a small cozy town where things are not as they seem and nobody who drives in to town ever drives out. This being one of my all time favorites and a really great read, I'd say check it out if you want to read a 5-star mystery thriller. The next installation in this series is titled Wayward and is the book that I am currently reading. Blake Crouch has done well here too by using the same kind of descriptive language and creative thinking that he showed in the first book. Another good mystery set in the town of Wayward Pines. I am enjoying this book also. If you are interested in any other thriller mysteries that can also be somewhat graphic, I strongly recommend picking up one of his books. Others I liked were Run, Desert Places, Abandon, And of course Pines, and Wayward. Now, I'm not a big fan of reading, as I prefer a well-done TV show, but when reading the Pines series and the book Run, I actually had fun reading them and would stay up late at night to read or keep them on my phone to read anytime I could during class. Blake Crouch is one of, if not my favorite, author and you would be missing out if you didn't take a look at one of these books.

 

My Favorite (Run)

 

Wayward: Tone and Mood

Because I just started my book and there hasn't been any dialogue yet from the main character, I will be talking about his tone from the last book. Ethan's tone in the last book was mainly cold and serious as he was an FBI agent and was on a mission. I remember his tone starting to change from this later on in the book as he began to figure out what the mystery was behind this town. It had changed to the solemn tone of someone who is on their own and is just trying to take care of business. As for the mood in the book I am starting to feel that a good portion of the book will have the happy, American-Dream, white Pickett fence feel, but I think this will change later on in the book as problems start to occur around the town and people start to see the truth. I cannot remember many times when a character was persuading another character except for in the last book, when Ethan had escaped town and met the facility manager who convinced him to stay and watch over the town as sheriff. he used a commanding, stern tone and just laid out the truth, didn't sugarcoat anything. I think this made him more intimidating.

Wayward: Analysis post

So far in this book, we have been introduced to a small town, set back in the woods. this town is circled by an electric fence, overwatch marksmen, and pale, grueling beasts. Being the second book in the series, Already know why this is like this but in this post I am focusing on the thoughts of one of the marksmen. using this thought we can assume what life is like outside of the town. It's not fun. this quote is describing his thoughts on the "Townies". "He didn't hate them. He didn't want their life. He had long ago accepted his role as protector. Guardian. Home was sterile, windowless room inside a mountain, and he had made as much peace with that fact as a man could hope to make. But that on a lovely morning as he gazed down in to what was literally the last vestige of paradise on the face of the earth, there wasn't a pang of nostalgia. Of homesickness for what had one been". Reading this quote we can clearly tell that he misses being in the town but he finds it better to know the truth of the outside world and what the earth is really like.

New Book

I have stopped reading Under the Dome by Stephen King and I have picked up a new book called Wayward  by Blake Crouch. I have read 5 or 6 of his books so far and I really enjoys them. Wayward is the next book in one of his series, it is actually the sequel to the first book I read by him, Pines. I think I'm destined to enjoy this book a lot more than I did my previous one. as for the posts on it for this weeks requirements, they might not be very in depth considering that I have just started the book.

Blogger Re-do: Reading Skills

I am re-doing my post on reading skills of the book that was my first post. This book has not interested me very much so for now I have stopped reading it so this prediction wont have very much else to back it up. I am thinking that this book reminds me of a TV series that I watched about 7 months ago called "Jericho". It was about a small town that was isolated after a nuclear bomb hit a nearby city and foreign forces started to invade. I am reminded of this show because in each story a town was put in the dark and the citizens had to work together to survive and figure out what was happening. As I said in the post before this, I am abandoning this book so I don't really have much else to say besides comparing the two stories and their struggles.

Book update

As I read further into the book I am thinking more and more of abandoning this book. It's becoming harder and harder for me to read and I am becoming less interested. I think the next book that I want to start will be much more fast paced and action packed. I see maybe one or two books on my list that I like but I'm not sure yet.

Character Analysis

Through out the story one of the main characters, Barbie, is forcefully thrust into a new situation as he begins to search into the reasons that a giant dome has suddenly encased the whole town. As we follow him around, but continue to switch between characters, we learn a little more about Barbie and his personality. Where I am at in the book, we haven't learned to terribly much about him, but we can still inference things about him. This quote describes part of his personality well, "It was plain old moving on that had lightened him up. He had been walking around under his own little gray cloud for at least two weeks now..." (King 25). I think this quote shows well that he is the drifter type, the type to breeze through town after town and never look back, which also may explain his sadness and implied loneliness. But I think this will start to change as he spends more time trapped in Chester Mills and has to work with others to try and figure out what's going on.

Book Related to song

As I keep reading the book, I am thinking more and more that this town is being saved by the dome from a coming attack by something on the rest of the country or even the world, but that's just a thought. Anyway, as I was reading my mind suddenly related this thought to a song that I know. Most of you won't know this song(it's from the 70's), but its by the same group that did "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars". I have included a link to the lyrics and a link to the youtube video.

"Sole Survivor" By Blue Oyster Cult

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/blue_oyster_cult/sole_survivor.html

Movies Vs Books

I like the book so far, after seeing the trailer for the show I would like to see that too. I think it would be interesting to compare and contrast the differences between the two, that way I could think of the book in a different way and decide which one I liked better. Like when I read I am Number Four Then I saw the movie, I really liked the book, so when the movie came around I saw it but was dissapointed because of how much detail it lacked.

Reading skills

As I finish the 12th chapter of the book I begin to think of how the rest of the book will be laid out. The book spent the first 12 chapters jumping through 5 different characters points of view and explaining how the day went that the dome fell over the town. Based on this, I predict that the book will spend the rest of the time switching between points of view until the characters meet each other later on in the book.the main reasons that I think this are the fact that books I have read before that have had the same sort of introduction tend to do this, and that before I got the book, I read a comment on Goodreads that had a part of it saying how the book spends the opening introducing characters and how they didn't care for the setup of the book.  I'm still asking myself if the author is going to have the characters meet up early on in the book or if they will meet later. Also, if they can hear one another through the dome, then why is it so hard to penetrate?


This is the trailer for the TV show inspired by the book i'm reading. when I watched it I saw some similarities and some differences.

Independent reading Novel post 1

This is the first post on my new independent reading novel, Under The Dome. I have never really been a fan of Stephen King books so far but I think that this book could be a good choice to read. All the reviews that I have read on goodreads recommend this book, so I thought, why not give it a chance. i thought that it was an interesting concept. the only other place i had seen an idea like this was in "The Simpsons Movie", which I did enjoy but this book will put a nice, darker spin on the idea and should make a good story. I like to read books with significant, concealed mysteries and everything I have read about and read in the book point to this being the case. 

In The book I read over summer, BZRK by Micheal Grant, Noah and Sadie are the two main characters  who also interact with one another the most. Noah and Sadie will become known as Keats and Plath later on in the book so I will be referring to them using those names. Through out the story Keats' and Plath's characters both push along the sci-fi theme of the book. This starts with when they both become involved with an organization called berserk. This organization uses Biots which are tiny, microscopic, organisms to wire the brains of people and influence decision making. The two of them become a twitcher team, being thrown into this high stakes situation out of the blue makes Keats and Plath rely on each other for emotional support as they delve deeper into the main conflict. Twitchers are the people who control biots, or nanobots which are used by the enemy. through out the rest of the book its pretty much out of the frying pan and into the fire for our two main characters as they are put on their first ( and rather important ) mission, with little to no training. they are assigned the mission of wiring the brain of the people running the enemy team, The Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation.
As they both take a toll, both physically and mentally, on this impossible and borderline suicidal mission, they are brought even closer together and both relate to each other in a deeper way when they both realize how much there is to lose and how much they have lost.

BZRK Article

* The BZRK article is about how the book is being developed into a full-length movie.