Chelsea

=﻿ THE WHOLE BOOK= 1-29-11 Dear Ms. Bond, I've finished reading the book " //Kira Kira" //. In japanese, kira-kira means glittering. I thought it was very interesting that the author named the book after a japanese word. I believe that there are hidden messages in the book. This is becuase kira-kira is barely even mentioned in the book! There has to be a secret message that the author is trying to tell me. That's why I was so interested in the book!

In the book, there was a llittle girl named Katie. She had a perfect life in Iowa with a mom, dad, and a sister, named Lynn. Now, she lives in Georgia because her parents need to make more money. Things have been hard now. The total population of Japanese people in Georgia is 31. The family starts to fall apart in their new apartment. They barely have any money, her mother works overtime, her father has two jobs, a new baby boy is coming, and they have no time to bond anymore like they used to. In Georgia, things haven't been the way Katie planned them to be. When she goes to school, nobody wants to talk to her. Katie knows why. She had her sister throughly explain it to her. "Nobody like Japanese people," she would say. Her sister, Lynn, knows this because her and her parents have experienced this situation. Months later, everyone finds out that the hottest boy in class likes Lynn. That's where all the phony people come along. Lynn doesn't know it.

In the middle of the book, it seems that Lynn has a disease. She is tired a﻿nd restless. Lynn is the oldest sibling and she has to take care of her two younger siblings. Since her parents are barely around, she is basically caring for them. She has a lot of weight on her shoulders. She has become very thin. Her hair has become very frail. She wasn't normal anymore. She would have all these mood swings. Now, she would stay in bed and no one was there to watch Katie and the new baby. It is now Katies job to take care of Lynn and the new born baby. Katie has been going through a lot of stress. Katie would clean the house and feed her little brother. That was a big job for a nine year old girl.

Lynn has been a peacefull girl. She always behaves and she never does anything wrong. But as time passes, she has become weaker. Eventually, she dies. Katie is now the new oldest sibling. She knows her family is falling apart and wants to do something about it. She ponders about the family every day. She thinks about the things that Lynn would have wanted her to do. She soon has thought of new goals to complete. She talks about moving to a new house with her parents. She explains to them that Lynn would have wanted to do the same thing. So they did. They moved into a baby blue house with the perfect space for the four of them. Then, she thinks about where Lynn would have wanted to go. She always knew that Lynn loved the sea and California. She talks to her parent about her thoughs and BINGO! They all go to California. All because of Katie (fragment) . They don't feel sadness when they think about Lynn. They now cry tears of joy. They now talk about each other and how the feel about one another. On vacation, they are all brought back together.

I think that it was Lynn's job to know that she was going to die , but keep it a secret so that Katie wouldn't flip out. Katie and Lynn have a very strong bond together. If Katie found out one negative thing about Lynn she would try to protect her but it will only make things worse. Protecting Lynn is a very big job, especially when she is older than Katie Lynn didn't want Katie to go through a very bad stage in life when she loses the people she loves. That's why she didn't tell her.

It was Katie's job to take care of her and her younger brother. Nothing else really mattered. If she hadn't done anything else, life would have been fine. As long as she had someone to love and care for, she was fine. But she thought that she could take care of Lynn. She attempted to, but she couldn't. She got really angry, and couldn't do anything else but go into a corner and cry. Their parents job was to take care of the whole family. They worried about money, but that didn't matter. They didn't realize that as long as they had each other, things would be fine. They thought that money would <span style="color: #006dff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">provide the family <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> but it didn't. <span style="color: #006dff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">It just took their time away and their friendships <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">. The only thing that mattered in the novel, was love.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">In the book, Katie feels that her parents like Lynn best. I don't think that that's true. Their parents would tell Lynn anything about the decisions they're making <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">but I don't think any of that is personal. I could see that Katie and Lynn are very close together because they support each other and tell secrets like best friends would. Since Lynn is the oldest, they would want to tell her because she mostly understands the decisions her parents are making. Her parents know that soon Lynn will tell Katie about the news. The only reason why they don't tell Katie is becuase they're not that close in a relationship with her. They figured that she wouldn't understand anything. When Lynn explains it to her, Katie understands all of it all becuase of their realationship.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Kira-kira is mentioned in the book. Lynn used kira-kira to describe the ocean in California. The sparkling sun reflects off the water and makes it kira-kira. I think that Lynn used these precious items referring to people in her life. For example, Lynn is the sun. When she shines on the ocean, which is Katie, she reflects the same thing. To Lynn, I think kira-kira meant to be mature and showing that you grew as a person. So now, Katie acts like a mature adult like Lynn did.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Hitting, stealing, and lying were the three worst crimes their parents hated. Katie commited all three of these crimes. She knew it was wrong but she did them anyway. When you hit someone, you hurt them physically, not mentally. When Katie saw one of Lynn's phony friends, she was so mad that she had to hit her in the face. She knew it was wrong. But she did it anyway. This was becuase she wanted to protect Lynn but she couldn't. She just had to worry about herself and her younger brother. If she hadn't tried to protect Lynn, she wouldn't have been commiting this crime. Stealing was another thing that involved Lynn. Katie stole pink nail polish for Lynn at the dollar store. Again, she was doing it for Lynn, but Lynn was too much of a big job to handle. Lying is the number one thing that Katie did. Katie lied to Lynn that she was going to be alright. <span style="color: #006dff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Keeping things inside you can build up <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">. She had stress but kept it inside. That made her commit all these crimes.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I now picture a japanese family bonding together instead of worrying about money. This all happened because of Katie.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿Chelsea, I found your entry to be detailed, but also very confusing. At one point you were writing about Lynn growing sick and passing away, and then you were writing about Lynn at the beach/telling Katie about adult issues. I would like you to take the next book you read and focus a little at a time on writing these entries. If you'd like to read more for fun, you may, however, I need you to choose a book that every 2 chapters you will slow down and think about. I, too, am a avid/fast reader and find myself struggling to summarize accurately. When you write this way, you miss out on characterization and reflecting on how the novel makes you feel. -Miss Bond

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The Outsiders <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">2-3-11 1-58 <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Dear Ms. Bond, <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">I've read the book "The Outsiders". I found this book really interesting because it had descriptive words and I could visualize everything that happened.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Ponyboy was a 14 year old boy with no parents. They had died in a car accident. Now, his brother Darrel/Darry and Sodapop have to raise him. Ponyboy is in a gang called The Greasers. They have long, greasy hair. The gang usually got into trouble. Dally, who was also in a gang, always tried to break the law. One day Ponyboy and Dally were going to a nightly double drive-in movie. Since Dally was there, he climbed the fence to get in instead of paying a quarter. That was his way of breaking the law. Once they got in, they met these two girls named Cherry and MArcia. DAlly wanted to start trouble so he put his feet all over their chair and when they were really annoyed, they finally said something.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">They had a whole conversation. Dally was basically harassing them. Then, he offered to buy them a coke. Cherry really didn't want a coke from Ally but Marcia didn't care. Once DAlly ame back with the coke, he continued bothering Cherry and Marcia. Then, Johnny arrived along with Two-Bit. Johnny and Two- Bit were also part of the gang with The Greasers. Finally, Ponyboy stepped in and told Dally to stop bothering them. Dally listened to Ponyboy and left. That's when the relationship with Ponyboy, the Greaser, and Cherry, the Socs, started.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">After the movie was over, Ponyboy left with Johnny, Marcia, Cherry, and Two-Bit. They were on their way to Two- Bits car, to drop off Cherry and Marcia, when a blue Mustang came by. Inside, were the Socs. The only thing the Socs worried about was getting back their girlfriends, Cherry and Marcia. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two- Bit could tell that the boys were ticked off. Two-Bit was going to start a fight with a switch blade. But Cherry stopped him. Cherry and Macia got in the car with the Socs and drove off. Dally was at a party and Two-Bit went home. That left Johnny and Ponyboy to hang out. They went to an empty lot to chill their. They started to lay in the grass and watched the stars in the sky. Ponyboy fell asleep and woke up two in the morning. That was two hours past his curfew! He looked beside him and saw Johnny wide awake staring at the stars. Ponyboy explained that he was supposed to be home at 12 midnight and he was late. Ponyboy ran home and saw Darry on the couch. When he walked through the door, Darry flipped out on him. Then, he hit pony. Ponyboy was so shocked that he ran straight out the door and back to where Johnny was. He told Johnny about the commotion at home and that he had never been hit before. Then, the blue, Socs Mustang came by. Five tough male Socs got out of the Mustang and headed straight for Ponyboy and Johnny.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Ponyboy and Johnny tried not to panick. Especially when this happened to Johnny before. They played it cool until Ponyboy spit on one of the Socs. That got them furious. They already hated it that their girlfriends were talking to them. So they took Ponyboy and started to drown him at the fountain. Suddenly, Ponyboy passed out in the water. He woke up coughing up water and look around to see if Johnny was okay. The weird part was that Johnny was curled up looking at one of the Socs on the ground. There seemed to be a dark puddle under him.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">"I killed him," Johnny said. "I killed the Soc,"

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Then and there Ponyboy realized that they had both committed a crime. They had killed Bob, The Socs. They were all baffled by the whole seen. They didn't know what to do. The only person that they could go to was Dally. They went to where Dally was, which was at a party. Dally gave him the bad advice and told him to go to an abandoned church and stay there until he got there. Dally gave them a gun and fifty dollars to spend on food. They took a train to the town the church was and walked the rest of the way. They stayed in the church and disguised themselves. They cut their hair short and bleached it. They figured that their discriptions would be in the newspapers. They stayed there for five days until they saw Dally. (I'm only doing half the book then I'm going to do the other part)

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">I think that Ponyboy has a very hard life. He needs to try to understand that Darry was only yelling at him because he cared about Ponyboy. Ponyboy needs to start to make better decisions when he meets up with one of his enemies. The best thing to do is to avoid them. There are a million possibilities that Ponyboy could have done. For example, walk away. Another example is to hang out with the right people. If he hung out with better people, he wouldn't be in that type of trouble. Especially when he gets could grades in school. Ponyboy is a smart person and he needs to start using his brain.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Darry is very protective. I don't know how it feels to be the oldest child, but i could tell that he cares a lot about his family. For one, he works two jobs. That's a lot to handle. He's only twenty years old and he already has two jobs. He also didn't go to college. Darry would rather take care of his familys' needs than go to college. Ponyboy and Sodapop are very lucky to have a guy like Darry who would protect and care for them.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Sodapop also made bad choices in his life. He dropped out of school. The number one thing you need is education. Without it, you won't succeed in life. It's good that Sodapop takes care of Ponyboy too. The only thing they have is each other and the gang. They all work together.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">The Socs gang is just like The Greasers. They have the same feelings as they do. They're all human beings. In the book, Ponyboy makes it seem that The Socs aren't afraid of anything, but they are. They have are basically the same thing except they come from wealthy families. The Socs really need to stop making so much trouble. They shouldn't have gotten drunk and left their girlfriends at the drive-in movie theatre/theater. The Socs just need to realize that they have to make peace with one another.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">This was a really good book. I like how at the end, it had the same sentences as the beginning. I couldn't put the book down once I read it. I was reading it so quickly because I was so eager to what was going to happen next. My eyes were dry because I couldn't blink when reading this book. The book was so detailed. This book inspired me to be more descriptive when writing. I now understand that when you're descriptive, it opens up a whole new world for the reader.

=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Outsiders = =<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">58-end = =<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dear Ms. Bond, = =The middle of the book is where all the action starts. It interests me because a lot of things happen at this point of the book. They get ahold of a gun and fifty dollars! At first, I thought they were going to totally waste the money. But instead, they use it for something useful. For example, soap, bleach, sciccors, for their hair, and food! But they have to eat the same thing every day, which is bologna sandwiches. Then, they saw Dally.=

=﻿Ponyboy and Johnny were more than happy to see Dally. They know it's only been five days. But I understand how they feel. Firstly, they can't leave the church because they will get caught even if they're disguised. Therefore, they can't go out for some cigarrettes or different food. They have to save up their cigarrettes until it's a good time to go out. That must be really hard for them because I know it would be hard for me. Once they saw Dally, he offered them to go out for some real food. As in real food, he meant something better than the bologna sandwiches. They went out to a nearby restaurant and ate like pigs. Once they got back, the church was on fire! Flames were everywhere. The smoke covered the church. The unusual thing was, there were grown ups worried. Then, Ponyboy realized that there were youngsters in the church playing around. Ponyboy and Johnny knew it was their fault so they had to go save them. They knew they left those cigarrettes laying around without putting them out properly. So they rushed in.=

=﻿There was no way to get in besides a window. If that's what they had to do to save those kids, they'd do it.They fought the fire, flames, and smoke. Ponyboy spotted five younger kids in a corner crying. The youngest child was five years old. They knew exactly what to do. They would lift those kids out the window risking their lives for the children. They lifted the children quickly yet carefully. Once everyone was out, Ponyboy climbed out the window. Dally was outside waiting for them. Once Ponyboy was out and once he saw Dally, Dally gave him a nice, hard hit on his back. Ponyboy then blacked out.=

=﻿Ponyboy woke up in his bed. At first he thought he dreamed up the whole scene about the murder, the hiding, and the fire, but he didn't. He was very delirious. Dally was right by his side when he woke up. They had a heart to heart conversation about how much Dally loved Ponyboy. Ponyboy then realized that when he yelled at him, it only meant that he was worried to death. Dally told Ponyboy that the only reason why Darry had hit him was because his back was on fire. Ponyboy was told that he had been asleep for four days and the only person he called for was Sodapop. Ponyboy called for Sodapop to come so they could talk a little bit. Ponyboy didn't know if he showed Dally that he loved him as much as Sodapop.=

=﻿Ponyboy asked Sodapop if he called Dally as much as he called Sodapop. The only thing Sodapop said was, "I guess you called both of us,"=

=﻿Ponyboy knew he was okay but he needed to know about Johnny. He went straight to the hospital where Johnny was. He saw Johnny sleeping and when he called his name, he abruptly woke up. They were talking about their things that they had lost in the fire. Ponyboy left thinking that Johnny wasn't going to die. He tried hard not to convince himself that Johnny was going to die. It seemed to work.=

=﻿Ponyboy went out to see Dally, two- bit and the rest of his friends. They were talking about a rumble with The Socs. Ponyboy really did want to join. All of them stood outside smoking their cigarrettes when the blue mustang appeared. It seemed to be one of Bob's friend. Bob's friend wanted to talk to Ponyboy. Ponyboy got into the blue mustang and then had a conversation with him. He explained to Ponyboy that Bob was a close friend and that they've been friends since grade school. He went on and on and got to the part about the rumble. He said he didn't want to join because he was tired of fighting and he just wanted peace. Ponyboy realized that The Socs were just regular people with feeling and everything. He go out of the blue mustang and left.=

=﻿The day of the rumble, everyone was excited. The rules were: no weapons, free hands, first one to run, loses. So at that point, the rumble started. Ponyboy fought the smallest Socs he could find. He helped out Dally. Dally helped out Ponyboy. They worked as a team. Punching, kicking, and heavy breating. Finally, The Greasers realized that they had won the rumble. They realized that they had beat The Socs! Dally, Ponyboy, and everyone else went to go see Johnny to tell him the news. Once they got there, he died. His eyes were slightly open. It changed the whole world for The Greasers.=

=﻿The Greasers were themselves but everything was silent. Darry and Sodapop were quiet. The whole world was silent to Ponyboy. Ponyboy decided to let it go and know that Johnny was in a better place. Then, Ponyboy got news that Dally was caught shoplifting and the police were after him. He was told that he was running to the empty lot so everyone left the house and ran to the empty lot. They saw Dally and the Police. They just watched Dally getting shot just like they watched Johnny. Everything was happening so quickly. Everything was changing. Ponyboy wanted to stay with the gang together despite the fact that his friends died. He continued his life with his two brothers and the gang. Everything just seemed to fall into place.=

=﻿Ponyboy has grown as a person throughout the book. He handled his situations and was able to deal with them. He knew his consequences, he handled his consequences, and he learned from them. In the beginning of the book, It seems that Ponyboy thinks that Darry loves Sodapop more than him. Now, he understands why Darry was acting the way he was acting. It only meant that Ponyboy needs more looking after than Sodapop.= =﻿Johnny was a heroic person. He dyed by saving five kids. He did this because he knew he started the fire and it's what he had to do. Johnny hasn't made good decisions in the beginning of the book but he also grew as a person. He risked his live for five younger kids.=

=﻿Sodapop and Darry are still themselves. They still care about Ponyboy. They went through a lot just for Ponyboy. Darry gave up his college and Sodapop has dropped out of school. I don't think Sodapop dropped out of school just because of his grades. I think Sodapop dropped out of school to make money for Ponyboy and Darry. They gave up a lot for Ponyboy.=

=﻿This was a book that I actually learned from. In the book, characters made mistakes that they made carelessly. They made even more mistakes by that one mistake. I learned that you have to be careful about your actions and deal with them. If you continue making the wrong decisions, your going to have to keep on making bad decisions until you make a right one.=

Dear Ms. Bond,
I am reading the book "She's Come Undone". I chose this book because when I read the back of the book, it mentioned someone named Dolores Price being overweight. I wanted to see the choices that Dolores has made and what she did to handle the situation she was in. Dolores has a father that visits his boss almost every single day. Her mom is very suspicious about things. She thinks that her husband is having an affair with her. Her name is Mrs. Masciotte.

In the book, Dolores Price recieves a t.v. This was the time when the t.v just came out. Therefore, this books takes place back in 1956 when Dolores is just four years old. She is very excited to see something new come into the world so she uses the precious item every single day. One day, the family decided to move out to a new and safe neighborhood. Once they move, Dolores meets someone new named Jeanette. This young lady talks about stuff that is way too inapproprite for her age. She was 11 years old and Dolores was just ten. They became best friends and tried to keep their topics plain and simple for their age. They play out in the streets almost every weekend until it's time for Dolores to go home for dinner. Dolores would go home and eat a regular dinner with her mom and her dad. They would usually talk about the new things going around in town but Dolores recieves great news on this one day. She found out she was going to be a big sister and have a baby brother! Things are going around just fine. Her mom started to get bigger belly and she noticed it started to get very round. Nine months later, her mother's water broke. Her mom and dad rushed to the hospital and Dolores got picked up from her grandma at school. Her mom came home a few days after she went to the hospital. Her face had no sign of any emotion. Dolores found out that her mother had a still-born. That means that the baby choked on his umbilicol cord and it wasn't able to live through the delivery. Nobody really cried except for Dolores' mother. Dolores' father decided to put Dolores into theapapy. Dolores' father decided that it would be best to buy a parret so that she could interact with it and not be so lonely.

One day, Dolores went into the kitchen for her dinner. But her father wasn't home. He was out with Mrs. Masciotte chatting and talking like they always did. He came home for dinner really late and Dolores was still at the table because she was just playing with her food. Dolores' parents got into a huge fight just because Dolores' father wouldn't come home in time. Dolores' father thought that it was fair not to be home at the time he was supposed to be because he was fed up with the crying and her talking to a parret all the time. Dolores' mother called her husband a very mean name and Dolores got sent outside. She sat down on the porch stepped and listened to her father slap her mother. She didn't like it one bit. Then, she saw her father walk out the back door with the parret in his hands. He let the parret go and let it fly away. Dolores got onto her bike and went to Jeanettes house. They talked about the fight and she asked Jeanette what the mean word meant because she was still young and didn't know. After she found out what the mean word meant, she decided not to use it because the fight had really gotten to her. She went back home and saw her mother sitting on the porch step smoking and they chatted for a long time.

Dolores is a very strong girl because she has to hear and see her parents fighting all the time knowing that she can't do anything about it. She has to watch her mother smoke and hear her swear. She barely has any relationship with her father because he is always out at work or either with Mrs. Masciotte. If I were Dolores, I would talk to my mother and father about the way I feel and what I think they should do to solve their problems instead of smacking, yelling and cursing at each other.

This book is very interesting to me. This book was all about a girls life and there was no telling what could happen next. I was so eager to know what was going to happen that I couldn't even blink! I was interested on Dolores' decisions and what she was going to do after a bad situation. So far, she could have done better than escaping her problems and running to her friends house. She actually needs to solve her problems and deal with them. She is old enough to know what was happening and she is old enough to solve her problems on her own.

She's Come Undone 2-17-11

Dear Ms. Bond,

After the fight, Dolores' mother went to go live with her grandma in Easterly. Dolores stays with her father. They get a pool in their backyard and go swimming in it every single day. They have the best time ever especially because it's the first time Dolores and her father been close to each other. For dinner, they usually have pizza or chinese food. They're care free! A few weeks later, Dolores recieves a phone call from her mother. They small talk but then her mom asks her if her father told her the bad news. Dolores is unaware of everything going on. She then finds out that her mom and dad ar getting a divorce. She was very ballistic. Later on the call, she finds out she has to move to Easterly with her grandma. Dolores and her father became very silent for the next few days because she couldn't imagine her parents getting a divorce. Dolores wasn't her usual self anymore. She was more silent and muted until her father came home and packed up all his things to live somewhere else. Things were happening way too fast for her. She just kept quiet and listened to what everyone said. Once she arrived in Easterly, her father put her suitcases down and left without saying a word to anyone.

Dolores' room was upstairs where her mom used to be. She attends a private school and has two neighbors that are her age that are extremely immature. Across the street, there's a mini mart that Connie owns and a tatoo parlor. The person who puts on the tatoos is Roberta. Dolores barely goes in their. Dolores goes to Connie's mini mart just to get junk food once in a while. In school, Dolores has a very hard time making friends and she doesn't know why. Her grandmother just tells her to jut act lady like and that's what Dolores does. After a few years of the horrible private school, Dolores' neighbors move out but Dolores still goes to that private school and has no friends. Her new neighbors are Jack Speight and his wife. Even though Dolores' mother lives with her mom, she's still depressed about her baby. She hears things happening upstairs while Jack's wife is gone but she makes no attempt to see what's going on. One night, when Dolores' grandma and mom are gone, Jack appears at her door. He asks for a fan to borrow and they start to talk on Jack's porch. Dolores see's Jack drinking about 8 beers. She starts to get uncomfortable. Then, Jack starts to tickle her feet and she doesn't feel that safe anymore. She then stops talking to Jack and stays home. Unannounced, Jack is sitting at her kitchen table and apologizes to Dolores and told her that if tickling her made her uncomfortable, he's stop. Jack and Dolores are comfortable now and Jack takes Dolores to school in his car. One day, something weird and unusual happens to Dolores. Jack pulls up to her school offering her a ride but he seems a little drunk because he's drinking beer cans and the car smells like alcohol. They drive into a forest and she see's dogs in a cage and a small shed. Jack asks Dolores if he could have a kiss and he just kisses her without he replying. Jack starts acting very strange and he shows Dolores an inapproprete magazine. She doesn't want to be in the car with Jack. She starts crying and Jack starts to get angry. He goes behind the shed and Dolores follows him. Then, Dolores got raped.

At this point of the book, I feel that Dolores should have walked home and never got a ride from Jack. This is because she saw that Jack was drunk and she knew that going into a car with someone drunk isn't the right thing to do. When Dolores was in the forest, she really couldn't do anything to prevent bad things from happening to her. I wouldn't know what to do in that situation either but i would have stayed in the car and never followed Jack behind the shed. I would have stayed in the car and waited until Jack drove me home. Dolores now has something in life that she has to handle one her own.

Jack is someone who doesn't think before he makes his decisions. He raped Dolores but afterward, felt guilty. He has a baby coming from his wife and he'll totally ruin his marrige once his wife here's about this. He should have never picked up that beer can and started drinking it.

This book was very amazing when I finisehd reading it. But once I read this part of the book, it made me worry about Dolores. I wondered what she was going to do. So many questions bounced through my head. Is she going to tell someone? Is she going to hide it? Is this the part when she becomes overweight by taking her anger out by turning to food? This book was unpredictable and that's what I liked about it.

2-28-11

Dolores now feels guilty about what Jack did to her. She kept telling herself that it was her fault. She decided to keep what happened to herself. Dolores didn't know what to do. She went home with Jack and went straight to dinner. She skipped her meal and went upstairs. She slept for the rest of the day not doing her homework. When she woke up, she saw Jack's wife, Rita's, light on. She ran straight to her and told her what had happened. She cried and Rita's face expression was blank. Dolores felt that she broke a marrige. Then, she went home and ate the junk food her mother supplied her. A few weeks later, Rita and Jack moved out and Dolores never heard from her ever again.

Dolores' mother became very silent for the next few days. Her grandma decided to put her into a Mental Home. There, her mother painted and got help. Dolores ate and ate in front of the television watching soap operah's. She was basically nourishing herself with junk food and chocolate bars. Later, Dolores recieves a painting in the mail. It was a flying leg that her mother painted in the hospital. The leg was so detailed. Dolores put the leg in her closet and pretended that nothing happened because she was too embarrassed to look at it. Later, her school wanted her to improve her grades. She was basically getting C's and down. She had to speak to the guidance counsler about her future and where her education was going.

Basically, Dolores is turning into someone that she shouldn't be. The only thing she eats is chocolate bars and chips. She should begin to look at herself in the mirror and ask herself if it's what she wants to become. Not only is she eating junk food, she's failing school! If I were her, I would throw away the chip bags that my mother leaves for me, get rid of the television set, and instead of sleeping, start to study more. I know it's really hard for Dolores to move on after what happened to her but she just needs to get help and get rid of that moment out of her head.

In my opinion, I knew that Dolores was going to be overweight. I was able to tell that eating all that junk food was going to put Dolores in childhood obesity. This book was really unpredictable though. I didn't know what she was going to do. I didn't even know if she realized what she had become. Millions of questions are in my head about Dolores and when she realized that her life was going in the garbage. I honestly think that the flying leg that her mom painted represented freedom. The leg was flying away and trying to be free from a mental home. When I found out what really happened, I felt that Dolores was doing a great job in life until she met someone that got her into trouble.

3-4-11 Dear Ms. Bond, For the past few days, Dolores was eating her way to happiness which wasn't really working. Then, something happened. Her mother finally came home from the mental hospital. The past few months have been very fast because she had a different mother. The thing was, she still didn't know which college she was going to go to. After she got a few college applications, her mother decided to have her go to the one in Pennsylvania. She needed to get a check-up from the doctor, which she really hated. While she was in the doctor's room, she started to smoke a cigarrette and once the doctor came in the room, she hid the cigarrette and got her results. It turned out she was obese. The doctor called her fat and he told her mother about her smoking and how overweight she was at 257 pounds! She started to cry but acted as if she were really tough. She went home and realized why she was so overweight and started to get mad at her mother because she was the one who supplied her with junk food in her room.

Dolores went downstairs and saw her mother typing on a typewriter one day. It was for her college acceptance. The letter had a few spelling errors and Dolores really didn't appretiate her mom's help. She gave her mother some attitude and her mother took the type writer and slammed it to the floor. " If that thing broke, it would have been worth it!' her mother screamed. Dolores sent the letter to her college and went to her room to watch television. She was really depressed about her weight. She started to eat chips, chocolate bars, brownies, and went downstairs to get a pizza slice. Then, she fell asleep. Her mother was at her new job which at nighttime and she came home with a man. Her mom has been dating other men and she was interested in a man she met on the highway. Dolores got really ticked off about her mothers decisions. The next night, her mom went on a date and Dolores was writing a letter to her roomate, Katherine or Kippy. She lied about her whole life in the letter.

In the letter Kippy wrote, she seemed cheerful. She seemed like the type of person who was excited about college and was completely opposite of Dolores. Kippy wanted a future and she wanted to get education so that she can get a job for money. Kippy seemed friendly in the letter and she wanted to start a friendship with Dolores. Dolores had to ruin the whole friendship by lying in the letters. I really don't know why, but Kippy seems like the good person in the book because she was nice to Dolores the whole time in the letters. Kippy is someone I would want to be friends with because she seemed really friendly and cheerful.

Dolores really shouldn't have lied in the letters. Dolores is a depressed person and lying to someone you don't know is the number one thing she shouldn't have done. I understand that she's depressed but she just needs to tell the truth and if Kippy probably would have liked her for her.

At this point of the book, Dolores enters college at the wrong start. I started to enjoy this book even more because I wanted to see what Kippy would have done, what she would get treated like, etc. This book was great so far and I enjoyed reading a life as an obese person. I also was fascinated by Wally Lamb. He wrote a life of a woman. I don't think I could ever write a life as a man. This creative author makes me want to read more of his book because I enjoyed just one of them.