Free Choice Blog 3

  For my third free choice blog I read chapter 1-6 of The Awakening. To be completely honest, I don't like this book. This book was another summer reading book that I had to read. I realized that when a student has two choice of books to read one book is more realistic and the other is more adventurous and had hidden meaningful messages. The worst part about this is that I never like the book that the teacher focuses more on. I feel like fictional books should not be so realistic. There are some books where it's nice that it's realistic because it makes the reader feel closer to the story but the stores that they give us to read are usually just to idiotic for me. I read the summery for the Awakening and I see the message behind it but I really don't like how it's been put out.  The story is really slow, boring and not appealing at all. The main character is an unhappily married wife with kids who tries to find her freedom and ends up killing herself because she finds out that the only guy she really loves wont be with her. Compared to Candid, the book that teachers don't focus on, The Awakening is lacking reader’s compassion .Not for one moment felt bad for her, wanted to understand her, or cared for her in anyway. I feel like that that's one of the main keys to a good book. My type of fictional book is the type that makes you forget about reality and makes you feel nice at the end of it.

Free Blog 2

For my free choice blog I read chapter 2-4 of Candide. Candide meet’s an old guy called Pangloss who tells him that back in the castle where Candide use to live , where his love interest was in,  everyone died from an attack. Candide and Pangloss decide to travel to Portugal. On their way there they got the help on a friendly guy who sadly dies at sea on their way. After battling storms and earthquake they arrive to land. As soon as they arrive they get  convicted to a sentence death. Pangloss got hanged and Candide was meant to be whipped and shot. Lucky for Candide an old women saves Candide after he got whipped and heal his wound. Based on what I read so far I think the writer is trying to teach the main character a lesson. In the beginning of the book the main character kept thinking “everything happens for good” that’s what he literally said.  The pattern that this book is going is pretty chronological. It doesn’t jump from one time period to another. The writing it self is not messy and hard to read. Everything in the book is straight forward. The author does us a little of compare and contrast here and there. He goes back on what the character stated and compares to what really happens instead on what the character thinks will happen. Over all I’m enjoying this book and how it’s written. It’s a bit old but not bad at all.