The Game just became reality: Ender's Game

Shaking, a tear slowly falls, hiting the already wet pillow. Why.... trembling. hands reach to turn the page.
Games.
They push people to the limit.
Brutally.
Forcing people, isolating one person from everyone else.
Insanity.
Beginning to doubt your own existance.
Fear.
Burns within you, in your very soul.
Dreams......Nightmares
Haunt your waking hours, hant you to the core.
Games, they aren't simulators anymore.
people die, they tricked the commander
A boy.
After all it was just a game.......

Reflecting on this book, Ender's Game. It sucks me in. The author releases no mercy to any of his characters. This is seen through Ender being put into difficult situations where he is abused and threatened. The author first allows Ender to have friends, but then he isolates him and lets older kids beat him up. Yet despite all of this Ender fights back with his intelligence and eventually becomes a leader whom they all wish to beat, to prove wrong. Therefore because Ender is thrown into these abusive situations I develop strong feelings toward him. It's like I want to scream at everyone and say, "how can you treat an eight year old child like this?" Then I will grab Ender and take him away from everything, where he can be happy and not be used like, a pawn.

So you can see why I like this book. The story grew into a love/hate relationship because at times I hated the author for putting Ender in terrible situations. So my feelings grew intense as I read, it became, addictive......Why? The reason is that I wanted to be reassured, to find the moment when Ender's life would all be fair and happy again. I also wanted to find that moment because the book was depressing to the point where I longed to find and read those happy moments (if there were any).

Eagerly I hungered for those words, to taste them, to see Ender......

The addictive game.

Harry Potter Party

Hey well yesterday since we had no school I had a Harry Potter party with my friends. Basically we watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire since one of my friends hasn't seen it.

So why was it so fun? Well one reason is because of food. Why would this matter? It's because I love food and rarely get to have anything good or partyish. So because we had banana splits and fruit pizza (crust was from cookies) I enjoyed myself more because like I said I rarely get to have these things. So because we had yummy party food I enjoyed myself more and had fun.

Also another thing that made it fun was my friends' personalities. See my friends aren't boring, they are hyper. Why would this make a difference? It's because my friends can make the situation more interesting because they laugh alot and get really hyper so they affect me in that I get hyper too, so of course I would find them fun to be around. So because they have enjoyable personalities it makes it easier to be around them and get along since they are so easy going about life. Therefore because my friends' personalities are funny/hyper I enjoyed the party more because they made it more exciting.

Lastly, the other reason the party was fun was that we got to watch the movie together. See you can talk about the movie as it's going and just talk about random things that you can't do in the theater. It's just more enjoyable because you can interact with your friends more than in the movie theater because in the theater you have to keep quite and at home you can talk as much as you like. This can be so funny because sometimes someone will say something random and you all laugh. Thus because you can talk more during the movie at home it becomes more enjoyable because your interacting with your friends.

Overall it was just fun to hang out with my friends since I hardly ever do anymore.

Narnia the series as in the books

Alright well as you know this is one of the things that popped into my head and I love going with first ideas. So, ouch..... I'm typing with a cut hand. My rabbit scratched me last night just because she didn't want to go back in her cage so here I am with this sore hand.

So why would I like/dislike the books? Well the only reason I started reading the series is because the movie came out last December. But you would think that because I liked the movie that I would like the books. But this is not true....

You see the books are written for 4th graders! why? Well when you get a chance to look at a Narnia book just look inside and take a look at the words. They are small letter words that are easy to follow. Also the book is not even that long. It's rang is around 200 pages. This might seem long, but believe me it isn't because I can finish those types of books very fast. So because the words are too easy to read, high school students can become bored since they are used to reading harder words and longer books.

Maybe it's just because the books were written so long ago, but the plot isn't that exciting nor is the author's writing style. It seems like the plot isn't that exciting because of how the author jumps around the characters. See after the 2nd book you are introduced to other characters who are really boring since the book has nothing really to do with Aslan or the sons of Adam and daughters of Eve. Sure it mentions some of them, but because the author didn't stick with the regular characters from the 2nd book the series seem like they don't belong together. What I mean is that it seems like the author just strung some characters together in one series and said here it's the same story. (not really) Therefore because the author doesn't stick with his original characters, high school students can get bored since the author jumps around too much. Also the writing is annoying. The author uses smiple verbs and adjectives which down grades on the story because the bad word choice affects the story in that it makes the story seem bad too. Plus the author discribes things so blandy or he'll use too much detail. This again down grades on the story because I am either confused because he didn't describe something enough or I get bogged down because he described something too much. Thus because his word choice isn't that exciting it makes the story not as exciting.

But I shall continue to keep reading these books until I'm done so that I can say I've read them. Even though they are boring I keep reading hoping that they will become unboring.

Deal or No Deal

wow I'm really running out of things to say. um..... I don't know what to do this on. (looks at title) Okay so I finally figured out what to write about but it may be short.

Some of you may know that the tv show Deal or No Deal came back onto the air this week. So I asked myself why do I enjoy watching this show? It's because it's a simple game but it's all luck and intense. You see people choose cases that have certain amounts of money. The person tries to pick cases that have the lowest amout of money possible and after every round the banker offeres them money which they have to decide to take or not. But why would this seem interesting to me? It's because I along with the other viewers don't know what are in the cases. So because of this I tend to get really tense before they reveal it, thus the game becomes more exciting because I hope that the person choses really good cases.

Also another thing that is fun is the contestents. You see when the bank offeres them a certain amount of money the crowd always shouts out either no deal or deal and the contestent is unsure of what action to take. This uncertainy makes me nervous/exciting because I want them to make a good decision. It seems that I too end up shouting deal or no deal to the tv because I get into it. Therefore when a contestent can't make their mind up I become tense because and shout out because I want them to either go with my choice or a better one.

So yes this tv show is pretty interesting, but sadly it only goes on for a week because people earn so much money in this show.