Holes

Started Holes, got about half way through so far. It is a very fun novel to read because of the language Louis Sachar uses. I also enjoy it because I saw the movie a few times and it was always very amusing to me.  What I really like is how Sachar really embodies his characters. It is very funny that Stanley's name is just his last named spelled backwards. I can't imagine that or else my name might be...Retieb. Stanley works for him though. I love the song that the Grandfather teaches Stanley, it goes as follows:
"If only, If only," the woodpecker sighs,
The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer."
While the Wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
He cries to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, if only."
This, I noticed is different from the one they state in the film. In the film version (which I have memorized) the second line is changed, in which it is says: "The bark on the tree was  as soft as the skies," so it actually rhymes with the first line. I kind of like the film version better, just because it flows a little better.  What I also find hysterical about this novel is all of the juvenile's nicknames.  If I had to go to Camp Green Lake, I wonder what my nickname might be...

Too busy, but I finished.

I've been too busy to blog and keep up, so my next few posts will be in depth about a few novels. This entry however, is about Stargirl. I finally finished Love, Stargirl. Well a few weeks ago but here I am.  The ending was surprising, but enjoyable.  It was very nice to see Archie back in the picture, as well as having a final response to Leo. It was weird to me seeing so much doubt within Stargirl's character in this novel because in the first one Spinelli made her shine and she never stopped. In this novel we see the more human side of her, we see that even an uppity girl who has a happy wagon can be dragged down by love, and other emotions. Spinelli is fantastic, creating an ending that leaves us open to the question of will Leo and Stargirl end up together? We find out that one day again they will meet and that, my friend, sounds like good news. I was also very happy that Mary Lou finally came out of her house, as well as Stargirl's decision to send her letter to Leo. Made me smile a little bit.

Found Poetry

Passage: "Me, cleaning my mother's blood off the wall, represented the 'tornado' breaking and destroying her face (I liked to call my mother's boyfriend the 'tornado'.) After he would hit, everything would look like it had been caught in a whirlwind--our apartment, our sanity, and my mother's face. I was cleaning up after the tornado hit my house and diminished everything. Washing my mom's blood, which was shed from time to time; a sacrifice to make him happy. He lived for blood-her blood, enjoying every fist that hit her flesh and every scream that took place. While he broke televisions, stereos, VCRs and the dining room table, it didn't compare to the breaking of her mind. My mom was never the same, and neither was I..."

Words: Mother'sX, bloodX, tornadoX, breakingX, destroyingX, hitX, sanityX, cleaningX, diminishedX, everythingX, shedX, sacrificeX, himX, happyX, livedX, bloodX, enjoyingX, fist, hit, fleshX, screamX, brokeX, breakingX, mindX, neverX, theX, sameX, IX.


Poem:
Tornado breaking everything.
Mother's sanity diminished.
Blood shed.
Sacrifice.
Destroying flesh,
enjoying scream,
hit broke, breaking mind.
Him cleaning blood.
I lived happy, never the same.