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A Time To Kill (31-44)
Oh my God, this was a very intense ending. First off, yay to Carl Lee, who was set free. The trial and jury scenes and the mob scenes outside of the courthouse were so well described...more
My Sister's Keeper Blog 4
OHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYY GOSHHHHHHHHHHH!! My Sister s Keeper was SO GOOD but it was SO SAD!! I just finished the book and I just about cried at the end. Jodi Picoult is such a touching writer - SHE IS...more
Disgrace blog two (chapters 7-12)
Lucy, Professor David Lurie s daughter, lives in a small house in the country and keeps a shelter for dogs. She is rather messy and unkempt and this clashes with her father s personality but it ...more
AH! WHAT CAN I EVEN SAY!? (Besides blog #4 of course)
AHHHHHH! I just finished the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest. OH MY GOSH!! I have never read a book that I have been pulled so far into before! AH! I just want to scream or somet...more
Choice novel blog 4#
In The alst section of the book McMurphy arranges for a fishing trip for him and the patients and gets some of his outside friends to chaperone (they are actually two prostitutes). after they ar...more
Blue Maus
I thought the ending of the book was really touching. I thought the scenes where Vladek worked together with his friend were interesting to watch and a good example of their friendship wor...more
Maus II- The End
can say that hands down I have enjoyed Maus I and Maus II the most out of all of the books we have read in class this year. Yes, I called it a book. In my opinion it is more of a book then a comic ...more
Maus II chapters 1-5
Every thing is so much darker in Maus II than Maus I. The shading, the wording. Its just so depressing. I think the difference in the style is affected by the fact there is so much time between ...more
5/21/09 Blog # 3 + 4: Maus II Chapters 1-5
Vladek moans and screams in his sleep many times. No matter what he says we all know that he still dreams about the Holocaust even though he claims he s over it. No one can forget about a lif...more
Maus...The End (My cheesy grin has faded)
So, I finished reading Maus, like I was supposed to, and I m not sure how I liked the whole story. I liked thae fact that because this was for English class and we were able to read a graphic ...more
R.I.P. Vladek :(
Vladek s story comes to an end in chapters 4-6. We learn more about Vladek s story and its resolution. What seperates Maus I and Maus II are the references to the war. Although Maus II is as muc...more
Maus---the End
The end of Maus was sad, and actually very human of Spiegelman to end the way it did. The story tells of the troubles and woes Vladek faced in the Holocaust, and also as a Holocaust suvivor- but...more
the last maus blog
interesting that his dad is a rascist, although i guess the holocaust didn;t really teach people who lived through it how to live together, just what suffering and hunger were truly like. this sect...more
MAUS TRAP.........Bl0g 4
So now I m done reading Maus. This graphic novel gave me a new perspective on the Holocaust, and I enjoyed reading this with animals posing as the characters. There are points of reality in the end...more
Maw-oosse (Maus) Part 2 End
This book really helped open my eyes about the Holocaust. I would have never thought of using animals to help portray the different people that were affected by the Holocaust. Having pigs p...more
