Finally

I characterized myself not as a reader; I rarely read books because I always had to read books the school assigned. I wasn’t very independent I didn’t even read many of the books that were assigned in school spark notes just became my best friend. Since I didn’t read very much I don’t have an answer for what kinds of things I wear. During the course of the semester I read big into horror stories such as, IT and The Shining. I also read The Colorado Kid But that book was a real let down. I didn’t have much trouble sticking with books except for IT which I am reading right now, I find it hard for me to stick with a book that tells a lot of back story before getting into the creepy parts. I choose my books by how creepy the cover was and how creepy it sounded. Sometimes I did have trouble reaching the quota just because I never disciplined myself to just sit down and read for 20 min every night. I found myself reading during school in class after I have finished my work in the other classes. I also found myself reading a lot right when I go to bed. I personally like to read in silence, if I listened to music I feel like I would focus too much on the music that is playing. I did find myself talking about my books to other people just because they were interesting stories.

 Overall this blogging experience has been fun I liked being able to choose my own book to write about and having my own freedom with the blog

Currently

Pages Read 319-510


Books Read : IT

While reading this book I have noticed that in the movie there is less content than there is in the book. Reading the book gives all of this background information about each character which is cool but after reading alot about the character I hope to read about an encounter with the clown and how creepy he is. My favorite parts when reading the book are when Pennywise the clown comes in and some paranormal mishap happens to one of the adults. Like when Beverly was in her bathroom and she heard a voice come from the sink drain then next thing you know her bathroom becomes covered in blood, but her father can see none of it! Overall getting to the creepy parts are my favorite when reading a Stephen King book.


Sentances of the two weeks

1) Its face was deadly pale, its eyes purplish-red, the color of bloodclots. Its mouth dropped open, revealing a mouthful of Gillette Blue-Blades that had been set in the gums at angles; it was like looking into a deadly mirror-maze where a single misstep could get you cut in half.

2) "KEEE-RUNCH!" it screamed, and its jaws snapped closed. Blood gouted from its mouth in a red-black flood. Chunks of its severed lips fell to the glowing white silk of its formal shirt and slid down its front, leaving snail-trails of blood behind.

3) "Come on up, Ben," Pennywise called down. "I won't hurt you. I've got a book for you! A book . . .and a balloon! Come on up !"

Scholarships

So today I emailed the graphic design teacher at Saint Francis(which is what I want to study in college) about the winners for a talent day competition. I had asked him about the winners on October 25 and I didn't hear anything untill I talked to him today. But today he told me that I had won a scholar ship for the school!!! This will be the second scholarship I have earned to the school of Saint Francis! I am so excited tostart next fall at the School of Creative Arts I can't wait!!

Close Reading Bingo

Weakness 1: His strange admiration is expressed with metaphors like "the free-standing kind: a pair of integral signs swooping upward" and "a temporary, steeper escalator of daylight"
Source: My Everyday Sticky Waffle

Weakness 3:He describes the boy’s feelings towards his parents with a negative, abusive and defiant diction.
Source: UNDERWATER

Weakness 2:  "Turned toward the escalators, carrying a black Penguin paperback and a small white CVS bag, its receipt stapled over the top," describes the harsh clattering of the setting.Source: T-Rex

Weakness 6:  It was also literal in denotation, as while reading it. Throughout the excerpt Barker used excellent verbs and description to explain all of the sentences.
Source: Lets's Start!




#1 Best Close Reading (in my eyes) was by A Scrap of Parchment

Looooooooooooong Poem but still a classic

The Raven

 By Edgar Allan Poe
 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
   As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
                Only this, and nothing more."

    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
  And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
    Eagerly I wished the morrow;- vainly I had sought to borrow
    From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore-
  For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
                Nameless here for evermore.

    And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
  Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
    So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
    "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-
  Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;-
                This it is, and nothing more."

    Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
  "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
    But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
    And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
  That I scarce was sure I heard you"- here I opened wide the door;-
                Darkness there, and nothing more.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering,
        fearing,
  Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
    But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
    And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"
  This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"-
                Merely this, and nothing more.

    Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
   Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
    "Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice:
    Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore-
  Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;-
                'Tis the wind and nothing more."

    Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and
        flutter,
  In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
    Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed
        he;
    But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door-
  Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door-
                Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

   Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
  By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
   "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no
        craven,
   Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore-
  Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

    Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
  Though its answer little meaning- little relevancy bore;
    For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
    Ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door-
  Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
                With such name as "Nevermore."

    But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
  That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
    Nothing further then he uttered- not a feather then he fluttered-
    Till I scarcely more than muttered, "other friends have flown
        before-
  On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before."
                Then the bird said, "Nevermore."

     Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
  "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
     Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
     Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore-
  Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
                Of 'Never- nevermore'."

    But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,
  Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and
        door;
    Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
    Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore-
  What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
                Meant in croaking "Nevermore."

    This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
  To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
    This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
    On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er,
  But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er,
                She shall press, ah, nevermore!

    Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
  Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
    "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee- by these angels he
        hath sent thee
    Respite- respite and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore!
  Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

    "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!- prophet still, if bird or
        devil!-
  Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
    Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted-
    On this home by horror haunted- tell me truly, I implore-
  Is there- is there balm in Gilead?- tell me- tell me, I implore!"
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

    "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil- prophet still, if bird or
        devil!
  By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore-
    Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
  Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

    "Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend," I shrieked,
        upstarting-
  "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
    Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
    Leave my loneliness unbroken!- quit the bust above my door!
  Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my
        door!"
               Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

    And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
  On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
    And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
    And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the
        floor;
  And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
                Shall be lifted- nevermore!

Currently

Pages Read : 219-319

Books Read : IT  By Stephen King


Top Five Best Style Mappers (in first period)


1) J-Momma-" Keep it, Guard it, care of it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed."  He wants people to take care of the land we live on because it takes care of us and without it we are nothing.


2) Bakeface Space- The elevation is low. It seems like this is taking place in the south which is known for their slang and terse language. The sound of the story is harsh. The words are noisy and hard sounding. Lastly, the story is denotative. It has no expressive voice in it and just says it how it is.


3) Happy Go Lucky- The excerpt has a rhythmic flow which is emphasized through various sentences. The sentence "Days of riding where ther rode no soul save he," is poetic in a sense that people everyday do not talk like that.


4) ZENGERINEgoesacademic- In contrast, Cormac McCarthy's figurative-language-heavy introduction to Blood Meridian balances both an earthy grittiness and an elevated vocabulary as McCarthy describes the surroundings. By far the simplest of all, Walker Lamond's Rules for My Unborn Son has a no-nonsense and almost journalistic approach to writing.

5) Twilight- In this passage from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian," he uses common familiarity and suggestive language mixed with a harmonious and sweet sound.
                    
Favorites: I choose these excerpts because the each person did a good job of describing the situation,or their ideas about the writings.

Rainy Days Are Here Again

Once again another week of rain. Can it just please stop raining I want to get as much skating in as I can before the ice age comes.Well at least today I got to skate a parking garage with the homies! Hopefully it will dry up by Saturday because I wanna skate the park so bad. You really never notice how grateful you are for something when you are unable to use it. Good thing I have become better friends with some of the Rise skates op guys because now I got the hook ups to go to some people's barns that have minis in them. I seriously can't wait! Well I'm blogging a little late I need to get to bed night blogger.

Observing and Describing Language

In Neil Gaiman’s Stardust the tone is an elegant and elevated because of the great descriptions. Stardust is also more of a connotation having a poetic theme to it as well as being very lyrical about it. The story is also musical instead of being harsh, Stardust just seems like it would be a song. Next excerpt is from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian to contrast with Stardust McCarthy’s story has a more blunt and coarse tone in the story. McCarthy’s story is also Denotative having a more straightforward look to it, using more literal sayings instead of being all poetic about it. The only thing that Stardust and Blood Meridian have in common is that they are both musical. Blood Meridian despite it having a low elevation and being denotative, it still has a musical flow to it when you read the excerpt. The last excerpt I chose is from the first page of the book called IT by Stephen King. This first page definitely has a very blunt and common elevation to it, along with being literal and precise during this first page. There is nothing melodious to this excerpt it has a gritty tone to it and as you keep reading it, it seems more and more intriguing.

Quarterly

Books Read: IT


Pages Read: 100-219


Semester Reading: This semester I think I have really grown as a reader. I have never really read up untill I took this class, and I am really happy I started to read what I want to read. The first book that I finished was The Shining, it was a wonderfully awesome book. It was like being inside a horror movie every turn of the page got better and better, and I never would have expirenced that book without this class. I feel like having the freedom to choose what I read really makes me want to read more stuff that interests me. The books I have read has been The Shining, The Colorado Kid and I am currently reading  IT , which are all by Stephen King. I don't know why I like reading Stephen King so much, maybe because each book, except for The Colorado Kid , have been like a horror story and I love horror movies so these stories are great! I find my self reading alot at night and sometimes during school once I am done with all my work. The most challenging is to keep a steady reading speed instead of bingeing and reading a lot of pages in one night. My goal for next semester would definitly be read more frequently and maybe try new authors and books.

Film Day

Well this Saturday me and a couple of my friends are planning to wake up early so we can gather some footage for an edit we are making. We have to wake up early because the spot we wanna skate is always busy unless you go at an odd time such as six in the morning. Hopefully it won't be to dark out, I might have to move the time back to seven. Earthier way me and my friends are on a mission to get film (which is a rare sight to see). Normally we just skate for fun not for film. But it is always fun to actually push yourself to land a trick. Well I can't wait to go lurking on Saturday, I just need to get through one more day!

Creating Art with Your Hands

Well this past week I kind of for got to blog (sorry). I was really busy going to Saint Francis on friday for an art workshop. I got to go and sculpt in a college art room it was a very good learning expierence plus it was alot of fun! The process of making a figure was quite interesting. First I had to start out by creating a metal skeleton for my figure using wire. We took wire and began to twist it into the shape of a body, we had to make two wire bodies because you then took thinner wire and tied them together. This created a stronger skeleton to sculpt with. After wrapping wire around the major body parts, I had to create a slurry which helps hold the cement ,which is what we sculpted with, to the wire armeture. Then came the really messy part, I had to mix concrete into fine strands of steel wool until it became a clay like substance. Lastly we take the concrete mixture and began applying it to the skeleton of wire we created. The whole expirence there was so much fun, plus I got to eat actually good food for lunch instead of the school lunches at homestead.
Also last Saturday I took a college visit to Saint Francis which showed me everything there, the campus is so beautiful and the clare dorm is the one I am hoping to get in.

Currently (for last week)

Books Read:  IT by Stephen King


Pages read 1- 100

1) " Do they float?"
     "Float?" The clown's grin widened "Oh yes, indeed they do. They float! and there's cotton candy. . ."
     George reached.
     The clown seized his arm
     And George saw the clown's face change.

2) "Everything down here floats," that chuckling, rotten voice whispered, and suddenly there was a ripping noise and a flaring sheet of agony, and George Denbrough knew no more.
---At this point in the story Pennywise the clown tricked Georgie into reaching down the sewer grate for his paper boat, but as he reached for it Pennywise's face changed into a monster and tore poor Georgie's arm off.

Currently Week Sx

Books Read: The Colorado Kid by Stephen King


Pages Read 69


Sentances

1) "In big cities evidence gets lost all the time, I understand, but I guess Augusta's not that big yet."


2) To be a success in the news business, it don't hurt to have a dirty mind, dear.


3) " Maybe change and madness are the same?"


4)  Every one of em has a beginning, a middle, and an end.


5)" Even if the story is about a church secretary who probably killed half the congregation at the church picnic because her lover jilted her, that is happy news, and why?"

Rainy Wednesdays

So for the past thee days it has basically be non stop raining, which is not good when I want to skate. See when skaters get desprate to find dry places to skate it's bad. Luckily my friend has a warehouse whig we turned into our personal private skate park sanctuary which is always open and includes ramps and rails for us to skate. Once we got bored of skating the warehouse we decided to start lurking for some parking garages. The art to skating parking garages is to know when all the office personal go home that way you don't get spotted by any bitter civilians who would like nothing better than to yell at you just because You wanted to skate and stay out of the rain. Of course we know th perfect parking garage downtown which is totally enclosed And four stories high, first we just drive straight to the top of the garage where there is the definition of a perfect curb. For those who don't site it is basically a concrete curb with tons of wax on it to allow our skateboards to grind and slide across it. I'm hoping that it will be dry enough for me to skate tomorow, but if not it will be back to the streets lurking for those skate hideaways just for me and my homies.

The Claim Paragraph Based off of JimmehFTW's Claim

             In Walton Ford’s painting “Dying Words” the eyes are magnetized to the distressed song bird spread out in a tragic way, as if calling for a second chance at life. The gritty and detailed picture really makes it seem as if it should be people instead of song birds in the picture. The bleak tone over this entire picture shows an unsightly and grotesque picture of a dying bird. The dull reaction of the birds towards the dying birds makes it seem as if the death of a fellow bird means nothing to them, and maybe it infers that the bird is just a number and no body really cared for it.

Sentances of the Month

Pages Read: 100

Books Read: The Colorado Kid

1) She turned and he was coming for her. It was Jack and yet not Jack. His eyes were lit with a vancant, murderous glow; his familiar mouth now wore a quivering, joyless grin.

2) "Oh dear God!" she screamed to the Overlook's shadowy lobby, and buried the kitchen knife in his lower back up to the handle.

3) Then, as he closed on it, he recognized it and horror closed his throat. Not a wolf but a lion. A hedge lion.

4) "Cane him for it, Jacky my boy, cane him within an inch of his life."
5) "Glad you asked because curiosity killed that cat and it was the HOPE of satisfaction that brought  him."

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

So last weekend I asked my mom if she had any good Stephen King books because I really loved reading the shining it gave me goose bumps as I turned every page of horror. She gave me a couple different choices one which was Frankenstein but after my experience with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein I didn’t want to risk another reading such as that one. When I came across this book with a lovely lady on the cover looking kind of scandalous, then I looked at the author and it was Stephen King! I read the back of the book and it really seemed to interest me. The sentence that really caught my eye was “With an All-New Investigation into the Unknown.” Doesn’t that just make you want to pick it up and start reading into the whole story?! It started the story off in a diner where The Weekly Islander writers have just walked out unsatisfied with the information they have gathered and they left two fifties under the salt shaker. That’s a lot of money. It then goes on between a conversations with the people still at the table talking about how there is a customer tab that each customer holds and it is all on the waitresses back if the customer pays or not. For example a person could come in eat everything off the menu and run and all that money would put the waitress in debt for paying for that dinner. Which I think is a really dumb idea because it would be real easy to make the diner go out of business just by dinning and dashing. The beginning of this story is kind of bleak, but that is with any introduction to a new story. You first have to know the base line material before you get into the creepy mystery crime story. I really wish it just jumped into the mysterious story line. Because although I loved the shining it did the same thing that this book is doing. Which was start with the back story and memories instead of getting to the creepy parts of the story. The creepy parts were probably the most exciting and heart pounding moments of that book, and I hope that The Colorado Kid  does the same for me like The Shining  did so well.

Claims of the Day

JimmehFTW -The painting's gritty texture, balanced use of space, selective use of colour, and dark tone leave the viewer a sense of depressing realization leading to a climactic finish.

To Kill A Mockingjay-Proenza Schouler's somber color scheme, seductive shape, and aggravated music choice, conveys a creepy and polished look for their fall 2010 collection.

The Average Life of a Teenage Bookworm-In this flash mob by Todrick Hall, the mischievous and adventurous expressions, jubilant sounds, and bustling moves, show the explosive creativity and confident energy of the dancers.

Look Up...(Now!)-This refreshingly bright photograph taken in the environmental center reflects an existence of both dreamlike tranquility and effortless freedom.

Bud in the Garden-Leonid Afremov's vibrant use of color, flowing appearance, and realistic, silky texture illustrates a feeling of whimsical relaxation and majestic euphoria.


I think that JimmehFTW does a really good job at describing and chose very interesting words to tell people about the painting. Look Up...(Now!) I really liked how they used an original picture from around Fort Wayne and it was really creative.

Currently Week 4

Page total 18

Last week 100

Well this week I didn't read as much I just finished my book and now I need to make my next choice for a book. I would highly recomend The Shining for anyone who likes to be on the edge while reading this epic horror story.

Sentances of the Week

1) She turned and he was coming for her. It was Jack and yet not Jack. His eyes were lit with a vancant, murderous glow; his familiar mouth now wore a quivering, joyless grin.

2) "Oh dear God!" she screamed to the Overlook's shadowy lobby, and buried the kitchen knife in his lower back up to the handle.

3) Then, as he closed on it, he recognized it and horror closed his throat. Not a wolf but a lion. A hedge lion.

My favorite sentance out of the little pages I read would have to be number one. At this point in the story Jack has indefinetly lost his freaking mind, he now believes that Wendy and Danny are planning aginst him to take the hotel from him. He now is out to kill Danny and Wendy with a roque mallet, how brutal is that!

Top Three Poems (so far)

1) "Gee, your so beautiful that it's starting to rain"
     - This poem really stood out to me because it really used surrealism in its poem, I also thought it was clever to use a report card at the end of the poem.

2) "First Kiss"
     -This is another poem that stood out to me by kind of tricking the reader. At the begining of this poem you think its just going to be another "roses are red violets are blue" poem. But in fact after  it gets past the gushy love part it tells us that after that it says that the girl is then just sitting in a room all by herself.


3) "Dust"
     -I liked this poem because it says god comes with his black wings which is different you would think they would be white.

The Shining 5

Well as this epic book draws to the end I am still kept on the edge of my seat reading this book all the way until I can reach the exciting finish. First, Jack was some how able to get wasted, funny thing about that is there is no alcohol in the hotel it is all dry. Yet when Wendy went down stairs to find where Jack was she could smell the putrid smell of alcohol on his breath just as she had smelled such a long time ago. But when she got closer calling his name his eyes opened up and grabbed her ankle with an intent to kill Wendy and Danny all because he was now under the control of the Overlook Hotel. After he got up he began to walk forward and choke Wendy with no mercy then Danny started to scream “No Daddy!” Wendy began to see the world darken around her every breath she tried to take burned her lungs. Then she grabbed hold of an empty wine bottle that was on a table and she smashed it over the top of Jacks skull hoping to loosen his grip. That at least was able to knock Jack out. Then get this Wendy and Danny drag jacks body into the food storage room then lock him in there! Why wouldn’t they just end his life, personally if my dad went crazy and was trying to kill my mother and I, it would be a tough decision to kill my father or let him kill me and my mother. Any ways after they lock him in it switches to Mr. Hallorann’s view point, where he is trying relentlessly to get to the Overlook Hotel before it is too late. He manages to bump into one of the people he knows from the hotel and is able to borrow a snowmobile. Then it switches to Jack’s point of view, he wakes in the pantry and is very bitter surrounded by triscit boxes eating them violently and angry. He then hears a voice and it turns out to be Grady the server and bar tender or past keeper of the hotel who murdered his family and wife. Grady then begins to badger Jack about how he is going to fail his job by not keeping his wife and child in line and being overpowered by a mere child and women was unacceptable and pathetic. Then the door was opened by “Grady” and Jack walked out and grabbed a rouque mallet, and it said in the book right as he grabbed the weapon he had a sinister smile on his face. Then it jumps to Mr. Hallorann’s story once again. It says that he was getting close to the hotel when he saw what looked like a mountain wolf pushed down the mountain because of the storm but once he got closer he could tell it looked like a lion, a hedge lion it started to attack Hallorann with vicious intent. It began taking chunks out of him by slashing its twig like claws along Halloranns body cutting him up with every swipe of the hedge lion’s mighty paw. Then it cuts off and jumps to Wendy’s thoughts. It says that she was up stairs in their room with just her and Danny but they started to hear the elevator going again and the sound of people partying and dancing, she also heard jack screaming, and of course later she goes down stairs and Jack basically crushes a lot of her bones and makes a lot of cuts in her body, you will have to wait for more of the ending on this sweet wonderful book until next week LURKER signing off.

The Shining 4

Well this week has been pretty eventful in the book; Jack has been called out on his lying about seeing things in the hotel. Well Danny this time wandered out into the hedges just as his dad did, like father like son. When Danny went out he began to play on the swing set and also went down the slide a few times then he started to hear things and if I were Danny I would have just left and been done with it but instead he just thinks to himself it isn’t real, yea that worked real well the last time when the dead old lady grabbed your throat so Danny just stays in the play ground.  Then he hears the noises again and looks over to the hedges which were now uncovered and bare with no trace of snow on top, event though they had just been covered only two minutes ago when Danny first came into the play ground . He probably should have listened to Mr. Halloran when he said stay away from room 217 and the play ground but instead he just goes right on ahead and chooses to do the opposite of what anyone says. Why he does this I have know idea, but as Danny keeps looking away and looking back he notices the lions and the dog seem to be moving closer and closer to Danny as if stalking him as their prey so he begins to run. Every time he looked back the topiary’s were closer to him, at this point I would probably be freaking out a lot! Then Danny runs up to the porch then he hears what sounds like branches breaking and he all of a sudden felt pain in his leg! When his parents came running down they were freaking out, but when Danny told them what happened Jack seemed to be the one in denial saying that Danny was lying and he took Danny to the window too look out into the topiary’s but there they stood covered in snow not moved a bit. Funny thing is that Jack saw with his own eyes and he was trying to play it off like nothing happened. Maybe trying to keep it a secret from his own mind not to go entirely insane which I think might have already happened. But when Danny said “Dad you saw them with your own eyes” Jack slapped Danny across the face!! Wendy then yelled “you bastard, how dare you hit him!” This came to a real surprise to me because I thought that after Jack had broken Danny’s arm when he was drinking he had promised never to hurt Danny again, right there and then he had broken his promise he had held so dear. This I could imagine pissed off Wendy beyond belief. She then ran off with Danny in her arms and had taken him to his room to tuck him in. When Jack had realized what he had done he immediately apologized to Danny and Wendy not knowing what came over him to do such a terrible thing to his own flesh and blood. Maybe the hotel is making Jack’s mind weak so it can manipulate him the way it wants him to, such as kill Danny and Wendy that way they can stay at the Overlook Hotel forever. 

Currently

Books: The Shining


Pages read 269-374


Sentances of The Week

1. "It was Her! It was Her!"
     This was what Danny said when Jack asked who had hurt him, Jack then turned and looked at Wendy Suspiciously. I thought he would of went off and beaten Wendy for hurting Danny but instead Jack just stayed calm and asked what happened. The real reason Danny got hurt was locked away in room 217

2.  "I hated looking at it, it was as if it had a stinger on the end."
      Jack was told by Wendy to go and see if the snow mobile worked. I think Jack is reffering to the snowmobile as if it were the hornets nest he delt with before the winter started. Even though the snowmobile could have taken the whole family to saftey Jack was still willing to stay but why?

The Shining 3/ part 2 of 2

Now back to the story, after Jack Torrence entered room 217 and when he walked towards the bath room he opened the door and the curtain to the bath was closed so he wanted to open it quick right as he opened it nothing was there just a dry bath he felt the bottom to check if it was damp, nothing it's was bone dry. The only odd thing was that a carpet was in the bathroom which was weird because all the linnens were supposed to be all put away but jack just thought nothing of it and started walking away. Just as he was about to close the bathroom door he heard a sound like the bathroom curtain closing that would have made me run as fast as I could but Jack decided to turn around and the curtain was closed but this time their was a dark figure in the tub. So jack walked to the bath a second time and this time there layed a man covered in blood and sitting in a half filled tub full of murky bloody water. Then the man started getting up and reached out for his neck then he was up to the door and all he had to do was turn the handle bit he couldnt again a dumb thing then he could feel the hands wrap around his neck. Then he grabbed around the door knob and turned and bursted right out the door and shut it and locked the door. He was also able to here the wet footsteps of some one behind the door that right there would have made me poop my pants. But Jack asked himself if he looked in the eye hole if some wet naked dead man would be right behind the door just peering back at him. After that expirence you would think he would want to gt the hell out of th over look but instead tells Wendy that there was nothing up there!! Then when Wendy decided to bring up transportation to get out of the Overlook she mentioned the snow mobile. Then next morning Jack acted like he wanted to sabotage the snow mobile so he and his family could stay there isn't that strange? So he took a vital part to the snow mobile and threw int as far as he could into the snow! Well that's all I got for you so far since I unfortunately left my book in my locker at work which is in Columbia city so etymology should be fun tomorow.

Shining 3 / Part 1 of 2

So I know I haven't blogged since last week but I have gotten a chance to read during my break at work and at school. So to carry on with the story, Now Jack is getting blamed for putting the hand mark around Dannys neck just because Jack broke his arm when he was drunk. Now Wendy is accusing Jack of hurting Danny and she ran off with Danny and locked herself in the suite with Danny. This made jack furious then he turned on the radio and it started to pick up an unusual sound then it got clearer and he could hear his fathers voice but that was impossible because Jacks father had died a long time ago then it started to tell him to kill Wendy and Danny so jack started yelling and he threw the radio down on the floor and smashed it into bits and pieces. Then when they confronted Danny about what happened he began to yell "she did it" over and over. Then jack turned to Wendy with disgust and asked what she had done. Then Danny told them everything, like his visions and how he can read people's thoughts and how the dead lady in room 217 wrapped her cold dead hands around his throat and made him look her in the eyes. So jack and Wendy were frightened that's someone could be living in the overlook hotel so jack went up to the room to see what was up there. Stay tuned untill next blog post to see what Jack Torrence finds up stairs in the restricted room 217

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The Shining by Stephen King

Pages read 120


Sentances

1."Cane him for it, Jacky my boy, cane him within an inch of his life."
     I like this sentance because it is reveling the inner conflict with Jack and his old memories of his father. This is where his father is trying to influence Jack to beat Danny

2. "Just close your eyes and it will be gone."
     This sentence is where Danny is trying to get rid of the visions in room 217

3. "glad you asked because curiosity killed that cat and it was the HOPE of satisfaction that brought  him."
     In this I think it is refering to Jack because he was curious about the hotel and getting a job would hopefully help his family out.

    

The Shining Part Two

In the part called "In the Playground" Jack goes out to trim the topiary's which are basically shrubs shaved to create an animal or any other shape. Any ways Jack went out to go trim them up before the winter storm hit. As Jack was just finishing trimming one of the topiarys he went over to the playground equipment where he began thinking of his dad and his child hood. But when he went back to get the hedge clippers he noticed the rabbit, which had been on it's hind legs, was now cropping the grass with its belly against the ground. He looked to the dog and noticed that it was moving closer and closer looking more vicious by the second. Then he yelled "no no NO NO I WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS NOT AT ALL" with his hands over his eyes, and when he opened them they were all back to there original positions.
        Also a big part that I read was when danny went into room 217. This is the room that Mr. Hallorann had told danny not to go into to but he went into it any way. When he walked in everything seemed dark but that was because Jack had closed all of the shades in every room for the winter. When he kept walking in the room the noticed the bathroom door was cracked open so he entered (bad idea) when he got in the shower curtain was closed. And of course what does Danny do, he opens that stinkin curtain and behind it was a dead woman, it said she was bloated in her stomach and she was gazing straight into dannys eyes. He Then began to run to the door looking back seeing her getting up!!! With the same deadly gaze of her eyes he ran to the door and could'nt open it even though it was unlocked and all danny had to do was pull the handle... moron. Another thing that was reveled in to book was the back story about Jack's child hood and how his Father was and alcoholic (Like Father Like Son). This also added to Jack's father beating his mother over the dumbest things but maybe this is the reason Jack drinks as well. But when Jack broke Danny's arm when he was drunk I bet he felt like his father beating his mom and I think that made him want to stop drinking. Any ways im really getting into the creepy parts of this story and I can't wait for it to get better Lurker out.

Segments Of The Week From The Shinning

1. This inhuman place makes human monsters.


2. Having a wonderful time wish you were fear.


3. "Now. Now by Christ. I guess you'll take your medicine now. Goddam puppy. Whelp. Come on and take your medicine now."

4. "You have to kill him , Jacky, and her, too. Because a real artist must suffer."

5.  He stood blinking down at the shattered radio. Now there was only the snowmobile in the equipment shed to link them to the outside world

The Shining

Well I have started to pick up on reading the shining. I started it this last spring break but I just haven't gotten the time to just sit down and read. I have picked up where Jack Torrence is slowly but surely starting to lose his sanity. He has been chewing excedrine which he only did when he drank but now he would take it for headaches. He then decided to call Ullman (the manager of the overlook hotel) and basically try to black mail him, Jack said he wanted to write a book about the overlook hotel and all of it's scandals such as the man who was found dead because of a "heart attack". Now that Jack is becoming more and more on edge he keeps having thoughts of drinking saying he needs a drink this tells me that Jack is becoming desperate. Danny Torrence (Jacks son) is able to basically read the thoughts of people around him and he can tell that his dad is losing it and he can also tell his Mother is becoming scared of Jack as well. I can't wait till it gets to the weird crap in this story.

Starting to lurk

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