Insurgent April 24

Prompt: Settings
Pages Read: 90-140

          The first setting in the book was the Amity compound. The Amity compound was completely self reliant it grow it's own food made it own electricity and needed no help from the other factions. The symbol for Amity is a huge tree so in the middle of their compound Tris described it as enchanting and beautiful. The compound also has a beautiful orchard that has apple trees and other fruits that the Amity grow. The way the  Amity act is like a Democracy but to the next level.  Every little thing is voted for, every person has a role even if is not the most important role they still feel like they are very important.

          The next setting they went to was the factionless compound. It was not sanitary and was not the private at all. Their was garbage everywhere, their was also hundreds of mice and rats running around feeding of the garbage. But the factionless where trying to make the place look nicer by panting and the walls. Everyone sleept on the floor everyone used the same bathroom they did not really have space to move around comfortably . The factionless compound was still the largest faction out of all of them.

          The third Setting was  the Condor compound. The Candor compound had black marble floors that had there symbol in the middle. The compound looked like a dormitory it had small rooms lined up down long hallways. And the biggest room in the compound was the auditorium that is where Tris and Tobias where questions under the truth serum. As you got higher in the building the rooms become somewhat like jail sels this is where the people that would create trouble stay.

Insurgent April 14

Prompt: Questions and Summary
Pages Read 0-90

This book is very interesting so far. It picks up after Tris and Four stop the simulations and are heading to the Amity compound. But before they are able to stay they will have to be accepted by the Amity citizens. They were able to stay but under one condition they can not bring any violence to the compound and they also have to do daily chores.

That night when Tris was walking in the orchard she over hears Marcus and Jeanine the Amity leader talking about something that sound important so Tris follows then and hears something about the flash drive she took from the simulations. The next day Tris catches Peter trying to take the flash drive and they start to fight. They are then given a warning from Jeanine about there agreement. Tris decided to not go to dinner that night and climbed up a apple tree and sat there instead. But after an hour she hears cars witch only means Erudite so she runs to all the Abnegation people and warn's them about the Erudite people

They all then run quickly to there rooms and put on Amity clothes so they could blend in and try to escape. Erudite then call an all amity member meeting to try and find Tris and the rest of the run aways. So Tris and them are forced to go but they end up fighting there way out when they see a erudite member coming to them. The erudite also had Dauntless members with them and they had very good shooting skills so they picked of a good number of Abnegation citizens while they were trying to escape.

Mice And Men April 10

Pages Read 0-35
Prompt: What happened  and Questions

This book is really good so far. It is about two men that are trying to make a living.  One of the men is short scrawny but is in charge of the other man his name is . The other man's name is Lennie he is huge and muscular but he is very forgetful and sometimes ruines it for george and him. Lennie and George are friends but not really close friends because george is always insulting and saying how easy his life would be is Lennie wasent their.  But George still cares about Lennie enough to not just ditch him and leave. Lennie likes soft thinks so h like's to pet rabbits, mice, and puppies  because of their soft hair. Lennie would always find mice and catch them so he could pet them until he accidentally squishes them to death.

George and Lennie both want to have money wich it something they dont have so they are now looking to find a job on a ranch but the bus driver kicked them out and they had to walk a couple of milles to the ranch. After walking in the woods for a day they finally got to the ranch and they met there boss and the bosses son Curly.  Curly dosent like big people because he is small himself so he likes to pick on Lennie.

Some Questions I would have

1) What inspired the author to make George smaller but make him in charge of Lennie

2) Why did he make Lennie forgetful

3) What made the author write this Novela

4) Why does Lennie like soft things

Divergent April 3

Pages read 50-487
Prompt: What happened

After Tris chooses Dauntless she then leaves her family and moves to the dauntless camp. She trained for weeks going through three stages of training to see what their ranking would be. She had to go through combat, fear simulations, and a fear room simulation. Tris ended up coming in first in all of her trials. Because she was divergent she was able to manipulate the simulations so that she was able to get a major advantage over the rest of the kids.

The night after the induction ceremony Tris was awakened by the rest of her initiates marching in what seemed like a sleep. She followed them and ended up finding Four. Four was her counselor that helped all the initiates with there combat skills. Four was the only other person that was not acting like a sleep walker. He told Tris that the cerium they took was actually a controlling devise runed by the Erodite faction. The Erodite leader wanted to destroy the Abnegation faction so that they can take over everything. The cerium did't affect Tris or Four because they where both Divergent.

Tris and four both slipped away on the train so that they could stop the Erodite's. But their where just to many and they ended up getting captured by the Erodite's. Four was then given a cerium that made him think enemy's were good and friend's where enemy's. Tris was about to be drowned in a pool of water when her mother came and saved her. They where headed back to where the rest of the Abnegation people were including her father. They where almost their until a soldier shot and killed her mother but Tris got away.She then found her dad and her brother hiding. They both agreed to help her destroy the controlling room. They where able to shut it down but not before her father was killed to trying to escape.

Poetry Reflection

Gabriel Anderson

3/5/14

Poetry Response 

Poetry plays a role in my life in multiple way’s. My mom and dad are both into poetry my mom is a little more into it then my dad. She has kept books from high school and collage that are filled with poems and names of authors. My dad doesn't have books filled with poetry like my mom but he still now’s how to right it he sometimes gives me ideas on what to right. Poetry sometimes brings my family together when we they help me. One day when my sister goes into the 7th grade she is going to have to ask me for help just like how I asked for help from my parents. Over all poetry has brought my family together. 

I  do think poetry does belong to every person. Poetry dose not just belong to the rich but also belong to the poor. I even think that poor people need poetry more than the rich because poetry can give inspiration and hope to the hopeless, poetry gives them a way to speak there mind without being judged. I went to a poetry slam in Chicago once, some people there did not have a lot of money. But that didn't matter to them the only thing that mattered to them was to get there message through to the people. I think poetry belongs to everyone even if they are poor or have a lot of money. 

I think life experiences affect the author’s poem in many different ways. First of all I think that if an author has a not so bright life then they would be influenced to right a dark poem. Something that proves this is when I went to a poetry slam and most of the poems where about struggles and hardships that they had to endure when they were young. I also think that some of the characters in the poem could be based off of a person that played a significant role in the authors life.  Like if the person encouraged the author to purse a dream in real life then maybe the author could have written a poem about how the person encouraged them

Divergent March 6

Pages Read 0-50
Prompt: Characters

So far we have met only two main characters. The first one is Tris Prior she has a brother named Caleb we will talk about him later.  She is sixteen and is about to take a test that will help her decide what faction she wants to be apart of for the rest of her life. She is part of the Abnegation faction currently but then you take a test where it will help you figure out what faction she wants to go in for the rest of your life. You can stay in your faction or leave and go to another faction but once you choose there is no going back.

Tris was terrified to take the test because she still has no idea what faction she want's to go in.  She is also worried about being faction less. Faction less is when a person does the virtual test and the test resultes say that they don't belong in any faction. This is kinda like hobos but they get food and things like that from the government. After she takes the test the resultes say that she is divergent. Divergent is rare it is when a person shows the same aptitude for several factions. In Tris's case she is equally aptitude for Abnegation,Dauntless, and Erudite.

The next main character is Caleb his sister is Tris. Unlike his sister he is not nervous for the test because he nows what he wants to be.  Caleb is vary courteous and mature just the qualities that are qualified in Abnegation. He also has a lot of confidence and knows what he wants to do. Unlike his sister he always follows the rules he never questions he never argues he just does what needs to be done. Him and his sister both always look out for each other but they are both have completely different personalities.

Rules February 27

Prompt: Character
Read 0-50

        Catherine is one of the main characters in this book. She is a really good drawer she does the best when she is drawing faces and portraits. She has a brother named David that has autism. She doesn't really handle it that well she just always want's to avoid him. Like when she has a friend over she always leaves the house so that David doesn't bother them. She also is kinda annoyed that her parents never pay any attention to her and that there whole life revolve around him.

        Even though catherine has a hard time dealing with it she still does love and care about her brother. Like during the whole book she is telling him rules that will help him not get into trouble or will help him later in life. Some of the rules she tells him are Chew with your mouth closed or no toys in the fish tank things like that. Also when her parents are gone she has to take care of David she sometimes draw pictures of him to make him happy when he gets angry.


         David is also one of the characters in the book. He is Catherine's younger brother that has autism. Every week he has to go to a therapist where he learns to control his emotions and things like that. Dave dose not really know simple rules that we learn that is the reason why Catherine has to wright him all those rules.