Reading Blog Reflections

The post on my blog that best exemplifies how I analyze complex characters, analyze development and theme and show thorough textual evidence throughout the post is the post I did around the beginning of December, last year.

http://farbersreadingblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/summer-reading-what-i-did.html

 The blog is about how I spent my summer reading (what book I read to do my project on). Howevger, I didn't just say 'Well, I read *gibberish* over the summer and I liked it. Fin' No. I took my time typing that up. I rummaged through the pages, both physically and online, to refresh my memory as much as I can about that book. I remembered the author, characters and plot of the book, so I typed that onto my blog with great detail and effort (even though there's not that much effort required in typing up a simple post), but this wasn't a simple post. I put my back into it. Nowadays, my blog posts are kind of dismal, because I have nothing to say. I am doing things poco a poco now, but that post, the one you are reading about right now on this amazing blog I made, my brain was a roladex of a million cards. Fortunately, I found ever card I needed. So the way I analyzed my characters (who do have complex traits, indeed) is pretty long. "It's about a girl named Rosalind, whose lesbian parents die in a car accident (like Paul Walker did a few days ago, may he rest in peace). After a lot of (soul) searching, she moves in with her biological father, Sean, a single man in his mid-thirties whose only friend is an unsuccessful lawyer. He is ecstatic that he finally has someone living with him, but still has second thoughts when it comes to responsibility and taking care of the child. For example, when he notices Ros smoking on the rooftop, he doesn't bother telling her to stop, but just emails her to never do it again, or at least not at his house. Their bond grows stronger and stronger to the point when he goes running from coast to coast in search for his daughter after she runs away to find out more about her late parents." About one third of the entire post. This also included some evidence of progression of theme. The bond between Sean and Ros becomes so strong that Sean acts like a true father figure. He travels coast top coast in search for the daughter that technically wasn't even his. He just donated the sperm.

My goals for English 1B is that I wish I could analyze books like this more. My goal is to do that then. Another goal is that I read more often. It's good for the brain. And my final goal is that I study harder and not just wing my tests. That's not good, and usually leads to failing. Well, that's it. That's all I had to say for now. Ciao.