The Hate You Give

Do you have your own thoughts about the world that you kept to you yourself? Well in the book The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas talks about that kind of topic. In this book there is different type of girl that is African American named Starr that lives with her Mom, Dad and some real and step siblings. Starr lives a pretty happy/normal life. She is a really nice girl but most of her friends are white so that was kind of weird for her. Anyways while Starr goes to a party with only 1 person that she knows she is very unaware of what was going to happen next that was going to effect her life a lot. Something happened that she could have never believe happened. Bum, bum, bummmmmm. You’re going to have to read the book to find out what happens next. I think this book shows a great lesson to all readers and this book has amazing thoughts that might be relatable to almost everyone. This book does have a little of foul language but other than that it was still a great book to read. This book is perfect for anyone that is into problems in the world that are affecting certain genders, races and cultures. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars because it look me a little while to get the meaning of the book and reading it but afterwards I discovered that this book has great meanings to it and this would be a nice book for teens or adults to read.

Quarter 1 Refections

This quarter went by really fast. I feel like the next couple months are going to go my even faster. Pretty soon I will be in high school and so will all of my best friends will too.  In my opinion this quarter for me was pretty good because I didn’t get any falcon fouls1 and I felt really comfortable in all my classes with the people around me. My grades are not as bad as I thought they were going to be and I did put a lot more effort in all my work this year. I feel like I asked for more help this year compared to all my other years at school in my whole life. I tried my best to finish as most as the work I can do but I will still happy that I tried instead of just giving up. My goals for this quarter  were to participate, ask for help when I need it and to have a great mindset towards my teachers and class work. When I got my report card for the quarter I was actually a little happy because my grades are up and they are still going up, I felt like I had a more positive attitude towards this year compared to last year and years before. I also still had the feeling where I could have done better in most subjects compared to others. Next quarter my goals are going to be to participate more and to get my stuff done and double check my work.




*falcon fouls- a peice of paper in my school that you get when you don’t follow any basic rules like, no eating in class, being late, misbehavior, inappropriate language,etc..

WE REAL COOL Poem and The Outsiders

I read the poem We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem really made me think a lot about The Outsiders and about the characters thoughts and feelings. This poem has a lot of the same actions and emotions that were included in both the book and movie The Outsiders. I pick two of my most important connections that I thought made the most sense and went a lot more with the book and the movie.A line in the poem that really stood out to me was “We sing sin” because I thought that this line had a huge connection to what I thought went along with in it both the book and the movie.  The line made me think of all the trouble that the greasers went through because the line makes me think that the greasers all sing trouble or they all sins they committed.This line of the poem made me think of The Outsiders because this made me think of the time in both the book and the movie when Dally stole movie from a convenient store and then was chased down by the cops. All you could hear was Dally panting because he was out of breath and the police car sirens screaming super loud. I thought that the line went along with that part because all the greasers have committed sins and crimes and a whole lot of bad things, I also thought that the line in the poem said “ we sing sin” so I thought that maybe the sirens were kind of like “singing” a song of sin because Dally did something bad. A second line that I though connected to the movie and the book was the line “ we real cool.” I liked this line because made me think of so many parts in the book and the movie where all the greasers felt like a family and they were there for each other and they felt real cool together. They think they look all tough around the socs because they think their group is a lot bigger than the socs.One specific part that I thought in the book and in the movie where I thought the quote “ we real cool” fits along perfectly was when the greasers were getting ready to go to the rumble to fight against the socs to see who wins. On the way there the greasers were doing a whole lot of backflips to impress each other and they were mocking the socs too. They all thought they were really tough and real cool too. This poem really had a lot of connections from the book and the movie because the poem actually sounded like a poem that the greasers would think of or make. I really liked this poem because it was short but didn’t need a whole lot to describe connections or details to already have for you in the poem when you can think for you in your head. This is why I chose/read the poem We Real Cool.

The Outsiders Book to Movie Comparison

The Outsiders book and movie have a lot of similarities and differences and the characters and actors show a lot of details. Some similarities are that both book and movie are based on the same locations the characters went to, they both included the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. Sadly, Johnny and Dally die in both book and movie. Cherry says “Things are rough all over.” in both things. The quote “Stay Gold Ponyboy.” appears in both book and movie. In both the book and movie Johnny killed Bob the Soc and him and Ponyboy had to ask Dally for help then they when on a train to New York to go to an old abandoned church, then they each cut their hair but only Ponyboy bleached it. There were a lot more things that both of the book and movie had in common, but these are the main points in the book that are important in the story.

Some differences from the book and the movie are that in the beginning of the movie it starts off with the drive in movie where Dally, Ponyboy and Johnny meet Cherry Valance. In the book it starts off with Ponyboy walking home from the movies. Second, Darry pushed Ponyboy down instead of slapping him like in the book. Third, Cherry Valance never said “don't talk to me at school” to Ponyboy. Ponyboy and Johnny never went to court for killing Bob. Next the person Paul Newman (A person that Ponyboy wishes to be) wasn't mentioned in the movie. The last difference I noticed from the movie and book was that in the movie it never mentioned that PonyBoy got beat up by the socs. These are all the differences that I noticed in the movie that were different to the book.

The characters from the book are kind of like the characters that I pictured in my head when I was reading the book. In the movie I felt like the characters had good personalities and they bring more details and different points of view to the story. I know that this movie is old and I wish that we can remake this movie with new actors and actresses to make it more detailed and more modern like. I feel like the book was a lot more specific than the movie because in the movie there were not a lot of the same scenes like in the book. I really enjoyed reading the book then watching the movie because I can compare and contrast the similarities and the differences and I can have my own opinion about the book and movie. These are just some thoughts that I had about the movie and the book.