Breathless: Critical Thinking Question #1 *spolier alert*

the book Breathless by Lauren McDaniel is about a boy named Travis. he is the best diver in the state and is on his way to becoming the best in the country. when him and his sister (Emily), best friend (Travis), and girl friend (Darla) go on a boat ride; he attempts a dive that goes wrong and ends up in the hospital. they find out he has bone cancer and has to cut of his right leg. he can't dive and he is home schooled. he hates his life and doesn't see the point of living. so he wants to commit suicide by drowning in the water, which is were he wants to be. he lets Travis in on it but soon Darla and Emily find out. they don't want him to but he doesn't care, in the end he ends up in the hospital because of seizures a day before he plans to commit suicide. the cancer spread all around and he has to cut of his other leg and arm. the next day he is dead, everyone thinks its because of cancer but someone (either Travis, Darla, or Emily) actually killed him with insulin, because he mentioned it; and he really didn't have any more fight in him, and he was suffering. we never find out though who did it.

 there are obvious hard things happening in the book, like Travis having cancer and his family dealing with it. but there are other things deep down that every character is going through that are also really hard. 

Darla's father hits her and her mom and he doesn't care about them at all; especially Darla. he insults her and tells her that there is no point for her in this world. Travis is the only person who she is actually happy with and who really likes her for who she is, so when he has cancer she stays with him all the time to make sure he is never sad. when he tells her he wants to commit suicide she is really broken, she says she loves him and doesn't want him to die. bit part of reason i think is because, is hes gone she will be forced to be home more and she has no one else who cares about her.

Emily has always looked up to her brother. he has been her role model all through her life; but she has also lived in his shadow all through her life. she has never been called Emily but instead "Travis's sister" or "the amazing diver's sis". she actually likes this and she doesn't mind. if Travis died she would have to deal with people saying things like "the boy who had bone caner's sis" and would have to break away from her shadow. but she would also not have a role model or anyone to look up to anymore.

Travis lives in a trailer home with his mom, she doesn't have a job and she messes around with guys for money and she is an alcoholic. he has to work to pay for food, rent, electricity, water, and gas for his car (hes only 17!). he has always been staying at Travis's house since 3rd grade, anytime his mom was home with a guy or he couldn't take things anymore; Travis would let him in to stay over, feed him, buy him things, and they were best friends. also Travis kapt all his secrets about his family. If Travis dies then he would really be one his own and he would have no one to tell his problems to. he would no on to go to or to lean on when times are tough.

Heartless:Critical Thinking Question #3

i  recently finished reading Heartless which is the seventh book in the Pretty Little Liars series. i think that this critical thinking question is a really good one for this book because a lot of different things have happened and everyone has a different opinion about if justice was really served in this text.

even though Billy Ford was arrested and charged with Alison's and Jenna's murder, i still do not think that justice was served in the text. the reason that i think this is because throughout the book the girls were harassed by a person named A (aka Mona and Billy) and A basically ruined there lives. A told their deepest secrets and made them admit their secrets, and this has affected their lives forever. there is no way that they can changed what has happened. Spencer's whole family got torn apart and nobody in her family even acknowledges her anymore. Aria's family also got torn apart and she is forced to live with her dad and his student soon-to-be wife and mother who he had an affair with. Hanna has to live with her dad his wife-to-be and mean step-daighter who has tried to ruin her life and has turned her dad against her.

what i think has to happen for justice to be served is that things would have to somehow go back in time to the beginning of the year when Alison's body is found and somehow find out that it was Bully Ford. if this would have happened then there would have been no A and no harassing and each girl would still have their perfect and fun lives. they wouldn't have to go through all the torture they went through: getting made fun of by the press, rejected from family, seeing a lot of people die.

i think that A is the person that blocks justice because,  A would always send the girl notes giving them false clues about the killer and the girls would go and tell the police. so then it would steer them even more of track from finding the real killer, which made them get harassed even more. if there was no A then the police would have found out the killer a while back and things would go on. they wouldn't have to see innocent people die like Jenna, Toby, and Ian.

I think that if this were happening in the real world then there would be justice because i think that the police would find out in a little while who A was and they wouldn't let this drag out this much. and i think in the real world the killer would have been found even earlier around the tome when Alison dies which was 3 years ago. i mean the body was in her backyard how do you not search good enough to find something that was in the girls house?!?! then there would be no A and things would have been better. but then the books wouldn't be good a all!

Killer *Spoiler Alert*

i just finished reading Killer which is the sixth book in the Pretty Little Liars series. in this book i feel like everything changed and everything sort of came out! i mean everything that we thought we knew about Alison's "killer" is not right at all. 

Officer Wilden was suspicious to me since the beginning of the  book and i expected that he was part of something. i mean when the girls found Ian's body in the woods he waited a whole 2 hours until he went and searched, who would do that? he was also doubting the girls and always kind of stalking them. 

he is doubting that the girls saw Ali after the fire and now most of the girls are starting to doubt themselves also, except Emily! they girls confronted him about how they found out that him and Jason (Alison's older brother) were behind the whole thing but h denied everything. he was playing dumb. this is actually the first person that i actually truly believe was behind the whole thing.

as time goes on i think that the girls are going through more and more hard things, they just don't get a break!

Aria's moms new boyfriend was actually supposed to be Aria's. he has made many moves on her and he says that if she tells her mom there will be consequences, and that she should just leave. wanting to make her mom happy for once she moves back in her dad and his pregnant soon-to-be wife. she hates is there and is avoiding her mom. 

Emily was actually having a good life. her parents accepted her as she was, she was getting good grades, the swim season was good, and she fell in love with Isaac. but they had a fight and she won't forgive him and she is really getting affected by the whole Alison problem.

Hanna's mom left her for a job in a different country, so her dad moves into her house with his wife Isabelle and step-daughter Kate. her and Kate hate each other and are always fighting and bickering and Kate is trying to steal all her popularity in school. and her dad always takes Kate side and doesn't believe a word she says.

Spencer is having the worst problems. her sister moved out and her parents completely hate her! they won't talk to her and they won't eat with her and they having taken everything away from her. but its all her mom her dad is trying to be nice but her mom says she deserves it. she thinks shes adopted and gets scammed by a women in NY claiming shes her mom and she wipes her bank account clean which had more than 10,000,000 in it! the only person she had was Andrew ad he won't even talk to her now.

i can't wait to see what happens next!!

Blog Review

 the post that i chose to do a review on was Anouk's post on Harry Potter. the reason that i chose the post was because, i like how it was crafted and how she connected it to the world. it was really good how she took a a scene from the book and turned it into her end statement which was:  So like if you just let a problem sit there in the air, just like all your other problems the will start to pile up and  become overwhelming.  i agree with what she said that we shouldn't put problems off we should solve them the right way the first time. it is something that everyone does and its awesome how she got this from a garden gnome.


the reason i read this post was because, i found it engaging because, she didn't stall on little simple things. she went straight to the big idea and what she really wanted to say. her post also wasn't extremely short or long, it was a really nice length. something i could take from her and put into my blog is not add in unnecessary things and to not stall or drag things out to much. i could also relate to it because i stall sometimes and i put things off.

i never read the Harry Potter series because i'm not into fantasy or books with mythical things in it. but her post made the books seem really interesting and made me want to read them.