Outside Reding Blog #4

As the book continues we learn more about the characters' struggles. We learn that Edward has been struggling with the question of whether or not he is strong enough to not attack Bella. We find this out when Edward says, "But this afternoon, I was still … undecided. I am sorry about that, it was unforgivable for me to behave so"(301). But Edward did decide and when he did, he learned that he was stronger than he had given himself credit for.
Another person who struggles is Billy Black. He is a leader on the reservation. He knows that Edward and his family are vampires and he is struggling to decide whether he should tell Bella's dad what Edward is or not. On the one hand he wants Bella to be safe, he does not want her dad to get hurt but on the other he knows that will brake the treaty and that Bella's dad will not believe him anyway and will just become mad. He finally decided that he will leave the choice to Bella because she knows more than he suspected and because he does not want to ruin his friendship with Bella's dad.

Outside Reding Blog #3

This novel is similar to other novels we have read in class and movies we have watched. To begin with Bella like Richard Wright, from Black Boy, lives with her mom because her parents are divorced. Also like Richard she sees her father very rarely and at the age of 17, one year older then Richard when he moves north and lives his mother, she goes to live with her father. Another reason why she is like Richard is because like Richard she has just moved. Richard is always moving and having to get used to a new situation.

Bella is like the main characters in Black Boy, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The 400 Blows because she is in some ways old for her age. She shows us that she has always seemed old for her age because her mom is so irresponsible when she says, “‘My mom always said I was born thirty five years old and I get more middle-aged every year.’” In response to Edward’s comment, “‘You don’t seem seventeen,’” (105-106).

Another way that Bella is like the main characters in the books Black Boy and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is that she is learning more about her surroundings and the world she lives in. Richard learns more and more about segregation and racism as Black Boy continues and Oscar from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, learns more about other people’s lives, learning that everyone has a different life. Bella finds out that the world contained things that are not normal. She says, “Well, they were something. Something outside the possibility of rational justification was taking place in front of my incredulous eyes. Whether it be Jacob’s cold ones or my own superhero theory, Edward Cullen was not… human,” when she finally accepts that there are more things in the world than she knew (138).

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Reasons for wrighting memoires

People write memoirs for many different reasons. To begin with people write memoirs to teach other the lessons they have learned in their life. Another reason why people write memoirs is because they need to tell others what they have been through in life, such as love, loss, death, and other joys and sorrows. The last reason why people write memoirs is just to share a story with the world that they think is interesting. These are some reasons why people write memoirs.
There is a lot of power in telling our own stories. Telling a story can change people’s feelings. It can make people sad or happy. It can even make people cry. Telling stories can make us hate and fear. Lots of stores make us anxious sitting on the edge of our chairs wanting to find out what will happen next. Another power that telling our stories has is the power to influence decisions. This is proven all the time in courts. The stories that are told in court may be evidence but they are also stories. These stories influence the jury's' decision as to whether or not a parson is guilty.

Richard's Hunger

In Black Boy Richard is hungry for many things. To Begin with he is hungry for food. Richard lives in a poor family and he has only had enough to eat for an extended period of time twice when he stayed with his aunts and uncles. because of his normally being hungry he does not believe that he will not need food soon the first time he has all the food he wants so he keeps stashes of food first in his clothes and then all over the house. Another problem with this huger is that it makes him week. He is always lacking in food so he can not play as other children do because he is not strong enough and he does not have enough energy. The last bad effect of this hunger for food is that because he is so hungry he does not do well in class because he can not concentrate on the lessons. If he could concentrate on his lessons he would have a better chance to get more food because he could get a better paying job.
Another thing that Richard hungers for is books. Richard is amazed by books. He is more excited to sell the paper that he later finds out is written by Klu Klux Klan sympathizers, because he gets to go home and read it after he is done selling than because he is making money. Another way that we can see that Richard is hungry for books is because he reads the school teacher's books even though he knows his grandma does not want him to. Richard is hungry for both food and the knowledge that he can get from books.

Outside Reading Post #2

In Twilight, the characters have struggles and conflicts. To begin with I think Bella’s worst struggle so far was when Jacob Black, a boy from the reservation, told her a story about werewolves, Quileutes, and “cold ones”, vampires, indicating that the “cold ones” are the Cullens, Edward’s adoptive family. In his story, Jacob indicates that the “cold ones” are not supposed to be dangerous, but they are still not allowed on the reservation. Bella struggles to grasp the fact that Edward might be a vampire. There is a conflict within her mind as to whether she should still be with Edward, but in the end she realizes that it does not matter whether he is a vampire or not because even if he is she will not leave him. She says “I decided it didn’t matter” (184).
Edward has his own conflict raging within. He knows that though he does not attack humans and he loves Bella and wishes to stay with her, he is still a danger to her because, as Bella informs us at the end of the chapter, he “thirsts for my blood” (195).