Check Point #3: Analysis

     I have been reading the same book for a week or 2 now and I keep refering back to an earlier chapter, chapter 2. I do this so often because it helps explain some of her issues with her father and their relationship together.
     In this chapter Emmaline actually finally for the first time e-mails her father. Which is all started when she was in 5th grade, 10 yrs old, and she had a project on her family tree. This communication started with a letter then it went to emails where they talked about school and her classes. These discussions as she grew closer to applying to a college turned to her applications and what school she would apply to and that he would pay for every thing.
  "A week later, the first book arrived. Test Best: Preparing for the S.A.T., I think it was called, although in the months following he sent so many more it was hard to keep them all straight. Books about taking tests, writing powerful essays, making your application stand out, ..." pg.35 (The Moon and More).
  This was how her months proceeded after the dinner she had when her father and his family came down to visit Emmaline. But all of this information made her mother nervous with her past knowledge that Emmaline's father wasn't very good at keeping promises. She says "It was a big promise, though, coming from someone who did not exactly have the best track record. This was somethining my mom, in particular, could not ignore." ... "But money and promises were real. as was the disappointment I'd feel if he wasn't able to deliver. 'I just don't want you to get your hopes up,..." pg. 36 (The Moon and More)
   She is backed by this when she eventually gets a response from Columbia that she got in but when e-mailing her fater she gets a response a while later "I am so sorry to have to tell you this, but due to unforseen circumstances, i will not e able to supplement you tuition to Columbia." pg. 38 (The Moon and More). So she is left with a full ride to East U her parents most favorable choice.
  This chapter in the book makes her and her fathers relationship go sour so she is very uncomfortable when ever she talks to him now when they later meet for dinner.
   


 

The Moon and More; Characters #2

In this post I am building onto last weeks post about Enmaline. As in the past week I have developed more understanding and knowledge of the characters.

   Luke, is Emmalines boyfriend as they have been dating for 3 years. Luke is the type of person who  is very outgoing and doesn't realize what has happened until later and tries to go back and fix it. Although the problems keep reoccurring like moon phases. I say this because the moon always gets more and more visible then it reverses and does the opposite, as the moon never has if any at all changes in how the order of thing happens.

Theo, a guest at the sand dollar rental vacation home catches Emmaline's eye. Theo as a character is very persistent, over worked and, naive. As a predictive intern for a strict documentary director he strives to do his best never accepting failur which also reminds me of a clock aa it never stops/gives up till it's time is up. 

Incarceron; Book Review

Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher is an action filled fictional story based around a cube world that no one knows how big it is. In that cube are billions of prisoners that struggle to survive in a poor lifestyle. As Claudia attempts to help Finn to escape from the cubed world. Throughout the process of Finn escape there are many hurdles that make the trip seem impossible and never ending. Although you'll have to read it in order to see if Finn escapes or not.

  To give you some insight on the book incase your thinking of reading it here is my view point on it. It is very suspenseful, you won't want to put the book down. Action filled with confrontations, solutions, uncovered long unknown truths, etc. With great amounts of juicy description it will make anyone enjoy it even if it isn't your genre.

The Moon and More; character

  In the Moon and More, Emmaline is the main character and for this post I'm going to just focus on her. With little detail on the other characters in my I book I am not able to go into detail about them. 

 Emmaline, overall so far is a round and dynamic character. A high school graduate with a boyfriend which she has grown more and more untrustworthy of over the course of the summer. She's become very frustrated and uncertain of somethings and somewhat closer to her family which in the beginning she had been more frustrated with in my view point. Her realization that things don't always turn out how you would want becomes supported by events that occur  throughout her progress of her changing personality. This personality change has slowly gone from careful and trusting to not so careful and unsure of promises and the truth. Emmaline's interaction with other characters varies upon who it is but mainly it is kind, caring, and happy but when talking with family members it sometimes becomes tense and frustrating. Overall in the my knowledge of Emmaline so far she is a kind, generous, caring, and sometimes easily annoyed.

Keeping the Moon

    In this book I was intrigued by the different but very similar topic that the author took. In The Moon and More, Colie the daughter of Kiki Sparks the famous woman weight lose instructer/influencer. Although the view of the book from Colie as she stay with her aunt in Colby, North Carolina. But at the same time her mother is in Europe. Even skinny colie still sees herself as the fat girl that gets picked on in school all the time and is embarassed about it. Over the course of the story she get rid of many security blankets, overcomes her fear of others bullying her, and has a small romance. But the most major thing of all is that she becomes more comfortable in her own skin and with her personality querks, hair, weight, etc. She couldn't of done all of this with out the help of. Morgan, Isabel, Norman, and her aunt Mira. But the main thing in Sarah Dessen's book is that you can do anything you just have to believe in yourself.

    I didn't reveal much about the book but if you enjoy a bit of romance but not to much but enjoy when personality discomfort is revealed and is taken away with no security blankets to cover up with. To get a better idea about Sarah Dessen's books click the link. Overall this book is quite suspenseful and gives you a wide range of different views on life and different topics/subjects.


   

                                         

The Moon and More

      In The Moon and More, Emmaline is all over the place in the beginning of the book as the author jumps from topic to topic giving you a basic over view such as her conflict between her biological father and how he doesn't follow through with some things, her job at a vacation rental, that is her family's business, her boyfriend Luke, and finally her best friend that is a guy Morris that struggles to keep a job. So one of the bi questions I have is that she even able to keep up with all this drama or is it going to break her.
   
    With Emmaline's life you could compare it to every one or even just myself that people are constantly coming, going, and staying but there are always bumps in the road that make a big or small course change. But you could also say those trips along the bumpy road during this book could make her journey even better or worse. Lastly, she has to over come her fears and ask her father questions such as why didn't you keep your promise, why didntnyou respond like your earlier email, etc.
      Finally, from all this detail on the beginning of the book I am able to predict that there will be many hiccups along the journey with Emmaline throughout the book as it progresses on.