Burkamper,+Jaelynn

The book I have chosen to read this semester is __The Awakening__ by Kate Chopin. I have never read it before and know almost nothing about it. This book was recomended by my teacher Mrs. Olson and I strongly trust her judgement. I am really excited to start reading this book because she is suppossed to be such a great american author! We will see I guess. This summer I have been very busy reading for my Honors Course this coming spring. The first story I read was __A Farewell to Arms__ by Ernest Hemmingway. I do not recomend this book what-so-ever. It is a very slow paced read and lacks a real plot line. However, if asked to read this book the last "book" is the best part of the entire story! More coming soon hope you enjoy my blog! :) Comment!
 * Journal Entry #5 Final Blog Friday, September 30, 2011:**
 * Characters and Summary:** In Scarlett Letter there were four Main Characters who really stood out. Most Importantly was Hester Prynne. She is the lady the book revolves around. She is arrested in the town because she has commited adultrey, aka cheating on her husband. The whole town finds out when Hester is pregnate and her husband has not came to town yet. She is sentenced to wear a scarlett "A" on her clothing for the rest of her life. Hester, surprisingly is the protaganist of the book. In a weird way she always is trying to be optimistic and live her life best she can. Hester's daughter's name is Pearl. Pearl is fascinated by her mothers mark on her chest. Pearl has a very bad attitude and temper to her and makes her mom's life that much harder. Later on Pearl's father and Hester's mister are uncovered. His name is Mr. Dimmesdale. He is a very well respected man and well liked. It's hard for him to keep his true identity hidden from the rest of the town. Another main character is a man who, in order to hide his true identity, goes by the name of Roger Chillingworth. Roger is really Hester's husband. Hester discovers his ture identiy but realizes that he is a much different man than when she had last seen him. Through out the book Roger torments Dimmesdale because he know that Dimmesdale took his wife a way from him. Eventuall Dimmesdale learns Chillingworth know all of his secrets. Roger is definantly a huge antagonist through out the book. He really causes the most problems and trouble.
 * Rating:** I give this book a 1 only because of how extremely challenging this book is. It's truely like reading in puzzles. I honestly believe that each chapter in the book could be summerized in one to two sentences in modern english. I'm sure it has made me a much stronger reader, but it was not worth all of the stress it brought along with it. I would not recomend this book unless it's a class project.
 * Wiki Reflections:** I do really like the on line blogs, how ever they are not the most convient things ever. I know that the whole out of class only reading is very difficult espcially with such a small time frame to get the book done. I think that it's sometimes forgotten that we are still only high school students and we can not only be commited to English class. I know that there are still quite a few students with out the technology capabilities of others and readers would be surprised at how many people still don't have computer access or internet at home. I believe it un fair to not offer class time for reading or for blogging.
 * Journal Entry #4 Friday, September 16, 2011:** I have some not so great news I am afraid... I didn't read my book this week even though I the best intentions too. I was extremely busy and just had a hard time squeezing it in. However, I was going to read at play practice until I realized my ipod died in my bag! Yet another down side to the whole Ipod thing. I wasn't completly with out reading though. I had my new Seventeen magazine in my bag with me and I read some stories in that. Not quite as indepth as The Scarlet Letter I know but better than nothing right???
 * Journal Entry #3 Friday, September 9, 2011:** Another week of school is over and boy did it go by fast! I was very busy this week and that means I didn't read as much as I would have hoped. I'm still reading The Scarlet Letter, and so far I'm pretty confused. I'm only on chapter 3 so I still have quite a ways to go! This week I've learned about Hester Pryne . (Spelling? I am not very good with so bare with me :) ) She is the main character so far. She is the lady that wears the red A on the bossom of each of her outfits. Throughout the chapter it mentions the baby she is holding while she is on display for the town to see. I believe she is being punished because of the baby she had before she's married, but she won't express who her mister is. In this part of the book we meet a Native American who is curious about the events going on down town. He seems to express some sympathy towards Hester. So far I'm enjoying the book, it remains to be a difficult read to follow so that makes me that much of a sllllllllllower reader. I think there is more to the Native than I'm picking up on this far into the book. He seems pretty mysterious if you ask me. PLEASE: If you are reading this book let me know so we can chat non-stop about any questions we might have! ;) Thank you hope you keep reading!
 * Journal Entry #2 Friday, September 2, 2011:** Attention all of my blog readers, (which is not adressing very many people ;) ) I am sorry to inform you that I will not be reading Th//e Awakening// anymore. Instead I have chosen to read // The Scarlet Letter //. I hear great things about this book although most say it's difficult to read. I am prepared to do the best I can reading this great piece of American literature. I absolutely loved the movie Easy A and it had a lot of references to the //Scarlet Letter//. I have started reading the book and all the previous cridicts are right this book a toughie. I'm having a little trouble following along. I'm just finnished with chapter two and I have yet to really get to know any real characters. So far I've deciced that they are talking about this girl who is being tortured or eventually killed, but the writer fanatcizes about the beautiful red letter embroyederd on her dress. Mostly this far the book has just been paragraphs of people talking about this one lady. I do not know what "standard" page I am on because I am, for the first time, reading this book on my ipod. It says I'm on page 186 or something close out of 800 some pages. (Keep in mind their is about 100 pages about the author before the book even starts. So far reading on an ipod has it's advantages like being able to highlight any where on a page, clicking on a word and it tells you the definition, and easy bookmarking tools. However, I'm having a hard time focusing this far on the book. If you are interested the Scarlet letter is a free book on Ipods or Ipads. It's under the app, ** IBOOK **. It's so far been a really easy program, and who doesn't love free stuff! Check it out and let me know ;) !
 * Journal Entry #1 Thursday August 25, 2011:**