Final Blogging Assessment

There are many words/phrases I used in my blog post to demonstrate my voice and personality as a writer. For example in one of my blog post I stated, “If you want to know what happen to him read the book.”(Nair) This shows my personality as a writer as it shows that I am not willing to give out endings of the book.One of the words I have used to demonstrate my voice is, “ After being an outstanding player in his team and district, he got into a situation in which his age was questioned by coaches from different teams.”(Nair) Outstanding is a casual diction. Casual diction makes it easier of the reader to understand what I am trying to say. It also shows that my voice casual and straightforward.       

      

 There are a lot of diction in my blogs for example in one of my post I stated, “I would advocate this book to anyone who likes baseball or sports." (Nair) The word advocate is an Elevated diction. This enhances my voice as this elevated diction buts an emphasis on what I am trying to say. Some of the syntax I used in blog are sentence length and punctuation. I used the comma and had a medium to long sentence length in my post.For example in one of my post I stated, “He has no way to prove it because he has no mother, no father, and no birth certificate as it is at his native, Cuba”. (Nair)This enhances my voice because it gives out a lot of information I know from the story. It also emphasis on the main point I am trying to say on my post. Comas also break up my thoughts and make it easier to understand my post.

Setting of the book- The Hunger Games

The story takes place in Panem. The main character in the story is Katniss Everdeen. The story takes place in the future. We know that it takes place in the future because of the things they use in the story for example, Pita and Katniss wear some type of clothing which would ignite but would not harm them. This proves that the story took place in the future because we don’t have any type of a clothing now days that we can wear which would not burn us. This shows that the setting has an important role in the plot of the story because it lets us know about when and where the story taking place.

Discussion question: Do you think that the setting of a book is an important part of a story?

Text to world connection

Text to world connection in my book is to the Nazi Germany because in my book the people were always starving to deaths and have no freedom they all were divided in different districts and were not allowed to leave the allotted area. This is just like the concentration camp Hitler had during World War 2. The Jews were like the people living in different district as they both didn't have enough food and also because they both were not allowed to leave their allotted area.

Discussion question- what is the text to world connection in your book?

Information about Suzanne collins-the author of The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins was born on 10 august 1962. She is an American television writer and novelist. She is best known as an author of New York Times best selling series the underland chronicles and the hunger games trilogy. She has won a lot of awards like California young reader medal, Georgia peach book awards for teen reader, etc. She earned her master of fine arts degree in 1989. She wrote more than 10 books and her fist book was written in 2003. Most of her books are science fiction but she also write books in different genres like fantasy, young adult fiction etc. I think that I would like to read her books because they are mainly science fiction books and I love to read science fiction books. 

Discussion question: what kind of genre do you like to read? 

Why I chose this book?

I chose the hunger games because I have seen the move of this book and wanted to see what the difference is. I also chose this book because I like to read science fiction books. This is a science fiction book and so I can relate to it easily. I am also reading this book because I want to read other book from this series and so if I read this book I can understand more about what they are talking about in the next book. This book was rated 4.2 out of 5 in good read and so I chose to read this book.

Discussion question: what are the ways you chose a book?

Book review of the book Heat by Mike Lupica

I would rate the book 4.5 out of 5 because I think it has a great plot. The author uses some great diction. One bad thing about the book was that it was a little slow. I would advocate this book to anyone who likes baseball or sports. It is also a great book for people who like fictional stories. Summary- This book is about a 12 year old gifted baseball player Michael Arroyo. The story takes place in New York near the Yankees stadium. After being an outstanding player in his team and district, he got into a situation in which his age was questioned by coaches from different teams. He had no way to prove it because he has no mother, no father, and no birth certificate as it was at his native place, Cuba. If he could not prove his age he would not be allowed to play anymore for his team and if people know about his secret then he would be separated from his brother. If you like to know what happen to him read the book.

Discussion question- What would you do if you are in Michael’s place? 

Setting of the book Heat by Mike Lupica

The story takes place in Bronx, New York. Near the Yankees stadium. The main character of the story is Michael Arroyo as the story is based over him. The story took place in 2006 when the book was published. I know this because they talk about a quote said by Joe DiMaggio which was framed in the old stadium. The stadium was replaced in 2007. The characters in the story all wore cloths like we normally wear. This shows that the story took place recently.

Discussion question: Have you ever had difficultly finding out what time (year) your story took place?