Charlie is a 15 year old , who is starting his first year of high school in freshman. He writes letters to an anonymous person, explaining his experiences as they happen. In these letters we learn about his family and friends. Charlie writes about Michael, his friend who has committed suicide. He describes how much he misses him, and also he writes about him and Susan who used to be his best friends. When he describes his family, he said that it is consist of himself, his mom, his father, his brother and his sister. He talks about the Holidays they had spend together. Later, he becomes friend with some senior guys who changed his life. Before he meet them, Charlie was not really popular, but later he started to hang out a lot with them, and he started making thing he did not do before, like smoking. One of the major themes in this book is the bad use of drugs and alcohol because for them, that is a way to scape of all problems. I found this book really interesting because is not like the other books narrating a story, it`s about a diary. I had only read one book like this, that is called "Ask Alicia" it is also about a girl let herself got influenced by friends and became drogadict. This teach us that drugs and alcohol are bad and they prove us with stories, so it is really interesting to read about this stuff to learn ab
Basically, the main idea of the first 50 pages of this book is that Melinda, the protagonist, tells about her first they of class. Know she is in 9 grade, she is a freshman. Melinda talks about her classes, and how she is being bullied by her classmates and by her ex best friend Rachel. She only talks with the new girl at school. Melinda feels insecure of herself at this moment of the story because she feels that she is inferior than the others.
The Stefan`s diary is a book write by L.J. Smith. It is based on a serie called The Vampire Diaries. This book is set in 1864 during the Civil War, Stefan and Damon Salvatore, the two brothers were still humans. Damon worked as a soldier. Stefan was the one that should carry the Salvatore name with pride. Later when his father Guiseppe wanted Stefan to get married with a girl named Rosalyn Cartwright, he realizes that carring the Salvatore name was not the future he wanted, he wasn`t in love with her and to carry the surname he should get married with Rosalyn. Katherine a beautiful girl, arrived to Mystic Falls, Guiseppe allowed her shelter after her family died in Atlanta, that was a problem because she turns the Salvatore`s live upside down because both of them fall in love with her, so they started to compete for her love. Damon spend more time with Katherine while Stefan was following his dad`s rules of marring Rosalyn. Weeks later Rosalyn died, so he was happy to continue competing with hir brother to get Katherine`s love. Although, their competence was interrupted by a series of mysterious deaths spreading across the town. The citizens thought that it were animals attacks, but some people knew better, the vampires had returned to Mystic Falls, they had to end with them at any cost. One night, Stefan discovered that Katherine was a vampire and he was horrified, but she compelled him to keep her secret. The Founders of Mystic Falls knew that the attacks came from vampires, so they were going to make a plan to end with them. Stefan was terrified, he was worried about Katherine and her friends, Anna and Pearl. Stefan tried to convence Guiseppe that no all vampires were evil, Guiseppe thought that Katherine was one of them, so he spiked Stefan's drink with vervain and when Stefan went to Katherine and she bite him, she was poisoned. Giuseppe arrived as Katherine took her true form in front of Stefan: a fanged and red-eyed monster. Damon was furious with Stefan, because of his fault Katherine was in problems, she would be killed with other vampires of the town. Stefan decided to help Damon rescue her. They tried to distract the deputies long enough to free her, but both got shot and killed in the process. Stefan wakes up the next day to discover by Emily that he is transitioning into a vampire. She gave him a ring so he could be protect from the sun. At fits Stefan was confused, but understands what has happened to himself. Emily answers a few of his questions and confirms that Katherine had actually killed Rosalyn. Stefan goes to see his father who reveals that he was the one to kill him. He tries again, and in defense, Stefan`s throws him. He tastes his father's blood and becomes a vampire, but when he offers to save Giuseppe, his father refuses and dies. Stefan later attacks Alice, a barmaid, and takes her to Damon. He forces Damon to feed, completing his transformation into a vampire.
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines is about a young black man that observed a robbery were everybody was killed except him. He was sentenced into an electric death. The protagonist of the story was Grant, he is the one that helps Jefferson to think himself as a man before he dies. There is not a real antagonist, I think that they are the white people because they were very racists. the setting of the story was The Rainbow Club and Jefferson´s cell. The conflict was that Jefferson was sentenced to death and Grant needed to help him, but he didn´t knew how. Later he also learn about Jefferson and he help him to die as a man.
I liked the story because it shows us that even if you are in a bad moment you can pass through it and that it was very exciting how Jefferson was learning to become a man. I didn´t like a lot the writing because it didn´t have enough dialogue and it was very repetitive. I would recommend this book to people that give up really easy because the book teach us that you can´t give up easy, even tho |