The Witch and The Wizard setting

This book is about a brother and sister named Whitford and Wisteria Allgood, they had the perfect family, friends, school, and just in general a perfect life. Until one night when the government had not just taken them from their lives but ripped everything from them, and on top of that the government had claimed that these two normal kids had Powers like in Harry Potter, that they could cast spells and other things like this. So they sent the brother and sister to a cellar/prison type thing and locked them up inside and never let the two see daylight. Whit and Whisty had not exactly enjoyed their stay at hotel creep out, because not only was it a small room for each of them including no light and one nasty old bathroom to share, they also had to deal with the horrifying guards standing watch over the two dimly lit cells.

Whisty then later decides that being locked up in a horror fun house is no fun at all and tell her brother that they need to leave, and somehow they manage to use their powers which they have never used before to unlock the cell doors. Next to them were those big goofs just sleeping on the job, which made it easier for them to escape. On the way out all they can hear in the long, brick lined walls are the echos of their feet splashing against the water on the floor, until one moment when they hear a loud and frightening roar that sounded like a lion but when they reached the odd sound it was no lion but a huge 3 headed slobbering growling dog. Who had the biggest bright red eyes, with claws that could rip apart anything, and there was no way of getting around this beast, but some how they did.

why did i choose Witch and Wizard

I chose this book because first of all the cover looked quite interesting to, it is the letter W covered in flames with a black background and at the ends of the flames there are two faces those two faces are the main characters which i thought was cool. When ever i choose a book i normally read the brief summary on the back which i did do with this book. Just reading the first line had intrigued me to keep reading, and when i got to the end it said " And then you were told that everything you loved-- your books, your music, your pictures-- were banned forever". Don't you want to see why everything would be taken from you i know i did.

Another reason why i chose this book is because some of my friends had read it and said it was a great read and that i should take a look at it. Sometimes when others tell me to try a book i don't really like the book that much because it is not my first choice in genre of books. But this book was the exact genre that i love to read, plus once i started reading one the third page there was action happening which doesn't really happen in a book and that was what really made me read this book.

Author of Witch and Wizard

The author of the book Witch and Wizard is James Patterson. He grew up in a small town located in Newburgh, New York, he later than went to college in Manhattan University and also Vanderbilt University. His genre of books that he normally writes about is  Romance, young-adult fiction, and Thriller. Some of his well known novels are the Alex Cross series and Maximum Ride books, in the Alex Cross series alone he has sold so far 270 copies. The video below is just about James Patterson himself and his books.

http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/18/15975443-james-patterson-inc-alex-cross-author-on-churning-out-bestsellers

Blog Reflection

Click here to view my best blog post. I think that my post of reading skills follows the rubrics requirements quite well. The rubric say to have in my post a text- to self, world, and text connection; and in my post I had all of them. Here is the text-to-text connection A text-to-text connection is the amount of action and mystery in the first chapter of this book acts like the action and mystery in my summer reading book Just After Sunset. Already in the beginning of each book there was a problem.. Since I had just started the book I had many questions about what might happen in the book.

Next trimester I want to read the next two books of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and see what happens to all the characters. I also want to start to write, free write not long stories, just five minutes a day to practice my writing skills. Another goal I have for reading next trimester is to read more then three days a week, maybe to read five to six days a week. I want to improve my reading skills like how complex the writing/storyline is like.

Analysis

In the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows it is 19 years after Harry had defeated Voldemort and him, Ron, and Hermione have all grown up and have children, their children also go to Hogwarts now as well. "Two large cages rattled on the top of the laden trolleys the parents were pushing; the owls inside them hooted indignantly, and the redhead girl trailed tearfully behind her brothers, clutching her fathers arm." (Rowling 502) I infer that Harry's children will do great things just like he did and that they too will help the witch and wizard community very much. Like saving the school from death eaters attacking everyone, or helping the head master with many tasks. "Don't duel anyone till you've learned how." (Rowling 605)

Anything post

So who is excited for Halloween??? I know i am I mean who doesn't like free candy and dressing up. Does anyone else think that the school should have given us a day off on Friday because we may or most likely will stay out late, plus no school is AWESOME, too bad they never do give us a day off. Happy Halloween!! >;)

Theme and Summary

For my theme and summary post i am going to do it one the other book i have been reading other than Girl with the Dragon Tattoo because i have not done any posts on it so far. The other book i am reading is the seventh book of the Harry Potter series called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The theme of this book i think is, go after what you believe is right to do not what others think you should do. This theme as changed really quite a bit throughout the book because the main characters Harry, Ron, and Hermione are constantly battling what each of them think they should do to fight or destroy Voldemort. I couldnt really understand or find the theme in the book until i got to almost or really the end of the book, which i guess there were little themes that were spread out here and there in some of the chapters that i did not think would be the theme. It came to me when Harry was going up to Voldemort and forgot what everyone was telling him to do and just thought what he should do, and he did exactly what Harry potter would do, not listen to what anyone says and follow your gut.


In the Deathly Hallows so far Harry, Ron ,and Hermione have ran away from their home to find a way to kill Voldemort, many many days of looking through books and different cities they found what they have to do to kill him. What they have to do is they must find and destroy seven horcruxes. If you don't know what a horcrux is here is an article to help you out http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Horcrux. Now finding these things are not easy because each one could be anywhere and once you find and destroy one you have to start over with the next one and so on, they have destroyed already 6 out of the 7 horcruxes. Right now they are stuck trying to find the seventh one but they don't know it is right under their noses, and the horcrux is... in the book which you are going to have to read to find out what happens with the last horcrux.