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Book 3 Book Review

By Grant Davis the esteemed editor and chief of bad reviews.com

The Help, ha ha come again?

                 Law, back In the book the help it set back in the year 1962, Located in Jacksonville, Missouri shares the story of black maids being oppressed by the people they work for such as lower than minimum wage pay and other harsh occurrences. The book written by Kathryn Stockett has amazed women everywhere but it seizes to amaze me, she has written the book as a realistic fiction concept. In my review I have stated the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about the help so please enjoy.

                Set in 1962 the books plot is sound with enough to keep you reading but no enough to make you want to tell all your friends about the book. There are a decent amount of characters and how Mrs. Stockett switches them in-between chapters isn’t the best way it seems maybe every few chapters so you can get to know the characters better that ten pages and then another. When reading the help I often found myself looking back to see what character this chapter was using forcing me to reread what I had already read only in a different context. The themes include equal rights and maybe a few other minor themes but the main theme is about equality. The writing style used by Mrs. Stockett just assumes that everyone says “law” or “yonder” there maybe a few characters that don’t but it seems she just assumes that everyone uses that type of language no matter where you live in the south. She just seemed to generalize the whole population uses the same language style even if some people are more educated than others.

                Well before I saw what I think of the help I would like to remind you I am a man which to my newfound knowledge is not the target audience. So to all you women reading my review so far saying that’s not true well to me it is. My rating for the help barely makes a C- I gave it such a high score because even if it didn’t appeal to me it still had some good word choice and a decent story and remember  “All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries” (312 stockett). To women this book may be amazing but I can barely turn the page because I have such a strong sense to through it in a bottomless pit.

                 The help shows some vivid detail in the scenery of Jacksonville and almost the same description for every maid large and round. Also she stereotypes all of the people in the book. So as if you’re white your mean to maids and have to wear ten pounds of makeup, if you’re a black woman you go to church too much, if you’re a black man all you do is drinks and so on “She tells me that I once commented that colored people attend to much church”(154 stockett).  Right there a perfect example of stereotyping in the help.

                 As I read this book I noted several weaknesses and only a few strengths. But the purpose was easily identified. The purpose is to inform the people who read it about the hardships of that the segregated or black people faced in the time period before segregation was deemed unconstitutional. It was that easy to see what it was about the help just refers to what the white women of the time referred to underpaid maids as.

                The rating system at bad reviews.com is simple. We tell you how it is. The book the help barely makes the scale coming in with an average rating of a C-. This review may seem harsh but in all honesty it was a god awful read and something I would not like to experience ever again. This has been a review by bad reviews.com

               

               

               

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Post Numero Cinco

A book to me to be considered non-fiction has to be true down to the inch basically because the genre nonfiction is supposed to be true. It can’t have changes in it to be more interesting. That’s what we call fiction because it’s not all true there can be portions that are true but if it’s not all true then its fiction not nonfiction. Nonfiction books to me are books that are historical or contain information that has been proven to be true.

Half-truths to me are fiction because the author exaggerated the story. If it’s a good story but it has half-truths I would consider it to be a good fiction book because it’s not all true. To me it does matter that they bent the truth because then part of their nonfiction book is false and there for supposed to be fiction not nonfiction like they may say it is. Also because they bent the truth they created major repercussions that hurt them in the book writing industry.

 David shield has never been so far off to me. The fact that he wants to erase all of the lines between genres is ridiculous. Of course we need lines between the types of genre. Genres help people find out what interests them, if there are no genres to show people what they want to read I would assume that people are less likely to read. We also need to label books nonfiction and fiction to show people what’s true and what’s not.

Adapting WWZ
by grant davis

in the book wwz the story is made up of several dozen non inter connecting storys or intervies is what the author calls them.three specific sceens that should be kept in the movie are the battle of yonkers becasue it was the first time that they had a huge full on battel with all of there advanced weapons and still could not take of all of the zacks (zombies). the next would be when the chinese nuclear submarien went awol and defected with there familys trying to save them and the last would be the blind japanes man who was one of the very few people left in japan after the evacuation. the reason that these may seem like they are strange thing to keep are because my book has no storyline only a un employe going around interviewing people.

i would not need to pick specific sceens to cut because in retrospect you could cut every other short interview because all the book is, is a UN employe going around getting a large amount of peoples storys about how they survived the zombie apocalpys. the characters, the only character you would need would be the main character and then all of the other people he has interviewed. but by the trailers you can see hollywood has added a family, a love intrest and changed the fact that the zombies couldnt run but now of course they can run. i still do think that there will be a good adaption but im do not know how they would format the movie.

Book 1 Project: Divergent Amusement Park!

         Come one and all to the Divergent  Amusement Park set in a dystopian Chicago with all the fun you can imagine. The park has all five factions put into separate parks around the huge area of the rebuilt “Chicago”( please note this is prewar with all factions intact.). The park will make sure you are treated just like you would be as if you were in the real faction in the book. The factions all feature signature rides dauntless has the most the larges roller coaster in the park is located in the dauntless faction we call it the cave coaster. The erudite features large simulation rooms that you can use for fun just think of something and if you’re lucky and your Divergent  then you can control the simulation. And the other factions feature many other fun rides and shows. The park features over five hundred knowledgeable employees per faction and keep in mind the Divergent  Amusement Park is a scale replica of the on in the book the staff will treat you like it would be in the book so watch out in dauntless. Only because of Veronica Roth and her support were we able to achieve such a feat for all of you Divergent  book lovers out there.

2.         We decided to create the Divergent  Amusement Park because of the huge popularity the book series. The idea of the Divergent  Amusement park also comes from the author veronica roth who contacted us to build it. The park correlates to the book by having all of the landmarks and buildings from the book. “The train passes the erudite compound, which is dark now. It looks peaceful from a distance, and inside those walls, it probably is peaceful.”(456 Roth) we feature a totally functioning erudite compound. “How do you survive in the dauntless compound”(144 Roth). The fact is like four from the dauntless faction if your scared of heights make sure you have control over your self or you might have to take a detour around the dauntless faction. The fact is that the size of the undertaking to build the faction less safe houses to the time needed to create the faction headquarters. Beware if you venter in to the factionlesses territory we may never see you again.  “To live faction less is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community"(20 Roth) The faction less portion of the park features shows depicting the book with stage actors.  

            We know that people will love to come to the park because of the great popularity of the book and that many people will love to see the actual Main Building of the erudite or the underground caves and caverns of dauntless. But don’t forget the rides I recommend the dauntless cave coaster or feel free to go see where they make the serum for the populous in erudite. This well help the book and help the park it’s self by making everyone who visits want to read the book to experience the park even more and readers  of the book will come from far and close to see the setting of the story in its accurate form. This park will give Divergent  such a huge amount of media attention just because of the sheer size of the undertaking to build this amazing amusement park. This will encourage many “super fans” the chance to make a pilgrimage to see the setting in Divergent  just like many fans of other books do. 

What Is A Book

Question: What is a book?

 

A book is an idea that you can see your own way. A book poses many traits and things that everyone can interpret their own way. Specific traits a book can possess are basic things like an idea, an entertaining story. I agree with Joe Meno and what he says about books being a place because it doesn’t matter if you read on an IPad or a kindle or a actual book. I also agree on how he states that eBooks are just variations conforming to our ever expanding society. I don’t agree with Nancy Jo Sales because why does it matter if I can feel the book and smell it? I can get over hundreds of books on my IPad and keep them on there I don’t think I could carry that many books around at once. I don’t think that there is something magical about a book I think you yourself make the book magical not what you read it on its just a different device on which to read.

Question: Does it matter how you read a book

 

            To me  it has no effect on what I read a book on because I used to only read books Real books until about eight grade when my mom begged me to change from reading books to reading on a kindle and finally I decided to start using a kindle and what do you Know I loved it!!!!!! From that day I still read on a kindle or my IPad. I don’t really think that it matters to me anymore it’s just whatever is the most convenient for me. I say that because I have a Unlimited amount of books I could get on my IPad but only a limited number of actual books because of their weight.