Blogging Assessment #1

  Tragedy. It happens. Just how bad it is is only changeable by how you react to it. One character, though, has reacted to tragedy in a terrible way. This character decided to change their personality and M.O. entirely. This character of course, is Bluestar reacting to Tigerclaw's treachery and attempt to kill her to become ThunderClan's leader. When the fire broke out around the forest, Bluestar only accepted the offer from Crookedstar to shelter ThunderClan for a few days, not giving them the proper time to recover. This is only furthered by her accusing StarClan of waging war against ThunderClan

          Bluestar does not appear to be getting much better in her psyche at all; it would be wise to assume Bluestar's mental injuries are permanent. The only solution for something this bad is to wait her out until either these permanent injuries miraculously heal or she inevitably reaches the end of her lifespan. This is one of the more stressful parts of the series where the books aren’t as enjoyable because the relationship of Bluestar and her clan.

1.       Some words that are uniquely used by me are ones such as ‘miraculously’, ‘M.O.’, and ‘inevitably reaches’. These show my personality as a writer by being complicated and advanced vocabulary that most people would not use on a regular basis. These words being used in the order that they were (not as a phrase, but chronological order) specifically makes up the train of my thought.

2.       One example of diction, or more specifically, Elevated or informal diction is, “until either these permanent injuries miraculously heal or she inevitably reaches the end of her lifespan”. This is elevated diction because it used above average amount of medium-advanced diction. An example of Syntax is when I say,” Just how bad it is is only changeable by how you react to it.” I used the word ‘is’ twice in a row in this sentence. I used it twice because the first ‘is’ is tied to the word ‘it’ that appears first, because the first ‘is’ is tied to a word, it cannot be tied to another word that proceeds it at the same time. If I had done the latter I would have been incorrect with my grammar.

 

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          Tragedy. It happens. Just how bad it is is only changeable by how you react to it. One character,  though, has reacted to tragedy in a terrible way. This character decided to change their personality and M.O. entirely. This character of course, is Bluestar reacting to Tigerclaw's treachery and attempt to kill her to become ThunderClan's leader. When the fire broke out around the forest, Bluestar only accepted the offer from Crookedstar to shelter ThunderClan for a few days, not giving them the proper time to recover. This is only furthered by her accusing StarClan of waging war against ThunderClan.
          Bluestar does mot appear to be getting much better in her psyche at all, it would be wise to assume Bluestar's mental injuries are permanent. The only solution for something this bad is to wait her out until either these permanent injuries miraculously heal or she inevitably reaches the end of her lifespan. This is one of the more stressful parts of the series where the books arent as enjoyable because the relationship of Bluestar and her clan.

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          After reading a little bit more, it is starting to look like Tigerclaw is going to be a traitor to his own clan after possibly murduring Redtail and attempting to kill Bluestar. But when Fireheart attempts to tell Bluestar that Tigerclaw is a traitor, Bluestar refuses to believe him, knowing that Tigerclaw must be a good cat. So because of this, Fireheart decides to put it into the back of his head and to not further pursue it due to Bluestar telling him not to ask her again.
         Another big storyline in this book is ShadowClan has stolen ThunderClan kits. This forces Fireheart and Yellowfang, the current medicine cat for ThunderClan and ShadowClan's former medicine cat, go to the ShadowClan border to rescue the kits. When at the border, YellowFang goes to get some of the elders that are against ShadowClan taking ThunderClan's kits. They then precede to go into the camp in a frontal attack and rescue the kits along with removing the dictator who was terrorizing ShadowClan from power. This is important because this dictator later contributes to the first story about Tigerclaw and the potential for him to be a traitor.

Krista Ramsey Post

          In this column, Ramsey explains why it is a bad idea to give teachers guns to prevent school shootings. "As a board of education, you know better than most how much is already asked of teachers and how far their energy and talents are stretched." This is a powerful line because it clearly lets the reader know that the teachers already have lots of responsibility on them and if this passes they also have to carry a gun! Ramsey has the sentence directed at the board of education that plans on making this regulation, as if the whole article was intended for the board of education.
          Her writing style is one that is patient and takes a lot of time. This is because she takes a paragraph for every point, and always takes the long way around when making a sentence.

Do you think teachers will ultimately have to carry weapons?
What do you think should be done instead of giving teachers firearms?
Do you think there is a great chance that a school shooting could happen to us?

Warriors Book 1: Into the Wild post #2

          After continuing to read this book, it becomes very evident that the abundance of characters starts to become confusing for the author because she uses previous names for characters instead of their current names'. This is not a huge problem, it is obvious when it happens and very easy to correct the mistake in your mind.
          When reading this book, the creativity allows for the story to have multiple themes at once, so far, the theme appears that the theme is warning against over-ambition. This is what the theme must be because one of the best warriors in ThunderClan really wants to become clan deputy and then leader and will stop at nothing to achieve that status. The consequences of this potential theme have yet to be revealed, but it must be fairly obvious that there will be some sort of a consequence sooner or later in the story. I think the author thinks this theme is important because some of the most ambitious people have become very powerful, but were not suited for that power. This is what I believe that the negative result of the ambitious warrior in ThunderClan might be, he will eventually become a clan leader, but be terrible at it or be exceptional but not to the gain of the people that he would be leading.
          The setting of this story in in a forest, but the geological location might be a little bit harder to find. There is snowy winters in the forest, even with references to blizzards that might eventually pop up every once in a while. This must mean that the story takes place a fair distance from the equator. There is also a lack thereof mention of hot summers, so it would be safe to assume that this might be in the northern great plains or in southern Canada.

Warriors book one: Into the Wild

          I have recently started reading the first book in the Warriors tri-series, Into the Wild. So in a forest, there exist these four clans of wild cats, ThunderClan, RiverClan, ShadowClan, and WindClan. These clans are highly competitive for food and prey and will stop at nothing to support and be loyal to their respective clans. Bordering this forest is a neighborhood of Two-legs, or humans. In one of the houses dwells a kitten named Rusty, who eventually gets curious and wanders into the forest to only be greeted by members of ThunderClan.
          What I think of this book is that the author is trying to make sense of behaviors of wild animals in an unrealistic, but creative fashion. This extensive creativity and altered realities make it very possible to make multiple stories out of this setting. A.K.A. the two spinoff series created after the first, individual series. The one thing I really dislike about this setting is that due to the fact that the author employs tons of charaters it is really easy to have a lot of them die and because you knew them alot it does make you upset.