Long Walk To Freedom

Author: Nelson Mandela

555/625 pages

Overall, even though it took some time to realize it himself, Nelson Mandela's main goal was his country's freedom. Nelson Mandela, from the early time of his 20's ran away from his home in Mqhekezweni and from this beginning of hardships to come, he realized slowly the racism and discrimination in South Africa. After years of going under hiding, being arrested, and pulled away from his beloved family, after the Rivonia trial from 1963-1964, Nelson Mandela and his colleagues were sentenced to life imprisonment. This did not relinquish their hopes, but being taken from his family, not able to even hold one's own wife's hand for nearly two-decades is a hard circumstance to be in. From all the obstacles Nelson Mandela had faced, including needing three surgeries, injustice in prison, and even controlling his own temper, the anger and desperation of being deprived of his family and memories were something he could never fully overcome. Yet anyone can agree that Nelson Mandela has overcome his many obstacles, even with the detestable conditions he lived through, Nelson Mandela lived a long accomplished life. I rest my case. 

Blog post 11,9,2014

Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Author :  Jules Verne
This story is about the main character find out a secret from 

a fallen page of a very old book, that letter is written by a 

guy who already traveled to the center of the earth. And 

then he and his uncle start the journey to the center of the 

earth, they see lot of interesting thing on they way they went. 

At last they became very famous.I thin the main character 

will became a very famous scientist to find out  

the information his uncle didn't find out yet.

      

Sing No Evil

-Note: I could not gain access to my historical fiction book, 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit', so I have to write about my current book instead. Apologies-

Sing No Evil is a comic book written by two Finnish artists, JP Ahonen and KP Alare. The book is 181 pages long, and I have completed it twice. The main character of the story, Aksel, is a stuttering, off-key singer in an underground band, The Perkeros. Aksel has mid-back length blonde hair and (sometimes) a scruffy beard, and he is short and, more or less, stout. He is nervous most of the time, but he can be very aggressive. He's short tempered and a little bit insane, but he has a strange charm about him that makes him likeable and funny. An example of his short-tempered-ness is when a new singer auditions for the band, Aksel is quick to judge him and is extremely rude.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Hello dear readers!

Yes, if you are wondering, am indeed reading Ashley's book report book: "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."

So, the story begins when a the main character's grandfather gets murdered, or killed by some sort of beast (I haven't figured out what it is), and his grandfather had warned him before. He decides to investigate this, and on his birthday, he receives his grandfather's journal. In it, there is a letter to him, which has nothing to do with the beast that killed him, but instead, how much he misses the protagonist. Later, he gets on a boat and and starts to go to the island that his grandfather told him to go to to be safe.

That's all I read. Bye!

Kristina

Apollo 13 Characters

Hi all,
This week, I am still reading the book, Apollo 13, which I will do my book project on. It was written by James Lovell, and Jeffrey Kluger. This morning I read a lot, and now I am on page 122, meaning I read 82 pages. I will need to read a lot more, and a lot faster so I can actually finish the book!
The main character within my book is Jim, or James Lovell, who is actually the author or the book. It is mainly his biography, because it describes quite a lot of his life, before and after the Apollo missions. It also goes into depth about the Apollo 8 mission, which Jim Lovell helped command.
In the book itself, it doesn't describe Jim Lovells physical characteristics. But, luckily, I have the internet to be used to my advantage. He has brown hair and eyes, and he is 1.80 metres tall. He doesn't have many distinguishing features.
As he grew up, he was really interested in rockets, but his family wasn't that rich, so he couldn't afford to study it deeply. He didn't have the money for college tuition, so he joined the navy. Here he grew up and learned a lot about being a pilot and flying in the Navy. He faced quite a lot of challenges, and even almost got lost. He is quite an inventive person, which was one of the reasons his plane almost got lost "The novice pilot had always been troubled by how hard it was to make out the numbers on the flight panel, and in idle moments during the long trip to the far east, had collected spare parts from the supply office and invented an ingenious little light that he attached to the knee board." (Lovell, Kulger 74) This shows how he is innovative. He is also very interested in knowledge, the primary reason he actually became an astronaut. "To Lovell, the acquisition of knowledge seemed like a pretty good reason to make a lunar trip" (88) He is really an interesting person, who cares about knowledge and strives to learn more - the reason he is making his expeditions to the year.
Thank you for reading, Gemma!

Candyfreak!

Hello Everyone!
So, I actually just started reading my book ("Candyfreak" by Steve Almond) this weekend, and so far, I really like it! I'm currently on page 32/261. It is a book in which a main character is the writer himself, talking about his journey through life as a candy freak. I wouldn't know to describe the look of Steve Almond as it isn't mentioned in the book, but if I were to use my imagination: I would probably say he's a fat-ish guy (not in an offensive way though), with brown short hair, and brown almond eyes - since his last name is Almond which reminds me of almonds, pretty self explanatory. As for his personality traits, I imagine him as a really wise, smart guy. That is because he wrote this book and he uses some pretty interesting words and writes peculiar sentences and statements you wouldn't hear every day. Ex. vividly, meaning strikingly light or intense "It is worth nothing the one story the one story about my father's childhood that I remember most vividly, which is that his father used to send him out on Sunday mornings with six cents to... (Steve Almond 11) (It's a really long sentence so I'll just stop there) And example two - rakishly, meaning having a disreputable quality of appearance "I loved his mouth, the full, pillowy lips, the rakishly crooked teeth. (Steve Almond 13)

Thank you for reading! I look forward to 'devour' this book entirely really soon as it got me hungry every time I read a new paragraph...Candy is awesome! (But horribly bad for you...oh well...)

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER

# Pages: 25/226
Author: James Cross Giblin

Hello dear blog readers! For our new book project, I am reading a book named: "The life and death of Adolf Hitler". What you might notice is that this book project of ours is regarding a non-fiction book. I selected this book because I am truly interested in finding out more about the tyrant that lead to the murder of 60 million people. How did one man destroy a part of the world? In this case, this is a biography. Today, I will mainly be focusing on Hitlers appearance and traits, not his terrible deeds. I might talk about this in a future post.

TRAITS: Adolf Hitler was an extremely intelligent man. After all, a un-capable and not so smart man would have not been able to lead such a nation of the caliber as Germany. Though he was never great in school, he did have one gift, his speaking skills. He was able to convince people into doing things that he felt were right, not what the people did. He was able to manipulate one whole nation, into doing what it has done. As well, he was very determined in his acts. For example, he waged a war with  a huge amount of nations in order to achieve his goal, the dominance of the Aryan race. The Aryan race is a race of people that primarily inhabits North-west Europe, which includes Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, and some others. What I want to prove is that his determination to succeeded was so great, that he even went to war with the rest of the world, and even though later it was obvious that the Reich had suffered a defeat, he still fought on, and he died*** determined. Here is a line that proves his war on the rest of the world: "But the most dangerous- and ultimately most destructive-twentieth century dictator was Adolf Hitler" (2). In general, we can conclude that Hitler truly had all the traits a leader needs, in order to be successful. I am not saying he was successful, but the way he guided his nations and his ideas was truly impressive, but what they actually where, was of course, terrible, and out of any normal standards. A line from the book that proves he was in absolute control was: "Perhaps the best way to start is with the fact he was a dictator- a leader with absolute power and authority over his people" (1). This by itself does not prove a lot, but would you expect that an un-capable son of a Austrian custom-official would be much?

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Adolf Hitlers physical appearance was very interesting, and a little bit un-usual. First of all, he was not very tall. He was only around 173 centimeters (5'8). What is interesting is that another huge leader, was also not very tall, and yet he conquered many parts of Europe, and by this I mean Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon was around 170 (5'7). His actual appearance in his later life, and his characteristic appearance was like this:
-Black Hair
-Black and large mustache
-Big ears
-White skin
-Blue eyes
In order to see for yourself, here is an image of him:

As a leader of a nation, he was always very well dressed, and in most cases he wore a suit.

In general, I think that this book so far is great. It truly provides the reader with a lot of detail about his life, and how he came to be what he was. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in history, since he is an extremely important historical figure. As well, I personally find it important for someone to find out more about such a key person.
NL