Social Awareness #1 option 5

   This post is to respond to the song World on Fire by Sarah McLachlan
on how she writes a song and makes a video without any of the
professional equipment to work with so that she could donate to people
in need all around the world instead. She would've needed $150,000 for
that entire video too, so that shows that she is really dedicated to helping
people out. Also her video that she showed instead could be very usefull
in raising other people awareness because of the examples of how much
of some money could help many people, and to proof for this is that
the proportions she showed amazed me how $3000 could provide 10,950
meals for all those starving. It also saddens me that we people in America
are really wasteful though, and that with $3000 we used on wasteful
things like buying $100 shoes which you'd threw away after a year or
so. I think this music video is a big eye opener and we should spread this
video around.

Entry 8

   In my response to the poem Mother to Son, I think its
a great poem about life and all of its flaws. Langston Hughes
really made a great metaphor of life to a staircase, how some
staircases could be smooth and straight while others could
be rough and crooked. To me Langston Hughes seem to
print the message of how life works for different people,
and that I think he really makes it real, like he been through
it before. What also makes this poem great is the accent that
the author uses, like
"I'se been a-climbin' on."
I like this way of adding more feeling to the poem so it
kind of makes a story. I think that the author really was
trying to make story of how a Mother seems to be
in one of those deep lessons where a mother talks to the
son in this long conversation. It's just the same, and in my
view shes trying to tell her son to not staying in one spot,
she wants him to keep living no matter how tough it gets
just like she lived her life. I also remember a lesson my mother
taught me when I was young so I could connect to the poem.

Appreciation First Draft

   Everyone on this planet has always thought about what they
were born for, and what reason that they were born into this
planet, this universe, this dimension. This is what everyone wants
to know, whether they were born for the reason so that they could
exist with a reason. The book, The Giver in my opinion relates to this
question everyone wants so much, and to me the author seems to
answered that anyone can make a change even if you are only one
person, Only if you want a change in this world, then you have to
be devoted to the idea of how the world should be, its like in this
book called, V for Vendetta in where at the end the main character
says " ideas are bulletproof" meaning even if you die you pass your
idea of the world you want it to be to another person to complete.
   The society is a place where people with no goals are made,
each and everyone of them are mold into what society
leaders make them into. Its a place where people are recorded
down in history as nobody, and when you die the name given
to you at birth is recycled again to be use again for the next
person to be repeated in this same depressing cycle. This is the
problem in Jonas's world. You live like a worker ant, if
you die you'll get replaced, This world is a world in which no one
is important, I hate that kind of world , because I believe that
everyone is born with a purpose in which they complete through-
out life.
   In a world like that, there is bound to be someone who would
change that kind of world. This is where a person, like Jonas
feels that the world doesn't fit his view, so he changes it using
all his efforts even if it means dying as a example he is ready to die for the
world to change on page 157,

" 'Music,"The Giver said, smiling 'I began to hear something truly
remarkable, and it is called music. I'll give you some before I go."
Jonas shook his head emphatically.'No,Giver,"he said.
"I want you to keep that,to have with you, when I'm gone."

 This paragraph tells that Jonas has overcome all of his
fears so that he devotes his life to making things better for people
that are near him, and in doing that he goes down the road that he
knows that he will die at the end, even though he wants to change
the world into a better place he won't be seeing it. To break the cycle of that
kept everyone inside a mental prison. That is a honorable sacrifice.
   In my past I have had this personal problem in which I
wanted to be different from everyone I didn't want to blend
in with the sea of people on earth, because I knew there were
millions of other people and you are just one person out of all
of them and its kind scary to know that some people will
live without a purpose in life since there are so much people
to take spaces up in our world. I wanted to make a mark in
my world, not literally but I wanted to leave something in
this world that I will lived for a reason. I want to be someone
that is known to actually change the world in some way for
the good or bad since every choice has both.
I think the Giver is a great book because it influences you actually want to
stand up and try to change the world so its better.

Entry 7 - research to know more about your book/author

   As my two research exercises I chosen were Author Isolations
 which is reading about the other books the author wrote and
relate them to the current book and Biography squats which is
to read about the authors life and see if it influences the book in
anyway.

   As I read about the books that Lois Lowry I noticed this book
that was familiar to me and I found that the book Number the
Stars was a book that I read in my old school and I really liked
that book because of its theme of how these people endured
pain and were hunted and as the main character witness these
events as a child she would undergo this transformation where
this is the world in front of her is the real world not blinded by
the mist where truths are hidden to you as a kid. It was just the
same in my childhood book The Giver as Jonas is changed by
the truth of how things worked in his world while he is a child
he could have chosen to ignore the fact like the kid he is or he
takes a wise decision and leave everything behind.
   Reading the biography made me notice that in her life she
talked about how all of her book related to her life, like for a
example she wrote the book A Summer to Die was a book
she wrote about her sister's early death and her feeling of loss
over it. So I've learned that great books require real life
experiences to actually make a connection to the reader or give
the book a meaning instead of just entertaining the reader.

Entry #6 The Giver

My most interesting note or the note that stood
out to me most was probably are the notes
I wrote on Jonas's parents because of how they are
well developed into that kind of character you would
expect them to be in this book. I really like how they
are designed like robots in this story and how cold they
are. For a example on page149 where Jonas's dad
just kills a baby and almost dust his hands off and
takes it as a joke about where he says "bye bye little guy".
Also on page 127 as if they were avoiding Jonas's question
of whether they love him or not, and they give these
automatic responses you would expect a lifeless
person would say. But still I should be hating these
characters but you have to feel sorry for them
since they don't feel anything for what they do since
it was taken away from them, their just simple doing
what they have to do, I think if they were given the
emotions to choose they would've done the right thing instead.