Labor Day

I read The Great Gatsby and it was very good. I liked it more than the movie which is very surprising because I always think that the movie is always better. But it was almost as good as the movie but the book just had a little jump to it. I did not think that I would enjoy the book so much but I did.

Has anyone heard of the movie that just came out in January called Labor Day? Well I just heard about it a couple of days ago and the movie sounds really good. Then I heard today that the movie is based off of a book that Joyce Maynard wrote back in 2009. I looked up what the book was about and it sounds really interesting to me. It is kind of a love story. It is about a boy and his mother that lives together and has almost nothing. They are making it day by day. Well the little boy convinces his mother to go out and go on a shopping spree for herself. While they are shopping a man that is covered in blood come up to them and they take him home with them. Well he then admits to the mother and son that he is a convicted murderer but then tells the mother that she and her son are in great hands. She then lets him continue living there. They end up falling in love with each other. So to me it is a love story with a twist. I am thinking about ordering the book and reading it then watching the movie. If you have not noticed yet I love books that have movies to go with them!

pod 4 to pod 5

I am glad that the pod about poetry is over. Well okay I am a little sad that it is over because I really did seem to enjoy the poetry pod a lot. Like I mentioned before I do not like poetry a whole bunch but I must say I definitely think I got into all of the selections for this poetry pod. But I am most excited that it is over because now we will be starting on The Great Gatsby! I am very very very excited for pod number five. I watched the movie a couple of weeks ago and I must say I feel in love with it. At first I did not think I would like it at all. But as the movie went on and as I sat there getting more and more into what was happening during the movie once the end came I was a little upset. A lot of people say that the movie was not worth watching but I loved it! So after watching the movie I am looking forward to reading the book. Like they say if you love the movie you will love the book anymore. I hope that that saying is true because I loved that movie. While I was watching the movie it seemed to me that the movie had a lot of poetry in it. The movie is like a love story, when there is a love story there is some poetry. To me pod four and pod five will tie in together some with a couple of things in common.

First of a Million

I am new to all of this but I am so excited to get into it! I mad a blog before this one but it would not work correctly for some reason so hopefully this one works and everyone will be able to find it. We are currently working on poetry in English class. I have very mixed emotions about poetry. I love it sometimes but then other times I do not love it so much. I for some reason have a very hard time comprehending what the authors are trying to make out of their poems, what they are trying to say. But once I re-read it a couple of times and break it down stanza by stanza I then realize what it is about and what the author is trying to say. Out of all the poems that we are reading I would have to say my most favorite is "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke. Roethke done an amazing job at writing this poem. When I first read it I thought that it was a sad poem about a drunken father abusing his son. But then I came to realize after I got it explained to me and got it broken down that it is actually about a father that comes home drunk from the bar and has a fun time with his son. It is almost like the son looks forward to his dad coming home drunk. The father and son have their own nightly routine. The mother is not to fawn of it because the father gets the little boy all wound up when she has him settled down for bed. But all in all everyone ends up being happy. Those are my most favorite kind of poems!