Post B

Summary of book:
The main characters are 3 friends Mara, Jacqui, and Eliza. The 3 of them are going on a trip with the Perry family, a rich mother and father. Jacqui is the babysitter for their kids. The Perry's paid for Jacqui's college plus a studio apartment just to nanny the kids around for the summer. Also, Mara is dating Ryan Perry. Between graduation partying and packing for the hamptons, they all find a little drama. Mara has been dealing with not having a lot of money and she's nervous about not getting into the college she wants. Eliza is working really had as an intern at a fashion magazine. She made a huge step when she changed one of the models outfits. She doesn't want to be the girl who packs boxes, she wants to actually make it into something. Jacqui, taking care of the Perry kids all the time is stressing her out. She just wants to relax in the hamptons without any distractions. All the girls are trying to deal with their own boy problems. All 3 girls are just relaxing and enjoying the summer because next fall they will be in college. It was Newyork, Dartmouth, or any other college the 3 girls are nervously waiting to find out which they will be going to.

This book is semi-intresting. It kind of relates to a lot of teenagers i guess which makes it more interesting than any other book. Its kind of about nothing really, but it will probably get better.

Post A

2 vocab words:
Tantalizingly- To excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach. (34).
Perennially- lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring (46).

Examples of fig. lang:
Irony- "Eh-lie-zuh!"
"Are you listening to me?" this is an example of irony because it shows excitement in her voice even though it's not meant to.

Imagery- "She spied a white, purple, and orange cardboard box viberating in the corner" (35) This is an example of imagery because it shows detail of the object being described.

Imagery- "Which blended ski bunny coquettishness with Hamptons-style aristocratic summer hauteur" (37) It explains the detail of the fabric and clothing style which is an example of imagery.

Quote:
"Paige! Did you do this? This isn't how the dress is suppsed to be presented!"
This quote explains the hard work of her new intern job and she knows she wasn't doing the best to her ability.

Theme:
One emerging theme of the book I think is hardwork and fashion. The main character has learned a lot and she gets blamed for a lot of the faults at the work.

Post B

The au pairs sunkissed, is mainly dealing with a girl named Mara who just graduated highschool. She was a perfect student throughout highschool. Now she is trying to have fun her last summer before she's off to college. "This summer was going to be the best one yet-she didn't have to au pair anymore since she'd gotten a job as an intern at Hamptons magazine through a connection of Anna Perry's. It was a standard eye-leval post-fetching, fazing, and answering calls for the editor in cheif, but it tantalizingly promised a few writing opportunites" (4) the significance of the quote is describing her job as in an intern. She thinks it will be an easy way to score points to someday become a writer. She also is just doing it to outdo some of the girls in her class. She wants her summer to be the best one ever and is looking to try to have a better one than her so called friends. Mara is trying to get into Dartmouth college. She was put on the waiting list, even though she managed to win a schloarship for college. She would figure out later if she was accepted into the college or not. She is planning on spending the whole summer long with her boyfriend Ryan who already goes to Dartmouth.

Post A of Sunkissed

2 vocab words:
1. belligerently- pertaining to war or to those engaged in war

2. menial- lowly and sometimes degrading


Figureative language:
1. The t-shirts, silk screened with the designers photoshopped and markedly slimmer than life silhoutte, would be given away for free. (8) This is imagery because it explains every little detail about the shirt and paints a picture for the reader.

2. "a 2 dollar schmatte, an eyesore of epic proportions, an insult to the name of couture" (8) This is imagery as well because it describes the object very well.

3. Her eyes were as tired as though she hadn't slept in a year. This is a metaphor because it compares her eyes to not sleeping.

Quote:
"I got an email from NYU," Jacqui said flatly (42)
This is significant in the book because she had been waiting all summer to find out if she was going to be accepted into NYU for the fall.

Theme:
I think the theme of the book is mostly how to survive once your done with highschool and all the hardwork it takes to fufill your dreams to make it. Another theme is also trying to find out who you really are.

End of GirlBomb

At the end of GirlBomb by Janice Erlbaum, Jan finally quits using cocaine. She gets better and doesn't have tantrums anymore. Since Jan had been ditching her bestfriends Alice and Hope most of the time since she has been with Sebastian she started to hang out with them again. She met them at a bar with the boyses, college boys who still hung around town. She had been in love with one of the boys, Leland who finally began to notice her at the end of the memoir. He had fallen in love with her. The night at the bar he told her she decided to cheat on her boyfriend with him. Every night while her 23 year old boyfriend was working to try to get money to pay for their rent, she went to Lelands house and had an affair with him. Leland wanted her to leave her boyfriend and her boyfriend wanted her to stop seeing Leland. Either way she had to make a decision. She wanted both. At the last chapter of the book, she chose both, and ended up in the end with nothing. When her boyfriend found out she had been cheating on him he kicked her out of the house and Leland never talked to her again. Jan moved back home with her mom and brother and got ready for college. As her friends moved away and she didn't have her whole world anymore, who she thought was Sebastian, she started writing. Her mom gave her money and she bought her own apartment and was planning on going to college in the fall.

The Sea Inside

I think the movie The Sea Inside was okay. It was kind of repetative where as his answers about life were pretty much always the same, he wanted to die. I thought Ramon's plea to the court to die was his own disicion. I thought the court handled his case in a smart way. The court didnt let him commit a crime himself. I think if the court would have let him have assisted suicide, other quadraplegics, or anyone in general, would think the only way out of a life like that is to kill yourself. With Ramon's friends willing to help him, I thought it was their own choice whether to take that risk and do that. I think helping someone die is not the right thing to do. Just because he wanted to die doesnt mean his friends who loved him had to help him.

The Sea Inside compares to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly because both were quadraplegics and felt like they had no impact on the world and there was no point in living on. They were different because Bauby, in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, didn't commit suicide. He eventually died. I thought it was selfish of Ramon to want to die. He could still talk, while Bauby could not do any of that and he still cherished his life. In my opinion, the most powerful comparison was that they both had given up on life. Bauby and Ramon felt no need to carry on with their lives and as if they meant nothing to the world.

In the movie, The Sea Inside, most of the movements were fast paced. There were a lot of close ups that signified it was a dramatic moment. The camera would closeup on the actor's face to show the intensity of the scene. Also the message being sent by the director was well played. The director tried to make each shot more dramatic using the closeup and longshots of the scene. If there was a longshot it was mostly to show meaning or show backround information to the viewers watching the video.

End of girlbomb

The next section of chapters i've read, Jan has had an addiction to cocaine. With her new boyfriend Sebastian, they both do coke a lot. Jan is becoming more and more addicted. She ditches her friends to be with her boyfriend because he gets the hookups with drugs. Since Janice has been using more substances, she has had less focus on school and friends. She has also been selling drugs so her and her boyfriend can have enough money to pay rent for their apartment. Ever since Jan moved back in with her mom, they have had a good relationship. Now, Jan hardly talks to her mom because she knows her mom wishes things were different. Jan is starting to get really sick from doing too much coke. She has tantrums and black outs. Things are starting to get serious with her addiction and Sebastian is tired of dealing with it. At the end of the chapter she passed out in the shower and almost died.

I think in the final chapters she will quit, and her boyfriend will dump her because of the situations he has encountered with Jan.