*SPOILERS*
In Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
there are many great characters who develop throughout the book. One of
the characters who has the biggest character change is Sam. Sam starts
off as this sad, confused werewolf who knows his days are numbered and
is in love with a girl who he's never talked to. By the end of the book
not only does he the get the girl he is able to think of a future since
he no long as the wolf gene in him. Sam feels like he has no purpose in
life but when he finally meets Grace it shows him he has to fight and
take charge if his life.
In the beginning Sam is a
werewolf in the winter and a human in the summer. He knows his time as a
human is ending because after certain number werewolves stop shifting
and become wolf for the rest of his life. One of the times when Sam was a
wolf his pack attacked a girl(Grace). They bit her and were going to
eat her. But Sam stopped them. He watched her for the next 5 years. Sam
doesn't have much to live for except for this girl. He's very mopey and
bitter because he's going to become a wolf for the rest of his life. He
had dreams of music and just life but now he's just not a happy person
because he can't have any of it.Grace shows him that although he doesn't
have much time left instead of
moping around and being upset that he should make every second count
Being a werewolf is the cold and darkness of winter. The hibernation
from warmth and colors and life.
When he finally meets
Grace after watching her for years his old self comes back. Every year
when he stayed a wolf for a longer time a little more of Sam died. When
he meets Grace everyday a new bit of him comes alive again. So when Sam
becomes a human permanently, Sam is reborn.. Since he fought and found
away to stop him from being a werewolf, he
now can have a life. He can go to college, he can start a music career,
he can be with Grace -- basically he can have a life. Sam finally has to
think about things and how it will effect his future. Sam comes alive
and opens up and just lives.Winter is finally gone.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013
The Future of Us-Summer Reading Response
The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler is about how Facebook shows up on on 2 teens' (Josh and Emma) computer in 1996 when Facebook hasn't even been invented yet. They are able to see their life in 16 years and control it. The theme of the book is to just live your life and see what paths your future holds.
One example that seeing what will happen in the future is a dicey thing is that when Emma first goes on Facebook she sees that she is married to a guy named Jordan Jones Junior. And when she reads her status updates she notices she isn't very happy with him. So when she reads her biography and finds out they went to the same college -- Tampa State -- she takes it off her list and then the next day she has a new husband. Later when she reads about her new lives she doesn't like them and will just change them not thinking of the consequences of changing her life cause she can. The consequences for doing that are having something seriously bad and not being able to fix it. On Page 91 it says "I grab a black marker from my desk and draw a line through "Tampa State". If I don't go to college there, I won't meet Jordan. And if I don't meet Jordan-" This shows how Emma is meddling with her future based on vague information. This shows how meddling with your future based on little information isn't good because there is so much you don't know.
Another example that just seeing where life takes you is better than changing and meddling with your future is on page 149; it says, "Emma groans. "I sound about as happy as before. I need to do something bigger." "How do you know you're not happy in this future? I thought you liked Kevin Storm." I say. "We're going to Kevin's favorite restaurant. And my babysitter has a habit of not showing up." "You're reading a lot in a little words." I say glancing at Emma." This shows how Emma is making assumptions too fast and if she doesn't like it she'll do something small to put her future on a different path.
At the end of the book Emma and Josh realize how they can't keep messing up their futures. How, yes, sometimes things will be bad or they'll be unhappy, but that ultimately they will be fine, and have a good life, that they will get to see what the future holds.
One example that seeing what will happen in the future is a dicey thing is that when Emma first goes on Facebook she sees that she is married to a guy named Jordan Jones Junior. And when she reads her status updates she notices she isn't very happy with him. So when she reads her biography and finds out they went to the same college -- Tampa State -- she takes it off her list and then the next day she has a new husband. Later when she reads about her new lives she doesn't like them and will just change them not thinking of the consequences of changing her life cause she can. The consequences for doing that are having something seriously bad and not being able to fix it. On Page 91 it says "I grab a black marker from my desk and draw a line through "Tampa State". If I don't go to college there, I won't meet Jordan. And if I don't meet Jordan-" This shows how Emma is meddling with her future based on vague information. This shows how meddling with your future based on little information isn't good because there is so much you don't know.
Another example that just seeing where life takes you is better than changing and meddling with your future is on page 149; it says, "Emma groans. "I sound about as happy as before. I need to do something bigger." "How do you know you're not happy in this future? I thought you liked Kevin Storm." I say. "We're going to Kevin's favorite restaurant. And my babysitter has a habit of not showing up." "You're reading a lot in a little words." I say glancing at Emma." This shows how Emma is making assumptions too fast and if she doesn't like it she'll do something small to put her future on a different path.
At the end of the book Emma and Josh realize how they can't keep messing up their futures. How, yes, sometimes things will be bad or they'll be unhappy, but that ultimately they will be fine, and have a good life, that they will get to see what the future holds.
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