My Two Favorite Blogs

Out of the people in my group, I think my two favorite posts were George's and Alli's. They both had very original ideas about what their posts were about, and they both executed them very well.

In Alli's post she including a poem in her post, which was not only a great poem, but really related and described her book. She read between the lines, and had a whole new perspective on the book. Instead of talking about the main plot, she talked about the relationships in the book, showing more than what you would know from just reading the blurb on the back of the book. Just from reading her poem, and her descriptions of the book I really had no idea it was a mystery, I thought it was just a regular book about relationships. I have not read this book, but I was really able to see what she was talking about. 

In George's post he compared his book to another book. He gave great background information for each book, using a lot of text evidence. There was a lot of information on each book before he compared the two books, so before reading the paragraph with the similarities between the two books, you already knew what they were. He really organized the post well, and provided all of the background information and text evidence for each book he needed to make his point clear. 

This Lullaby

       

 I feel like the book This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen really differs from all the other books written by Sarah Dessen. In this book the character is bold, sure of herself, not shy; very different from all the other characters in Sarah Dessen’s books. For example in What Happened to Goodbye, The Truth About Forever, Someone Like You, and Keeping the Moon, all the characters are shy, quiet, and keep to themselves, unlike Remy in This Lullaby. In all of these books the girls are either thrown into an unexpected situation, or in a new, unfamiliar place. All of these girls learn to overcome their shyness, and become very close, and even open to a new group of people they are introduced to. They overcome their fears.

In This Lullaby however, the main character Remy’s friends are always saying how strong Remy is and how she always has the upper hand in every relationship that she is in. Then Remy meets Dexter. He is completely unlike anyone she has ever gone out with before, and she enters a whole new world with him. Then, instead of coming out of her shell in this book she goes back in. She is unsure of where this relationship would take her and what would happen. Then she comes out of her shell just enough to realize that she is actually letting Dexter in. She is so scared by this that she dumps Dexter. Latter she realizes that she liked being with Dexter, and letting him in and opening up was worth it.

Throughout this whole book Remy is very strong, very sure, and very able to speak her mind. But then towards the end of book she is exposed to a situation that makes her unsure of herself, and doubt herself, really for the first time. Of course she regains her confidence, but it is definitely in a much different way. In this book though, the way Remy is so sure of herself isn’t necessarily good. She is too sure and confident, not willing to open up. Then when she becomes doubtful of herself, it still isn’t very good, but it’s better. The reasons she’s doubtful is because she’s trying new things, but she isn’t willing to let herself really go, and trust. Then she realizes that she hasn’t been sure, and needs to be, but she picks the wrong way. She picks to go back to her old, unwelcoming, too confident self. As being this self she learns that she liked it better before, and gets over her fear of letting people in. By the end of the book, she starts letting other people in again. But his time she is sure of what she is doing, and that this is what she wants. 

So unlike the other girls in the other Sarah Dessen books, Remy starts out confident. But like the other book she is scared. It just doesn’t come out to later. It is always there, but she covers it up so well with how sure she is of herself that you can’t tell. Making such a different perspective from any other Sarah Dessen book. Overall I think this was a really nice spin from her regular stories.