Post Reflection

http://gabisreadingblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/krista-ramsey.html . I believe that my Krista Ramsey blog showed how I can use textual evidence to support text analysis. I used the text and found a solid quote to help me explain how her writing style is unique. It showed how I am able to use the text to help me prove a certain point about the text that I am reading. I also used multiple parts of the text to further stress my point, and it made my argument clearer. In the post I said, "'They abide by laws – natural laws – that we break without caring.' She uses the punctuation to stress the importance of the laws being 'natural laws'" this shows how I used the text to prove my point. I think this blog is a good example of how I analyse a certain text or texts. 

I have many goals for myself regarding my future reading. I would like to get faster at reading books, because it usually takes me a long time, and to become more adventurous with what I choose to read. I tend to only read certain types of books because I am afraid to start reading something and end up not enjoying it. I want to start reading things more closely, so that way when I have to read things closely I am used to doing it, because at some points this year I found it hard to read things closely enough to be able to write about them unless I was told to. Something else I want to improve on is looking for literary elements like theme, similes, metaphors, etc. in everything I read, again, to get better at the task for when it is during school or a test in the future. I also have many goals for my writing. I hope to get better at incorporating quotes into the text, making my writing flow, and incorporating more literary elements without it feeling forced. Right now I feel like adding literary elements in my writing is too forced, it always comes out choppy and unnatural, I want to use more of these so when they are required they come more naturally and I won't have to think about it as much. I want to work on making my quotes fit into the text too. I think it would make my writing much smoother and it wouldn't be as much of a hassle when trying to incorporate them. Lastly I want to work on making my writing flow together as a whole. I have found that this is something that is very hard for me to do in my writing. It takes me a while to find a good way to connect paragraphs and I really want to fix that. Overall I hope that next year, and maybe even over the summer, I can improve upon most, if not all, of these things and achieve my goals as well.

Scorch Trials: End of Book

The end of the book surprised me. I was not expecting what happened in the end. I really liked how the characters developed throughout the first two books. I loved seeing the relationships develop and grow between the old characters, and also seeing new ones develop between characters that were introduced. I love the way the author introduces new characters using indirect characterization, because it makes the book way more interesting.

I can't wait to start the next book. I was talking to my friends and they all said it was amazing. I am afraid to see what may happen to some of my favorite characters because I've heard rumors and I wish people wouldn't have told me. I'm very exited to find out if there are new characters and new relationships, because to me that's very interesting to read about. I'm happy I can read it over the summer because that way I won't have to stop and I can just read all I want. I'm also looking forward to the movie coming out in September.