Critical thinking question: How does this story address the points of view (perspectives) of other groups, especially those who usually don't get to tell their side?
So Much Closer by Susane Colasanti is about a girl named Brooke who has a very big crush on a boy who hardly knows she exists. I chose this critical thinking question because Brooke is just a regular teenager that no one pays attention to. This book is written in a very unique point of view (Brooke's). People may think that she's just a geek with no social life and no problems, but she like most teens does have a social life. The boy Brooke has a huge crush on, Scott moves to New York. Brooke decided that she should follow him and go to New York too, since her dad lives there. In New York she learns many important things in life.
Brooke is just a regular teen, as I said before. She's one of those quiet kids in school who never talks and that's what makes the point of view in this book unique. Brooke is like all other teens, she crushes on boys, she goes shopping, but no other girl would follow her crush all the way to New York from New Jersey. Brooke decided that since Scott was moving to NY she would go and live with her dad in NY. She was convinced that Scott and her were meant to be together. "But then there's The Knowing. I know that I belong with Scott" (Colasanti 21). According to Brooke, "The Knowing" was always true. This is something very unique about Brooke, I highly doubt another teen would have this theory.
Brooke is a very unique girl who learns things in very unique ways. She moved all the way to New York because her crush moved there. You wouldn't believe all the things she learned in NY. She met new friends and people she could trust. NY became more of a home to her than anywhere else. She knew that she could trust people there. In NY she learned not to take things for granted. "If you're lucky enough to find that person, never let them go" (Colasanti 21). In the end this person was not Scott it was a person she met in NY, John. She knew she had found the right person because he loved her and she trusted him. Brooke found the people she trusted by following her crush. Everything happened in its own way.
This book is about a teen girl that is very unique, she finds her home in a very unique way. Brooke is a teen that has a typical lifestyle, no one would expect all this drama to be in her life. This book was written in a very different point of view that not a lot of people would be expecting.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Independent Reading Response
Critical Thinking Question: What really hard things are happening in this text? Are these things happening in the world now? Where?
I read the book, Teen Angst? NAAAH... by Ned Vizzini. This book is an autobiograhy of Ned Vizzini's childhood. Vizzini grew up in Park Slope and lived a normal life, one kind of like the life we live now. He does have to go through a few hard things in his life but he overcomes them. He was always a great literature writer. In school, he was an outcast. He was known as a "geek" or "nerd". Vizzini wrote this autobiography when he was nineteen.
Ned wrote about most of his phases of childhood, from when he was nine to when he was nineteen. Ned was an A student. He was always studying because according to him, it was fun. Ned went through some rough times. Peer pressure was one of those times. Ned went to camp every summer. One summer the boys in his camp were smoking, so he decided to try it out. He tried it because the other boys were doing it. It didn't taste the way he expected it to taste. According to him it tasted "raunchy", and he "got very dizzy and began hacking ". Peer pressure was not only a problem then but it still is now. Many kids get influenced to do many bad things now-a-days because of other kids doing the same thing, or because other kids are making them do it. Peer pressure usually takes place in school, but as you saw here it can take place anywhere.
Over one summer, while Ned was in high school, he met some "hobos" or street people on east 4th street. He would spend most of his summer with these people playing dominoes. The "boss" of the block, Poppy would bring endless supplies of beer for the people that played. Ned would play and even though he wasn't at the legal age for drinking, he would still drink and get drunk because he had an endless supply of it. The influence he was given from these older people was horrible. He was given the idea that drinking at such a young age was a good thing. Many kids get influenced by adults now-a-days and some adults can influence them in a positive or negative way. Many adults have influenced teens and kids to believe that it is okay to smoke and drink. This happens all over the world and these things can easily sicken people.
In conclusion, the autobiography, Teen Angst? NAAAH... written by Ned Vizzini and about Ned Vizzini, includes many of the hard things and problems that society is facing now. Some like teen drinking and smoking. Ned was a social outcast, but in the end, he succeeded in life and became a succesful author.
I read the book, Teen Angst? NAAAH... by Ned Vizzini. This book is an autobiograhy of Ned Vizzini's childhood. Vizzini grew up in Park Slope and lived a normal life, one kind of like the life we live now. He does have to go through a few hard things in his life but he overcomes them. He was always a great literature writer. In school, he was an outcast. He was known as a "geek" or "nerd". Vizzini wrote this autobiography when he was nineteen.
Ned wrote about most of his phases of childhood, from when he was nine to when he was nineteen. Ned was an A student. He was always studying because according to him, it was fun. Ned went through some rough times. Peer pressure was one of those times. Ned went to camp every summer. One summer the boys in his camp were smoking, so he decided to try it out. He tried it because the other boys were doing it. It didn't taste the way he expected it to taste. According to him it tasted "raunchy", and he "got very dizzy and began hacking ". Peer pressure was not only a problem then but it still is now. Many kids get influenced to do many bad things now-a-days because of other kids doing the same thing, or because other kids are making them do it. Peer pressure usually takes place in school, but as you saw here it can take place anywhere.
Over one summer, while Ned was in high school, he met some "hobos" or street people on east 4th street. He would spend most of his summer with these people playing dominoes. The "boss" of the block, Poppy would bring endless supplies of beer for the people that played. Ned would play and even though he wasn't at the legal age for drinking, he would still drink and get drunk because he had an endless supply of it. The influence he was given from these older people was horrible. He was given the idea that drinking at such a young age was a good thing. Many kids get influenced by adults now-a-days and some adults can influence them in a positive or negative way. Many adults have influenced teens and kids to believe that it is okay to smoke and drink. This happens all over the world and these things can easily sicken people.
In conclusion, the autobiography, Teen Angst? NAAAH... written by Ned Vizzini and about Ned Vizzini, includes many of the hard things and problems that society is facing now. Some like teen drinking and smoking. Ned was a social outcast, but in the end, he succeeded in life and became a succesful author.
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