The three blog's that I liked were Fatima's blog, Kate's blog, and Kayla's blog. I liked Fatima's blog because when she write's her responses, she is very open-minded, making her writing very interesting to her reader's. I also liked her blog because she shows emotion in everything that she writes. It is almost like experiencing what happening firsthand.

           I liked Kate's blog because when she write's she sort of commits to it, because all of her responses have length. I also liked her blog because when she write's, she explain's everything in sheer detail, making sure that while reading her response, you are able to understand what she is talking about, all while just writing.

           I also liked Kayla's blog. I liked her blog because it shows emotion. For example, her poem. In her peom she describes a girl in pain, hurting, after she broke up with her boyfriend. She describes her memories of how she felt calm, and then scared of what may happen next. In her blog she describes the emotion that people go through in life.

Darft of Reading Response

The Lovely Bones is a great book. I like how Alice Sebold puts detail into all of the commotion in the book. She is a great writer, and has artistic skill, because it is like when reading the book, you can almost visualize it as a movie, while reading it. I like the Lovely Bones because it is a mixture of genres. It is a mixture of suspense, horror, (has a poetic touch), romance, etc. This book expresses how one life, can affect everyone around something, that used to be.

When reading the book The Lovely Bones, just from the first page you can feel the suspense come in as the beginning sentences state, “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was 14 when I was murdered on December 6^th, 1971.” I like how the author structured this because she just came right out with the point, instead of the reader having to wait for what the topic of the book was.

The Lovely Bones also has a mood of mystery throughout the whole book, since Susie’s death has affected everybody, her father being most affected by it. The mystery lingers with every page wondering when Mr. Harvey will be caught, how her mother’s love will turn into rage, when her father will come to realization that she is gone, and nothing can bring her back, when Buckley will crack, when Len Fernerman will solve the gruesome murder, and when Susie will give up on hoping to be alive once again.

Reading Response to The Lovely Bones

         The Lovely Bones is a great book. I like how Alice Sebold puts detail into all of the commotion in the book. She is a great writer, and has artistic skill, because it is like when reading the book,you can almost visualize it as a movie, while reading it. I like the Lovely Bones because it is a mixture of genres. It is a mixture of suspense, horror, (has a poetic touch), romance, etc. This book expresses how one life, can effect everyone around something, that used to be. That's why I like the book, The Lovely Bones.

        The three blogs' that I liked were Noa's blog, Olivia's blog, and Erin's blog. I liked Noa's blog beacause of her poem's. My favorite poem was her incident poem. I liked it because i can relate to it. The fact that the teddy bear was lost and never found again, some where, where you weren't and some place that you won't be able to find it. I also liked this poem because it create's a feeling of mystery, and wonder because even though you are yearning to find what was once your's, you know that you will never find this once so precious object again.

        I also liked Olivia's blog because of her sonnet. Her sonnet shows how you can be trapped in time by something's beauty. i liked how she used the rose as an example, and how she described it as one by one the petals' were slowly falling off, and how the each time this happened, the rose was slowly dying more and more. I also liked it because it shows that just by doing one thing, and getting lost in something's beauty, can slowly make you realize what is actually happening, and how it could be over in as quick as a flash.

       I also liked Erin's blog because of her sonnet. Her sonnet to me describe's how love can break and slowly mend your heart. It does this because it includes dreams and devils which are complete opposites. To me dream in her sonnet stands for love and the devils stand for hatred. I also liked hoe at the end of her poem its like a battle for something better, but the person that you truly love will slow your time down, while making your heart race.

Sonnet

I looked upon the brown hair on his head
His serious, pale face showed no regret
Everyone stated that he might be dead
But, it happened 'cause the table was set

The silver forks', spoons', and knives', were aline
As he turned off the T.V he heard a bang
We all sat as we got ready to dine
And we all listened as the little birds' sang

He opened the door to see who was there
But we all stood in shock as he fell to the floor
He ly so still as we ran fast and stared
Then I hastily ran to shut the door

For the colors and sweet smells' of roses red
My heart will still know that he is not dead.

Response to 'My Papa's Waltz'

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.

Response to the poem 'My Papa's Waltz':

     This poem shows alot about how something so easy, but fan and dangerous at the same time. It shows that you can have fun doing anything, but that it can also be dangerous. He shows that it can be dangerous when he wrote, about how when his father was waltzing, he hung on tight, and about how at every step the father missed, his ear hit his father's belt buckle. This shows that his father's waltzing can be dangerous because, the small boy can smell the whiskey in his father's breath, and even though his father may not be drunk, he father might be a little dizzy, or even a little clumbsy.

Narrative Poem

‘There are many ways to lie.’

She thought, as she walked through the heavy metal doors

Of his office

‘I already said that I just witnessed it.’

She thought as sorrow and shame came over

Her

‘How will anybody ever understand if I tell the truth?’

She thought, as she walked through the empty halls of the school

And turned the corner

‘Nothing will ever be the same.’

She thought as she exited,

And left the scene as a victum.