Introduction to my Blog

My blog is full of wonderful, heart warming poems, essays, and blogs. The essays explain everything that they are supposed too. Some of the poems are touching and some are funny. Hopefully my blog will explain what my book The Usual Rules, by Joyce Maynard explains everything enough for anyone to understand it. Thank you!

FINAL REFLECTION-short story

Once upon a time there was a girl named Myra. On 9/11 she was in her Math class with her best friend Betsy when the news came; someone had crashed into one of the twin towers. Myra was immediately dismissed and sent home with her Step Dad, Mark. Mark was very quiet at first when Myra got home and that's when Myra was confused. Her little brother Dustin was sitting in his room just playing with his Lego's like nothing had happened. Myra spoke up and asked what was going on and finally Mark said something. "Myra, your mother was on the 87th floor, and hasn't called since the towers were hit."Myra's reaction was shock; not crying, punching things, just anything. All Myra did was just sit there and stare. Mark didn't know what to tell little Dustin. Soon Myra realized that she would have to move on and sadly live with her real dad, Walter. She never really talked to her dad Walter except when he would send letters. Soon it happened, she was there. She soon then also realized that she was going to have to make new friends. She began by lying about who she was which was a horrible idea. Myra began by saying she lived in a huge house and her dad was a doctor and how happy she was. But soon she'd realize when she met a boy that she wouldn't be able to die. There was a boy named Dalton, he met Myra and began to build a crush. She knew she wouldn't be able to lie and have to just tell the truth. Dalton was so moved by Myra's story that they began a very healthy relationship. Finally in the end she was happy living with her father Walter, and soon she realized life wasn't so bad after all.

MY REACTION

My reaction of this book was amazement. I can't believe that I read a book about a 15 year old girl that lost her mother in the twin towers. It really dumb that I complain about something 24/7 or fight with my mom and dad and complain how sometimes I don't want them anymore. Now that I look at it, you think about all the people that lost someone in 9/11. I feel bad for everyone how could this happen to anyone? I just have questions in my head like why why why why?! I just don't understand. I think this book was written to express someones feelings. To make people realize how horrible 9/11 had an affect on people and how we should pull all our soldiers home from the war. I believe that the author was successful getting the message across because this book moved me to tears, it was a book that makes you realize so many things. I think that this book is definitely a book for someone to have a "news flash". This book made me change the looks of things. I think that anyone can read this book and would really enjoy it! Just because the cover is all girly, doesn't mean that a boy can't read it; someone in my class even read it, and he was a boy! As I have said, the novel did help me and had a huge affect on me and from here on out is going to make me realize what I say.

Found Poem

Does god know about this?
Stop it, she told her brain.
But I can't move away anyplace.
I live here.
She opened the case.
It was a cherry red clarinet.
That is some trick, a man said sitting in back of Wendy.
You think you know everything.

Topic of my Choice-Rhyme

Wendy was just a 15 year old girl
when her life gave her a little twirl
she lost her mom
and had to move on
she moved to Cali
and met a girl named Sally
(no, I'm just kidding. But hey, it rhymed)
She began to start over
and realized maybe her luck was like a four leaf clover
soon Wendy figured out
that life wasn't what she thought it was about

Theme-An ode

9/11

On 9/11 there were over 2000 deaths
out of the 2000 deaths there was this one girl who lost her mother
Wendy's mother was on the 87th floor and didn't make it out
Wendy got home that day from school and realized the last time
she would ever saw her mother was in that little red cocktail dress and red pumps
She was soon to realize this wasn't the only thing that would happen
Wendy had to move into her fathers
She never really liked her father, but she learned that she had to "grow on him"
Wendy began a new life style living there, and soon realized life wasn't that bad after all

The Storyline- A ballad

Wendy experience loss in her family with her mother dying on 9/11
Louie her little brother experienced that he would never see Wendy again
Wendy moved onto California with her father and began lying about who she was
Wendy is happy because of the change in her life, made her a new person