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The new book that I started reading is called Paper Towns. My cousin recommended it to me because she really liked it and so far it is really good in just the first chapter. The author starts off by describing the main character Margo Roth Spiegelman from the point of view of Quentin. Quentin and Margo have known each other since they were two years old. Quentin has always had a crush on Margo. They use to play all the time when they were little up to the age of 9. They pretty much stopped playing then due a experience they had one day at the park when they were riding there bikes and saw a dead man. Quentin didn't really get affected by it since both his parents are therapists he got all the help he needed so it wouldn't hit him hard. As for Margo it didn't effect her either but she wanted to get more in depth and investigate what happened. Quentin has always known that Margo loves mystery's .
1) What was your personal reaction to this reading selection?
I was really shocked on how it started right away with these two kids finding a dead body. I thought it was going to effect them in some way later on but it didn't.
2) What do you believe the author’s intent was, and what patterns of organization did you observe?
I think the author used chronological order from the beginning since these two characters meet each other and there experience to the present when they are teenagers. He wanted the reader to know everything that happened in the right order.

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We have now reached the end of the crucible and wow was it good. In the last scenes one hundred innocent people confessed to witchcraft. In my opinion they all did it out of fear so that they wouldn't be tortured anymore. Proctor feeling guilty ask for Elizabeth (his wife) opinion towards if he should confess as well. After thinking it for a while he finally agreed to do so. He writes and signs to his sins having Rebecca (the nurse) be his witness giving it to Danforth. Hale, Parris, and Elizabeth try to stop him but at the same time let him do what he believes is right. John Proctor in my opinion is a heroic character because he eventually got hanged by doing the right thing and saving others lives.

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                                               (Abigail Williams and her girls at court)

The story The Crucible keeps getting more intense. Turns out the rumors were true about Abigail Williams having an affair with John Proctor husband of Elizabeth Proctor. In this act you can tell Abigail Williams is looking for revenge to get Elizabeth Proctor out of the picture so she can be with John. This because not only does Abigail excuse sweet Elizabeth of witchcraft but she also excused a bunch of other innocent religious people that had nothing to do with witchcraft.
What was your personal reaction to this reading selection?

 I was shocked on how low a girl can get in order to get what she wants. She is lying about everything and it even gets to the point of John Proctor getting accused of witchcraft as well. The consequence of getting blamed of witchcraft during this time meant getting hanged to death.

What do you believe the author’s intent was, and what patterns of organization did you observe?

The author intent was to give an example of communism. A pattern of organization was cause and effect. This is because this is the effect that is happening due to the cause of John Proctor having an affair with Abigail Williams. 

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I choose this story because we are currently reading this in my English class and I enjoy it. We started this week so were in the first parts. It started off when Reverend Paris saw a group of girls doing witchcraft in the forest one night. It was so bad that he even saw a naked girl running around that night. The next day he questions Abigail his niece to see if she was one of the girls. She refuses that she was there and that she has done nothing wrong. But everyone in town knows about her reputation due to when she was Elizabeth Proctor maid she seemed to have been involved with her husband.


* I would use a thought bubble to create notes about this story because you have to really think about what is going on and list it for it to make sense. Also you can state your opinion.

"What is the last thing you read that you enjoyed and why?"

This was the last book I read and that I really enjoyed in a group project at school. I think I enjoyed it a lot because when I read this book I was in 9th grade starting high school and the girl in book as well was starting her book/ story when she started high school. So I kind of related to her in the part where she had no friends at first. But I admit that this was a sad story because the girl was telling her story on these tape recorders that she left to be passed around to explain why she committed suicide. So the ending was sad. :(

''What Kind Of Reader Are You?''

The result I got was that my favorite genre is fiction. I do believe this is accurate because if I take the time to actually read a book on my free time I want it to be something interesting and different. I don't read much but when I do I always like to choose this types of books. I like when I get into a book and actually read it to the end because it's really good. Drama as well was my second choice and I also enjoy stories that have a series of good events happening that make me not want to drop the book because once i lose interest in a book I stop reading it.