Book Love, But Different Worlds

   Hello everyone! With this new blog post, I want to talk about my new favorite book (so far) The Book Thief by Makus Zusak and the current book that I'm reading, Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. If you don't know what The Book Thief is about, then read my other blog post called Person vs. Book, where I talk a little bit of what The Book Thief is about. If you haven't read Inheart yet, then let me tell you. The story is about Mo, the father of Meggie (Mo and Meggie are the main heroes of this book) and as he was reading a book called Inkheart one night, he releases an evil ruler whose name is Capricorn and his world is now present in the world of Mo and Meggie.

    Anyways, as I am reading Inkheart, I noticed that Meggie and Liesel share their fondness of literature contained in books. For example of page 39 of Inkheart, the author writes, "He added something else, but she wasn't listening anymore. She was just staring at the books. The shelves on which they stood smelled of freshly sawn wood. They went all the way up to a sky-blue ceiling with tiny lights in it, hanging there like stars." This shows that Meggie isn't focused on what Mo was saying previously and was more fascinated with Elinor's (another character in Inkheart) library. On page 121 of The Book Thief, the narrator says, "The heat was still strong enough to warm her when she stood at the foot of the ash heap. When she reached her hand in, she was bitten, but on the second attempt, she made sure she was fast enough. She latched onto the closest of the books. It was hot, but it was also wet, burned only at the edges, but otherwise unhurt." This shows that Liesel loves books that she literally steals books even if they were in a fire because of her love for literature.

     Even though Inkheart and The Book Thief's main characters love books, there are other things that are different between these two books. For example, The Book Thief set in 1939 Germany, the time period of The Holocaust. While Inkheart is set in a different time period with events that didn't happen in real life. Even though The Book Thief is completely different compared to Inkheart, I would recommend all of you to read these two books.

Struggles of Diary of Anne Frank: The Play

As I finish reading the play version of the Diary of Anne Frank, I notice that she has to face through a lot of adversities just for a teenager. For example, she couldn't be able to do things that we have the opportunity to do. For example, she couldn't go outside, ride a bike, go out with her friends, laugh, and she had to share a small room behind a bookcase with her family and with other people that she doesn't even know at all. She tries to be energetic, but she needs to learn when she can't in order to not have her family be caught and be sent to a concentration camp and have her family be separated from each other. I don't think I can compare my own adversities with Anne Frank's because we are from different periods of time. But I feel that the adversity that I face is that I feel that I'm suppose to be this great child for my family and I feel that I'm suppose to be this perfect child that they want. But I feel that title's impossible to be perfect, but be the best person that you can be for yourself.

Unknown Resolved Romance of Liesel

As I finally purchased my own copy of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, there was a part in the epilogue of The Book Thief that had me confused. On page 544, the narrator says, "In her final vision, she saw her three children, her grandchildren, her husband, and the long list of lives that merged with hers. Among them, lit like lanterns, were Hans and Rosa Hubermann, her brother, and the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever." While on page 535, the narrator writes, "The tears grappled with her face." Rudy, please wake up, Goddamn it, wake up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you known I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up...."" What I don't understand about these two quotes is that Liesel says that she love Rudy. But as she goes on with the rest of her life until she dies, she married someone else. Does she still remember saying that she loved Rudy when he died. If she did, I personally think that Liesel wouldn't want to marry anyone but Rudy. Even though Rudy died, I would have thought that Liesel would never love anyone else until she would die.

Why is Spring Break Not Here?!

As we all know, we all want Spring Break to happen soon because we want to get out of school, have a week to ourselves, and not worry about anything about school. Except if your teachers give you homework during Spring Break which would be devastating. The reason that I love Spring Break is that it's a perfect time to go outside and do something fun. For example, you can go biking, running, and play sports. Personally basketball and soccer is the sport that I love doing especially during spring because you don't have to be indoors all the time. Even though knowing myself I would wake up at 11 in the morning because I am lazy during weeks or days that we don't have school. What I also like doing is creating a playlist of music that I love to listen to because I love music so much that I make up excuses to make a playlist for myself just so I can personally pick the music myself. Lately, I have been loving an acoustic cover of I Want It That Way by Boyce Acenue. I love this so much that this has been my go to for all of my playlists that I create for myself.