In the book I’m reading, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter is one of the many main characters, obviously. On Harry’s forehead is a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt which is covered by his dark brown (almost black one could say) as it is as untidy as hair can be. Harry, when he was ten, he was small and skinny for his age and had looked smaller and skinnier in his cousin’s, Duddley, clothing which he’s worn all of his life. But now four years and a couple months later, he is still skinny, but now he is tall for his age. Harry has a thin face, knobbly knees, and green eyes. He has be often told by anyone who knew his parents, that he looks actually looks like his father, but has his mother eyes. He wears round glasses.
His personality is very selfless for a teenager, and he is very couragous for a teenager. I think facing that dragon in the first task is very couragous and even though he knew what the first task was, he still stood up to it and got it done, with very well marks. He is selfless because the second task was to save a friend at the bottom of the lake and since there were four champions there was four people down there. One was Ron, Harry’s thing he would miss the most, another was Herminonie, Krum’s thing he would miss the most. The two others where Cho, a girl Harry very much liked who was the Cedric Diggory would miss the most, and the girl from Beauxbaton thing that she would miss the most was her little sister. Harry waited until the end of the hour time limit to save the remaining two people, Ron and the girl’s little sister, and when he got up to the surface of the lake, he got a little bit extra points. Not to mention Ron got a kiss on the cheek from the girl and her sister.
There are other things that proved Harry’s personality, but those reason are some big ones.
10/28/09
Book Report.... #2 part 2
I would rate this book, on scale from 1-10, an 11!
I love this book. A lot! It’s so addictive and not to mention that it’s an easy read. The books are amazing starting with A Living Nightmare, and then The Vampire’s Assistant. Those books are really like one book cause the first one is so short that the second and first books is just like the first book. The plot lines are amazing and the things that happen in this book are really, really unexpected. The action, not like, “AH I STAB YOU NOW!! AND NOW YOU DIE! MUAHAHAHAH!” action. The fast paced, unsuspecting things that happen during the book. There is humor too. Maybe some times it is really dark and cruel, but it is still funny. Then the little romance he has with a human where he was living at the time, was super funny because of how FAIL it was. When Evra Von and Darren (one of the main character) thought Larten Crepsley, Mr. Crepsley, was the person who murdered six people and left there body to rot. Darren led you to believe that it was Mr. Crepsley, but it wasn’t. It’s just a really good book. So you should read it.
I love this book. A lot! It’s so addictive and not to mention that it’s an easy read. The books are amazing starting with A Living Nightmare, and then The Vampire’s Assistant. Those books are really like one book cause the first one is so short that the second and first books is just like the first book. The plot lines are amazing and the things that happen in this book are really, really unexpected. The action, not like, “AH I STAB YOU NOW!! AND NOW YOU DIE! MUAHAHAHAH!” action. The fast paced, unsuspecting things that happen during the book. There is humor too. Maybe some times it is really dark and cruel, but it is still funny. Then the little romance he has with a human where he was living at the time, was super funny because of how FAIL it was. When Evra Von and Darren (one of the main character) thought Larten Crepsley, Mr. Crepsley, was the person who murdered six people and left there body to rot. Darren led you to believe that it was Mr. Crepsley, but it wasn’t. It’s just a really good book. So you should read it.
Book Report... #2 part 1
What I liked about the book is a lot. First is that there are vampires, not sparkling in the sun, animal blood drinking, teenage drama queens, is that there are actually vampires. There are many myths about the vampires, first that the only thing garlic does is give vampires bad breathe, and “holy” water does nothing to them either, nor does a cross. The one thing true is that they cannot go into sun light for very long, and that a steak driven through the heart will kill them, but so will a bullet wound, a long fall, and old age. Vampires don’t bite people’s neck to suck blood and a bitten person won’t turn into a vampire. The way they drink blood is that they make a tiny scratch on they’re finger, leg, arm, or something like that and drink a certain amount, but not enough to kill. Though sometimes a vampire is evil and when they drink they kill, but there aren’t a lot of evil vampires, but when a vampire does kill it’s because the person asked them to. When a vampire drinks from a person some of they’re memories go into the vampire. Like a vampire drank from Shakespeare to let some of his lost poems into the world, but he ended up dying. The vampire’s “cousins” is called the vampenze and when they drink from people, they drink to kill. They also drink in excessive amounts.
The vampires and the vampenze have some “super skills” one could say, their nails are really sharp, as are their teeth. They have prolonged life. Vampires age one-tenth at the normal human rate, 10 human years = 1 vampire year. They have improved strength and improved dexterity. The only to become a vampire is for a vampire to “bleed” you. (Put some of their blood in you)
I HOPE YOU READ THESE BOOKS!
The vampires and the vampenze have some “super skills” one could say, their nails are really sharp, as are their teeth. They have prolonged life. Vampires age one-tenth at the normal human rate, 10 human years = 1 vampire year. They have improved strength and improved dexterity. The only to become a vampire is for a vampire to “bleed” you. (Put some of their blood in you)
I HOPE YOU READ THESE BOOKS!
Recommendation for Frist book report
I adore this book and I love the Harry Potter series. I would recommend these books to you, if you like any type of fantasy, and especially if you like being whisked away to places unimaginable, things unimaginable, things happening that almost seem impossible and some things that are impossible. Stuff that I think every human wants. These books will take you away from all the hectic stuff in our world, to a place so inviting, ad so enthralling, that you don’t want to stop coming. The things that happen in these books are exciting to read. And this is the type of series that you don’t like, or you love. Nothing in between. This is the type of book where the movies skip a lot of the details, character, and the books are so much better for all of those things. These books will surprise you, and then make you angry, then confused, sad, and then happy, over and over again. J. K. Rowling is an amazing author she can give you details about something, or someone, as if she was just there, and if you think about it she has been there and she is there because it all came from her head. Not to mention that she gets extra points for reading Darren Shan’s books, and critiques them.
I don’t believe there are many other books, if any, on the same subject manor. Actually now that I think about it the Septimus Heap series is kind of like that. (If you had Mrs. Diedrich in 5th grade at Westwood, you more then likely know who she is.) That series is like Harry Potter. First the magic part, then with the in depth detail. I would recommend that book if you like Harry Potter or big twist plots. “Umm, big twist plots?” you ask, well like a story that has “twists” in it’s plot, or a big “twist” at the end. Or both…
Either way, I recommend the whole Harry Potter series starting from Book One and ending with Book Seven. They may take you awhile to read, but they are so worth it!
I don’t believe there are many other books, if any, on the same subject manor. Actually now that I think about it the Septimus Heap series is kind of like that. (If you had Mrs. Diedrich in 5th grade at Westwood, you more then likely know who she is.) That series is like Harry Potter. First the magic part, then with the in depth detail. I would recommend that book if you like Harry Potter or big twist plots. “Umm, big twist plots?” you ask, well like a story that has “twists” in it’s plot, or a big “twist” at the end. Or both…
Either way, I recommend the whole Harry Potter series starting from Book One and ending with Book Seven. They may take you awhile to read, but they are so worth it!
Conflict for first book report
In the book I’m reading, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, one of the main conflicts is that Harry Potter has to compete in the Triwizard Tournament, a big competition between three wizarding schools. The wizarding schools are Hogwarts, Beauxbatons (the school is in France, so it’s French), and Durmstrang. When there is only supposed to be three competitors (or champions) Harry is chosen to be one of the champions by the Goblet of Fire, the magical goblet used to pick the Champions for the Triwizard Tournament . Even though he’s underage, he was put in the tournament as the fourth champion in a tournament of three.
There are many other smaller conflicts along the way, like what would Harry use to get the dragon’s egg? A spell to get him his broomstick. At the last task, to find the Triwizard Tournament’s Cup in the middle of a huge maze, Cedric Diggory and Harry meet and say that they should tie. When they both touched the cup it was supposed to transport the touché to the beginning with the cup in their hands, but it transported them to a graveyard where Cedric was almost instantaneously killed by a man named Wormtail, a servant to Voldemort, and then trapped Harry on a tombstone. He then took some blood of Harry’s, and his left hand. Wormtail put his evil master in the pot, it resurrected Voldemort to his true form, and now he was more powerful then ever before. When he got out he had a “wizard’s duel” with Harry. They both cast their first spell, and the spells linked together. Harry ended up overpowering Voldemort just enough to throw him off. He jump at Cedric’s dead body and grabbed the cup again. It brought Harry to the finishing place. There then were two conflicts. Who had hexed the cup to bring them to the graveyard, and now that Voldemort walks again, how are they going to kill Voldemort? Well it was Barty Crouch’s son who had hexed the cup, and he was supposed to be dead. To see how Voldemort dies, you have to read the next books.
There are many other smaller conflicts along the way, like what would Harry use to get the dragon’s egg? A spell to get him his broomstick. At the last task, to find the Triwizard Tournament’s Cup in the middle of a huge maze, Cedric Diggory and Harry meet and say that they should tie. When they both touched the cup it was supposed to transport the touché to the beginning with the cup in their hands, but it transported them to a graveyard where Cedric was almost instantaneously killed by a man named Wormtail, a servant to Voldemort, and then trapped Harry on a tombstone. He then took some blood of Harry’s, and his left hand. Wormtail put his evil master in the pot, it resurrected Voldemort to his true form, and now he was more powerful then ever before. When he got out he had a “wizard’s duel” with Harry. They both cast their first spell, and the spells linked together. Harry ended up overpowering Voldemort just enough to throw him off. He jump at Cedric’s dead body and grabbed the cup again. It brought Harry to the finishing place. There then were two conflicts. Who had hexed the cup to bring them to the graveyard, and now that Voldemort walks again, how are they going to kill Voldemort? Well it was Barty Crouch’s son who had hexed the cup, and he was supposed to be dead. To see how Voldemort dies, you have to read the next books.
10/27/09
Theme
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I think there are two themes. First is, no matter what is thrown at you, and no matter how dark times look, just keep on fighting to stay alive. Second is, keep your friends close. This applies to the book because the Triwizard Tournament is for ages six-teen and up and he is only fourteen, but he gets put into the tournament anyway. Although the challenges could kill him, he goes through it anyway. He ends up beating the first task (first challenge) even though he knew what the challenge was. (It was to get past a fierce dragon, and grab her egg.) Not to mention that after the last task, he was teleported away with another champion (another challenger) to a graveyard were He Who Must Not Be Name, the Dark Lord, Voldemort, was resurrected, after Wormtail killed the other champion, in front of Harry’s eyes. This especially applies to the book, because Harry gets out alive, with the champions dead body, and just keeps on going. “Keep your friends close,” this theme pertains to this book also because after Harry was picked to be in the tournament, Ron, Harry’s best friend, was half jealous and half angry at harry because he wanted to be in the tournament too, but couldn’t, just like Harry, because he didn’t meet the age requirement. So when Harry’s name was picked by the Goblet of Fire, Ron wondered why Harry hadn’t told him how to break the age line. After the first task, which again was the dragon, he came to Harry, while Harry was in the hospital wing, and said, “Harry, whoever put your name in that goblet – I – I reckon they’re trying to do you in.” Harry and Ron were once again best friends.
I can relate to “keep your friends close,” because I try and make friends that become very close, “tight” on could say, to me. I can also relate to “no matter what is thrown at you, and no matter how dark the times look, just keep on fighting,” because when my mom died I was trying very hard to keep on fighting to try and be happy again.
I can relate to “keep your friends close,” because I try and make friends that become very close, “tight” on could say, to me. I can also relate to “no matter what is thrown at you, and no matter how dark the times look, just keep on fighting,” because when my mom died I was trying very hard to keep on fighting to try and be happy again.
10/7/09
Memoir
I remember my mom, Laura Jean Randall, going to the hospital being very ill. She left when I was at a friend's house. When I came home, the house was quiet. My sister, Emily, and My brother, Chris, were there, talking to each other about something. No site of Mom. Weird. I ended up thinking the worst of things.
"Maybe something happened. Like something really bad. Why is Emmy here? She's only here for really good things, or if something is wrong." I thought out loud quietly.
So after awhile they tell that Mom went to the hospital very sickly, and that Emily would be taking care of Chris and I. Soon after the day she left, we went to go visit my mom at the hospital. She tells us that the doctors think that she has pneumonia.
“What do you mean they think that you have pneumonia?” I asked Mom quite angrily.
“Well you know that they can only do so much to tell,” she said back a little to forced. I instantly felt bad about getting angry.
A few days later they moved my mother to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) part of the hospital. The nurses do some scans and find out that it’s not breast cancer!
“That’s good! Very good!” Emmy said and for the first time in a long while my mom smiled. The nurses do another scan a couple days later, and turns out they misread and she does have breast cancer. Type four I believe they said. That’s the worst case.
I will never forget that time that she told us. I was sitting on the ground next to my brother and my mom was on the hospital chair.
“They re-did the tests, and I do have breast cancer… the worst kind.” My heart stopped. The world has just died. What are we going to do? We all broke out into tears. Hurtful sobs, wailing, and the cold, hard tiled floor was my best friend for an hour.
The doctors decided to insert a tube into her throat, to help her with breathing. With the tube being in she would have to be heavily sedated. That means that she would be non-responsive. She could still hear us, but not talk back. We spent the next week-in-a-half with my mom’s side of the family and my dad came. Why does some dying seem to be the only way to bring family together? Oh, well.
One day while at school, my mother’s co-worker, Chris, picked me and my brother from school for a visit to Mom. When we got there, my dad was smoking with a very blank expression.
He stomped it out. Came to me and said, “I’m sorry,” what’s happened, “your mother’s pass away…” Now the world has stopped turning, emotions stopped, I died right there. Then reality came and hit me right in the stomach, but it didn’t matter. My mom’s dead. I ran up the stairs to my mother’s room.
I was a dead body walking for the next week. It was the worst birthday ever. I was so angry at her for just dying. Just leaving Chris and I, but I realized that she’s better off like that. With whatever afterlife there is, if there is one.
My sister does those 3-day walks against breast cancer, and we support her doing that.
"Maybe something happened. Like something really bad. Why is Emmy here? She's only here for really good things, or if something is wrong." I thought out loud quietly.
So after awhile they tell that Mom went to the hospital very sickly, and that Emily would be taking care of Chris and I. Soon after the day she left, we went to go visit my mom at the hospital. She tells us that the doctors think that she has pneumonia.
“What do you mean they think that you have pneumonia?” I asked Mom quite angrily.
“Well you know that they can only do so much to tell,” she said back a little to forced. I instantly felt bad about getting angry.
A few days later they moved my mother to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) part of the hospital. The nurses do some scans and find out that it’s not breast cancer!
“That’s good! Very good!” Emmy said and for the first time in a long while my mom smiled. The nurses do another scan a couple days later, and turns out they misread and she does have breast cancer. Type four I believe they said. That’s the worst case.
I will never forget that time that she told us. I was sitting on the ground next to my brother and my mom was on the hospital chair.
“They re-did the tests, and I do have breast cancer… the worst kind.” My heart stopped. The world has just died. What are we going to do? We all broke out into tears. Hurtful sobs, wailing, and the cold, hard tiled floor was my best friend for an hour.
The doctors decided to insert a tube into her throat, to help her with breathing. With the tube being in she would have to be heavily sedated. That means that she would be non-responsive. She could still hear us, but not talk back. We spent the next week-in-a-half with my mom’s side of the family and my dad came. Why does some dying seem to be the only way to bring family together? Oh, well.
One day while at school, my mother’s co-worker, Chris, picked me and my brother from school for a visit to Mom. When we got there, my dad was smoking with a very blank expression.
He stomped it out. Came to me and said, “I’m sorry,” what’s happened, “your mother’s pass away…” Now the world has stopped turning, emotions stopped, I died right there. Then reality came and hit me right in the stomach, but it didn’t matter. My mom’s dead. I ran up the stairs to my mother’s room.
I was a dead body walking for the next week. It was the worst birthday ever. I was so angry at her for just dying. Just leaving Chris and I, but I realized that she’s better off like that. With whatever afterlife there is, if there is one.
My sister does those 3-day walks against breast cancer, and we support her doing that.
10/2/09
Setting for first Book Report
Setting
The setting of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire starts out at a dank, dirty, creepy house. Almost haunted one could say, because of the things that happened there. It’s also where Voldemort is hiding. It ends up to be another dream of Harry’s.
Harry’s uncle and aunt’s house is a normal London, England type house. It has two levels, a cupboard big enough for Harry to live in, a living room, kitchen, and two baths. At the end of the summer he moves into his best friend Ron’s house. Their house is magically enhanced house with an old, wailing ghost in their attic. 7 out of the 9 (two of which are the parents) of Wealsey’s are living there, so that’s why it demands so much extra house.
Harry, Ginny (Wealsey’s only daughter and the youngest), Ron (youngest son), Fred and George (the twins), Hermione (Ron and Harry’s best friend, other then each other), and Mr. Wealsey go to the International Quidditch Cup (the Irish vs. the Bulgarians). Quidditch is like soccer in the air and instead of running on the ground, they fly on broomsticks. There are three goal posts, their point values are all ten points, but they are at different heights. There are 7 people on a team, a keeper, three chasers, two beaters, and a seeker.
The keeper’s job is to defend his team’s goal posts for the opposing team’s chasers. The chaser’s job is to take the Quaffle and throw into the opposing team’s goal. The beater’s job is to hit the bludgers with a bat out of there own team’s way and into the opposing teams players. Finally the seeker’s job is to get the golden snitch, a little tiny golden ball with wings that goes fairly fast, and the team’s seeker who get’s the golden snitch earns their team 150 points and that also is the only way to end the game.
The time period is pretty present. There are modern cars. There’s television, the news, weather reports, computers, the webbernets.
The magical world is a bit different they live in the more old English times, like castles, but all the wizards or witches have many color robes, use wands imbued with some type of magical property.
Finally Hogwart’s School for Witchcraft and Wizardry is a magic teaching school. It’s a fairly old castle with many surprises. It has it’s own lake with a giant squid in it, and a Forbidden Forest with unicorns, giant spiders, centaurs and other mythical creatures, so that’s why it’s so forbidden. Well I can’t tell you too much about Hogwart’s other wise you might not want to read this series.
Well I got to get other book report stuff done so yeah…
The setting of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire starts out at a dank, dirty, creepy house. Almost haunted one could say, because of the things that happened there. It’s also where Voldemort is hiding. It ends up to be another dream of Harry’s.
Harry’s uncle and aunt’s house is a normal London, England type house. It has two levels, a cupboard big enough for Harry to live in, a living room, kitchen, and two baths. At the end of the summer he moves into his best friend Ron’s house. Their house is magically enhanced house with an old, wailing ghost in their attic. 7 out of the 9 (two of which are the parents) of Wealsey’s are living there, so that’s why it demands so much extra house.
Harry, Ginny (Wealsey’s only daughter and the youngest), Ron (youngest son), Fred and George (the twins), Hermione (Ron and Harry’s best friend, other then each other), and Mr. Wealsey go to the International Quidditch Cup (the Irish vs. the Bulgarians). Quidditch is like soccer in the air and instead of running on the ground, they fly on broomsticks. There are three goal posts, their point values are all ten points, but they are at different heights. There are 7 people on a team, a keeper, three chasers, two beaters, and a seeker.
The keeper’s job is to defend his team’s goal posts for the opposing team’s chasers. The chaser’s job is to take the Quaffle and throw into the opposing team’s goal. The beater’s job is to hit the bludgers with a bat out of there own team’s way and into the opposing teams players. Finally the seeker’s job is to get the golden snitch, a little tiny golden ball with wings that goes fairly fast, and the team’s seeker who get’s the golden snitch earns their team 150 points and that also is the only way to end the game.
The time period is pretty present. There are modern cars. There’s television, the news, weather reports, computers, the webbernets.
The magical world is a bit different they live in the more old English times, like castles, but all the wizards or witches have many color robes, use wands imbued with some type of magical property.
Finally Hogwart’s School for Witchcraft and Wizardry is a magic teaching school. It’s a fairly old castle with many surprises. It has it’s own lake with a giant squid in it, and a Forbidden Forest with unicorns, giant spiders, centaurs and other mythical creatures, so that’s why it’s so forbidden. Well I can’t tell you too much about Hogwart’s other wise you might not want to read this series.
Well I got to get other book report stuff done so yeah…
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