Blog Post 10~ Rest of The First Five Stages

     I have just finished the book Harry Potter, the first book. Throughout his time at Hogwarts, he learns many things and he is trying to defeat his enemies. 
      I guess you could kind of say that Malfoy is sort of the Herald , because he always ags Harry on and tries to get him to do things to get him kicked out of Hogwarts. In another way Malfoy is kind of the trickster too, seeing as he always plays tricks on Harry to get him kicked out of Hogwarts, but it never works, because the teachers at Hogwarts always find a way to make what Harry does a remarkable thing, and honor him instead of getting him kicked out. 
     In the end, Harry goes to stop Snape, since he suspects he is trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone for Voldemort, but it turns out to be Quirrell instead. They fought for the stone, and Harry ended up getting hurt.


     This book is a perfect example of an archetypal journey. It shows Harry leaving his ordinary world, meeting the mentor, and all of the other stages of the journey. 

Blog Post 9~ Ordinary World

     The book I am currently reading is Happry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In this book Harry's ordinary world is he muggle world. He has never heard of anything other than it, and he doesn't even know he is a wizard.
     When Hagrid introduces Harry to the fact that he is a wizard and is enrolled in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he is very reluctant. He doesn't want to leave his world, even though he wabts to get away from the Dursleys. This is Harry's ordinary world.

Blog Post #8 ~ Free Choice

     The book I am  currently reading-- along with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is called The Lying Game by Sara Shepard. 
     The one question in particular that I have about this book is 'What really happened to Sutton?' Of course Emma believes that her long-lost twin sister is still alive, and as excited about meeting her as Emma is of meeting Sutton. But there is just one problem. Sutton has been dead for at least5 or 6 hours. I would really like to know what this person wants from Emma and why he or she did this to Sutton.

Blog Post #6~ Character Archetypes

     The book I am currently is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The character that I think has the best characteristics of a character archetype is Hagrid. He serves the role of the herald in this book.
     Hagrid serves the role of the herald because he is the one who comes and introduces Harry to the fact that his parents were wizards, and that he is also a wizard who saved all of the wizard world, when he was only a little baby. 
     A quote that I believe proves that Hagrid is a herald is, "Harry - yer a wizard." This quote shows the characteristics of the herald because he is introducing Harry to the idea that he is a wizard, since he had no clue. He also shows and tells Harry all about his parents and the place wehre is is actually from. Hagrid explains Hogwarts and how he has a reserved spot -since he saved all of Britain, including the muggles, at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. For these reasons, I believe that Hagrid is the herald in this novel.

Blog Post #5 ~ Populatiry.

     When I hear the word classic, I think of something/someone who has been around for a long time, but is never too old to become popular. For example, all  ancient myths are classics. They have been around for such a long time but throughout generations, they have been passed down and told differently between religions and families and such.
     The definition of classic may be 'serving as a standard, or model, or guide'  (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/classic). I think that this may be a definition of classic because like I said before, mythology has been around for a long time, but it keeps getting modified between generations. Another example of a definition of classic is 'of literary or historically renown' (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/classic) . The 'Titanic' is an example of something that is historically renown in a way. It happened in 1912, but was made into a movie by someone's story. These are two definitions of classic.

     The book I am currently reading is, 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'. This book is definitely a classic! It relates to both of the definitions I told before. It has many characteristics that make it a classic as well. It if a classic because it has many different types of mythologies within the stories. It has also been made into a series of movies.

     Future generations of students should read this book because it has sold so many copies of the whole series and the movies have been so successful. Since each family retells mythology in their own way, people who read this series will have a different perspective on different mythologies other than what they know about different cultures.

Blog Post #4~ Making Connetions

    Emma had to read the Facebook message four times before the words really sunk in." OMG. I can't believe this. Yes, I was totally adopted. But I never you existed until now. Can u meet me at the hiking base of Sabino Canyon in Tuscon 2morro at 6 PM? Attached is my cell number. Don't tell anyone who you are until we talk-- it's dangerous! See you soon! ~Love, Sutton (your twin)"  (Sara Shepard, The Lying Game 37&38) Of course, there was only one problem with that note: I didn't write it.
    
     The book I am reading is called 'The Lying Game' by Sara Shepard. The main characters are Emma Paxton and Sutton Mercer. Emma had been tossed around between different foster homes since she was five years old and her mother abandoned her, but Sutton was adopted from birth and lives with a loving mother, father and sister. They have never met each other and they never will, but they are long-lost twins. 
     One of the main events that happens is that Emma's foster brother Travis stole $250  for drugs from his mother and made it seem like Emma had stolen it. For proof that she stole it and that she is a liar, he showed his mother and Emma a video of someone who looks exactly like her getting strangled to death. He teased her that it was her long-lost twin. Later that night she went and searched Sutton Mercer on Facebook and there she was, her profile picture looking exactly like Emma. Emma messaged her saying she thought they were twins. 
     The only problem is that when 'Sutton' answered, she was actually dead and had been for several hours and following Emma around since that morning. So Emma is going to meet who she thinks in Sutton at Sabino Canyon, just like it said in the message. What she finds is going to definitely surprise her. 
      This quotation connects to real life in a way because sometimes there is a time in our life where we have someone that tries to follow us around or tries to take over someone else's life. What I actually wanted to connect this to, is the movie 'The Roomate" . In this movie, Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) goes off to college and her rommate is Rebecca Evans (Leighton Meester). Rebecca is obsessed with the fact that she is friends with her roomate, because she was never popular in school and didn't have many friends. She sees that Sara is starting to make more friends and she gets a boyfriend that she spends more time with than she does with Rebecca. Rebecca gets really jealous and tries to push people against Sara. She was so jealous that she tried to turn herself into Sara and steal everything of Sara's and then  tries to get rid of it all. She tries to kill Sara's boyfriend. In the end, Sara finds out that Rebecca was trying tot ake over her and realizes that she is crazy and then Sara kills Rebecca because Rebecca was psycho. This relates to 'The Lying Game' because Sutton was killed for someone thinking she was Emma. So pretty much the message between both of these topics is never to impersonate somebody because something bad could happen to either one of you. This is how the two topics are related.

Blog Post #3~ The Main Character

     The book I have recently finished reading is Twisted by Sara Shepard. This is the ninth book in a series of what is going to be twelve. There are 5 main characters in this book- Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields and their arch enemy A. I'm going to be focusing on my favourite character, Spencer Hastings.

     "It's not like I'm going to get in," (Sara Shepard, Twisted, page 9) Spencer said talking about getting into Princeton- her dream university. Spencer is always worrying about her grades. I mean who wouldn't be? We all want to get into a good university and end up with a good life, but in Spencer's case she was already in and she had been since grade 11. Spencer is the über smart one in the group of the pretty little liars. She worries about her grades all the time!

     Although she is the smart one, she will never live up to her sister Melissa. In fact, Melissa was her parents blood, while Spencer was adopted. Well her mother had problems having another baby after Melissa, so her and her husband payed a lady to carry their baby. Spencer never got over this. Her parents only ever cared about something big that Melissa did. That is until everything that happened with Ali had gone viral. Spencer was so worried about keeping her grades up because ever since the mishap with Ali and the Poconos fire, there was something that Spencer feared about her grades because she knew that A was always watching. Does Spencer keep fearing A and go crazy about her grades and SAT scores, or does she mellow down and forget about A? Read this amazing mysterious book to find out!

     The song I chose that best describes Spencer, and all the liars in fact, is called Secrets by The Pierces. It is the theme song of the show and it describes the girls very well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT94RvFAY8U&feature=related