Cut by Patricia McCormick

   The book "Cut" by Patricia McCormick the main character Callie is suicidal. She is suicidal for some other reasons ,but there are some reasons is because of other characters. The characters that impact main character is her dad and her two friends. Callie doesn't speak up for herself . She is scared her friends will leave her and her dad would leave her forever .

   Callie gets impacted by her 2 friends Debbie and Sydney. They impact her by including her in their problems even tough she really didn't do anything . In the book the two friends fight with each other and they bring Callie in the problem . Callie really doesn't know what to do ,but just stay quite and not say how she feels. Callie really doesn't say anything ,because she is afraid they will hate her and not be friends with her. Instead of saying anything she just "solves" the problem by cutting herself.

   The second character that impacts Callie is her dad. Her dad impacts her by not being around when she needs him. In the book Callie lives only with her mom and her mom has to work for the whole day. She really doesn't have anyone to tell her problems. Her dad sometimes goes visits her ,but just for a couple of minutes and leaves.

   The story "Cut" is a big impact story and the book brings out a lot of messages. The main character Callie she really sends out a message. When her friends fight they bring into the problem . Callie doesn't stand up for herself, but the way she "fixes the problem" is by cutting herself. This message is saying is don't stay quiet and speak up, because you don't wanna he hurting yourself  or make the problem worse. Just speak up and you'll fix the problem or just not be friends with the person who's hurting you .

Is It Time To Raise The Minimum Wage?

   In the article, "Is it time raise to the minimum wage?" It's about workers are wanting to make the minimum wage increase instead $7.25 dollars. Then President Obama is planing to bring it up to $10.10 an hour. In the other hand other people say no they shouldn't raise up the minimum wage. They don't want to rise it up ,because they think $7.25 is good enough for a family .

   The author I don't think doesn't have a side ,because it talks about how Kirsten Gillibrand wants the minimum wage to raise up .Then how John Boehner doesn't want the minimum wage to raise up. In the article Kirsten Gillibrand says $7.25 isn't enough ,because with that money you don't have enough for their needs like food, home, clothing, and etc. A family of 3 earns less than $19,790 per year and living in poverty. But if they do raise up the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour families would have billions of dollars in the pocket each year . 

   In the other said John Boehner thinks that they shouldn't increase the minimum wage. He thinks this ,because it will hurt very people that it's suppose to help. He said when he was younger he had every job and he had 11 bothers ,but he said that everything was fine with the money for his family. He thinks that if they do raise up the minimum wage there will be less jobs with a higher payments. Also his opinion is to not only focus on jobs but focus on fixing the taxes.

   In response to what I read is that yes, they should raise up the minimum wage. I think this ,because there is some families that have more then 5 members and they don't earn enough money for themselves. This makes me think about why some people don't want Obama to raise it up? I mean there might be reasons why ,but they might earn more money and don't know how it feels like. 

   

   

All The Broken Pieces

Selina Berrezueta 809

             All The Broken Pieces

    In the book "All the Broken Pieces" by Ann E Burg is about a kid name Matt who is a adopted kid. He has a family with he adopted parents and his brother.  He is in a baseball team and all his team mates bully him. His only friend is his baseball coach,but then he get cancer. I will talk about his problems during the story like he getting bullied and about his adopted parents.

        In the book "All the Broken Pieces" Matt gets bullied by his baseball team. For example, his baseball team bullies him because of his raise. They think Asians can't play baseball. His baseball coach helps him and says don't listen to them and to be himself. 

      In the book "All the Broken Pieces" Matt has a adopted family and then he starts thinking more deeply about it. For example, he starts thinking why his adopted parents adopted him. He thinks this ,because since he they have There own son then why did they adopted him. He started thinking why did his real parents left him. 

    In this essay I have talked about how Matt gets bullied and what he starts thinking about why his adopted parents adopted him 

Sold By Patricia McCormick

Selina Berrezueta 809

    The story "Sold" by Patricia McCormick it's about a girl named Lakshim that is 13 years old and live in India. She wants to work for her parents can have a better life. But her mom wants her to stay at school. Then her dad sold her to Mumtaz and Lakshim is trapped there till she pays off her family dept. By the end of they story Lakshim learns that risks can come out with a good outcome,but sometimes some don't. 

    The story "Sold" when you take risks you can get good outcomes or good outcomes,but sometimes both. For example, in the story when Lakshim told her mom that she wanted to work instead going to school her dad found out a way to get money. She found out that she was getting sold to a women. When she got sold to the women named Mumtaz she got abused from her with a wipe. Also she couldn't get out of the room not even for fresh air. Lakshim got what she wanted ,but at the end she  got a bad outcome. 

     The story "Sold" when you take risks you can get good outcomes or good outcomes,but sometimes both. For example, when Lakshim was locked in a room she new when the weather changed by looking outside. Then one day Mumtaz told Lakshim that she had to pay if she wanted to free. She told her she could work outside but never run away because if she did she'll find her. Lakshim was surprised,but really emotional because she was finally gonna get her freedom back. Lakshim knew that making risk can sometimes be bad in the beginning but in the end it can be good. 

     Some risks you can get good outcomes or good outcomes,but sometimes both. This is important to know,because you have to make risks sometimes. This can make a connection to anyone,because in school you have to make risks all the time to get better grads and a better education.

    

Fast Food's Dark Side.

Selina Berrezueta 809

    Walking to a fast food restaurant and have a big appetite. You order your food and sit down about to have one bit of your burger, but STOP! What you about to eat has a dark side. In the article "Fast Food's Dark Side" I will talk about what a burger have and what people think about it.

    Did you know what a burger has in it? According to the article  "Fast Food's Darker Side" The cheese is dyed with bamboo charcoal and onion-garlic  sauce that has squid. Another thing is the beef patties  is packed with black pepper.

    What are you thinking about this whole thing about the "dark" side of a burger? Disgusting right? According to the article, it says "It might just be a little bit too icky" for the U.S says "But I would love to try it"

This quote means that it would be a risky to try a "goth" burger. Another quote is "Has Burger King gone goth?" This quote also means that after what they found what a "goth" burger has in it. 

    In the article "Fast Food's Dark Side" it talked about what a burger has in it and how people think about it.

Darkness Too Visible by Megan Cox Gurdon

Selina Berrezueta 809

  The article "Darkness Too Visible" by Megan Cox Gurdon wants the reader to know why young adult books aren't appropriate for kids. She thinks young adult books aren't appropriate for kids of 12-18. Because  it has darkness,kidnapping,pederasty,self-harm, and etc. 

    The article "Darkness Too Visible" by Megan Cox Gurdon wants the reader to know why young adult books aren't appropriate for kids. According to the article, the author says "This is an dialectic purity vs. despoliation,virtue vs. smut but for families with teenagers,it is also everlastingly new" The author used this to make the readers think about how long the debate of effects of young readers reading young adult books. Another example, is some kids will be reading a young adult book and they would get dark images in there heads. What the author is trying to say is some kids will be thinking about all the things they read in young adult books and for parents they don't want them to know about that in their age yet. 

    The article "Darkness Too Visible" by Megan Cox Gurdon wants the reader to know why young adult books aren't appropriate for kids and how parents think about it. According to the article, a mother that was buying a book for her daughter,but all she saw was appropriate for her daughter. She found books like vampires and suicide. She left empty handed from the school. Another example, is "I don't,as a rule,like to do this on young adults" said a editor. What this means he doesn't like how young adult books are allowed for kids to read. 

    The article "Darkness Too Visible" by Megan Cox Gurdon wants the reader to know why young adult books aren't appropriate for kids. I have talked about how the author tries to explain why young adult books are not  appropriate for kids . The other thing I talked about is how adults think about young adult books for kids. 

Eleanor and Park

Selina  Berrezueta 809

 

      The book Eleanor and Park is about a new girl Eleanor goes to a new school. While time goes by Eleanor and Park met each other, but then they fall in love with each other. They both are worried that they don’t love one or each other. In this essay I will talk about how love,meeting new people, and fitting in could be compared one with other themes.

 In the book  “Eleanor and Park” one of the themes is love and meeting new people. Outside if the world when you are meeting new people/person you might find your true love. This is how love and meeting new people are the same. For example, Eleanor is the new girl in school and Park falls in love with her. Then Eleanor fell in love with Park. Another example, Park and Eleanor know that they love each other ,but they don’t believe it to each other.

In the book “Eleanor and Park” the second theme is family problems like alcoholics and abuse. In the real life some families are struggling with abuse and the some members being alcoholics. For example, Eleanor’s family has family problems, because her dad is a alcoholic and drinks almost every night. Another example, Eleanor gets abused by her family.

   In the book “Eleanor and Park” the last theme is fitting in and meeting new people. They both the same, because when you go somewhere new you don’t know anyone trying to fir in and meeting new people. For example, when Eleanor was taking the school bus she always worried about people hating on her and not fitting in. She worried about it ,because she was the new kid and mostly people don’t like the new kid.

 

    In the this essay I talked about the book “Eleanor and Park” is about themes about love, family problems, and fitting in by explaining how they could be compared. As you can see, a lot of themes such as alcoholism and abuse, can also be connect to more light hearted themes. Showing how a lot of more happy themes can be united with more darker tones.