Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Guided Respone

Catch by: Will Leitch
Love
- Tim loves living in Mattoon, IL because everyone knows him and his family.
- Loves his girlfriend Helena
- Baseball
- Loves working at the plant because people know him there and it is an easy summer job.
- Use to love hanging with friends until he meet Helena.
Hate
- That his friends at work act like zombies and do not talk or anything they just work.
- Dose not want to keep him and Helena a secret anymore.
- Hates the thought of going to college
- Hates the thought of leaving Helena
- Chuck at work (boss guy)

Peace
-Hanging with Helena
- Hanging with friends
- playing baseball or watching baseball
- Helena
- enjoying summer vacation
Violence
- Playing asshole
- Calling Denny wiped
- Tim’s brother Doug
- In Tim’s mind college
- Tim’s friends think work is violence

Power
- Chuck
- Camaro
- Tim Temples
- Tim Temples’ Father
- Baseball scouts
Submission
- Getting into the major leagues
- Getting a job
- Getting into college
- Tim being excepted by Helena
- People excepting Helena and Tim together

Honesty
- Tim is honesty to Helena
- Tim is honesty to Denny about Helena
- Honesty about not really caring a whole about baseball in high school
- Denny and Kristen relationship
- Dose honesty work
Deceit
- Tim’s feelings about going to college
- Helena’s life
- Jessica liking Jeff
- Tim not being honesty to his parents
- Denny lying for Tim

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Free Choice Catch by Will Leitch

For my next reading book I picked Catch by Will Lietch. This book caught my eye because the man who wrote the book is from Mattoon, Illinois, which is close to where I live Mason City, Illinois. When you are from a small town like Mattoon and Mason City you like to listen to how much are towns are similar so that is another reason why I picked this book. So far I am about 25 pages into the book and it really reminds me of my Graduation Day from high school. Where most of the kids really do not care about listening to the speaker on stage at the Graduation, they are more worried about just getting there diploma and where the party is going to be at tonight. They surely did not know if they were going to go to college or stay home and get a job in town somewhere. Well after Graduation was over most of my class went to one house and stayed there all night and hung out. Tim’s class did the same thing. Tim was lucky because he was the one with the cool parents who let his friends come over to party as long as everyone gave there keys up so his parents could make sure everyone was staying. Then the day after Graduation hits and your parents are making sure you have a summer job and are thinking about what you are going to do after summer is over. Just like my town parents’ care and want their children to do better than they did.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Free Choice

Let’s see here, one really big question I have about the texts is, why Hannah would give the second copies of the tapes to Tony of all people. I mean, I know Tony is not on the tapes but he and Hannah really were not friends either. They only knew of each other because of school and that does not mean much. But Tony probably would have never gotten the tapes if he had not given Hannah the hand held tape recorder. I guess Tony was just a lucky one. That was a really nice guy and did not spread rumors or was not mean to anyone. We will never really know why Hannah Baker decided to give Tony of all people the second set of tapes. One thing that really does make me happy that Tony got the tapes. Is when he got them he did not freak out and take them to school the next day to let other people listen to them. All he did was listen to the tapes himself and then followed Hannah’s words of making sure everyone on the tapes listened to them and then pass them on to the next person on the list. I guess three really good things did come out of this, and they were that we found out what made Hannah kill herself, everyone in her life got to see how much they really affected her choice to kill herself, and that Tony and Clay are really good people that should not feel bad at all about Hannah’s death.