Reading+Reflections

=​My Sister's Keeper= = Page 1-70 = = -As I was reading the first section I first could not understand why Anna would want to sue her parents but as I read it, it made more sense. The way that Sara will drop anything for Kate and when Anna wants/ needs something she doesn’t do the same. I mean Anna and Kate are sisters and Sara should care for them equally, Anna has surgery every time the Kate needs it. And then there is Campbell who takes Anna’s case because it will do well for his reputation. Taking this case seems like it will change the way that Campbell is now to a different person. = Page 71-138 = -This scene at court seems to confuse me a little. When Sara is talking to the judge she says that it is all a miss understanding but when when Anna talks to the judge she says that she still wants to sue her parents to the right of her body, medical emancipation. Learning that Jesse is the one starting the fires shocked me at first but now I think that it might be a cry for attention in his own ways. Julia and Campbell confuse me also, I want to know what really happened in the past between them, I wonder if we will find out? When Julia goes to see and meet Anna I like how Julia wants to get to know her and takes her to the zoo, it was a good idea, most children open up when they get used to someone. When Anna asks Jesse to take her to the hospital I felt sad because she says that she doesn’t know who she is unless she is around Kate. = = Page 140-240 = = -Sara is beginning to annoy me. All she does is care about Kate and ignore what Anna is really feeling. Campbell and Julia are catching my attention more and more as the book goes on. I think that Brian's idea of Anna staying with him is good because it can give both Anna and Sara time apart and time to think. Sara needs to learn to listen to what her daughter thinks. The way that Anna told Campbell her feelings. Jesse getting arrested seems like another cry for attention and when he sees that Julia is there when he gets out is funny because all he thinks is that she likes him and that she wants to be with him. = = Page 240-340 = = This week I was really interested in reading about Kate and her friend/boyfriend Taylor Ambrose who has AML. I thought it was so cute how they met and started talking while they were both getting their treatments. I was so happy for Kate and how she went on her first date with him and was telling Anna how he was a good kisser. I thought that Taylor was such a nice guy to come to stay with Kate while she got her treatment and how they made a bet that she wouldn’t last till 3pm with out getting sick. In the end Kate does get sick but Taylor is right there with her the whole time. When they went to the dance together it seemed like it was their version of a perfect night together. Soon after Taylor got sick one night and he died. I was so sad reading that and then Sara didn’t tell Kate about him until a month after he passed away. I’m sure that Kate would have loved to have been at the funeral especially since it was her first boyfriend. = = = Page 340- end -As I read the end of the book I came to a point where I did not want to put it down. I was happy to find out that Anna had won in court and that she was finally going to have a say in what happens to her and what she has to give up for her sister Kate. When Brian had to go out on call I did not expect it to be Campbell and Anna who were in the accident. I was crying as I read that campbell got out with only a broken arm and that Anna was brain dead, that was to me the saddest part of the whole book. I am happy for Kate and how she became a dance teacher and that she is happy and that Jesse was now doing good to, but there parents I felt sorry for because they lost a child who they never thought that they would lose anytime soon.

Hiroshima

-The beginning of this book I really didn't like it all that much. But as I started to read the book I saw how it connected to the movie that we watched in class. This connection made me feel sad for all the people suffering and all the people who died. If I were around that time I would be worried at all times of the day. Just reading it made me more aware of my surroundings. This book is defiantly making me think about how things were in Hiroshima and what a tragic time it was.

-As this book goes on all I can say is the doctor who at first tries to help everyone and then goes on to just help the people who are most injured, and everyone losing their homes. This makes me feel that it was unfair to everyone and that everyone had suffered for days and running for shelter, and having a shortage of food. If this was to happen now, I don’t think that many of the conditions would really change much from what is described in the book. These are some hard conditions and it takes a strong person to be able to survive and last.

- The one man who is going back and forth with a boat in the river is a true good man. He is doing everything that he can to go get as many people across the river, helping them shows how courageous he really is because he could have been selfish and only tried to save him self. The description of what it smells like and the description of the burns and what happens the everyone is very sad. Personally if it was me in the mans position I don't think that I would have enough courage. I think I would help the nurses out with the patients that are in need the most.

Yellow Wall Paper -The narrator begins her journal by talking about the house and grounds her husband has taken for their summer vacation. She describes it in romantic terms as an aristocratic estate or even considered a haunted house and wonders how they were able to afford it, and why the house had been empty for so long. Her feeling are that there is “something queer” about the situation which leads her into a discussion of her illness. She sounds like she is suffering from “nervous depression" maybe because of her marriage. She complains that her husband John, who is also her doctor, belittles both her illness and her thoughts and concerns in general. She contrasts his practical, rationalistic manner with her own imaginative, sensitive choices and decisions.

- Her treatment that her husbend tells her is that she requires the fact that she do almost nothing active, and she is especially forbidden from working and writing in her journal. But on the other hand she feels that activity, freedom, and interesting work would help her condition and reveals that she has begun her secret journal in order to “relieve her mind.” In an attempt to do so, the narrator begins describing the house. Her description is mostly positive, but disturbing elements such as the “rings and things” in the bedroom walls, and the bars on the windows, keep showing up. She is particularly botehred by the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom, with its strange, formless pattern, and describes it as “revolting.” Soon, her thoughts are interrupted by John’s approach, and she is forced to stop writing.

-Once the first few weeks of the summer pass, the narrator becomes good at hiding her journal, and hiding her true thoughts from John. She continues to long for more company and activity, and she complains again about John’s controlling ways, although she immediately returns to the wallpaper, which begins to seem not only ugly, but oddly menacing. She mentions that John is worried about her becoming fixated on it, and that he has even refused to repaper the room and not to give in to her neurotic worries. The narrator’s imagination, however, has been aroused. She mentions that she enjoys picturing people on the walkways around the house and that John always discourages such fantasies. She also thinks back to her childhood, when she was able to work herself into a terror by imagining things in the dark. As she describes the bedroom, which she says must have been a nursery for young children, she points out that the paper is torn off the wall in spots, there are scratches and gouges in the floor, and the furniture is heavy and fixed in place. Just as she begins to see a strange sub-pattern behind the main design of the wallpaper, her writing is interrupted again, this time by John’s sister, Jennie, who is acting as housekeeper and nurse for the narrator.

-When I first looked at the cover of the book I didnt think that I was going to find it interesting. As I read on I found that it is a book that makes me want to keep reading it. I like how the auther has the chapters as prime numbers only, before I got to the part where he explained it I was confussed and then it all came clear. That was very interesting and it was a key point in making the reader think before finding out the correct answer. The little boy who was questioned for sitting by the dong and holding it while there was a frok there which had killed the dog I felt bad for him. This little boy must have a lot going on seeing as he doesnt like to be touhed very much and to many questions be asked at once. I felt bad for the police officer who was punched but I also felt bad for the boy who was sent to jail and had to wait for his father to get there.
 * The Curious Incident of the Missing Dog**

-While the boy was waiting in jail for his father to get there I though how I would react to being locked up in a jail cell, to me I would be scared and also worried that my parents would not be so understanding. I was surprised to see that the dad was pretty clam that his son was in jail and when he came out he smiled and put his hand out and they put there hands out like giving high-fives, its cute that they have their own special way of giving hugs that you would not normally see on an everyday basis.

-Now that I have gotten further into the book I am enjoying it more than I thought that I would. Reading Christophers views on trying to find out who killed wellington the dog, and how he compares it to Sherlock Holmes makes it a bit more interesting. When I got to the part where he found his book that he was writing in his fatehrs room and then found 43 letters writen to him by his mom made me mad because his dad hid the fact that his mom was alive and lied and said taht she had a heart attack and died. I think that his dad shouild have told him the truth so that he would be able to see his mother.

-That night when Christopher went and read more of his mothers letters I thought that it was nice if her to be descriptive so that he would know what it was that she was feeing and what she wanted him to know. His mother sounded like she srill wanted to be part of his life which I would have my mother to do if I was in his position. When he chose to go and sleep in the garden shed and stay there until the next morning and then decideing to go and stay at his mothers house was very brave of himself. When he got to the train station it seemed like he was scared and worried. I'm happy taht he stared to feel safer when the police officer started to talk to him and helped him to go and get money out of the cash machine. I'm looking forward to the end of the book.

The Hot zone -The first time that i started to read the book i wasnt to engaged into it. As I started to read more of it I was a little grossed out by how gorry it was. Even though I want to become a doctor reading about what was going on with their intestines when they got ill. The virus didnt sound like anything that I would want to get. When they were talking about the symptoms and how they were suffering made me feel sad and wonder what it was when they were talking about it. I could never imagin going to the doctor and walking out of the office without having the slightest of a clue of what it was that was making me ill.

- The is one of the first books that I have had a hard time getting into. The Ebola virus which ends up killing nine out of ten of its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and in the winter of 1989, it seemed about to burn through the suburbs of Washington D.C. If that were to happen now that number would definatly grow to become a larger number and would also spread rapidly.

- One of the U.S. Army personnel who is called upon when the Reston outbreak occurs is Major Nancy Jaax. Jaax is a mother and an Army veterinarian who works with the most lethal viruses and other dangerous agents in full-body "space suits" within laboratories known as the "Hot Zones." Nancy Jaax struggled to keep a balance between her job and her family life, but the job usually takes priority. Her husbend, Jerry Jaax, also works in the Army's Veterinary Corps, and he is uncomfortable with his wife's being at such a high risk of exposure to deadly agents at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

-In chapter 3, the culmination of everything that has happened so far and is really the climax of the story in my opinion. All the research on Marburg and Ebola, all the experience in Level 4 laboratories, and all the equipment used exploring Kitum Cave have now come into play. When Jerry Jaax and Mark Haines enter the hot zone, they run into two workers outfitted only with respirators. While working inside the Level 4 area, Nancy Jaax notices that someone's spacesuit has a rip. People are still being exposed to the virus. It is possible that everyone's worst fears are coming true when Dalgard pulls up to find an employee throwing up outside the building.

-In chapter 4, the author reflects on the origin and spread of AIDS. He sees it as sort of a price paid for destroying the natural habitat in Africa. He points out that the rain forest holds most of the plant and animal life in the world and that all life carries viruses. If the earth could be viewed as a living thing, it is as if the extreme "amplification" of the human race is a virus. Perhaps AIDS is the planet's immune system kicking in to get rid of the problem. If it is unable to do the job, there are other viruses hiding out there that may do it instead.