Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Literary merit or just a book with big words...?
Literary merit! To me this means a book with extended vocabulary, a complex plot, and a story line that has to make you read some pages more than once. My book Jasmine was a great book of literary merit! I had to stop on like every page to look up a definition of a word. Also, the story has to have a deeper meaning than just any ordinary book. Like Invisible Man and Jasmine are both books of literary merit and something similar about the two is that they're both about characters assimilating in a world that's different than them.
Monday, October 5, 2015
About me and my reads......
Hey world! So my name is Jasmine and I was named after the princess, no lie. I'm a senior in high school and my main goal right now is to graduate which is why I'm posting this blog, since it's a homework assignment and all. (Thanks Mrs. Smith!) LOL
I play volleyball, am employed, love the Lion King and Rocky IV, favorite color is purple and J. Cole is my heart.
As for literature, I love reading books that I'm not forced to read. As a sophomore I wasn't really interested in Hester Prynne's adulterous acts or her disobedient child but regardless of how I felt I still had to read The Scarlet Letter and hated every second of it. Nor did I enjoy reading Macbeth, but again, I'm just trying to graduate.
I've snuck some books into my leisure time. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng was a favorite of mine. It was such an awkward book and I loved it. It captured how it felt to be a minority in America through an Asian family of 5. A white mother, an Asian father, 2 daughters and 1 son. The parents' marriage had been damaged when their oldest daughter was found dead in a lake. Although they tried to deny it, she had killed herself because she absolutely hated her life. It was a great read but its ending was a little......bad.
I'm currently reading Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee and it's very similar to Everything I Never Told You! I'm about 1/3 of the way through. Once I finish I'll let you know how it went!
I play volleyball, am employed, love the Lion King and Rocky IV, favorite color is purple and J. Cole is my heart.
As for literature, I love reading books that I'm not forced to read. As a sophomore I wasn't really interested in Hester Prynne's adulterous acts or her disobedient child but regardless of how I felt I still had to read The Scarlet Letter and hated every second of it. Nor did I enjoy reading Macbeth, but again, I'm just trying to graduate.
I've snuck some books into my leisure time. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng was a favorite of mine. It was such an awkward book and I loved it. It captured how it felt to be a minority in America through an Asian family of 5. A white mother, an Asian father, 2 daughters and 1 son. The parents' marriage had been damaged when their oldest daughter was found dead in a lake. Although they tried to deny it, she had killed herself because she absolutely hated her life. It was a great read but its ending was a little......bad.
I'm currently reading Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee and it's very similar to Everything I Never Told You! I'm about 1/3 of the way through. Once I finish I'll let you know how it went!
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