Why I chose this book

At first, I hadn't even known anything about this book, truthfully it was a completely random pick. But as a did some research about this book, I started to get more interested. I love books that aren't formal, I like how it's from the character's perspective to really get into the story. I feel as though young adult books are successful at it because the author is trying to capture the typical teenage life. The cover only had a frowning face that said Get Well Soon. The title made me think that maybe somebody was sick and it would include a lot of drama. The description said that it was about a teenage girl that was sent to a mental hospital. I hadn't really known about mental hospitals but they've always intrigued me. What makes a person think and act differently that they are sent to a facility to rot as people think they are getting better? I think it's even more interesting that it's a teenage girl as oppose to a grown adult as many people believe that its the common age.

The Best/ Worst things about my book

In my book, the main character, Anna, gets "promoted" to getting privileges as the mental hospital treats its patients with levels from how they act to make them a better person. My main character speaks to a therapists and gets to be around other patients and things such as going to school at the hospital, eating lunch in the cafeteria, and going to group meetings. At group meetings she meets many new people but mostly boys. They all are supposed to say positive things in order to get points to move up levels and hopefully get enough to have a better chance of leaving the hospital. Anna falls in love with a tall and shy boy named Justin. She is starting to like the hospital than she did before, with her only motivation being him. What I really enjoy about this book is that it isn't formal. This is her perspective and makes it casual so the reader can really connect to the main character. What I don't like is that there isn't really a plot to the story. She just describes her stay at the hospital to her friend.

About the Author

My book, Get Well Soon was written by Julie Halpern. She is an american author that writes popular young adult books. Her books are about the challenges that teens face who are outsiders. Some of her books include, Get Well Soon, a teenage girl in a mental institution that suffers from panic attacks, Into the Wild Nerd Yonder which is about a girl who challenges "fitting" into high school when she meets a group of friends who plays Dungeons and Dragons, and many more. Get Well Soon got Best Adult Book of 2007 by Kirkus Reviews.She is married to author and illustrator Matthew Cordell. Together the both created the children's picture book, Toby and the Snowflakes. Young adults would definitely love her work.

Predictions for My book

My book Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern is about a girl who is currently living in a mental hospital. I currently dont know her name because its from her point of view. So far, she is writing to her friends, Tracy and Teresa about her experience so far. She is frustrated because she is at a level 2 of self harm, which means she could commit suicide. Because of this, doctors are unable to give her any objects, as she might hurt herself but she believes she is fine. A question I have is , why was she sent to this mental institution?  Some predictions I have for the future is that she will have the trust to be given objects. Maybe she will meet someone there to help her with her problems.

Fahrenheit 451

In Fahrenheit 451, the main character Guy Montag is a fireman that burns books for a living. When he meets Clarisse McClellan, who tells him about the past which was completely different. He then  started to think more about his life and society. When he is faced with a problem about reading a book he offers his wife, Mildred to start at the beginning. A prediction I have is that he will rebel and find out about society. Mildred can either turn him in or "rebel" with him even though their relationship is not perfect. Captain Beatty will not be happy and could possibly burn him with the books. Maybe he will become a leader?

Reflection

My character blog post best exemplifies my ability to analyze complex characters.  The characters can set the tone for the entire story, resulting in a successful story and theme. Having the character be complex helps the reader figure out who the character truly is and helps create a story by having the character develop throughout it. Theme is the underlying meaning to the story that is almost universal, which can help with real life situations. Each can be helpful or almost meaningless but there is always one. To analyze a theme I find patterns throughout the story between characters and what’s happening in the story.  Having characters develop and change throughout the story makes it easier and helpful to the theme, creating an interesting story.  Depending on how complex  the story and characters are developed, the theme can be found closer to the middle or the end of the story.  

               

 

      The goals I have for the next trimester is finding a more complex book with harder ways to figure out the character development and theme. I need more complex vocabulary and overall general ways of improving to a higher level of comprehension.  I also have to work on time management and remembering to do blog post and to readJ.  I would like to work on a better understanding to for analysis. In writing I would like to improve my ways to structure a paragraph and increase my vocabulary usage.

               

 

After being rescued by Kate's dad, I predict that they will continue to look for the rare plant and find it ,foiling Mr. Curtain's plans. Do you think this will happen? Will another ten men capture them for good? Do you think Dr. Curtain wants to cure his narcolepsy or think of a plan of putting a city of people to sleep to do something bad?