Book 3 Blog 7

  In the beginning of my book "Summer Secrets Bluford Series" They are so far talking about how Darcy and her sister Jamie and her mother and father had lost their grandmother. She had died in her sleep. So for about 2 1/2 weeks their house was silence because they were all so depressed. But after those couple of weeks the house wasn't so depressed that much. It was an uncomfortable silence, Darcy and Jamie's mother and father have been arguing for the past week. Not back to back arguing but arguing every now and then over small things. Darcy is just worried about her parents but her sister Jamie just keeps telling her that their is nothing to worry about when there clearly is.

   My connection to this story is I remember my mom all sad because my grandfather died and she was so depressed she could barely talk at all to anybody. t In the story Darcy says, "I watched my mom walk around daze, sometimes it seemed on the verge of tears." This proves that watched her mother walk around like she can't do anything. That's how it was with my mom when my grandaddy died they had a close bond. as time passed by she wouldn't eat. Then one day when she was sleep she felt a hand go on her shoulder. She knew it was my grandaddy, and he sat on the bed like if he was saying everything is going to be okay.

Post 6 Book 2 (If You're reading this)

    Now that this is the ending of the book Michael's father had sent him a video before he died. In the video before Michael continued to play it Michael had saw a  calendar with red marker on it with the days crossed off. Michael said, " I paused the video and sat staring at him frozen on the screen. My heart hammered so heavy in my chest that I could hear and feel it up on my neck and ears." This proves that the video was made on the last day of his fathers life thats why there were red x's on the calendar so that he can count the days until his death. Michaels's father didn't know he was going to right after the video that he made but Michael did. Michael says, "How could I watch this video knowing, he was destined to die right after filming it? How could I not watch it?" This proves that His own dad didn't know know how many days he had left of his life.

   My reflection on this story is, It was wonderful, sad story that was about Michael's father death but before he died he had sent his son a couple of letters and about 2 videos leading up to his death. It's pretty bad how Michael has to watch his dad on video on the last days of death even though his dad had know idea when his days were up. Even Michael's father said "I don't know how many days I have left." I wish the story didn't end with Michael having to watch his dad on video. If I was in his shoes I would have gone into a breakdown because It would be my first time going through that experience. Even if It was My mom that had died I wouldn't know what to do with my life because either you're father or your mom really mean something to you because you love them more than anybody else.

Post 5 Book 2

       I'm counting to read my book "If you're reading this." closer to the conclusion of the book it is about how he is once again starting to get the letters from when Michaels dad was writing him letters before he died telling him things before he died. That's why the book is called If you're reading this. One of the letters said, "Dear Michael, I'm not supposed to be writing this right now because i'm on guard duty, roasting in the blazing heat in a cement room at the top of a two-story tower. My job is to stare at the empty, dead desert to make sure that it stays empty and dead. To do that we have to keep our eyes open and staring out the window. S writing letters is against the rules." This means that while Michael's father was supposed to be on guard duty protecting the cement he was writing to his son that he truly missed because he was away for most of his life. But in order to keep in touch was to write letter every now and then but now that Michael's father has died he just started getting these letters. Maybe the truck that sends the mail to people got pushed back or something. I'm guessing that his father died from all the heat and accumulation. I'll have to keep reading to find out.

     The conflict of this story is that Before Michael's father even died he wouldn't have got the letters because he would still be writing them and trying to send them to Michael. In the book it stats that, "Reading books on guard duty is also against  the rules. We must be staring at nothing at all the time. It kind of drives me nuts. Anyways, that brings me to the first thing i guess i want to tell you. Always have a book going. Always take it with you." It clearly means that some good things can be bad in different situations. like if you're in the navy and you can't dress a certain way and you do behind the corperate's back. That's against the rules. So what Michael's dad is saying bad things aren't always good, and stay in school and read, and do what you have to do.

If you're reading this! 2nd book

         In the beginning of the book "If you're reading this," It is about how this boy named Mike gets someone to notice him in football he wasn't expecting it to happen. But however the coach really wants him on the team. I know this because in the book it says, " Look i don't chase everybody down like.The rest of the guys have been bursting their butts for over a week in camp." This proves that the coach really wants Mike on his team but Mike doesn't really seem to get the concept on how he could change his years of being in high school he could finally get noticed in the school. In the story it says that, "You only have three more years to play football. Don't miss out on the best years of your life." This shows that This could really make a change on his years of going to high school and having a good time being a high schooler. Although before this he had a gotten this letter from his dad before he died. The letter arrived a few weak's before Mike's 16th birthday. In the letter it says, " If you're reading this, then I'm very sorry but I was killed in the war in Afghanistan." This tells the readers that Mike's father tried his best to still have a relationship with his son before he died. But unfortunately the letters came a bit late.


       
          I have the same connection to Mike when I was in 5th grade I started out doing cheerleading in the middle of the year towards the end, and during 6th grade I was on 2 cheerleading teams. I decided to try something different so I decided to try being on the dance team. My story connects to his is because I decided to try something different just like he did. But instead his story is about football, the stories are similar because we both have sports involved. In the story it proves that 2 people from different countries or states can have the same mind set but in different things.