The Ask and The Answer

        So far, in the book "The Ask and The Answer" its about a group of young teens are in a special place called heaven. Todd and Viola are about to find their worst enemy, and he is waiting to welcome them on heaven. Now there separated and now looking for each other in a place which might cause good or bad? Why are they so called heaven? Who is the enemy they are fearing for? They have to ask, to know the answer. Todd is think that this is a glory hole, and thinking that this place is a fantasy. But for Viola she thinks that its a trap and she was sent here for a reason. I am at page 135 and Todd is finding clues of what the enemy might do. But Viola is in a difficult spot because she is dealing with the enemy. The questions are rising up we may find the answer soon.


         For the book "The Ask and The Answer" its teen fiction. The thing I like about teen fiction is that, you can relate the problems the characters are going through. For example "Viola is scared and thinks this place is a setup." Sometimes I wonder if some places are setups. And, the thing I don't like is that it focuses on the love story of a book. I've never read any teen fiction before because I didn't have any interest except for the Hunger Games series. So far I kinda of gone both sides of the book. Sometimes I hate the book, but later I think its a interesting book. I've gone crazy decide whats going to happen next. The newest character I hate is Mayor Prentiss aka "The Enemy". He's the most evilest person I've ever read in a book.

On the Wings of Heroes Book Talk Assignment 1

         In the story "On the Wings of Heroes" is about a boy named Davy that is living during the WWII era back at home. His father and Bill (older brother) fly's B-17's in the Navy in the Atlantic. It describes a life of a military family in America while there parents/brother fight in the front. Davy practices Air Raid drills at school and seeing propaganda everywhere about joining the war. My thoughts are that it's a excellent novel about family love in war. Knowing that your family member is at war knowing that they couldn't be here the next day or forever. It also describes that Davy matures when he gets older and the longer the war last. You may not know how a family member may be dead or being captive as a prisoner of war. 

         The conflicts in the book "On the Wings of Heroes" there are several conflicts that Davy has to face. First Davy has to face his brother leaving to the Navy to station at London. He has to dell with his brother not being for him and worrying not coming back home. Other people have to deal with this problem but Davy takes it more serious than other kids (Person vs Self). Also Davy has to deal with other kids bullying him because they believed in Nazism. So he has to be called by stereotypical names. (Person vs Person/  Person vs Society) Maybe the theme could be about we all have to go through something in life. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. We all have to go through it. 

Workers Rights

The way people are working in sweatshops and its horrific in what they work in. In the Bangladesh Article it said that "search for victims of the collapse of a factory building, scouring the basement of the complex that crumbled in on itself and killed 1,127 people." Also that in the Bangladesh article it said "The government has accused the owners and builders of the eight-storey complex of using shoddy building materials, including substandard rods, bricks and cement, and of not obtaining the necessary clearances." I believe that sweatshop workers should get their rights. There working in normal working conditions and the locations they worked in. I learn that the real truth of how my clothes are being made. Realizing were my clothes are being made is questioning were my clothes are made of.  

The argument in the poem is how workers describe there conditions during the 20's. In "The Sweatshop" poem it said that " I run the machine as if I wanted to overtake them —I race mindlessly, endlessly." Its talking about its taking over her life for someone else is life. From the article it talks about what happen but in a poem it describes what happen from 1st point of view. My understanding about this poem is that we don't know wear our clothing is being made. We need to know whats going on behind the factory doors. It also describes that whats it like inside a horrible working condition building you have to work in.