My Reading Journal

9 Şubat 2012 Perşembe

P.S.

***By the way I used some slang words in my posts. I hope, it doesn't make any problem. Even if it is a homework, a real blogger should use these words to make the blog more enjoyable.***

Addition

Hi, it's me again :) I can't say goodbye without adding this. It's my favourite paragraph in the book.

“Here’s a good rule about rattlesnakes and scorpions: If you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you.

Usually.

Being bitten by a scorpion or even a rattlesnake is not the worst thing that can happen to you. You won’t die.

Usually.

Sometimes a camper will try to be bitten by a scorpion, or even a small rattlesnake. Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake.

But you don’t want to be bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. That’s the worst thing that can happen to you. You will die a slow painful death.

Always.”

7 Şubat 2012 Salı

First of all I have to say that this semester our teachers gave us as a homework the best two books of all IEL time since I have been in IEL. I finished "Schachnovelle" in two hours and I loved it. I bought another book of Stefan Zweig.
As for "Holes", I finished it this week. We talked about it at school. We found some keywords and now I would like to analyse it. This entry can be the most difficult entry I've ever written on this blog. Because it's the last entry, it's a goodbye :(
Some of my thoughts have changed since I opened this blog. At the beginning of homework I thought that it is just gonna kill my time. The time that I could spend outdoors with my friends. But it wasn't like I thought. Blogging is very entertaining. Maybe I can start a different blog, which is about fashion, lifestyle, travel, foods&drinks, cinema, design and culture. ( I mean more "artistic" )

ANALYSIS
Although I think it's a book for children, I liked the book very much. The book is very funny, but in an offbeat way. The present day parts of the "Holes" are narrated like an adventure. The historical parts are narrated like a tale. However when the parts come together, Holes becomes a puzzle and it's full of mystery. In the book, the most beautiful thing is keeping saying always "Haaaaaa!". It's an expression of surprise in Turkish language. It surprised me every moment.
The book has got lots of themes. But if I have to say five main themes, I guess, they will be "friendship, emptiness, identity,destiny and justice." There are many symbols in the book. For example: the yellow-spotted-lizards symbolize that the Camp Green Lake is a deadly place. And also the holes were the clearest symbol in the book. They symbolize eternity, despair and slavery, I think.
"You, and your children, and their children, can dig for the next hundred years and you'll never find it."

The titel fits the story perfectly. The autor wrote the book with a clear language. I could read the book easily and fast. The book was short and hasn't got any long, boring chapter or sentence. I read the book generally after 00:00 but I didn't fall asleep even once. The book is narrated in the third person. That's why dialogues have an important role to understand the characters.
I can't remember right now too many figures of speech. But as an example I can give "Excuse me". I've already told about it in an old entry. In the book Warden said always "excuse me" I think it's kind of repetition. There is also metaphor in this book. The places acts as a metaphor for character's personality. The Camp Green Lake is dry, hot, deadly and hard to live. Also people, who are in the camp, are cruel and the guys are named "bad boys". They are generally unfriendly and rude. But the God's Thumb is a good place. It is the place, where Stanley and Zero could survive with eating onions. When they were there, they felt free and happy.
I think the autor wanted to show us how affect fate and history us on in a normal day of our life. Also he became successful. He transfered us his purpose in an excellent way.
Briefly I liked the book and I definitely recommend the book to kids or disney fans =)

(594 words)

6 Şubat 2012 Pazartesi

Sam's Hero Onions

Why did I like the book? Why do I like writting about it? The answer is: the book is full of coincidences.

100 years ago Sam had an onion field somewhere and 100 years later Stanley and Zero could survive with his onions like Stanley great-grandfather. He could survive with eating these onions, too.( Kissin' Kate Barlow robbed him and left him alone at the middle of the desert..)
While Stanley and Zero were digging the last hole, the yellow-spotted-lizars appeared. They were together in the hole for a while. No one could not understand why lizards didn't bite them.

The most important coincidence:

They ate so much onions and they smell terrible. It protects them from lizards. This coincidence is the most important one because it saved their life and also onions are the heroes of the day.

She is a real b*tch!!!

This is the most action I have seen since Stanley's arrival at Camp Green Lake. I can't believe that she scratched Mr. Sir in the face with her special nail polish which is maden from rattlesnake venom. She didn't even think for a second. She did this impulsively.

She is just like her great-great-grandfather Trout Walker. She is cruel. But she is more intelligent than Trout and this quality makes her worse. She is a devil and she is ALIVE!! She has a traumatic childhood. Because she had always digged holes for finding treasure of Kate Barlow. She is obsessed with it.