Monday, October 10, 2016

Team Vocab

This presidential election has transformed into a battle, with venomous attacks from both aggravating parties. Hillary has remained stolid, and I personally want to punch Trump in the proboscis. His supporters have slowly dissolved and the ones who have remained are hypnotized into believing America will be great again. This is a melancholy moment in American history because soon one of these candidates will be president. I earnestly believe that neither candidate should be eligible for office.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Literature Analysis #2

1. The book I am reading is the Death Cure. The Death Cure is the third book to the Maze Runner series and it is the final trial. The plot of the novel is about a boy named Thomas who is fighting back against a company named WICKED. If you don't what WICKED is it stands for World Catastrophe Killzone Department and their main goal is to find a cure for the Flare (mind altering disease) using immunes and placing them in trials. These trials then create variables which allow WICKED to form a blueprint for the cure.. In the first two books The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, they were two trials that Thomas and other main characters had to face forced upon them by WICKED. This book is based on Thomas and his friends escape from WICKED and their journey into the city where they face the threat of the Flare and have to remain in hiding until they figure out what they can do to fight back. During the Death Cure, Thomas and his friends were faced with the choice of getting their memories back. While others decided to get their memories back, Thomas and his friends Minho and Newt chose not to. With this decision they unexpectedly escaped WICKED headquarters and journey with their new friends Brenda and Jorge to the city of Denver. The journey to Denver led them to realize a horrible truth about their friend Newt, but there was nothing they could do about it. In the city, they encounter their former friend Gally who tries to recruit them into the Right Arm, a group dedicated to taking WICKED down.

2. I would have to say the theme of the novel is horror. I could also sat the theme is death since it seems to be occurring so often. Throughout the story we see the devastating loss of a friend and the madness of others as they are infected with the Flare. I would say horror because the way the book describes what the Flare does to people calling them Cranks and that when they reach the final stage they being going crazy and mad with hunger for human flesh, kind of like zombies.

3. I can see James Dashner as the author who loves gore and reads graphic novels in his spare time. He sleeps late, gets up to exercise, then walks around the city with no worries, wanders into comic book stores or places like Hot Topic. His morning would consist of coffee all day because t is his favorite drink.

Monday, October 3, 2016

Vocab #5

1. venomous- of a person or their behavior full of malice or spite
     1. The girl had a venomous personality as she was always out to bully someone.
2. stolid-of a person calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation
     2. I consider a stolid person a sociopath because in my opinion, it's very weird
3. hypnotized-produce a state or hypnosis in someone
     3. People are hypnotized so they can be controlled.
4. suspended-temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect
     4. A student can get suspended for things such as fighting bringing a concealed weapon to school.
5. transformed-make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of
     5. A caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly after being releases from its cocoon.
6. accuse-charge someone with offense or crime
     6. My sisters like to accuse me of everything so I am the one who gets in trouble.
7. anticipate-regard as probable; expect or predict
     7. I had to anticipate that my sister would be moving out of the house and going to college
8. fringe-an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material
     8. There was a fringe on my blanket that fell apart after my dog chewed on it.
9. melancholy-a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
     9 Sometimes a just feel really melancholy so I will have a Nicholas Sparks movie marathon.
10. earnestly-showing sincere and intense conviction
     10. People in movies usually hold on to an object earnestly when they are under pressure.
11. dissolve- with reference to a solid become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid as to form a solution
     11. Powder dissolves in water because it is soluble.
12. aggravate-make a problem, injury or offense worse or more serious
     12. My sister aggravates me a lot after I get hurt because she thinks it is funny.
13. illuminate-light up
     13. The lava lamp illuminates the room when it is turned on at night.
14. capillary-any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
     14. The capillary broke after the man was cut across the arm.
15. proboscis-the nose of a mammal
     15. My friend has a proboscis.