Hoot is a novel by Carl Hiaasen, in the Coming of age and Realistic Fiction genre.
The story takes place in Coconut Cove, Florida in the present day.
The Reason I think Hoot is within these genres, is because Roy Eberhardt, the main character of the novel tries to stop the construction of Mother Paula's pancake restaurant. Which puts the Endangered Burrow Owls in conflict with the construction of the restaurant. The conflict of trying to save the rare owls and not get into trouble himself as he is only young. Fortunately there is another two people trying to help the owls, Beatrice and her step-brother, Mullet Fingers her stepbrother is a runaway from his family and only Beatrice knows his whereabouts.
Not only do they stop the construction, but Roy makes friends and they expose the dishonesty of the building company involved. The book also shows how large companies can disregard the environment.
The themes in this book are growing up, we see Roy take responsibility, another theme is corruption because the pancake house wants to bribe local officials and build on protected land.
The mood of the book is sad at the beginning as Roy hates his new home in Florida, he much prefers it in Montana. Eventually the mood of the book becomes triumphant as his bully Dana Matherson, is thrown in jail and the school wins against the building company.
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The Hunt
The Hunt is a novel by Andrew Fukuda, in the fantasy and suspense genre.
The reason why I think The Hunt is in this genre is because the main character Gene is trying to survive as the only human living in a world full of vampires.
Gene's father helped Gene to live within this world before having to leave Gene as he was bit by a vampire.
After that the lonely boy had to adapt to life without his father, also another down side is that he has to join the 'heper hunt', the biggest sport in the community, as he is not a real vampire he will have a hard time hunting the heper's.
The heper's are bred in captivity and are the bait for the hunt and are the ones that are hunted. Gene has to keep his identity secret but starts to make freinds with the heper's in captivity. The themes starting to appear in this book are themes of good versus evil.
I haven't finished this book yet, but I can thoroughly recommend it if you like reading The Hunger Games trilogy.
The reason why I think The Hunt is in this genre is because the main character Gene is trying to survive as the only human living in a world full of vampires.
Gene's father helped Gene to live within this world before having to leave Gene as he was bit by a vampire.
After that the lonely boy had to adapt to life without his father, also another down side is that he has to join the 'heper hunt', the biggest sport in the community, as he is not a real vampire he will have a hard time hunting the heper's.
The heper's are bred in captivity and are the bait for the hunt and are the ones that are hunted. Gene has to keep his identity secret but starts to make freinds with the heper's in captivity. The themes starting to appear in this book are themes of good versus evil.
I haven't finished this book yet, but I can thoroughly recommend it if you like reading The Hunger Games trilogy.
Sunday, 15 November 2015
King o'Toole and his Goose
The legend of King o'Tool and his Goose.
The tale begins with a goose that would always bring food to her master, the King.
Over the years the goose became frail and could not fly as her wings were stiff with age
.
King o'Toole was saddened to watch his trustworthy companion aging
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One day a man appeared, we know this person now to be Saint Kavin.
He said he would heal King O'Toole's goose for a few acres of land.
King o'Tool agreed to the offer and Saint Kavin made the King's goose young again and healed her of her ailments.
This tale became a legend as Saint kavin had special healing powers which enabled him to heal the old and the sick, making them feel as good as new.
The link to my google drive below has my recording ...
The tale begins with a goose that would always bring food to her master, the King.
Over the years the goose became frail and could not fly as her wings were stiff with age
.
King o'Toole was saddened to watch his trustworthy companion aging
.
One day a man appeared, we know this person now to be Saint Kavin.
He said he would heal King O'Toole's goose for a few acres of land.
King o'Tool agreed to the offer and Saint Kavin made the King's goose young again and healed her of her ailments.
This tale became a legend as Saint kavin had special healing powers which enabled him to heal the old and the sick, making them feel as good as new.
The link to my google drive below has my recording ...
Sunday, 8 November 2015
Old school fiction genres (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ with links!
Folk Tales (Irish): Jamie Freel and the Young Lady http://oaks.nvg.org/irtales1-2.html#jaldy <---- scroll down.
Fairy Tales (Irish): The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ift/ift08.htm
Fables (Lamb and Wolf): The Wolf and the Lamb an Aesop's Fable http://www.taleswithmorals.com/aesop-fable-the-wolf-and-the-lamb.htm
Legend (Saint Kavin) King O'Toole and his Goose http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/fip63.htm
Myth (Celtic): Arthur www.ancient-mythology.com/celtic/arthur.php
Monday, 2 November 2015
#BONUS A SOUND OF THUNDER (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ
BONUS #1
The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever.
BONUS #2
Examples of metaphor are: ...The jungle was the entire world forever and forever... |and| ... metaphor means transferring a 'quality from one thing to another. The quality of size of the earth is being transferred to thebJungle to make it seem very very very big.
Examples of simile are: Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door. |and|
Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche... is a comparison that usually uses the words "like" or "as"
Example of symbolism is: "There's the red paint on its chest!" symbolizing that it is going to die. Symbolism is when a picture/sound/sign means something such as the union jack symbolises the UK
The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever.
BONUS #2
Examples of metaphor are: ...The jungle was the entire world forever and forever... |and| ... metaphor means transferring a 'quality from one thing to another. The quality of size of the earth is being transferred to thebJungle to make it seem very very very big.
And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone. Here, the quality of a sculpture that weighs a ton is transferred to the head of the T-Rex to help us see it more clearly in all its beauty and mass.
Examples of simile are: Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door. |and|
Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche... is a comparison that usually uses the words "like" or "as"
Example of symbolism is: "There's the red paint on its chest!" symbolizing that it is going to die. Symbolism is when a picture/sound/sign means something such as the union jack symbolises the UK
Sunday, 1 November 2015
Sound of thunder comprehension questions
What are the penalties for disobeying instructions?
You would have to pay a 10,000 dollar fine and possible government action.
What did some people want to do if Deutscher had won the election and why?
They wanted to go back in time to 1492 because they would have had the worst type of dictatorship.
What does Travis tell Eckels is the best way to kill a dinosaur?
Travis tells Eckels that he should shoot their eyes first, and then go back to the brain.
How many years did the men travel?
The men traveled sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years.
What is the anti-gravity metal path and why must the men stay on it?
The anti-gravity metal path is a path, not touching the ground, that is made of anti-gravity metal, they must stay on it or else they might change humanity.
What happened to the machine and the men’s clothes before they made their journey?
Their clothing and the machine was sterilized before they traveled back in time.
Why do the men wear oxygen helmets?
They wear the oxygen helmets because they do not want to introduce their bacteria to an ancient environment.
What is unique about the dinosaurs that the men can shoot?
They will die in the future and there will be no change if they get shot or if they just die naturally.
What does Eckels jokingly pretend to do?
Eckles pretends to aim his rifle, Travis does not like Eckles joking around.
What does Eckels say when he sees the size of the dinosaur?
Eckles says, (quote) "Why, why," his mouth twitched "It could reach up and grab the moon."
How do the men know which dinosaurs they can shoot?
The dinosaurs they could shoot had red paint splatted on their chest, with a paint bomb from Lesperence.
What do Billings and Kramer do after the dinosaur is dead?
After the dinosaur is dead Billings and Kramer sit on the pathway and throw up.
What does Travis make Eckels do in order to go back with them?
Travis makes Eckels put his arms in up to his elbows in his mouth so that he can extract the bullets.
What does Eckels notice about the sign on their return?
Eckles notices that the sign is spelled differently it spells out:
TYME SEFARI INC.
SEFARIS TU ANY YEER EN THE PAST.
YU NAIM THE ANIMALL.
WEE TAEK YU THAIR.
YU SHOOT ITT.
What does Eckels find on the bottom of his boots?
Eckles finds a green, gold and black butterfly in on his boots, inside a clod of dirt.
Answer each of the following questions using proper answer form.
1. What is inferred by the 'Sound of Thunder' through most of the story? What is inferred at the end of the story?
Throughout the story the 'sound of thunder' infers something wild and powerful made by nature. Something uncontrollable and unpredictable. At the end of the story the 'sound of thunder' infers death.
2. The author uses a great deal of imagery in the story. Pick an awesome paragraph with at least three good examples and explain how each is used to enhance the storytelling. everyone gets a different paragraph. First come first choice.
It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight.
Each lower leg was a piston, this image reminds you of huge force and the unstoppable power within the reptiles limbs.
It's mouth gaped exposing a fence of teeth like daggers, this image brings to mind, teeth so large that even one of them could impale a human like it is nothing.
'...While the snake neck coiled', it reminds us of a dangerous cobra ready to attack.
3. There are a number of moments of foreshadowing in the opening of the story (exposition). There are even more throughout the story as a whole. Give at least 5 examples from the whole story and explain what they foreshadow.
"We guarantee nothing," said the official...|Here the official is foreshadowing that Eckles will die at the end of the story.
"Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States."|Here Eckles is foreshadowing that also at the end of the story Deutscher will win the elections for president and will be the president of the United States
"So what?" Travis snorted quietly. "Well, what about the foxes that'll need those mice to survive?.... ....infinite billions of life forms are thrown into chaos and destruction.... ....From his loins would have sprung ten sons. From their loins one hundred sons, and thus onward to a civilization. Destroy this one man, and you destroy a race, a people, an entire history of life. It is comparable to slaying some of Adam's grandchildren.... ....a billion others yet unborn are.... ....Perhaps Rome never rises on its seven hills.... ....Queen Elizabeth might never be born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all. So be careful. Stay on the Path. Never step off"|Here Travis foreshadows that everything will be changed when they go back to 2055, from spellings to different minds.
Keith made President. Everyone celebrating.|Here Eckles is foreshadowing that, again, Deutscher would be the president of the US.
3. There are a number of moments of foreshadowing in the opening of the story (exposition). There are even more throughout the story as a whole. Give at least 5 examples from the whole story and explain what they foreshadow.
"We guarantee nothing," said the official...|Here the official is foreshadowing that Eckles will die at the end of the story.
"Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States."|Here Eckles is foreshadowing that also at the end of the story Deutscher will win the elections for president and will be the president of the United States
"So what?" Travis snorted quietly. "Well, what about the foxes that'll need those mice to survive?.... ....infinite billions of life forms are thrown into chaos and destruction.... ....From his loins would have sprung ten sons. From their loins one hundred sons, and thus onward to a civilization. Destroy this one man, and you destroy a race, a people, an entire history of life. It is comparable to slaying some of Adam's grandchildren.... ....a billion others yet unborn are.... ....Perhaps Rome never rises on its seven hills.... ....Queen Elizabeth might never be born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all. So be careful. Stay on the Path. Never step off"|Here Travis foreshadows that everything will be changed when they go back to 2055, from spellings to different minds.
Keith made President. Everyone celebrating.|Here Eckles is foreshadowing that, again, Deutscher would be the president of the US.
"I didn't realize it would be this big," said Eckels. "I miscalculated, that's all. And now I want out."
"It sees us!"|Here Travis foreshadows that there will be chaos, by the dinosaur looking at it.
"There's the red paint on its chest!"|Here either Travis or Lesperence foreshadows that the Tyrannosaurus-Rex is going to be killed.
A Sound Of Thunder Word list
Word: Phlegm
Meaning: Saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages.
Sentence: James, a short lad with twiggy arms; and small shoulders, had a really horrible cold, so bad in fact; that he could not cough up the phlegm that was causing a blockage; in his already tight throat.
Word: Glorious
Meaning: Having great beauty and splendor
Sentence: Harry, the tallest kid with the most agility, a pride of BISB, won the world wide school basketball championship; for the seventh time in a row, he was glorious to show his father as he also won every basketball championship every year for BISB.
Word: Sway
Meaning: Pitching dangerously to on side
Sentence: As Leroy took a gulp of his fanta, the world went fuzzy, he took another gulp just to see if it was just him or not, then suddenly a flash of colours; he started to violently sway; a crash he just heard himself cry out; before everything went black, some one, had put something, in his drink.
Word: Envelop
Meaning: Saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages.
Sentence: James, a short lad with twiggy arms; and small shoulders, had a really horrible cold, so bad in fact; that he could not cough up the phlegm that was causing a blockage; in his already tight throat.
Word: Glorious
Meaning: Having great beauty and splendor
Sentence: Harry, the tallest kid with the most agility, a pride of BISB, won the world wide school basketball championship; for the seventh time in a row, he was glorious to show his father as he also won every basketball championship every year for BISB.
Word: Sway
Meaning: Pitching dangerously to on side
Sentence: As Leroy took a gulp of his fanta, the world went fuzzy, he took another gulp just to see if it was just him or not, then suddenly a flash of colours; he started to violently sway; a crash he just heard himself cry out; before everything went black, some one, had put something, in his drink.
Word: Envelop
Meaning: Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
Sentence: As the threat went out to all of Europe, the criminals behind had to envelop the video's they were sending out, so that none of the emergency services; could see them, also they hacked every electronic house so that all of them were locked, and the phone lines were down, "This is only the beginning." was the sentence that played out on the televisions, phones, speakers, computers and even amplifiers... Europe was petrified.
Word: Franchise
Meaning: A business authorized to sell a company's goods or services
Sentence: The shopping mall had bought the license to sell KFC, they wished they had enough money to buy more of an iconic franchise; such as Burger King or McDonalds, but for now as a minor shopping mall they had to stick with one, or they might go over budget and go bankrupt.
Word: Finicky
Meaning: Exacting especially about details
Sentence: The Prime Minister was very finicky about his breakfast, "For the last time Bill!" he shouted "I only have one and two-thirty-sixths of sugar in my tea!" he screamed again "Ah and I would like to have a rare beef leg on my plate with a side of quails egg, thank you." he managed curtly.
Word: Annihilate
Meaning: Kill in large numbers
Sentence: As the criminals had all of Europe locked inside, they rained down missiles onto those who tried to escape out of their windows, slowly but surely Europe was being annihilated.
Word: Expendable
Meaning: Suitable to be used up
Sentence: The Proton, electron or the neutron is definitely not expendable, without it we wouldn't have Atoms and without Atoms wouldn't have molecules and without molecules we wouldn't be here.
Word: Slay
Meaning: kill intentionally and with premeditation
Sentence: Dovahkiin (dragon born) was the only living/undead human; on the realm that could slay the dragon, eliminating all who came in his way, the determined warrior fought the creatures from Markarth to Whiterun... Still he is feared by even the greatest warriors.
Word: Infinitesimal
Meaning: Immeasurably small
Sentence: Quarks (smaller than atoms) are absolutely infinitesimal the radius of a typical atom is one tenth of a billionth of a meter, so quarks are one of the smallest things ever.
Word: Disproportion
Meaning: Imbalance among the parts of something
Sentence: The odd bug was very disproportional, it had: 2 heads, 3 eyes, 5 feet, 7 tails, 9 wings and 11 noses, it was very weird, it flew always doing a 360, I was tempted to put it out of its misery but, it didn't seem that bothered that it couldn't fly properly.
Word: Correlate
Meaning: Bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation
Sentence: As the beast went down, James remarked, "It is a good job that Sean, before he died, could correlate that the beast would get struck by lightning, because if it wouldn't of, we could of changed the evolution cycle, and that would've been severe."
Word: Bisect
Meaning: Cut in half or cut in two
Sentence: In science we were told that the heart we had to bisect was just a pigs heart, it turns out though that any student of his that gets under fifty percent on the science exam, is punished by having their heart ripped out and having it bisected by a student of Mr. Ray.
Word: Resilient
Meaning: rebound readily
Sentence: The thief was resilient at robbing the mansion already he'd been spotted twice, he was a pretty dumb thief after all, he got caught the first time stealing an ice lolly, sitting down on the sofa and reading a Beano comic, the second time he got caught was when he heard the owner of the mansion snoring and started going into hysterics, and now he got caught by trying to make a coffee while he searched the cupboards for some biscuits.
Word: poised
Meaning: marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action
Sentence: Bill was poised to catch his father a frog, as soon as his father set up his camera a frog leaped out of nowhere, Bill leaped out to catch it, the frog was very bouncy so he had to take good care of it.
Word: Remit
Meaning: to send in Payment
Sentence: The sailor club business said they would remit half the price if the Glory wasn't up to standards, but they didn't need to because the Glory was as good as new, it was so beautiful even the most macho sailors shed tears on her deck as they wished that she was theirs.
Word: Engulf
Meaning: cover completely or flow over
Sentence: The house, once towering and intimidating, was engulfed with a raging fire, so furious that everything that stood once on Wavlrey Lane was nothing but a pile of ash.
Word: Malfunction
Meaning: Fail to work properly
Sentence: Year 4075- If the Earths regulator would malfunction, The heat of Earths core would rise drastically and cause a huge drought, and the Earths atmosphere would be so tense that nothing could travel above or come back down to Earth, over seven billion deaths would be in it's hands.
Word: Tonnage
Meaning: A tax imposed on ships that enter the US
Sentence: The tonnage for the Glory was an astonishing 500,000 dollars, because it was bringing in over 6 tonnes of the most delicious fresh fish in the pacific ocean.
Word: Stagnate
Meaning: Exist in a changeless situation
Sentence: The dead would forever stagnate, their cold bodies packed in graveyards, their death causes from dying of old age to murder to no apparent reason, aging from 26 BC to 2015 AD.
Word: Primeval
Meaning: The Sun as far as we know is primeval, it is 13,73 billion years old, without it there would be no Earth no lifeforms and no heat, we would lack vitamin B.
Word: Subtle
Meaning: Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
Sentence: A subtle smell of almond was protruding from my tea the enemy just gave me, I couldn't give away the fact I knew what cyanide was, so I had to work quick to accidentally on purpose, be sick at that moment, I knew the delay was good, but after a while he would try to make me drink the deadly brew.
Word: Subliminal
Meaning: Below the threshold of conscious perception
Sentence: The subliminal messages in my brain were lazily saying "walk, walk, walk..." until a humongous bull hound thundered around the corner spittle and human blood flowed out of it's mouth; suddenly my brain was screaming "Run!!!", then the adrenaline kicked in and I promise I was running as fast a Usain Bolt himself.
Word: Embedded
Meaning: Enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass
Sentence: After the explosion, I was embedded
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