Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Hate List
After starting this novel, I like how the book attracts readers with its introdcution. It gives you a chance to think about being in the same spot they are describing. Reading one page makes me want to read the next, then the one after that and so on.School shootings are something we all grrew up learning about and hearing about incidents.
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Drew, for full credit you need to respond to one of the Guided Response prompts and write 250 words.
ReplyDeleteThe Hate List – Jennifer Brown
ReplyDelete• Discuss your ideas about the main character(s). Is the character worthy of praise or criticism? Why?
Valerie is put through a series of obstacles to overcome that she never could have imagined. Someone who is socially out casted and judged therefore forced to stick up for herself. The list was something she seen as a way to relive some stress and joke about it, but nothing serious. When Nick opened fire at school she forgot all about the things that made her choose those names to write, and her instinctive reaction was to help and protect. Taking a bullet to the one enemy that has been there her whole life was not enough to show everybody that she wasn’t guilty. This novel really shows how strong Valerie is after returning to her school to face her peers again, without knowing whether to feel guilty or heroic. I admire her being able to take it a day at a time and move on with her life. Nick on the other hand I belive must have dealt with some type of hate which guided him to do what he did. Jeremy also I believe may have played a part in either giving Nick the idea or pushing him to do it. Valerie had no intentions of being put in the place that she reached that day in the commons. She must have seen it as a, ‘the boy who cried wolf’ kind of thing, never believing that it would result in violence.
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