The Giver by Lois Lowry Book Summary

The Giver By Lois Lowry

So far into the book, The Giver I think that it is a good book, because it's Science Fiction. It really makes you think about the theme of survival. It is similar to a few books I have read like the Hunger Games and Divergent, because they both have similar meanings to it. In my opinion I think the Hunger Games is like a survival type feeling mood, and Divergent is the same way- only with different powers that you are given. In The Giver, the main characters are Jonas and Asher. These two are very different from each other. Jonas is the type of person who is very funny and who jokes around, Asher is the type of person that takes things seriously. So when Jonas and Asher are together they both clash and sometimes don't get along, but in the end they still get back together. Also, later they meet another person down the road, named Lily. Lily is similar to the both of them, except Lily is a girl and she got put into the "One's" group and was given a ceremony. At this point into the book I think they fight in a survival type match and decide who's the best and they get chosen.  
          Towards the end of the book, Jonas and The Giver who is the leading person of there event were talking and discussing about their grandparents. Jonas really didn't understand what grandparents really meant and what it stood for, So Jonas kept wondering about his grandparents because no one can see old people anymore so they have them separated in a different building. For Jonas grandparents meant "parents of the parents long ago" which he thought it meant, so The Giver explained to Jonas that it is people that don't live with us anymore which is the new meaning of grandparents of there time. Jonas also didn't really understand what love meant too so The Giver had to teach him what it meant because they grew up in different eras and The Giver is more of like a teacher. Overall I really like The Giver because of it being a type of book that I like to read.

Alex's Sixth Book Summary/Byrd & Igloo A Polar Adventure Book

Byrd & Igloo A Polar Adventure 

By Samantha Seiple

In this book Byrd & Igloo the main characters are Maris Boggs a small women, Richard Evelyn Byrd which is a 37 year old man and Igloo, Byrd's best friend he took along everywhere he went most of the time. Byrd had rescued Igloo which is a little scrappy fox from the streets in Washington D.C. In the book they take a trip from the port of Los Angeles on October 10, 1928 and took a 10,000 mile trip to Antarctica. Not only was it just them going to Antarctica it was also 3 other ships carrying 2,500 pounds of pemmican, 2,000 pounds of cocoa and 3,000 pounds of powdered milk, last but not least they had dehydrated fruits and vegetables. While all of this is happening Byrd and Igloo are still together and they don't plan on leaving each other. 

Alex's Fifth Summary/Night By Elie Wiesel

A summary so far of what's happening in our book is it's taking place during the Holocaust in 1944. Elie Wiesel the author of the book is telling one of his personal stories but remastered into a story. Now in the beginning of the book it starts off being in the ghettos and in concentration camps in Germany with the Nazis. Wiesel begins to not stand up for anyone and just be on his own, most Jews really don't stand up for each other because they already know the consequences and don't wanna get killed. Some words in the book aren't always English because of what country they are in so it's sometimes is in German which makes things a little complicated but gives the book a more of a historic background to it.  

Problems During the Holocaust

During the holocaust there were many bystanders instead of upstanders at the time. If Jews misbehaved any of the rules they were given by the Germans then they would either get beaten up or killed which made the Jews resist from standing up for each other. I myself would've been a bystander in these types of situations too because of how terrible you can get treated. If it were a little problem with a Jew having an issue with a German then I would step up if it's only one German involved in the situation. Another major problem that was going on in the holocaust was the torture chambers and camps that were happening to the Jews. When following German orders at that time you must or else you will die no matter what which caused many innocent Jews to die. 

Bangladesh Kills Over 110 Workers

Tragedies in Bangladesh 

November 25, 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh over the weekend more than 100 workers died in a fire and of smoke inhalation. The problem that many factories suffer are that a lot of factories don't have many fire escape exits and plans if a fire happens, which caused many people to die. These factories produce products for major companies such as Tommy Hilfiger and Gap which are sold by Walmart, Walmart knows that these workers suffer everyday of these hazardous chemicals but don't plan to help out or even stop it. A member from the fire department named Major Mahbub says that "The fire could have been caused by an electrical fault or by a spark from a cigarette". Someone in the building may have done this or could even have a machine blowup and caused a fire.

Alex's Workers Rights Blog Assessment

Problems With FIFA In Brazil And In Sweatshops

A major issue that the citizens of Brazil were facing was a huge association named FIFA. FIFA was hosting it's FIFA World Cup in Brazil on July 14th 2014. Millions of fans across the globe came to visit the world cup but many didn't notice that why wasn't anybody really happy outside of the world cup's stadium. FIFA tore apart hundreds and thousands of homes to make one of the largest soccer stadiums but only for a month. Innocent citizens that lived in that location where the stadium was built were evicted from their homes because FIFA was building a stadium on there homes. This was such a major issue that more people in other countries seen that this was breaking so many rights that they didn't want to attend the world cup nor even be apart of it's association. This made me upset because the government of Brazil allowed this and spent billions of dollars to build this stadium but didn't spend billions of dollars to the people in need in Brazil. 

Many people that are working in a sweatshop are really tired and really stressed. Everyone that is working in a sweatshop are feeling like if they are a machine because they don't have any emotions or feelings. I think that this poem was way worser than how it was in Brazil because of FIFA, millions of workers feel like this in sweatshops. This face all of these fears across the whole world working for major companies and don't get paid a lot. The poem about sweatshops was really interesting because you had a perspective of how a sweatshop worker felt and for the article you only had facts and information about how it was. 

Alex's Fourth Summary/The 39 Clues: Into The Gauntlet

The 39 Clues: Into The Gauntlet

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

"Into The Gauntlet" is the tenth book in the 39 clues series. I think that this is one of my favorite books in the series so far because of it's main point of the book . Dan and Amy both return back to London for another clue hunt and they have to right down most things they do on their trip in another country. The clue is that they both are searching for a valuable coin that has a script on it, the only way the you can see the script is in person. The only problem that they both have is that the person that has the coin is a pet monkey called Isabel Kabra which is weird because it's a monkey and not a person. It's pretty smart on how they planned it but the guy who put the coin on the monkey is anonymous so know one knows who he is, Dan and Amy now have to find many clues in their trip. 

The type of genre for this book is a novel, it's half and half with novel and with adventure which is something I personally like in a book. What I don't like about the book is that the author gave up on some of the interesting parts in the book. What I mean by the author giving up on the interesting parts is that as soon as you get into a scene the author goes ahead and switches the mood in the scene which makes me annoyed. I have read a genre like novel/adventure and I like it, I think it's something that I can really get into and can always read again. I always enjoy each book that comes out in the series because of it's mysterious clues and stories and I would recommend it to someone. I'm very excited to see if I can be able to read the 11th book in the series and I cannot wait to get my hands on it.