Tolerance Blog

I think that tolerance to me means something that your being told what to learn. Also I think it deals with your behavior on how you feel. Once you get the meaning of tolerance I think that when get the hang of it then you will be better at things and then you'll handle things more easier than before. If your little brother picks on you and you start to get angry then that's something that you tolerate, instead of pushing or yelling at your brother you tolerate it. By living a more tolerant life you will just accept the things that are offered and given to you instead of being picky or fussy about it. 

Fallen Angels Alex's Book Summary

Fallen Angels 

Walter Dean Myers

By: Alex Aldape  

Fallen Angels is a book that is based on a war to fight in Vietnam while Perry is in the United States Army. Richie Perry is the kid that has graduated from high school and has moved on into the army at age seventeen. He is a African American kid that lived in Harlem which is located in New York where he grew up in so he is very known around his area. So most people that know Richie don't call him Richie they call him Perry. It was kind of a joke before because when he said he was going into the Army people already started calling him by his last name so he could get use to it. So now that Perry is in the Army he meets a few new friends that go by the name of Harold aka "PeeWee". PeeWee is his closest friend that he met out of everyone in Vietnam. 
      What I personally think about the book is that you don't know what your going to expect on the next page you read. Every page you read is a whole different story when you finish a page, in the beginning of the book it's giving off how Perry meets all of his friends in the Army. After Perry had met some of his friends then that is when he was put into combat. When Perry was put into combat he always finds a way to make himself feel good when he is there by being provided by his new friends.  

The Invisible Chap

There is a young chap named Alex, Alex moved to a new area from his previous location in Lyonville. Alex now went to a brand new area in Berlyn, he didn't know the people, didn't know the surroundings and buldings that were there so he decided to stay inside all day in his house for months and months. There was no space or room for anything he wanted to do so the chap stood inside his room all day everyday, he was feeling depressed and he didn't as much space and much area as he used to before. Alex was invisible from his other fellows from his previous area in Lyonsville which was amazing and his favorite place he could of ever of been.

You Can You Will By Joel Osteen: Alex's Book Summary

You Can You Will

Joel Osteen

By: Alex Aldape

Joel Osteen's book You Can You Will is a type of a "motivational book" by making yourself a better person. Joel Osteen is a pastor in Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas by doing his speeches in front of thousands of people. The beginning of the book is talking about a actor in the 1980s-present that was homeless at one point of his life for awhile. He lived in his old and broken down car that he owns that's overlooking Los Angeles on a hill where he dreams about himself being the biggest actor in the world. His name today is Jim Carrey, he took himself a check out for $10,000,000 and put it into his wallet so he can have his dream in his pocket so he doesn't give up on it. What this book is explaining in the first few chapters is that you can have a picture of your dream printed out for you to see and you can put that picture anywhere, so when you wakeup you can see that dream everyday and not lose focus or confident on it.
      My thoughts on the book is that it can help anyone out in there future and keep your dream on your mind. I really like this book more than any other book because this one talks about your future and goals that you want to accomplish. I want to accomplish my goals myself and this book motivates me to not forget about my dream and my goals. I had this book recommended to me by my sister because she had read the first book by Joel Osteen, I would also recommend this book to anyone else because if you have goals you want to achieve then this is the book to make you concentrate on it. This book was a nonfiction book so if anyone enjoys a this type of genre than this is a thumbs up for you and you will enjoy it. 

Were Were Liars By Emily Lockhart: Alex's Book Summary

We Were Liars 

Emily Lockhart
By: Alex Aldape

In the book We Were Liars I usually like every book I read but We Were Liars is a book I really enjoyed and I would really recommend it to anyone that might enjoy it. In this book I feel that this is one of the books by the author that really made her famous for her. We Were Liars was taken place in Beechwood Island, Massachusetts USA on there own little private island. The main family that takes place is the Sinclair family, the Sinclair family even has it's own phrase they say "No one is a criminal, No one is an addict and No one is a failure". That saying is what proves the who the Sinclair family is. In the beginning of the book Cadence Sinclair Eastman gives a little description about her life and what her surroundings are. Cadence explains her whole life throughout the book are also shares how they got into there own personal island. Cadence is main character throughout the whole book telling her own story about her life and her families life. 
     Towards the end of the book Cadence and her cousins family had a rivalry between each other. During the summer Cadence and Gat set fire to the big house to finish off the rivalry. Now that I gave off a lot of information in the book it's now your turn to read the book. I really liked how the book started by giving off a map of the family tree and also finishing off the book in a weird way that I would've never of known. I totally recommend this book to any reader because I felt that in this book it started off as an adventure type then it transitioned to a action book towards the ending which is interesting. 

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.