Final Reflection Blog Post

This roller coaster symbolizes how I feel when I am reading. I love to read and do it just about everyday as long as I'm not swamped with other schoolwork. Whenever I have down time I like to just pick up a book and go into a fantasy world somewhere far off... that is until reality comes knocking on my door and lets me know that its midnight and I haven't even started my homework. The second we got assigned The Color of Water early on in the year I thought I was going to dread it but it was a good book, so it didn't bother me so much. I loved how this year one of our assignments was to read a book that I got to choose, not one that I was assigned. That was probably the best part about English this year.

To be honest, I really, really, really don't like blogging. I feel like it is pointless and doesn't serve any purpose. Like, why do I have to write and reflect about a book I just read? Why does it matter what other people think about my thoughts on a certain subject? My point is, it doesn't! I think blogging was just a way to get us to try and advance our diction, syntax, and overall literature abilities. I would rather have just wrote and essay every two weeks instead of blogging because I love reading but blogging... it sucks.

This picture of a jigsaw puzzle is what I chose to symbolize my freshman year. Freshman year was probably the best, and the most stressful, year of my life so far. I've learned a lot from my family, friends, and teachers throughout the year. Coming into high school and hearing what freshman year would be like was a lot different than what it was actually like. I also thought I would make a bunch of new friends, and I did make some but I still not sure that some of my teachers know my name... It's just a lot different than expected. I have grown a lot from the beginning of the year to now, I've learned a bunch of new ways to take on high school and the world in general. One of the things that I'm going to try doing for year is to stop procrastinating as much as I did this year and try to balance fun with school a little more.

World War Z continued...

So, I finished World War Z last week and let me tell you the book was absolutely fantastic and if you ever get a chance I would definitely recommend that you read it, and if you like it then watch the movie, preferably in that order. So what happened in the rest of the book...

After basically the entire world became infected with the disease, South Africa devised a plan to small enclosures called safe zones and to populate safer territories. Many people also went to the cold regions of the world as zombies can't function there. Even if they were safe from the zombies many people died due to the freezing temperatures and the lack of supplies.

The United States eventually made a safe zone to the west of the Rocky Mountains where all the uninfected citizens would go and help in the effort against the disease.

A few years after the outbreak began a conference of all the worlds leaders was held off the coast of Hawaii. Many of the leaders thought that the remainder of the human race could just wait it out but the U.S. thought that the best idea would be to start going on the offensive. Their plan works and they take back the U.S. from the zombies.

Ten years after the Zombie War ended, there were still millions of zombies alive, well "alive", on the ocean floor and many of the countries are forced to remake their borders due to the creation of new infected zones. Most countries are on their knees and with much of the human civilization gone the goal is to protect whatever we have left.

I thought that this book was great although I probably would have enjoyed it more if watched the movie after I read the book because I could anticipate everything that was going to happen in the book. But, either way I would recommend this book to anyone who likes apocalyptic type stories.

Here's the trailer for the movie if anyone is interested