Author: Sara Gruen
Pages Read: 1-13 (part 1)
The book threw me right into a moment of action – the
Disaster March. Right away I had numerous questions going through my mind…
What’s going on? What exactly is the Disaster March and why is everyone
panicking and fleeting? What exactly went wrong? None of these questions were
answered, but I’m hoping that they’ll be cleared up later in the book.
When the main character, Jacob, was paying special attention
to Rosie the elephant and Marlena, the girl who performs with and rides Rosie
at the circus (or so I assumed), I couldn’t help but wonder of what
significance they were to him. As a result of Jacob’s description of them, I
decided that he’s in love with Marlena and that Rosie has a special place in
his heart. I later found out that Jacob was a vet, and worked with elephants,
which put a few of the puzzle pieces together in my mind.
There was a sudden murder performed by Marlena. (Why?)
Though Jacob was in shock and tried to stop her, it seemed like he was
generally okay with it. He had referred to the man who was murdered as a “son
of a b*tch” right before it happened, which made me wonder what this man had
done to get such a title. The strange thing is that despite this murder, I was
already taking Jacob and Marlena’s side. I understand that this was the
author’s intention, but it still seemed so odd to me considering the terrible
thing Marlena had done. Jacob said that he kept this a secret for the rest of
his life. He said, “In seventy years, I’ve never told a blessed soul.” It
really made me curious as to why he had taken it upon himself to protect
Marlena like that. Seventy years is a long time, especially to stay quiet and
keep something so big to yourself.
Six Word Memoirs:
As you may know, I joined the class a month late, so this
was one of the projects I missed and have been putting together on my own time.
Despite thinking that the project was a really neat idea and enjoying the
examples of other students and those found on the internet, I have been putting
it off… and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because of the personal aspect of the
memoirs, or it could be the fact that we’re supposed to post all of them at
once (ahh, a lot of reflecting and writing for one day!) Either way, I think
that a weight will be lifted off my shoulders once I do complete all of them
(2/6 to go!) and that it’ll be really cool to see all of the memoirs side by
side… the finished project!
Blogging:
Oh blogging… just a few months ago the idea of blogging made
me so uncomfortable, but look at me now! It was difficult to get myself out
there, post thoughts, opinions, and just about anything that came to my mind
and share it with the public. It was a bit of a burden and time consuming to
turn on the laptop, sign in, and type everything out. I found myself putting
other things ahead of blogging on the importance scale (sorry.) However, once
the blog started to come together, I started to enjoy it more and more. I got
to open myself up to something new, and am now at ease with writing about
things that are not just facts. My blogging goal for the next week is to get
fully caught up with all of my assignments and add some more personal additions
(maybe 2 or 3.) I will accomplish this by setting some time aside just for
creative writing and by using my mom’s iPad Blogger app when I’m just much too
lazy to pull out the chunky laptop.
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