Sunday, September 27, 2009

Holes

Holes is written by Louis Sachar. It was published in america in 1998 in America. The genre of this book is fiction. In my opinion i think its 3 for the rating becaue the story is good.

The two vocabularies are "cot" which means a baby's bed or a baby's crib and the other word is "hover"which means a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting.

The book about a boy named Stanley who was in a the wrong place and the wrong time. Stanley was arrested but he was innocent, he was sent in camp green lake. It is a camp for bad boys and they try to make them good and respectful. That is all i know because I just read the first chapter and I would love to read more of it. I recommend this book to people because it is really interesting. It is for anybody but this book would attrat more teenagers because it is a life about kids and I would think that they would learn something.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Pride & Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice is written by Jane Austen. It is the best book among all the other books that I have read .The book is well known all over the world and it is well written. It was published in 1813 and the original book is made in 1796-1797, this new book was published in Penguin Books, 1995 in England.

The two vocabularies are: "Indebted" which means: owing gratitude or recognition to another for help or favors. The second one is "Decorum" which means: manners and conduct.

The genre of this book is ' Romance'.

The book (Pride & Prejudice) is about Elizabeth falling in love with mr. Darcy and Jane falling inlove with mr. Bingley. At first mr. Darcy was a fool and a very arrogant person but when he met Elizabeth he fell in love with her. Both of them are really stubborn. Over all the five Bennet sisters wanted to get married except Elizabeth at first. I would not tell anymore information of the book, it is for you to find out!

This book was made into movies. The comparison between the movies and the book, is that, the book is really long and if the movie was well interprated from the book then it will take 5 hours to watch it. Pride & Prejudice has a perfect rating because when a person reads it, it will grab his/her attention and he/she wouldn't want to drop the book. The only bad reason for teenagers, is that, the words are too deep and it is really hard to understand but when you read it thoroughly then you will get the story and slowly you will understand the meaning of the words.

I'm recommending this book to everyone because this book is really interesting. Even though the words are slightly deep but you will get it in awhile if you continue reading it. If you want to read more of Jane Austen's books here are some novels: Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. "Lady Susan" and "The watsons" are the novels that were unfinished because she was very ill. The novel "Sandition" was also unfinished because as I said she was very ill and when she was working on it, she died, so those three novels were unfinished.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Language Incident In Hongkong

The incident that I had is when I was in Hongkong. It was morning and I wanted some fresh air so I went outside my house and had my orange juice. While I was drinking I heard shouting at the background and I turned around and there were about 5 people who were Chinese shouting in their language and I did not understand what they were saying so I just turned around and I realized that I was the only person that they were talking to because there were no people outside my neighbor’s houses. They were tourists from China and they were lost and of course I didn’t know how to speak Chinese because I’m not from Hongkong, I only lived there. I came up to them and asked what was wrong and they just started talking to me in Chinese and I didn’t understand any word that they were saying. After that I told something to them in Chinese which I don’t remember now because it was a long time ago and they shouted at me in a rude way and I started shouting at them as well cause people can’t just shout at you for any reason. When a women came she had an American accent and she looked Chinese, when she saw me quarrelling with the tourists she asked me what I said to them and I told her of course, after that she started laughing and I asked her why she was laughing but she was more focused on the tourists so I had to let go of my question. The lady was explaining something to them and the tourists just started laughing as well and they said sorry to me which was a very polite thing to do. When they were gone the lady told me that I said a swear word to those people and I felt bad but it went away when she told me that she explained to them that I was not Chinese and I wasn’t from Hongkong. I didn’t know that it was a swear word because a teenager told me that the word means hi in Chinese, so it is clearly not my fault or maybe it is but in my opinion, it was only an accident.