The Future of Us (Blog 3 Summary and POV)

The beginning of The Future of Us is a bit confusing but it gets better later in the book. It starts off with Emma talking about how she can't break up with a guy named Graham. After this it explains to us how she got a computer from her father as a gift. This had been the start of this story because it's wrapped all around the ideas of computers and the internet. Then the neighbor Josh had came over to give Emma a CD: ROM and that's when this story all starts off. For a while in the book Josh and Emma talk about computers and things on the computers. They talk about the few websites and accounts that they can make on their computers. This is the start of Emma and Josh really actually talking. 

I think that POV is an important topic to touch for this story. I think that POV is really important because the POV changes quite frequently. In the book it changes from the story in Emma's eyes, then to Josh's and it keeps going back and forth. I enjoy reading books like this because you can see how characters feel about other characters through their own perspective and eyes. In books when they do this I think that it gives off a different vibe, it allows differentiation and it keeps the book from boring you to tears. 

LATLL (Blog 2 Summary, Conflict, and Conclusions)

Leo and the Lesser Lion has to be one of the best books that I have ever read. It really had caught my attention and I could've read it for hours on end without getting bored. I usually enjoy reading books with several twists and turns in them, which this book hit the nail on the head with that. Leo and the Lesser Lion had many depressing notes, though it also had some kinder parts to it as well. My favorite part of the book would be where Leo died, not because it was happy but because it helped me to understand the book more than I had before. In the book it talks about the constellation Leo which was the name of one of the main characters. After he had died I had understood what the title had meant, Leo was the constellation while his little sister Bayliss had been the Lesser Lion. Though after Leo's death Bayliss felt lost, she didn't really know where she had belonged, or what her place in her family had been anymore.

This book had several conflicts right at the beginning but also throughout the whole book as a whole. In the beginning the book explains how the whole community is under a depression and everyone is poor. Bayliss' father is a doctor and people would trade him things such as potatoes for medical services. Then there had been the conflict of Leo dying. That had left their family, the Pettigrew's in mourning after the loss of their beloved son. The one person who had gotten hit the hardest had been Bayliss. The one thing that had kept her enjoying things and being happy was her brother. Leo and Bayliss would always go do pranks together and were partners in crime. This had cause another conflict of Bayliss losing sense of her purpose in her life. In the book after Leo's death there is another conflict which is these two "weary travelers" had been taken in by the Pettigrew's which had left Bayliss a little perturbed.  She had felt that way because they had been moved into Leo's room which she didn't feel was right.


Overall I had enjoyed this book and I hope to read many more books by the Author Sandra Forrester.

Tolerance Blog

I think a person can be more tolerant to others by being open minded,willing to try new things, and understanding others cultures and traditions. I think I can be more tolerant of others by trying to learn about their traditions and understanding their culture. When I say the word tolerance, I think of tolerant. Tolerant is being open to others ideas, like that one food is better than an other, even though you might not also agree with them. It also means, acceptance. A big part of tolerance is acceptance because if you're more accepting of others and their beliefs then you'll be more tolerant of others cultures. People can live a more tolerant life by not being prejudice. Just because a person might've experienced a situation they didn't enjoy, doesn't mean every person that is that race,gender,etc are going to act the same exact way. There's somethings in life that people just won't stand for and can't tolerate. One of the things that I can't tolerate whatsoever is discrimination of people in the LGBT community. In the beginning of this great nation being born, one of the main reasons for people coming over here, was to be free to do whatever that they felt was right, be free. Though now all of those ideas have been changed due to things like social media, t.v. shows, movies, and worst of all, just us as people. When I hear about discrimination about the LGBT community it just makes me upset. Although others might not agree, all religion and biases beside, I think if you love someone, no matter what gender, you should be able to be with them. I've always been pretty tolerant of things but then again there are things that I can't stand which I have to learn to cope with to become a better, and more understanding person. 

Native American's Marginalized

Many Native Americans had been marginalized in several ways by white people. In the article it tells the readers how the U.S. government went in and took many Native Americans and put them into schools without reason. In these schools the idea was to sort of get rid of the Native American culture and their ways of life. The article states how they had changed the attire and looks of the Native Americans. Carlisle had changed their clothes from traditional Native American wear to more proper clothing. They had also done things like primp the Native Americans, and make them have to have shorter hair and take care of their hygiene more. The goals of the Carlisle school was to turn the Native Americans from the people that they had been into more "proper" people. "Pratt was deeply troubled by their plight and poor education offered at reservation schools." This line from the text tried to make 
it seem like the schools were a good and helpful idea, thought that wasn't the case. Later in the text it states that Pratt's plan was to make them into more civil people and to get rid of their past ways of life, their traditions. The article also says how they had changed Ota Kte's name into Luther Standing Bear, and how Carlisle school had taken away things like his leggings, and moccasins. They had replaced it with an itchy wool uniform and leather boots. Carlisle school had forced the English language and the Christian faith upon those who had attended school there. Making them learn English had made them have to stop using their traditional language and changing their faith meant taking away culture from them as well.

I believe that the purpose behind Shanice Britton writing her essay was to inform us on how the times have changed. The article shows us many points about how much closer and less marginalized our society that we live in today is. Shanice also tells us in the article how "We live in houses with electricity and running water. I take showers, watch Finding Carter on MTV, and wear jeans, just like any other teen." It shows us how much closer we've become and that many of the stereotypes that we had thought of as true for Native Americans. She wants to know that the Native American's living today are just as normal people as anybody else, that they just live on a different place separate from other communities.