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This weekend I read If I Stay by Gayle Forman.

The quote I chose was, 

"I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill."

I chose this quote because I thought that what she did was brave. That instead of just giving in and letting her self die, she faced what she didn't want to and decided to stay. I was wondering, would I have done the same thing, if I was in her situation? If I lost my mom, dad, and brother, I don't think I would have come back. Because, if they were all gone, I would be gone to. I mean, I have friends and other things to live for, but not as much as my family. She is very brave for coming back as an orphan. That is why I chose this quote, because it shows that she acknowledges her pain, and that she chose to face it head on, instead of dying to get rid of it. 

Reading Blog ;o

I had already finished my play, Death of a Salesman, so I started reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol.

The quote I chose was,

"However, this bottle was not marked 'Poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and, finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart-, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished it off."

I really liked this quote for a lot of reasons. One of them was because I love how the author described the taste of the bottle. I mean, I know it is very unrealistic, but when you read it, you are already in another world. But it made me wonder, why drink something that you have no clue what  it is? I mean, now a days, you HAVE to watch your drink at parties, and you HAVE to make sure no one spikes it with anything. So, even though she wasn't at a party, and was probably in a different time, why you she do something so stupid? Because in the book, it makes her shrink, and I know that's not bad, but it could have been something worse, right?

So I'm reading the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. We were supposed to read the whole first act, and since my play only has TWO acts, it was like reading half the book!

Anyways, here's the quote I chose from the book - 

LINDA: (This is in the middle of one of her speeches) .... Why shouldn't he talk to himself? Why? When he has to go to Charley and barrow fifty dollars a week and pretend to me it's his pay? How long can that go on?

I chose this quote because in the play. it shows Linda as just being a wife who does practically anything her husband says. But during this part, when she's yelling at her sons, it shows how much she really does care about Willy (the husband.) Because Willy is having a break down, the sons keep asking, "What's wrong with him? He's so embarassing." But she tells them that is because they are living on commissioned money, and Willy is trying so hard to get money, and he gets so exhausted, that he talks to himself. I was wondering why didn't Linda ask her sons for help earlier? I mean, if it was me, I would have. And even when the sons found out, they still were reluctant to help. But it was sad knowing that Willy spent his whole life working, just to get fired and be on minimum wage. But it kind of reminds me of the recession going on now, even though it was written 60 years ago. I think that's why its a classic, because its message is timeless.