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10/26/2012

Wintergirls

68-90

1. In this section it starts off with Lia mom coming over and her parents talk about Lia. They think that Lia if going back into her eating disorder and that she is emotionally affected by Cassie`s death and that she should see her therapist more often. Her mom wants her to move back in with her. At the end of her school day, Lia gets called to the counselors office with other people to help set up a memorial service thing for Cassie. Lia goes to the wake even though she’s not suppose to and when she puts a piece of green see glass in Cassie`s hand she sees it grab around it and sit up. Then Cassie`s puts the glass in her mouth and swallows and then gets up. At the end she meets up with Elijah again.

2. (84) I know that it is me, but it’s not me, not really. I don’t know what I look like. I can’t remember how to look.

I think that this quote really means is that like she really does know how she’s supposed to look. Because now all that she sees when she look at herself is a fat, ugly, and stupid person. She doesn't think seeing her bones stick out is a bad thing, she likes it, she thinks it’s a good thing. When she says” I know that it is me, but it’s not me, not really.” It means that she kind of knows that that is not the way she is really suppose to look like, but she feel that she has to look this way.

3. In this part of the book I couldn't really find a relation to anything, at least I couldn't think of any, but this section did make me think about how some parents can really just be too controlling of their kids when really they need to let them make the decision for themselves. Like when ` parents were fighting over on where she should live and what she should all do. I think that they should have listened more to Lia because maybe if they had listened more to her in the first place then maybe they wouldn't be in this situation.

reflection

1.different movies that I have seen the trailer for.
2.the middle part because by then you had like a flow
3.when I had to like completely change my story.
4.not that satisfied. I kind of liked the first one I wrote better.
5.I honestly don't know.
6.on my next writing project I will make sure that there isn't a certain amount of pages a few days before it`s due.

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10/17/2012

Wintergirls

42-68

 1.  In this section it starts with Lia not being able to sleep and then Cassie visits her.  It then goes into how it’s Tuesday and she gets weighed on Tuesday so she drinks a bunch of water to add weight and she has to just wear a robe but she has quarters sewed in to it to make her seem heavier than she really is. Lia ends up finding a message on her answering machine from a guy who works at the hotel Cassie died at and he tells her to stop by and she does. When she gets there she lies about her name and sees the room Cassie died in. she then goes to the Movie Theater and cuts herself. It ends with her dad getting a call from her mom.

2.  (53) I`ll stand on the blocks hidden in my toes of my satin ballet slippers, pink ribbons sewn into my calves, and rise above in the air: magical.

       

      This quote was really like eye catching in a way. I think that how she talks about like ballet she s saying that’s perfect and that’s how she is and how she will remain. When it says the pink ribbons sewn into my calves I think that it means that that is holding her together. It’s what keeps her standing like also the blocks hidden in her shoes.  It also means that she will stand tall and just stay strong through everything and not give up and that she will keep fighting on.

3.   This book relates to how I remember this movie where the girl is a professional dancer and has an eating disorder to stay thin but she pushed herself to far. It reminds me of this because of that quote how she says she’s like a ballerina in a way and that she knows it will be hard but she has to do it. She has to be perfect. And to be perfect you have to be thin so she keeps standing until she won’t be able to anymore.

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10/11/12

Wintergirls

23-42

   1.    In this portion of the book it starts with Lia taking her stepsister Emma to soccer practice. Since Lia was in hospital Emma told her coach that she had cancer and so Emma wouldn't let Lia watch her play. Then she sets up food to eat and cooks it and make sure the smell is in the house and just throws it away so her step-mom and dad think that she is eating enough. She is living with her dad because her mom is a doctor and was always noticing the little things like her not actually eating. At the end of the chapter she says Cassie is still visiting her.

   2.`    (29)        … when I was a real girl,

I found this quote in the book meaningful because it is that like she is not a real girl now, the way she is. I think what the quote means by when she was a real girl that she did not have an eating disorder and did not have to feel so bad whenever she ate or like would have to lie about eating and really just throw it away. Also then she did not constantly count calories and the number of bites she took. I think it also means when she used to be “normal”.

.  3.     This book relates to this one movie that I saw once. It relates to the movie because it was about a girl who had an eating disorder and it had showed how much it affected her life and who she was like the eating disorder that Lia has is really affecting her in a big way in her life right now. In the movie the girl with the eating disorder would also hide food a lot and act like she had eaten it even though she never did.

mirror

If I would ever happen to wake up and when I looked in the mirror and I was in someone else’s body I think that it would be the body of some one that I did not like. During the day though, I would make them act really stupid and that so everyone would make fun of that person even though it would technically be me at the time but when I get back to my regular body people would still remember what they did and how much they embarrassed themselves. I would not do that if I was in some one’s body that was like just a really nice person and everything and never bothered me or anything like that then I would just go on more normally and probably just like kind of try to avoid people in a way. Like I said before though if it was some one that I did not like and they bothered me and were always like kind of mean to people then I would turn people against that person because I would show everyone how that person truly acts and who they truly are. I would maybe also dress them like not in the normal way they dress and wear their hair different and if it was a guy I would put lots of makeup on or even if it is a girl I would just really over do it and dress very sloppily like and just not how they normally are as a person.

ind read

10/4/12
Wintergirls
1-23

1.In the first few chapter section of the book it basically gives like a background of the things that happened. It tells about the main character Lia and her old friend Cassie that recently died in a motel room alone. Both Lia and Cassie had eating disorders. Cassie had bulimia and Lia is anorexic. Before Cassie died they both made a pact to be the thinnest girls in school. Cassie later got mad and blamed all her problems on Lia. The night Cassie`s body was found, Cassie called Lia 33 times saying she needed help and wanted to talk to Lia and that she was sorry but Lia never answered and now it haunting her because she feels bad.

2.(19)           “Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls.

                     “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.

                                I am that girl.

                                I am the space between my thighs, daylight shinning through.

                                I am the library aide who hides in fantasy.

                                I am the circus freak encased in beeswax.

                                I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

I found this quote meaningful by just reading it like I didn't even need to read any part of the book and it would be eye catching. I thought it was almost scary in a way. It goes along with this book good because when they say dead girl walking they mean how when a lot of people have eating disorders they can be more pale and they are like skin and bones because they are just so thin. The toilet part is with Cassie`s being bulimic. The part with the library aide I didn't understand at first but I think they meant that she is like a fantasy basically like not real or alive.

3.This book does not really relate to me at all. But I did have a friend that sort of had an eating disorder. Like she used to force herself to throw up and barley eat anything. She never ate in front of people like never ate lunch at school. This friend of hers though always forced her to eat which only made this worse. Though finally her parents noticed and realized what she was doing. She was hospitalized and she ended up recovering which is good and is now healthy.

scary movie

   I do not really watch scary movies because I do not really like them because they are scary obviously but I have seen a few. The one that I saw that was really scary but I do not remember the name of it. The movie had like a lot to do with like ghosts and them killing and that kind of stuff. It was the scariest to me because ghosts and that are one of the main things that scare me. In the movie that setting was like this really old creepy house in the middle of nowhere. The plot was that this couples car broken down and they had no phone service so they were walking for a while and saw the light form the house and went there and there was this older couple that were just kind of creepy. The house was also kind of creepy. The music in the movie also kind of made it suspenseful like. The music was dark you could say. Like a lot of times it was low and then though by the really scary parts it would either go completely silent or it would get louder or just get faster and kind of higher in a way. Also in the movie they couple were getting chased by the old couple and ghosts because the old couple was trying to kill them and they were doing torturous things to the other people like it one part it was so gross the one lady had the other girl tied in a chair an d was like shredding her knee or whatever with a cheese grader. It was just so gross. Also the one guy shot the old guy right in the head and he did nothing he was perfectly fine like nothing happened. I didn't really mind the blood and that in the movie it was just like the ghosts and possessed old people.

the monkeys paw

Morgan-writing the reason for picking story,wife
Alyssa-getting monkey paw,help write script,son
Brandt-camera,husband
Annah-script writing

9/11

       When the attack happened on 9/11 I really do not remember anything at all from that day.  For a while I guess I never really understood everything at first but then my mom would talk about it and we also then kind of learned about it in school. That day was just a very sad and horrible and so very tragic day. It is so horrible that that had to happen. I do not really know if I really agree with our country’s action after by going into the Iraq was but I do not really disagree either. Like I get why they did go into war they were mad and upset and sometimes that is the best way to just fight violence with violence but not always sometimes that can just make things so much worse.  

Choice # 1

        Some advice that I would give to myself when I was five if I could would be to not grow up to fast and to not be so shy and afraid of things. Some advice I would give to myself if I could when I was ten would be the same advice I gave for when I was five and another thing would be to tell myself to not let other people change you, change for yourself.  A year ago I would have been fourteen. Advice that I would give to myself would be to not be afraid to fight back yourself because sure running away seems to help but really all the crap is still there you just won’t notice it because you don’t see or hear it. Also then you are just giving them what they want which doesn't help because they think then you are like ok with it but you are not so you have to fight back because maybe then they will listen and they will be more afraid of you then you are of them. Another piece of advice I would give to myself would be like what I said before about not changing just for them change for yourself for who you want to be not what everyone else wants you to be. One other thing I would tell myself is to not worry about what other people think of you because they will always see what they want to see even if you change yourself to someone you are not you will always be that person.  So screw them if they have a problem with you because it’s their problem not yours because no matter how hard you try or what you do you won’t be good enough for them. But that’s ok because in five, ten years it won’t matter what they think anymore because you are going to be faraway and so much better while they stay those same old losers.

author bio

Hello people, welcome to my English class writers blog. My name is Alyssa. I am a student at Gibraltar High School. I hope you enjoy reading my blogs on this site.