Betsy Brown III

   Again, I'll be discussing Betsy Brown. I finished it and it wasn't really that bad. You grew to like the character a little more, though you did want to slap her mother. Her mother, Jane, was quite foolish in the last part of the book. She leaves her house and children to go who knows where and leaves them a mess. A woman named Carrie comes to take her place, and she was a much less selfish character than Jane. The children loved her and when Jane came back she acted all high and mighty towards Carrie, even though she's the one that left in the first place.
   Betsy did seem more mature at the end, though all the woman talks went right over her head. The book ended on somewhat of a sad note when Carrie goes to jail, but it had a thread of hope in it too. All in all, it wasn't a book I'd choose for myself but I don't think it was a waste of time to read it. 

Betsy Brown II

   This is my second post about Betsy Brown, as promised, since I've read more of it. Frankly, I don't much like the main character(Betsy Brown) or really, her family. Betsy's reactions to events that happen are somewhat unrealistic. For example, when she is faced with the boy she likes, she says she already has a boyfriend, which doesn't make any sense. Why would you tell someone you want to be your boyfriend that you already have one?
    She also seems to believe that he'd be willing to marry her, even though he's never really hinted at that, only that he wants to get into her pants. She's also racist against white people, which is understandable, but leaves a bad taste in your mouth. She also runs away for reasons that make sense to her, but not really to anyone else, character or reader. Anyway, I'm hoping it'll get better and the climax will be satisfactory. I'll update latter on my opinion of the ending. Good day.

Betsey Brown

We're reading Betsey Brown for Craddock now. I guess it's okay, though being only one chapter in, I have no idea where it's going. The grammar is somewhat irritating but not unbearable. I think I like the character, though she seems to give up quite easily and her mother is a whore. I don't really have anything else to say since I have only read one and a half chapters so I'll write again when I've read more.   

My Thumbdrive

So, I'm just writing this because I'm having a really bad day. So, I wrote five pages of my historical fiction story, but it was all saved on my thumdrive which is now missing. Me, being the irresponsible person that I am, lost it sometime between sixth and seventh period. So now I don't know if I should try to rewrite all five pages, or if I should wait and hope that I find my storage system. If I do find it though, I would have wasted a day retyping it, same with if I don't than I wasted a day not typing it. I don't know what to do anymore. So I think I'll just take a nap. Good-night all.

The Good Theif

Recently we've been reading The Good Thief in class for Ms. Gamzon. Personally, I didn't think it was a bad book, but I didn't think it was so amazing that it should have won all the awards it did. I found the characters somewhat unlikable. Ren was constantly doing things that you wanted to slap him for, Benjamin was just a jerk, Tom was self-pitying, annoyingly so, though well deserved. The landlady that talked in caps was hard to read and Ren's uncle had an accent that took away from what he was saying.
   It wasn't a bad book, don't get me wrong, it just didn't intrigue me as much as it seemed to do for others.