Post A #2

The emerging theme of the book is growing up. When peter grows up in the book he struggles to fit in but with his best friend it is easy. When his best friend drops him for cooler and hipper friends he has no one. When we grow up we go through many friends and some of those friendships break and some last forever. This is just a part of maturing.

1.Sorrow: distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
(P. 91) This word is used in the book when josie is in the hospital finding out the effects of the shootings.

2.Affliction
(P. 113) When peter is talking to his laywer and explaing to him how much humliliation he went through in high school he uses this word to express how much he was hurt.

debate blog

School Debate: These obviously occur in school. These debates is are very persuasive and try to impact others decisions. Although these debates are sometimes unstructured, they can very well be structured. Family Debates: Each family goes through their own family debates. Sometimes they are simple and other times more complex. The purpose of these is to find a median, or aresolution to a problem usually among sibings and parents. Sometimes these debates are structured by parents allowing each person a specific amount of time to get across the table what they want. When it is unstructured this sometimes leads to chaos and no resolutions
Political Debate: Sometimes these are on tv to get idea acoross about campaigning or elections. It shows people what the candidates are made of and what they have to offer It helps arrive at a better decision, because we then can decide who we agree or disagree and who we feel will do their job to its full potential. The debate is structured, which allows the candidates to get the same amount of time making it unbiased or it is set up in a way that makes it an equal chance for the candidates.

"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going" -chinise proverb. The book starts out with this quote before we know anything specific about the novel. I know that the novel is about a highschool massacare, a troubled boy named peter that never quite fit in, and by the time people realized that they should have accepted him, it was too late. This quote to me means that although we are influenced by things in our life, we can always change them. In highschool a lot of bad stuff happens. Being bullied and not felling to be accepted are things that i have not had to go through, but i can only imagine what that is like. I know that these things are not easy, but i also know that this happens to millions of teens around the world. I know that highschool isn't exactly a fairy tale, but when we get out of here it could be. And that is why we need to work on ourselves and loving ourselves before we take a drastic measure.
The emerging theme that is happening in the book right now is caring. When we meet judge Comier and her daughter, it is basiclly like any other mother daughter realtionship. Josies mother cares for her but she doesnt exactly know how to tell her this. she trys but as it is with most mother daughter relationships, josie makes it hard for her mother to share these feelings

Nineteen Minutes

Nineteen minutes. By: Jodi Picoult
2007
fiction
455 pages
I know that this book will be sufficiently challenging for me because my sister, and mother have both read it and they said that it was a good read for them.
I chose this book becasue i have read other books by Jodi Picolt and i have enjoyed them very much. she is my favourite author because i enjoy reading her style of writing. She skips from different charcters in the novels points of view so it makes the book interesting hearing from others standpoints on the same subjects.