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- Identify the Title of your book
- Identify the pages read today.
- Write a short summary of the reading.
- Discuss at least one significant event from the day’s reading.
Chapter 6
Much fighting occurs and we see the first action. The french troops on the other side of no mans land storm the german trenches.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Chapter 7
The group of main characters get to leave and go behind the front, where they meet some girls and hang out with them. Most of the time in this chapter they are either swimming or getting rest.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Chapter Eight
Main Character goes back home for leave and visits his family, his mother is sick with cancer. Everyone asks what the front is like and he does not want to be home after a while.
The Divine Comedy
182-202
Dante visits more and more spirits and different planets ending on Mars at the moment. They tell him to go back down to Earth and spread the word of God but they said its gonna leave a bad taste in his mouth.
The most important thing about this so far is Dante going back to Earth my prediction is that Dante would have stayed in Heaven and stayed with his wife. This is important because Dante reminds me of Jesus getting sent down to take away the sins of the people
Title: Jane Eyre
Pages: 405-436
Summary: Jane had a job offer to be a teacher from Rivers. This job is in Morton and she would live on her own. She says she is not happy teaching and asks River for advice and he tells her his story about being a pastor. She then starts to see her students understanding and learning and she has become more happy with her career. A significant part in this section is Jane is becoming independent again. After starting her life with Rochester ended, she has learned she does not need anyone to be happy.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
13
Arthur and Ford are rescued by The Heart of Gold after sitting in space for 30 seconds. They meet Marvin the super intelligent emotional(depressed) robot.
Significant event
We learn that the ship made the decision to rescue Arthur and Ford not Zaphod.
All quite on the western front
Chapter 11
Germans are weakening, they stopped counting how long they have been in war. Paul says the war is like a disease. They reflect. War is just avoiding death. They have a bond like none before
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
pages: 176-184
Summary: Dorian meets a friend, Adrian Singleton, and they go to drink something in a tavern. A woman calls him Prince Charming (as Sibyl used to call him). At this moment a sleeping sailor gets up and goes out after Dorian. Dorian hears the click of a revolver and he is grabbed by the shoulders. His attackers is the sailor, who reveals to Dorian that he is James Vane (Jim), Sibyl’s brother, who has been looking for him for years to kill him. Dorian is terrified, but suddenly he thinks of a loophole and says that he couldn’t have killed his sister, who died eighteen years earlier, because he looks like a 20 years old young man, therefore Jim lets him go. At that moment the woman that was in the tavern arrives and asks why Jim did not kill Dorian, and she says that he sold himself to the devil to remain handsome and young. Jim searches for Dorian, but he is already disappeared.
Significant event: James Vane was about to kill Dorian Gray
1984
246-260
Winston’s torture continues and gets far worse. He is losing is sanity rapidly, he thinks the pain is tied to O’brien and starts to love him when it stops. By the end of the torturing O’brien says he is going to cure Winston.
Significant Event.
How broken Winston really is, at this point I’m pretty sure he is going to lose whatever humanity he had left.
A Clockwork Orange
147-164
After Alex is released from prison, the first place he goes is to get breakfast. When he gets a newspaper, he notices he is in the paper for being a successful subject of the treatment. He then catches a bus to his family’s apartment, but when he gets there, a man named Joe has moved into his room and all of Alex’s belongings have been sold. His parents tell him to leave, so Alex goes to a music store to listen to some music. As he goes into the listening booth to listen to some Mozart, he becomes sick, because during his treatment they played classical music during the violent videos. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to the milk bar and gets a large amount of intoxicants. He has an intense hallucination, and after this he decides he wants to kill himself. Not being able to think of a non-violent way to do so, he goes to the library to look for other ways. The old men in the library recognize Alex as beating up one of them, so they all beat Alex with deadly intent, until the police arrive.
Significant Event: Alex discovers he cannot listen to classical music without feeling ill.