I Am Number Four, pgs 340-392

After jumping through the window John runs back to his house where he finds Henri and Mark. He then decides to go to the school and make sure that Sarah is still okay. When he gets there he finds that the school is almost empty and he finds Sarah in the photo room. As the two of them leave the school out of no where Mogadorians show up ready to kill John. They quickly run back into the school. They head into a class room and hide under a teacher's desk. Suddenly the door quickly opens then closes again.

John and Sarah decide they should sneak out of the school before more Mogadorians come but as they try to leave to the room John is pulled back by someone. The someone was Number Six and she had entered the room since she is invisible. She had been looking for John because she thought it was time for them to fight back against the Mogadorians. Eventually Henri and Mark join with John, Sarah and Henri in the class room. They eventually think they should leave the school and battle the Mogadorians or at least run away. They leave and immediately begin fighting and killing Mogadorians. Eventually they are outside and John orders Mark and Sarah to go into the school and hide while they fight with Mogadorians who are growing in numbers.

The fighting is very intense and it seems that they are outnumbered by the Mogadorians. I defiantly think that they will need to get some help if they are going to defeat the beasts. Personally I think that the other people from Lorien will show up and join in the fight. Eventually they will be able to win. Only 30 or so pages left and I am sure it will be a good ending.

Ten Years From Now

I really enjoyed listening to these kids, mainly because it was comical to hear their plans for the future. A couple of the jobs that the people want to have are odd and almost unrealistic. One boy wants to become a marijuana baker and I believe that he wants to be this just because he is fond of marijuana and would like to have a nice supply for himself. Another girl wants to become a leading actress and the way she speaks makes it seems that she is completely confident that it will happen. I do not think that this girl realizes how difficult it is to become a leading actress in movies. One Senior wants to become a doctor but his reasoning is very interesting. He wants to be pilot but sadly his eyes are too bad so he wants to be a doctor because that is what most Asians choose as a profession. I think it would be better for him to do a job that he will enjoy. I would probably relate to the boy who is undecided the most even though that I know that I want to be some type of doctor. He says that he wants to become wealthy and even though I realize wealth is not everything I also would prefer to be wealthy. This is because I would want a stable family that I know I could provide for without having to worry at all. In ten years I see myself almost done with school to become a doctor but I will not find out what kind of doctor I want to be until I experience them in college.

Favorite Poem

My favorite poem of this quarter has been "Here, Bullet" by Brain Turner. The seriousness and imagery of the poem are my favorite parts.

My Earlier Readings

Throughout this quarter I was able to read consistently for the first time in my life. I would usually just read here and there but now it is different. I almost finished three books this quarter and I enjoyed all of them. I have read 1083 pages this semester. It was great to see how the Hunger Games series finished with Mockingjay. I heard that a movie is suppose to be made based on the books and I will probably go see that. Suzanne Collins has become an author that I enjoy. I have noticed that I enjoy the books that have young people going through some type of struggle. Katniss is trying to start a revolution, Nailer is trying to escape the hardships of his home life, and John has to try and live a normal life even though he is different. I have almost finished my third book and it is starting to become very interesting. After I finish this book I will most likely start to read Hole In My Life because it sounds like a cool book and I have been trying to get the book for a while.

I Am Number Four, pgs 310-340

John knows that it is Sarah who is trapped inside the house. There is no other option for him but to save his girlfriend that he loves. He first runs to the back of the house so that nobody will be able to see him running into the burning house. When he enters he is engulfed in flames and can hear that Sarah is upstairs. He starts to climb up the stairs when suddenly they collapse. John then just jumps to the second floor and heads down the hall looking for Sarah. Eventually he finds her huddled in a room with Mark's dogs. John graps all three of them and then jumbs out of the house and into the backyard bringing them to saftey. John and Sarah head into the woods and there John is forced to tell Sarah about him being an alien and the powers that he has. Suprisingly Sarah takes it really well and says that she will love him no matter what.

To decsive the people watching the house burn, John and Sarah sneak back to the front yard where they find a car with a change of clothes so it hides that John was in the fire. They are then greeted with a police officer and a reporter who say that two witnesses saw John jump out of the fire. John and Sarah deny that anything of the such occured but the reporter does not believe the story that John makes up. The reporter keeps trying to ask John questions and says he will find the truth. Henri then comes and picks up John, Sarah, and Sam to take them home. John again tells the lie that he never entered the fire because he knows that Henri will force him to leave the town if he knows that people have started to noitice his unusual powers.

The next school day, John is relieved to see that the report on the house fire in the newspaper has no news about John. He is happy the entire day knowing that he will not have to leave Paradise, Ohio. During home ec class, John is called down to the office and he knows that it could be bad news. Mr. Harris shows an article on the internet to Jon that has the title The James House Fire: The Untold Story. John now knows that the reporter had told what he think really happened. John also recieves a fax that is confidental and all it says is "ARE YOU NUMBER 4?" At this same time Henri pulls up in his pick-up truck frantical and John knows that they will have to run away form Ohio and start a new life. When Henri enters the room, John decideds to run away and jumps through the glass window.

The story is starting to getting intense because of the fax that asked "are you number 4." I believe that it was the Mogadorians who sent this to him and they are on his tail ready to kill him. Now he is running away and I have no idea where he could be heading because he really has no where to go besides home. John would be heartbroken if he would not be able to say good-bye to Sarah. I am interested to see where this story leads to because I have no idea what will happen next.

I Am Number Four, pgs 254-310

John has a spilt second to decide how to escape before the Mogadorian walks up the stairs. He decides to pick up Sam and Henri and he jumps out the window and they are able to escape before the Mogadorian can reach them. They then go to Sam's truck and start to head home. On the way home they begin to explain to Sam how they are aliens and the powers that John is developing. When they get home Henri tells John to pack his stuff because they are going to move since the Mogadorians are so close. John gets upset by this and does not want to leave so he forces Henri to stay where they are until they are positive that the Mogadorians know where they are.

John and Henri continue to train as much as possible to develop his powers. At this same time John and Sarah have become really close to each other and have been dating for awhile. One day John gets another vision of the day when they left during the attack. This vision was about the other ship that took off after them. It showed animals being loaded onto the ship. Henri and John then contemplate where they possibly have gone.

John, Sarah, and Sam all get invited to go to Mark's party over the weekend. When they arrive at the party there at least a hundred kids there and most of them have been drinking. They dance for a while and Sam goes of with Emily to the basement while Sarah can not be found. People start to run up from the basement because their is a fire that was started by Sam and Emily bumping into a candle. The fire gets worse and worse and eventually they have evacuate the house. Outside John looks for Sarah but can not find her and that is when everyone hears a scream coming from the house.

This book is pretty interesting and I am excited to finish it. I am certain that it is Sarah still it the house and I am predicting that John will have to use his power of being resistant to fire to save his girlfriend. It would be sad if John would lose Sarah because she means so much to him. It will be interesting to see how he saves her since there are so many people watching him.

Cody

In the movie about two boys and their life in the country, Cody has a very unique diction. I had noticed that his diction changes in several different situations. While being interviewed for the movie he is quiet and often mumbles expressing slight shyness. When Cody is talking to his grandmother, he replies extremely quick and often with only one word. This shows that Cody is often disinterested and prefers to stay quiet. Cody is also very defensive. This character trait is shown when he argues with the history teacher. Cody increases the tone in which he talks to the teacher and is much louder during this scene. Another trait expressed by Cody's diction is that he is very rebellious. When you first see Cody you can notice that he is rebellious because of the way that he dresses and that he paints his nails black. This rebelliousness is emphasized when you witness Cody while in class. Cody of often talks during class and gets in trouble because of what he says. Lastly, Cody's diction shows that he is a good person. Cody is in a band that plays metal music but since he does not like the lack of morals in metal music, he creates his own sounds that have good messages and morals. The diction in his songs show his true personality. Cody has a various ways of talking and each show a different characteristics of him. All in all, Cody may not be normal when it comes to the rest of society but he is a humble person.

NCAA March Madness!!!!!!

The article over the NCAA tournament was very interesting. It has made me rethink some of my predictions. As it said in the article I am predicting that Michigan State will upset at least one team because they do have a lot of talent and were able to reach the final four last year with similar players. I feel they have just been under performing and can compete with higher seeds. I also do not believe that Notre Dame will exceed in the tournament. I defiantly expect them to make it to the Sweet Sixteen but if they get matched up with Purdue I think that Purdue will win. Notre Dame might even lose sooner than the Sweet Sixteen. I can not wait for the games to start and I will probably end up wearing Purdue clothes everyday until they lose (which will hopefully be never). Something that completely shocks me is that Florida is a number 2 seed even though they had lost their conference tournament game to Kentucky. Luckily for Florida they received a great draw in the tournament and to me it looks like they have an easy road to the Elite Eight. Purdue also got a favorable draw and could meet up with Notre Dame. The play in games start today and I will be thinking about the March Madness constantly for the next month. Go Boilers!!!!!

I Am Number Four, pgs 214-253

Worried that Henri is serious trouble John gets the help of Sam to go find him. John again lies to Sam to hide his true identity of being an alien. Not knowing a way to get to Athens, Ohio (which is where Henri is believed to be) Sam comes up with the idea to drive themselves in his dad's old truck. Although neither of them have driven before or have their license they head to find Henri. When they reach Athens they park the car and decide to walk towards the address that Henri had intended to visit. While finding a parking space John sees Henri's truck and knows that he is close.

John and Sam head to the house where they believe Henri is located. A large man walks out as they approach and John instructs Sam to follow the man around just in case he is heading to where Henri is located. John sneaks into the house and gets caught by a man who is upstairs. The man is furious and is holding a bat ready to beat John. John begins asking where Henri is and the man won't tell him. John starts to use telekinesis to choke the man and eventually he tells John that Henri is in the basement. While releasing Henri from a chair another man comes to the stairs with a gun. Again John uses telekinesis to disarm the man and ties him up. Sam comes to the top of the stairs and is suddenly pushed. He is falling in the air and right before he is about to slam to the ground John saves him using his power of telekinesis. After this Henri and John are forced to tell Sam that they are actually aliens and Sam takes it rather well.

Henri then goes to the man upstairs and starts to interrogate him about the article of the Mogadorians. He eventually started talking and he said that a man had called in with the information and the man found it out by capturing a Mogadore and interrogating it. After they had published the article in the magazine three Mogadores came to the house and threatened all of the journalists that they would kill them if they published more information about Mogadores and if they talked about them. They also warned that people like John and Henri would come. As they are upstairs talking to the man the door opens and John sees that it is three Mogadores carrying swords ready for battle. Two of them are going downstairs and one is going upstairs towards John and they have to make a quick decision to run or fight.

This story is taking a quick turn and is getting extremely intense. John is finally getting more of his powers but he will not be able to defeat the Mogadores yet so I am expecting him to flea. It will be interesting to see how this section of the book will end. Usually I do not read books like this (about aliens and super powers) but I am really enjoying it.

I Am Number Four, pgs 143-213

John and Sarah meet with each other and head on the hayride. The ride goes into the woods and they get off to enter the walking part of the haunted woods. The people that are running the haunted ride are Mark and the rest of his football buddies. While they are walking through the path some of the football players start to attack John, Sam, Sarah and Emily. John is unable to see and in panic he decided to use his Legacy so he can see and fight back. The football players are wearing night vision goggles so they are able to see. The handful of football players are no match for John and he is able to fight them off and escape the woods with his friends. Sarah was impressed with what John was able to do and they kiss each other while walking out of the woods.

John and Henri have been working hard to try and get his powers to come because for some reason they are not coming as quickly as they should. Henri is becoming worried that he wont be able develop his powers since they are not on Lorien. Ever since the fight in the woods Sam began to ignore John. John is worried that he had seen too much and figured out that John has some special powers. He decided to go to Sam's house and find out what he knows. When John walks into Sam's room unannounced, Sam pulls a gun out on John and asks why he is there. Sam thinks that he is an alien and John is quick to make Sam think that he is acting crazy. John later finds out that when Sam was a kid his dad mysteriously disappeared and he thinks that his dad was kidnapped by aliens. Sam finally settles down and realizes that he was over thinking the incident.

John is able to the magazine in which the article about the Mogadorians preparing to attack Earth from Sam. John takes it to Henri so that he can search where it had come from. Henri eventually is able to find the source and he decided to head to the publisher to figure out how they found this information. He leaves while John is at school and expects to be home early that afternoon. John waits and waits for Henri and he never arrives. John is with Sarah and her family and his emotions are running high since Henri will not answer any of his phone calls. The emotions bring on another power and John breaks Sarah's camera using telekinesis.

Henri could be in some serious trouble since he is not answering his phone. I believe that Henri was taken kidnap by the publisher of the magazine because it is a trap and the Mogadorians are trying to get John to come to them. It will be interesting to see how John will be able to find Henri. For some reason I also think that Sam will eventually find out that John is actually an alien. I am finding this book very interesting and fun to read.

I Am Number Four, pgs 111-142

John and Henri work on improving his power while John has visions about his own home planet. While he was reliving the moment where he and the other 17 people boarded the ship to escape he saw that there was a second ship following them. He told Henri about this and he was had know idea about the second ship.

Henri describes to John the about the reasons that they decided to come to earth since he could not remember much at all. When the Mogadorians came to attack they got 9 Garde and their Keepers boarded on a ship to escape. At first they were going to just circle Lorien until the battle was over and they could return to the planet. Unfortunately it soon became obvious that the Mogadorians would win the battle and eventually they had stripped Lorien of their resources. Before they left one of the elders but a charm on the Garde so that they would have to be killed in order and when one was killed a scar would appear on their ankle. They then set off on a long journey to Earth where they would hide until they were ready to revolt against the Mogadorians.

Henri and John go into town one day for the Halloween parade. While they were there they ran into Sam Goode. Since Henri heard that Sam was interested in aliens they began exchanging conspiracies with each other (of course Henri is actually from another planet so it is humours to hear his stories). But one shocking thing that Sam had said was that Mogadorians had a plan of universe domination and that they were planning to take over Earth. Henri and John were shocked to hear this since they actually knew that it was true. They were curious to how he learned this and who would be leaking the information. After this incident they head to a pavilion where they meet with Sarah. John and Sarah make plans to go on the haunted hayride later that night and John is excited.

The information that regular people on Earth could know actual information about aliens is shocking. My belief is that one of the Garde or other Keepers started to write books about what happened to them and it is know in the hands of people on Earth. John and Sarah seem to like each other a lot and this is only making Mark more mad so I believed there will eventually be a physical fight between the two. It would be a rather unfair mismatch considering John has superpowers that they do not know about.

Spellbound

During the movie Spellbound there are obvious differences between the competitor's parents when it comes to their motives. One parent in particular, Neil's dad, seems to be more interested in winning the competition more than his own child. He is determined to make certain that his son is prepared enough for the spelling bee and that he is mentally ready to win. Neil follows his dad's confusing and almost unnecessary method to spell the words. Other people in Neil's family are hoping that he will succeed also. Neil's grandfather even payed people in India to pray and chant for Neils success and if he is able to win he planned on paying a meal for 5,000 people in India. This extreme support may have put some unnecessary pressure on Neil. On the other hand there was Ted's parents. They are country people who just want their son to do the best that he can. They are just proud that Ted was able to make it this far and want him to enjoy it. Their approach towards their son has made Ted a quiet and relaxed individual. The winning motivation of Neil's father and content of Ted's parents are very different from each other.

I Am Number Four, pgs 75-110

John heads out of the school and gets into Henri's car. When they get home John sees the Chest on the table and knows he will get to find out whats inside. Henri tells him that it is his inheritance and it is used once the Garde is getting his Legacy. Henri only lets John one thing in the Chest and it is a big rock. John lays on the kitchen table while Henri moves the rock along his body and John begins seeing scenes of when the Mogadorians began to attack his planet of Lorien. The Mogadorians attacked Lorien because their planet lost almost all of its resources so they invaded Lorien for theirs. John snaps out of his dreaming when he hears a scratching at the door. They prepare to attack while opening the door but instead they find a dog on the porch and it has a name tag that says BERNIE KOSAR.

John and Henri begin talking about the visions that John was seeing. They are taken aback by how vicious the Mogadorians are. Henri informs John that he thinks there are Mogadorians are eventually going to attack Earth also but they wont use it for the resources. He thinks that they will kill all the humans and use it as their own planet. Before John goes to bed that night and decides to look at his phone to see if Mark did anything to it. Instead he finds that Sarah entered her number into the phone.

At school the next morning John heads to his locker, and when he opens it he finds that it is half full of manure. Sam also found manure in his locker. They know that Mark was to blame. John goes through the rest of the day of school which included running the mile where he had to pretend slow even though he could have finished it in minute or so. In home ec Sarah lets John know that the Halloween festival is coming up and would like to see and hang out with John at it. He is super excited by this.

John is really falling for Sarah and Sarah seems to like John also. I am pretty sure that will end up in something. Also John is super excited that he his getting his Legacies and he can not wait to see what other Legacies he will receive. The interesting thing is that the Henri thinks that Mogadorians are among us humans and are planning to take us over. Lets hope that it is not true.

I Am Number Four, pgs 40-74

John is relieved that Henri has come to help him. John's hands are glowing and when Henri sees this he becomes happy. He knows that John is beginning to get his first Legacy. Legacies are the powers that Garde from Lorien eventually develop. Luckily Henri has gardening gloves on him and John puts them on to disguise the glowing of his hands. John is in great pain so it is difficult for him to make it to Henri's car and they use the excuse that John is having an asthma attack to hide what is actually happening. Before John's hands began to glow he left his book bag in class so Henri had to go get it. The two then head home and John becomes excited because he realizes that he will be allowed to open the Chest. The Chest has always been a valuable possession of theirs but John was not allowed or even able to open it until his Legacies began to develop.

The first thing that John notices when he gets home is that his phone is missing. Immediately he knew that Mark James had taken his phone. Mark James is the star football player and used to date Sarah Hart who John had began to like already. Mark had already picked on John during the first day of him being at school. After Henri takes a nap, he begins to explain to John the Legacy that he is beginning to develop. The Legacy is called Lumen. Henri takes a lighter and puts it on John's hand to show that he does not feel anything. As of now only his hands are resistant to fire and heat but eventually through training his whole body will be. Also he will be able to control when his hands light up.

The next morning John goes to school and decides to confront Mark about where his phone is. John tells him that he has until the end of the day to give the phone back. In class a kid named Sam Goode sits with John and it obvious that he is fond of aliens and NASA because he wears a NASA shirt and draws aliens in his note book. During lunch the two sit with each other and as they are eating a meatball flies through the air and hits Sam. Another hits John. The food came from Mark's table and in anger John goes to confront them. The argument is quickly diminished by a lunch attendant and they are sent to the principle's office. The principle does not seem to care about the situation and actual seems to side with Mark since he is the star football player and the newspaper wants to interview him later in the week.

In Home Ec John gets lucky and his cooking partner happens to be Sarah Hart. He described her as the most beautiful girl. They talk about the situation with Mark and she is sorry for how Mark has been acting towards John. After school Sarah comes to John's locker and hands his phone to him. He is shocked that she took it from Mark and is thankful for it. Walking out of the building John gloats to Mark that he has gotten his phone back and Mark is stunned.

I am still enjoying the book and I am interested to see how the plot will develop further into a more dramatic story. Hopefully it involves some sort of fighting. I have found myself hoping that there will time during my classes so that I can read this book. It is still early but I can tell that I am going to like it until the end.