Book Report

Summary
Pony, Soda, and Dally are brothers. Their parents died in an accident, so the oldest, Dally, has to work for their life. Pony and Soda are still students, but Soda
has dropped out of his school. Although Pony looks like a normal student, he and
his brothers are greasers. The Soc hate them, and they hate them, either. Their gang is like a big family, they take of each other. Pony likes Soda better, because he treats Pony like a man, not a kid, not the way Dally treats him.
Pony’s best friend, Johnny, likes their gang very much because his parents don’t care about him. Johnny, Pony, Two-Bits sometimes see movies together. They love movies. One day, they meet two soc girls there. One is Cherry and another is Maria. They and Pony are in the same school. At first, Cherry and Marcia don’t notice that they are greasers. When they find out that, they are really surprise. They are different than other greasers. Then, they become good friends.
However, one night, Pony and Johnny are lying in the park and smoking. The Soc bump into them. The leader, Bob, is Cherry’s boyfriend. They all are drunk. Bob has met them once, and he doesn’t like his girl to be with the greasers. Then, he tells his brother to fight with them. They do the fight so badly. When Pony is almost dead by shoving his face into the fountain, Johnny fights for him. He kills Bob.
They start their plan to hide from the copes. They move to a small church on a mountain. However, one day, there are a teacher and her students visiting the church. Suddenly, the church is on fire. Pony, Johnny, and Dally run out of it, but there are still two kids there. They run into the fire, and save the kids. Johnny and Dally have got burn. Johnny looks really awful. Dally says he is okay.
They have been on the news paper because of the murder, but now they are on newspaper because saving people.
Some of the Soc know Johnny did that in self-defense, so they decide to tell the truth, and they think that they have done a great thing.
However, the other soc are still angry about what they have done to Bob.
So they ask the greasers to have a rumble.
Pony joins the rumble, and Dally, too. He wants to fight for that. Fight for Johnny.
Johnny can’t go with them because he is hurt so badly. Dally fights, he wants to fight for Johnny, too.
After the rumble, they are so happy that they win. Pony and Dally run to the hospital to tell the good news to Johnny. After they tell Johnny they win, Johnny died.
Dally runs out and kill himself with a gun. The gang loses two brothers
A nurse gives Pony a novel “Gone with the Wind” which Johnny read. There is a letter from Johnny.
Reading

I can imagine the pictures in my head when I am reading this novel.
This novel is quite easy for me to read it, and it also very interesting.
I can imagine the setting and the characters in my head. Pony wears a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. Soda likes to wear a pair of jeans, but wears nothing on the top of his body.
The neighborhood which they live must be dirty, and there are sands and pebbles every way.
I love the setting of the church.
I imagine the small church is white, and the sunshine pass through the windows of the church, and the doves there are waving their wings.
It is quite beautiful, isn’t it?
I think Dally changes a lot. Before, he treated Pony like a baby, but now he treats him like a real man. He loves his brother more and more.
It is close to our life. It is not a fiction. I can really feel the emotion of the characters, also the life they have. I would like to join the life they have.
It seems really excited.
The features of the characters are clear. I can see the characters in my head.
I like Johnny because he is really brave and he has a strong mind.
He is quite weak, but when Pony was in trouble, he used all of his strength to protect his brother.
The faith that Johnny believe really touch my heart.
Although he is dying, he still keeps his brothers in mind, and wants them to be happy because what he has done is a great thing. He saves people. He thinks it is worth.
I hope that there will be a friend like Johnny for me in the future.
His strong mind touches my heart. He doesn’t afraid about death.
He has open mind, too.
It is really lucky for Pony to have a friend like that.
I don’t like Dally because his behavior. He shouldn’t kill himself.
He should live. He should live happily for Johnny.
I think if I were Johnny, I would like to see my friends live happily. He should
look at the bright side like Johnny did. To end someone’s life is not a good way to show how sad you are.
The stories are pretty simple. It isn’t too hard for me to read. Furthermore,
it is easy to understand that what is the writer talking about.

What I learn

I learned some interesting life styles from this novel.
Teenagers love to go to parties, and most of the teenagers work for their pocket money. They are also having girlfriends and boyfriends this time.
I think it is too young to have friends like that.
Maybe it is because western people have open
mind, but eastern people don’t. I would like to join the life they have. To me it is really new and interesting. I admire western people’s open mind. I think we can
learn from them. Most important of all, the education must change.
We have to take too many tests and a lot of pressure. Most students are not happy at all.
It is pretty difficult for us to find passion and fun in this way.
In our life, there are also greasers in my school, too.
But they are different. They all are students, but don’t like to study.
I think they are just good at shouting and fighting, they use their head to think.
They always make a lot of trouble for their parents.
They think they are cool, but I think they are just babies.
The words in this novel are quite easy, so I don’t have to use my dictionary so many times. I think this novel is suitable for teenagers to read.
I think we can learn from Dally, too. We shouldn’t end our life easily.
It is nice to live here. We should value the things and people we have.
Although it is difficult to live, there are still many important people and
things in our life.
We should always look at the bright side.
In conclusion
We should always look at the bright side.
I think this point is really important.
Life is good and meaningful.
This novel seems to be a normal one, but there is a meaningful story.
We always fight for our life or someone we love.But we don’t have to really fight other people. We can fight by using our heart.

Renaissance

It is David by Michelangelo. He is full of muscles.
The line of the face are really powerful.
His features are perfect. His nose is beautiful.
However , I like Adam more.

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It is about the creation of Adam .

I like it because it is the front page of the book , Angel & Devil

, and the figue of the bodies are so nice , and the line of the bodies

are really wonderful.

Also, the painting seem to be meaningful. Adam looked pale, and wanted

some engry and power from God.

There is a angle ,too. It is quite cute. Maybe it was Eve.

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Egypt Myths

http://www.kidscantravel.com/travelguides/egypt/funstuffkids/index.html

There is a myth about Isis , the godess of life.

Osiris was the first faro of Egypt.

But his brother killed him.

So Isis wanted to use a magic way to bring her husband.
They had a kid , Horus.

Horus killed Seth.

Isis is the goddess of fertility.

Horus is the god of the sky and protector of the living.

Osiris is the god of death as well as the ancient Egyptian symbol of eternal life.

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-ViewArticle.aspx?pin=x-eg018500a&article_id=305&chapter_id=7&chapter_title=Mythology&article_title=Egyptian_Mythology There is a myth about Osiris , too

According to a traditional method supposedly begun by Isis,

who mummified her husband Osiris. In addition, wood or stone

replicas of the body were put into the tomb in the event that

the mummy was destroyed. The greater the number of

statue-duplicates in his or her tomb, the more chances the dead person had of resurrection.
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Ancient_Civilizations/Egypt/Mythology/index.htm

Ptah is the creator god of Memphis,

the capital of the dual Kemetic for most of its history.

Ptah is symbolized as a mummified man wearing a skullcap

and holding the symbols of life, power, and stability in his arms.

Ptah is sometimes seen as an abstract form of the self-created one.

Ptah represents the sun at the time when it begins to rise above the

horizon and or right after it has risen.

Myth

http://www.mythweb.com/
http://www.mythweb.com/today/today01.html

There is a story about Hercules.

When he was a baby , he already had strong power.

When he was older , he made a mistake.

So he had to pay for it.

He needed to do these things.

1) Kill the lion of Nemea.
2) Kill the nine-headed Hydra.
3) Capture the Arcadian Stag.
4) Kill the wild boar of Erymanthus.
5) Clean the Augean stables.
6) Kill the carnivorous birds of Stymphalis.
7) Capture the wild bull of Crete.
8) Capture the man-eating mares of Diomedes.
9) Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons.
10) Capture the oxen of Geryon.
11) Take the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides.
12) Bring Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Hades, to the surface world.

And he began his adventure.

http://thanasis.com/heroes.htm

There are some stories.

Here is a story about Odysseus.

Odysseus was the son of Laertes.

His story is about Troy and Helen.

The most famous one of his stories is the Troy war.

There is a story about Perseus.

He was really a poor kid.

He killed his father, but he didn't know

the man who he killed was his father.

His father droped he in the sea because the priestess' advice.

However his father still killed by his own son.

Mythology

http://www.comfychair.org/~cmbell/myth/orion.html
This myth is about the star signs.
The Greek's myth, Orion myth.
It is about the godness of moon,Amazons
and her lover, Orion.
They loved each other,
but Amazons' brother,Apollodidn't
agree them to get together.
So he sent a scorpion to kill Orion.

....I only find one...

TED Talks

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_burchfield_plays_invisible_turntables.html

I saw this talk, it was really amzing. His name is James Burchfield .
He is such a nice beatbox player!
It was really cool!!!


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jane_goodall_at_tedglobal_07.html

She is Jane Goodall .
She was talking about animals and humans how to live together.
I thought her thinging that we need to learn.
She also had some pictures for us to understand what she was saying.
There were many pictures about monkeys and orangutans.
She explained why and how.
Because there were some peolpe cuting trees, animals could not
live there.They destroyed the animals' home.


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kenichi_ebina_s_magic_moves.html

This man is Kenichi Ebina. He is a nice dancer.

He mixed dancing and magic together.
There were hip hop , breaking, locking and popping.

It was really cool!

It had much originality.

I liked his show. His magic is really fun.

Environment

I serched around the Net and I found this site:

http://www.nrdc.org/reference/kids.asp

There are many many environment issues,

like global warming, deforreotation.....many

I think global warming is very important.

It is having TOO MANY CO2.

It relates polar bears and the North Pole.

There are many polar bear becoming

no place to live or take a rest,

because the ice are amost melting.

And the sea level rises ,too.

Julius Caesar

I serched around the Net and I found these two site :

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/history/civilwars.htm
http://rome.mrdonn.org/caesar.html

Julius Caesar was born in Rome on 12 or 13 July 100 BC.

Julius Caesar was a great general and also a good leader.

Romans even named o month after him,

the month of July for Julius Caesar.

There were ten month in Rome.

About 2,700 years ago, Numa, the second

emperor created two month,January and February.

Then Julius Caesar decided January to be the first month

of the yaer,and Febuary is the second month.

Julius Caesar did many improtant things for Rone.

So he became popular with Romans and powerful.

However the goverment were worry about that.

Of course! Julius Caesar took over the goverment

and became a king.

This is the end of republic.

In 48 BC He defeated Pompey.

He fought alot , and conquered many places, too.

Caesar described it in three words:

"Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered").

I think he was really porud of it.

Gladiator

This was the place where did they fight.

I serched around the Net and I found a sie page :

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/games/circus.htm

Romans liked to watch other people die.

They thought that was fun.

Futhermore they believed their gods gladiatorial fight .

Before lunchtime the men in armor would fight with wild animals.

Like: bears and alligators.

Usually the men killed the animals

but sometimes animals killed the men.

These kind of fight still could see in Mexico and France.

After lunchtime the men would fought with men.

In cities the fights were to the death.

In smaller towns, probably the

men usually just fought until someone was hurt,

but sometimes men did get killed.

Art & Architecture

I serched around the Net and I found these site pages:

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/art/index.htm
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/romarch.htm

Architecture was the most important thing about Rome .

The three important architecture were arch ,

the baked brick ,and cement.

Most things that they built were temples and bailicas.

Their art was as Greek well.

Their building were like squares.

There were many paniting to decorate the walls of houses.

The art of the first and second ceturies AD was to show

emperors wanted people to know or think.

There were different art style in each century.

About 200 AD there were some Christians's art.

Rich of Rome

I serched around the Net and I found this site:

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/food/richfood.htm

The rich in Rome were REALLY rich ,

but the poor were very poor.

The rich Pomans could eat whole plates of peacock tongues.

(I think it is very strange to eat tongues.)

They cooked whole things together.

They cocked whole kind of meet together.

They even got snow without refrigerators.

They got it ftom the montains.

They loved spicy food.

They bought the spicy food from India.

Like:Cinnamon,pepper.....

They had the bathrooms and toilets in their house.

Altogether they were really very RICH!

Rone of wealthy

I searched around the Net and I found this page:

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/roman_baths.htm

Those were the toilets of men in Rone.
Rone was very consious on health.

I also read the book about Rone before.

They had Public bathhouse, too.

There were:

Hot air chamber steam

bath room

temperature room

and

cold water room.

The rich own it, But the poor not.

Women and men were detachable.

But it is cheep to used the Public bathroom.

Christions

I serched around the Net and I found this site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/beliefs/basics_1.shtml

Christions believe one God.
Jeuss was the God's son.
The Christions believe that.
They don't believe reicarnation.
Jeuss talked about "Love."
He said to love every people in the world.
It is the most big relision in the world.
Many people believe it.
There are two kinds of Christions.
One is believe God's son, Jeuss.
And the other is believe Jeuss' mother, Marlia.
They are a little different between them.

Christions believe when they died they will
go to heaven or the hell,
but amost people will go to heaven, I think.
Because if you change your bad mind and
feel sorry about the bad things.
Then, you pray to God.
God will forgive you.

Judaism

I serched around on the Net.And I found
this site:
http://judaism.wikia.com/wiki/Judaism

There are about 1,400,000 people

believe it.

Judaism decides Christism and

Mohammedanism.

Their Scripture used Hebraist.

Judaism is one of the oldest monotheistic religions

and was founded over 3500 years ago

in the East.

There are two calendar in Judaism.

One is moon and sun calendar.

Because when God was creating the

world he started each day in the evening.

Moses was the most improtant person

in the Judaism.

He made Judaism became Christism.

He took many people away from the Egypt.

And made them free.

Sikhism

I serched around on the Net.
And I found this site:
http://www.sikhism.com/

Sikhism is the fifth largest world religion.
The history of Sikhism began with the birth in 1469 CE.
The last teacher deid in 1708.
There are 200,000 people in the world believe it.
There was ten teacher teached them all the anabaptism.
They are monotheism.
They only have one God.
There is fair to anyone in Sikhism.
Women and men are all fair.
Sikhism trus that when people died,
they will become one part of Earth.
Their temple is very beautiful.

This is "The Gold Temple"

This is the most improtant center of Sikhism.

How beautiful!!

Their clothes are very speacial.

It is easy to know who are Sikhism.

Their also wear "hat".

But it is diffierent kinds of hat.

They ues cloth roll their head.

They bring swords, too.

Daoism

I searched around the Net
and I found this site:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htm

Daoism also call Taoism.

Daoism has about 20,000,000 people belive it.

Lao-tzu was the Daoism's beginner.

Daoism people most are in China and Taiwan.

Daoism has many gods and godnesses ,too.

This mark means balance.

Black means dark and women.

White means licht and men.

And the circle insibe of each other are means balance.

It is very depth perception mark.

My family most are Daosim without my aunt.

In our home we pary to two gods and one godness.

Daoism gods and godnesses have ten, I knew.

There are many stories in Daoism.

The stories most are talking about virtue.

When I was kindergarten, I always read these stories.

Like a story is about a godness.

Her father and borther went fishing.

But they get in a tyhoon.

She know that and she prays everyday.

One day her anima fiew out.

And flew to rescue her father and borther.

However she omly rescue her father.

Although that, since she died.

She became a godness of sea.

Hinduism

I serched around on the Internet and I foind this site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/
What I learned:
Hinduism is the 3th big in the world.

Hinduism is the oldest religion.

It has about 9,000,000 adherent in the world.

They have an objectuon to force.

In fact, they hate force.

There is a complex history of Hinduism.

Some scholars thought that the first Hinduism

mind is strated at about 3000BC.

Gandni is the most improtant person in Hinduism.

He borned in 1869 in Porbandar on the Western

coast of India.

Althoght Gandni is a Hinduism,he had many Christian

and Muslim friends.

WOW!! It is really a open mind!

He hoped to win people over by chang their hearts and mind.

He is really a great man!

Book Report

Summary

Amir,a master, and Hassan,a servant are friends,but they don't know they are also brothers that were separated.
When they were kids, they always played together when they were young. Amir would tell stories to Hassan. And Hassan was a nice listener, too. They were best friends, but the relationship between them became strange, since a kite game.
Amir is a kite flyer and Hassan is a kite runner. In the kite game Amir defeats all the kites. Hassan goes to find the kites, but when he goes to find the last kite, it is a blue one. He gets in a fight with a local despot, Assef. Amir sees that, but he doesn't help Hassan. He runs away, because he is cowardly and he also envies Hassan. However he doesn't know Hassan knows he saw the fight and didn't help him, so they become estranged.Not so long after, and Hassan and his father, Ali leave.They go back to their hometwon.
Later, there is a war in kabul, so Amir and his Baba go to the U.S.A. to seek refuge with General Taheri. He is a good man. Baba finds a job to preserve the family livehood. Amir goes to collge in the U.S.He wants to be a writer. Soon after he falls in love with General Taheri's daughter, Soraya. They get married.
However, Baba's health is not good anymore. Bad things happen in threes. Baba dies; Rahim tells four things to Amir: One, he lives in Amir's old house in kabul with Hassan's family; Two, Hassan and his wife are dead; Three, Hassan was Amir's brother. Of the same father,but diffferent mother; And four, Hassan had a son, Soharb, which is his nephew.
Amir goes back to his hometown, Kabul, and it has a different face. A friend in kabul, Farid, helps him to find Soharb, because Soharb is gone. They find find out Soharb has beenbought from Assef. He is an official now. But he is still a crazy guy. He buys kids and sexually abuses them. And he has a deal with Amir. If Amir fights him and wins. Amir can take Soharb back. However Amir isn't good at fighting, but when he is dying, Soharb saves him. Soharb uses his catapult and shoots on Assef in the eye.Amir and Soharb run away. They go to a hospital, because Amir has many hurts.
When Amir is better, he ask soharb to live with him. Amir asks Soraya,too. Soraya is happy to have a son, because she can't have a baby. Soharb aqrees and they revin to the U.S.A. Sometimes Amir will teach Soharb how to fly a kite, because he wants to help Hassan to be a good father. Amir takes care Soharb, his dear nephew, and his dear son. He tells him about Hassan, and flying kites with him,but now,Soharb is a kite flyer and Amir is a kite runner.

My thought

This is the first time I have read a book in English.I chose this book, The Kite Runner, because I read it in Chinese before. It is really nice. So I wanted to read it in English again. However this book was a little difficult to read. There were many words that were very hard, but that helped me learn new vocbvlary.
The author is Khaled Hosseini. He ueses hiss hometown, Kabul to set the story in. This book, The Kite Runner, was his first book. However, the book is not like a firstt book. It is great. The characters are describe are very lively. Like Amir,an envious and timid boy becomes a conscientious and brave man. Futhermore the story are great, too. In part 3 Hassan says “A thousand times over to you.” to Amir. This really made me cry,because this really warm. If a friend says that to you. You might be happy. Although the story isn't ture, but I could follow it as it if were. I really felt like the charters were real and the story was real, too.I enjoyed reading this book very much. Amir and Hassan’s friendship made me feel very warn and fragant inside.
The setting is in Kabul.I think it was a beautiful place before,but it is terrible now. In part 1 the authour tells us about Kabul.It says it is on a hill near Amir's house.Amir and Hassan always go to the hill and look down on Kabul, their home. It has a lot of people and stores, but , Amir's house other side. It is quiet and clear. There are many trees, flowers and a small river. At night,the city becomes quiet. The stores close and people go home eat dinner and sleep. But the other side is different. It has owls and some bugs that make sounds, but the sound is beautiful like a song. However, after the war. A change.Kabul becomes very poor.
I think Amir is really a great man,because he can confront his problems.He is willing to confront the truth.He changes greatly.This is difficult for anyone in the world.If I was Hassan or Baba,I might be very proud to Amir.I think we can learn from mind. Hassan is a good friend.He is honest and reliable. I hope I can find this kind of friend one day in the future.
The ending of this book is not really a happy ending.Hassan is dead. Soharb is an orphan.Althogh Amir will care tor Soharb, I don't think Soharb will be very very happy.Maybe he will happy,but his past is sad and poor. And maybe in school some bad kids will tease him, for being an orphen. So I do not think that Soharb will be very very happy.
I think no story has a happy ending.There will be some problem in the future.And we need to confront them.


What I learned

Hassan's sacrifice and Amir's bravary are to be admired. And their love is we can learn from, too. In sociery now, too many people don't know what strong, which love means. They don't know how to love people or even them selves. I think love is a desirable goal.
However, The Kite Runner has two defects, I think. The first is that vague about the characters personality and appearance. I could't even know what age Amir and Hassan are in the story.
Secondly there are some special jargon, like ”jan” and ”yo” that mean very close friends or family, like”dear” particular words from the conutry.
The Kite Runner is an interesting novel,but Khaled Hosseini also wrote a second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and I think this book is bettter than The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner is still a great book. A Thousand Splendid Suns is about woman in Kabul. It is about their feelings, heartflet and bottled-up pain.It is strongely expresses the women's feelings, and it also made me feel WOW! How terrible! This is not fair! A man can have many wives?! No! No! I will not let this thing happen.Maybe because I am a girl,so I think it is awful. But I think this is more powerful and touched me. The story is sad. I also feltuhar the women in Kabul; poor and humble.This book is better than The Kite Runner,but there isn't so much about family love. A Thousand Splendid Suns is more about the fatalism.It is different from The Kite Runner.
In this book, the most improtant thing we need to learn is about Amir's mind.In society now, most people always escape from problems. They don't want to confront problems. It is one of the our bad habits. I hope we can change this. Even a student,a teacher,a parent-anyone in the world needs to fix this. No one is brave if he or she runs from problems.When you want to solve a problem, you need to confront it. When you confront. You are brave!


In conclution, this book is very sutiable for everyone to read. It has a great story and lively characters. It can make you feel you are one of the characters in the book.
Also, you will understand true friendship. And you can learn an important thing: confronting your problems.

Buddhism

This is Buddha and his mother,the queen of India.

http://www.buddhanet.net/

This site has some comics about Buddhism.

It is interesting.

There is a littel buddha and a forgien kid.

The littel buddha show the kids what is benignity ,cherish , and mankind.

It is very good for us to read,

because it is a comic.

When Buddha thought the "gospel".

He had many students because his mind.

At that time he had about 1250 students.

When Buddha became a monk and thought the gospel,

as soon his mother and wife became monks, too.

When he amost 80 years old,

he went to two Bodhi Trees.

And sat under the Bodhi Trees.

He lotus position and died soon.

The scriptures ceberated into three parts.

The ten discipline:

1.Ahimsa.

2.No nab.

3.No lech.

4.No lies.

5.No drink.

6.Can't wear nice.

7.Can't listen music or dance.

8.Can't sit at nice chair.

9.Can't eat after afternoon.

10.Can't not have any things.(money)

Persia

I serched around in Internet,but I can't found a site.
I just found two wedpage.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/middle_east/ancientpersia.html
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/persianempir1/a/aa032800a.htm

The Persia kingdom occured in the Neolithic Age.

They contarled many conutry.Like:Mesopotamia,

Egypt, Syria, and some parts of Asia and India.

The Persia of king,Darius,wanted to contral Greese.

This war fighted for 20 years.499-479 BC.

However there is a apostate.So they ceased it.

But they didn't win the war.

However his son ,Xerxes, helped him to contarl Greese.

But they didn't win, either.

They didn't win and also they lost Persia, too.

Bad thing happen in theers.

And Alexmrden conqvers Persia.