In  the beginning of the book “Evil Star” by Anthony Horowitz there is a woman named Gwenda who is starting to go crazy. The front of Gwenda’s house was overflowing with garbage and weeds. The lights inside the house never were turned on. The worst part of the whole house was that there was a rotten sewage smell. This smell was thought to be a blocked sewage pipe until it got worse. It got so bad that people had to cross the street just to walk by. The horrid smell was starting to make the grass become a sickly brown color and was making near by flowers wilt. People knocked and called the house but no one would ever answer.

               Gwenda Davis was loosing her mind. There was no doubt about it. Once in a blue moon people would see her scurry home with bags from local shops. Often people would see her pace back and forth through the window. Also, every night she would turn on the TV. She started to go crazy when her and her boyfriend adopted an eight-year-old kid. Everyone knew they wouldn’t be good parents. The boyfriend, Brian, drank heavily and him and Gwenda would constantly argue. Matthew was a nice kid when he got adopted. For the first few years he was an all-star child. Later on he started skipping school and hanging out with the wrong people.

               I can relate to Gwenda about things not going right but not at such a drastic level. People will start to go crazy if things in their life are destroying them in the inside. If you ever feel like nothing is gong right and you have no one to talk to the same thing that happened to Gwenda could happen to you. It might not be as bad as her situation but it could make you feel like you are going crazy.

               In  the beginning of the book “Evil Star” by Anthony Horowitz there is a woman named Gwenda who is starting to go crazy. The front of Gwenda’s house was overflowing with garbage and weeds. The lights inside the house never were turned on. The worst part of the whole house was that there was a rotten sewage smell. This smell was thought to be a blocked sewage pipe until it got worse. It got so bad that people had to cross the street just to walk by. The horrid smell was starting to make the grass become a sickly brown color and was making near by flowers wilt. People knocked and called the house but no one would ever answer.

               Gwenda Davis was loosing her mind. There was no doubt about it. Once in a blue moon people would see her scurry home with bags from local shops. Often people would see her pace back and forth through the window. Also, every night she would turn on the TV. She started to go crazy when her and her boyfriend adopted an eight-year-old kid. Everyone knew they wouldn’t be good parents. The boyfriend, Brian, drank heavily and him and Gwenda would constantly argue. Matthew was a nice kid when he got adopted. For the first few years he was an all-star child. Later on he started skipping school and hanging out with the wrong people.

               I can relate to Gwenda about things not going right but not at such a drastic level. People will start to go crazy if things in their life are destroying them in the inside. If you ever feel like nothing is gong right and you have no one to talk to the same thing that happened to Gwenda could happen to you. It might not be as bad as her situation but it could make you feel like you are going crazy.

I am currently reading the story We Were in Auschwitz Narrated by Janusz Nel Siedlecki. He is trapped in a Nazi concentration camp. It is almost impossible to read this story without cringing at the way that these innocent prisoners were treated. They were whipped if they stopped working for one second. Men were literally turning into wild animals. People would murder each other for the last drop of soup.

         It is almost unbelievable how people were treated. The guards would beat prisoners just for the heck of it. If you went a foot out of line or didn’t march properly you could and would be shot. Being in these camps activated people’s inner animal instincts. You could be the nicest person in the world outside of the camp but inside you would steal and attack people for a crumb of bread.

         I believe everyone should read this book or a book like it. There is a saying “Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it.” If you have no knowledge of  World War II then it could happen all over again. There is a very miniscule chance that it will happen but there still is a chance. Things like concentration camps are happening in other countries right now. Those countries weren’t totally involved in the world war so they have no knowledge of the torment that the “prisoners” went through, proving the famous quote.

Mistakes That Can Change Your Life

The protagonist in Ravens Gate by Anthony Horowitz has many problems. He was raised in foster care because his parents died when he was young. Throughout his teenage years he starts to hang around the wrong type of person. Alex’s friend convinces him to go rob a warehouse full of electronics and dvds. The day that his parents died he had a dream of exactly what happened to his parents. On that same morning Alex’s mom burnt his toast. This may not seem important but it is one of the most important parts of the story.

        

         When alex was in the warehouse he smelled burnt toast. The second that the smell reached his nostrils he knew that something bad was going to happen. He doesn’t know this now but the key to activating his powers is smelling burnt toast. Immediately after he smelled the burning a security guard nabbed him. Alex knew that the moment he agreed to do this it was a bad decision. Alex doesn’t really care about what he does because he feels his life is messed up enough.

         The problem that Alex has is a similar problem that many teenagers have, hanging out with the wrong group of people. If you are friends with bad kids it will only lead to trouble for you down the road. You will end up in the back of a police car. I am not saying that I’m the best-behaved person in the world. Everyone will eventually make a mistake that they are not proud of. You just need to learn from your mistakes and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

In the story Am I Blue?  By Bruce Coville there was a sixteen year old kid named Vincent that was being made fun of because people thought that he was gay. Vincent was trying to figure out if he was gay or not. I think that partially Vincent doesn’t want to be gay because of all of the people that would make fun of him and harass him. Vincent also wanted to talk to someone about it but he was afraid. After Butch Carrigan, the bully beat up Vincent his fairy godfather appeared. Melvin, the fairy godfather told Vincent his story. One day he was walking down the street and a group of guys dragged him into an alley and murdered him. Vincent got angry at Melvin because he winked at another guy. Vincent was scared because he knows that if you assume that someone is gay and they’re not they will come and beat you up. Vincent was confused because Melvin said he knew who was gay and who was not using his “gaydar”. 

This story is very unrealistic but it brings across a very good point. The story is saying that it’s ok to be gay and you don’t have to worry about talking to someone. People may judge you on that about you but it’s your life and they shouldn’t judge you on that. Also people who make fun of you may also be gay and they are just ashamed of themselves or their parents could have brought them up like that so they don’t want to disappoint their parents.