Monday, April 28, 2014

MockingJay Character Analysis

Katniss-Main character or protagonist, lives in Disrict 12 with mother and sister. Katniss is a past winner of the hunger games and lives in one of the Victors house in District 12. She is a Round character and plays a major role in the story as a rebel.

Peeta-Another main character or protagonist, lives in District 12 with family. Peeta is also a past winner of the hunger games and lives in his own Victors house in Disctrict 12. He is sort of a round character and plays a role in the story as Katnisses partner.

Haymitch- Former winner of the Hunger Games and lives in one of the Victor houses. Also he is now a mentor for Peeta and Katniss. He is lonely and very lazy and likes to drink alot.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Krista Ramsey Part 2

-3rd Column
-This article is about how Barack Obama talked about preschool and The Speaker of the House liked what he said and applauded it.
-"And we should absolutely cheer that the Preschool Promise - a plan to subsidize quality preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds - is being pushed forward in Cincinnati."The impact this has on the reader is they get information on how preschool will work in Cincinnati. Some diction used in this piece of text is Elevated like the word "subsidize." Which is elevated because most people would not say that word in their writing. some syntax in this piece of text is this whole sentence because its pretty long and makes the reader speed up their reading.
-Ramseys writing style is plain i think this because its not  really anything else so i went with plain, "Yes, we should all rejoice that President Barack Obama mentioned preschool in his State of the Union speech last month and that Speaker of the House John Boehner applauded, evidence of bipartisan support."
-Some questions
   -Why do yous choose to write in this type of style?
   -In your opinion what is the most interesting column youve done?
   -Who was your inspiration for writing?

Monday, April 7, 2014

MockingJay Author Analysis

The author of the Hunger Games series and the book that im reading MockingJay is Suzanne Collins. In 1991 she began her proffesional career as a writer. she worked on the staff of several Nickelodeon shows. A series she made before The Hunger Games was The Underland Chronicles which is a New York Times bestseller. It has been sold in 21 different countries. Her next series was The Hunger Games Trilogy. It has been sold in 56 different countries and in 51 different languages. In 2010 she was added to the TIMES 100 list. In march 2012 the first movie of the series came out and has since made $700 million in the world wide box office.