Speak About the End

In class we have recently finished reading the novel and movie Speak. We were required to create a digital dialogue or personalized podcast, about advice we would give Melinda Sordino, who is the main character in the novel. Speak is a story about Melinda, the main character,  who had been raped at a party and called the cops. Nobody knows her side of the story, so everybody hates Melinda, she has trouble in school and becomes depressed. The story shows how she is able to start to overcome these obstacles. This was a good book, that has alot happening, and I would highly recommend it.
I'm still leisurely reading my choice read book, The Hobbit. which is becoming more interesting each chapter. Bilbo finds his friends and then explains how he made his way out of the mountain. However, he doesn't mention his the magic ring.Gandalf gets everyone moving again since only the sunlight is keeping the goblins from coming after them. The group is a bit north of where they had planned to be, and they have difficult country to cross. Evening comes as they pass through the trees. Suddenly, they hear the howling of wolves and barely have time to scurry up into the trees before the wolves descend upon them. The beasts are actually wolflike creatures called Wargs. The Wargs are allies of the goblins, and they quickly notify the goblins of the situation. The goblins begin to arrive and, laughing at the company’s predicament, light fires under the trees in which Gandalf, the dwarves, and Bilbo are hiding.Gandalf prepares to attack the goblins, hoping to kill as many as he can before they kill him. Luckily for the company, the Lord of the Eagles has seen the commotion from his roost high in the mountains. With a number of other eagles, he swoops down, picks up the marooned travelers, and flies them to safety. The eagles are friends of Gandalf’s and enemies of the goblins. They are happy to provide food and rest for the weary travelers, who then continue on their journey.

THE HOBBIT...AGAIN!

Like I've said in past blog posts this book is getting better the further I go. I didn't get to read as much of this book as I wanted to in the past two weeks, because I lost my book and had more work than normal. Right now these adventurers have traveled far into the mountains and have become lost. Luckily, one of the dwarves finds a warm, comfortable caves to rest in. But during the night Bilbo wakes up to see goblins snatching the horses, supplies, and dwarves from a secret passage in the back of the cave. These goblins take the dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf into the heart of the mountain, where the king goblins lives. The king says that they are now his prisoners and will be dealt with later, but later never comes. They escape from the goblins killing many of them, but Bilbo is knocked out and wakes up in a dark corner, where he finds "a ring". He slowly makes his way through pitch black tunnels to find himself in front of a subterranean lake. Bilbo feels a presence in this area, which ends up being the creature Golum. Bilbo is frightened and draws his knife. When he does this his blade lights up and he learns that his dagger is actually another magical blade made by the elves, called "Sting". Golum was once a land dweller, but had been trapped in the cave for as long as he could remember. Bilbo challenges Golum to play a riddle game; if Bilbo wins Golum must show him to the exit and if Golum wins Bilbo will become a meal. As the game progresses, it becomes known that Golum is insane and has become obsessed with a ring that he keeps on his island in the middle of the lake, the ring that Bilbo had found and kept earlier. Bilbo ends up winning and is shown out by the exstatic Golum, but Golum figures out that Bilbo has the ring and leaves him immediately. Bilbo learns that "the ring" is a magical ring once worn by an evil king that turns the one wearing it invisible. To escape from the mountain Bilbo must cross a room of goblins, he puts on the ring and disappears, but is smelt by the goblins. He runs for the door, but is stuck under it, and narrowly escapes the mountain not knowing where his friends are or if they are alive...

We have just finished the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is a story about Melinda, the main character,  who had been raped at a party and called the cops. Nobody knows her side of the story, so everybody hates Melinda, she has trouble in school and becomes depressed. The story shows how she is able to start to overcome these obstacles. This was a good book, that has alot happening, and I would highly recommend it.