Reading Response

I recently finished reading Crank by Ellen Hopkins. I'm not finished with the book I'm currently reading, and there doesn't seem to be a plot structure within it. So I will use Crank as an example. There was a plot structure throughout the whole book that I thought would be perfect to use for this post. 

The plot structure was very consistent. The cycle throughout the book went from happy and blissful to suffering and sinful. In the beginning, Kristina and her life were perfect. She was an innocent, straight-A junior. Her downfall began when she started using drugs. She was dating two guys at a time and was raped by one of them. When she goes back home to Arizona, she discontinues her drug abuse and manages to remain her grades. She focuses on schoolwork and her relationship with her new boyfriend. But once she gets her hands on drugs again, she slacks in school, ruins her relationship with her boyfriend, and drifts away from her friends and family. Her life spirals into nothing. She has no intention on doing anything in life except for drugging herself up. She then realizes she's pregnant. And for the next 9 months, she ends her drug use and gives birth to a healthy baby. But at the end of the book, she gets back to drugs. I think the reason why Ellen Hopkins wrote the book this way is for the story to never be dull. It was surprise after surprise, leaving me anticipating everything that would happen next.

I'm still reading This is Our Faith by Pennock. It's more of an educational book than a book with a plot. As I read, I acknowledge things that I know and things that I never knew about the Catholic religion. I've always had questions in my mind about some aspects about my religion, and this book answers those questions. I really like it so far as the book offers different viewpoints: atheists, Baptists, and other Christian denominations. I always try to retain my relationship with God, and I like reading religious books since I feel a deeper connection with Him. For To Build a Fire, I was constantly re-reading it to understand the story. I have to be honest, I hated reading/annotating it. The whole story confused me and the end was terrible in my opinion. I felt aggravated the whole time I was reading since it was very repetitive and the author had his point already, but he STILL kept repeating things over and over. I liked descriptive language, though, it painted a clear image inside of my mind (with the help of the pictures.) 

My reading for this week:
This is Our Faith, Michael Francis Pennock: 9/26 - 45 min.
Literacy narrative: 9/25 - 60 min., 9/27 - 60 min.
To Build a Fire: 9/27 - 60 min
Total:  225 min. pp. 83-159 (This is Our Faith)