Book Review- Carve The Mark- Vanessa Roth

If you liked Divergent, you will love this book titled Carve The Mark. It is the same author as the book series. The main characters are named Cyra and Akos. Cyra is the sister of brutal leader in the planet named Shotet. Everyone around the galaxy has a current gift, some can see into the future, some cannot feel pain. But Cyra’s current gift causes other people pain, and herself. Her brother only sees her as a blade in his hand. He uses her to torment his enemies. Cyra is smarter than her brother knows, she is intelligent, and quick on her feet.
Akos is a fated child meaning he has to die doing what he was born to do. Having a fate was very rare for most families. But Akos’s fate says he has to die for the Benesit family which is Cyra’s. Akos’s current gift allows him to contro the current. Meaning he can stop Cyra’s gift from hurting herself and others. He can’t feel the pain she gives.
Ryzek is the older brother of Cyra. His current gift is unknown. But he uses Cyra to his advantage, because Ryzek holds bricks on Cyra’s shoulders meaning if she does something he doesn’t like, he will tell the village something she regrets doing and she wasn’t able to control. One of my favorite quotes is on he back of the book, the quotes says, “I didn’t choose the blood in viens.” Cyra said this when she was getting to know Akos. Akos has said that brutality runs in her blood. When really Cyra can not control her brutality because with just one touch she can kill an entire army.

Outsiders book VS Poem

There are multiple similarities between the poem We Real Cool and The Outsiders.One similarity is how the stanza “We real cool”. Everybody in the Greasers sees each other as tuff, which is another word for cool almost.Another similarity is the stanza “We left school”. Sodapop dropped out of school to take care of Ponyboy. One other similarity is that in the poem one stanza say “We hit straight.” Almost all Greasers can fight but Johnny. I think this poem is very similar to the book in more ways than people think.

The Outsiders

  The book and the movie have a lot more differences than similarities.For instance, one difference is that in the movie Dally called Johnny a piece of sh** when Johnny told Dally to leave Cherry alone. While in the book Dally doesn't say anything. In the book it seemed as Dallas only cared about what happened to Johnny. But if someone cared about someone else, would they call them a piece of sh**.
    Another difference is in the movie Ponyboy really goes into detail on how is parents die. While in the book he just says they die in a car accident.
One of the similarities is that Ponyboy still brings up his dead parents. Another similarity is that Johnny still stabs the Soc. Cherry still tells Ponyboy that she doesn't want him to interfere with her popularity.

Three More Until Freedom

Quarter 1 is finally over!! I feel like since quarter one has ended weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I only had three falcon fouls one more, and if I got one more, that would mean a dentention. Luckily the quarter ended before I can get another. A falcon foul is something you get when you do something bad. Incase you didn’t know. My grades so far have been decent. The one thing I need to work on is asking for help when needed. One that note, one of my goals is getting better grades in math and social studies. I would love to keep the rest of my grades the way they are. My last goal is to not get a detention. Let’s just see how the rest of this school year plays out.