Main Character

                                        I am reading the book  Sister Wife By Shelly Hrdlitschka

   The main character in my book, is Celeste. (Thinking to herself.) "I am consumed with impure thoughts. My head is swirling with stories that would give the Prophet heart failure if he knew of them. I fear that I am destined for eternal damnation." (Shelly Hrdlitschka, Sister Wife page 1.)
   What I have learned about this character, or the protagonist, is that she has impure thoughts about something that is so terrible, that the Prophet (the person that decides who the young girls will marry,) will not be impressed by the thoughts that she has if he finds out. Also, I have learned that she has gotten these impure thoughts about someone that she shouldn't even be thinking about. I learned this because I know what the stories about, and for a young girl like Celeste, to be saying and knowing that she is thinking impure thoughts, is showing that she's thinking about someone, or something she shouldn't even know.
   As the plot progresses, I think that Celeste will continue to have these impure thoughts, and depending on what some of them are, maybe even act on them. If she does act on them, it could cause her to get married even sooner than she already is, or she could get thrown out of Unity/ The Movement.

   I chose this video, because this is the life that Celeste is living, and second thinking. It's the way she's been raised, to know, and as she gets closer and closer to the age that she has to marry, she's starting to second guess her life style. She wants to know if it's worth it.

Making Connections

                            The book I am now reading, is called Sister Wife by Shelly Hrdlitschka.


   Reading this book, I immediately thought of the TV show, "Sister Wives." The part in this book, that most reminds me of the TV show is, when the back cover of the book, is talking about Polygamy. The text says, "Polygamy is the norm, strict obedient is expected and it is customary for young girls to be assigned to much older husbands." (the back cover) Now in the TV show, "Sister Wives," they aren't married to younger girls, but they are married to several. Another quote from the book, that reminds me of the TV show is,"Through the window I see them practically running down the road to the rambling house where Colleen, the youngest wife of Uncle Jeremy, lives." (Page.87 paragraph 4.) Since the story said that "their Uncle Jeremy's youngest wife, Colleen," it's implying that he has at least 2 wives.

About My Book

     The book that I have just finished reading was called Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers.

    In this book, a teen named Parker Fadley, was a girl of perfection who always wanted to have A's on her tests, perfect choreography for her cheers, who was the most popular girl in school and even the girl who had to most popular guy. But after one mistake, and too many drinks, she was at the bottom of the social scale at school. She had to talk to the school counselor once a week, she lost the guy, the position on the cheer team, and all of her old friends. Everyone was wanting to know what had happened to her that awful night at what would've seemed like a regular party at the the most popular guy's house, Chris. After the incident, Parker goes to school, wanting nothing but for everyone to just leave her alone. Parker's old friend, Becky, was now on the cheer captain, and trying to rub it into Parker's face. Parker has been falling behind in her classes, and had her teacher's push back the due date for all of her work. Chris and Becky start dating, despite the fact that Chris is still in love with Parker, and let's it be shown to Parker and even Becky. But half way through the year, someone new comes to the school that forces Parker to come out of her shell. His name is, Jake. At first she keeps up her act, but Jake then tells her how much and why he likes her, and even though she doesn't want to she starts to like him too. The secret that Parker has kept with her for about a year now, just needs to come out. When Jess's old boyfriend comes back, the things that happened that night at the party, all come rushing back into her head. The falling on the ground, the drinking, having Becky yell at her about the cheer squad. And the thing that sticks out the most. Parker walking into the forest, and finding her friend Jess, who had just broken up with her boyfriend, being raped by some college guy that crashed the party. Once he's back at the school, everything's going wrong. Parker's dog gets killed, she finds out that Jess was found dead, and her parents are now sending her off to a shrink after they'd just started to trust her again. Parker tells everyone what she saw, Chris starts getting over her and moving on to becky, and Jake, the guy she fell for, is going off to live with his mom, now parker has time for herself and to heal herself.     

   The thought of reading a book about a teen girl that went to wild parties, was the cheerleading captain, and ends up having something so terrible happen to them, that they have ot go see a shrink, doesn't seem like a book that I would want to be reading. Even though the beginning of the book took a while to get started, and into the exciting parts of the story, I thought that the book was very well written, and had a great set up. This set up was to leave you hanging at a really good part of hte story in the present, and then have a flash back to the past in Parker's life and then end the chapter, and leave you wondering what would've happened if the author hadn't put the flash back in that spot. The great story line, of the life of Parker Fadley was very interesting, it had great endings to chapters to keep you reading the book. I wish that the author would write a second part to the story, because the ending of the story, was jsut Jake, Chris, and Becky leaving Parker at the school, to do their own things. That is the only critisism that I have of the story.