Is it dorky to say I've been looking foward to this post for 3 weeks? We've been doing not-book related posts, and so I couldnt use this topic. I had it all planned out. I would open a fresh empty blog post, put on Adele- Chasing Pavements on my iPod, and write an amazing topic on my amazing idea
Well, my iPod's dead, and this post isn't fresh and empty anymore, but I can stilll write my blogpost.
I was looking around my recently, and I picked up two books. The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I re-read these two books all the time, and usually I'm reading more than one book, but never both of these amazing books! I was a tab bit worried about my mind not being able to keep track of the 2 stories, but I started them anyways.
Then I noticed something. In The Hunger Games, Primroses name is entered into the hunger game raffle at age twelve -- thats right, a little 12 year old fighting to the death . And during the battle of hogwarts, in Harry Potter (admitedly the dirst book not the seventh), little eleven-year old Harry has to face Voldemort.
Oh hey my iPod's charged. Maybe now the post will get good.
Why is it that my two favorite female fantasy authors are writing that little kids- not even teenagers- are risking their lives. I should say that in Harry Potter it is for the "greater good" (ha-ha a little joke on Dumbledore's behalf) and in The Hunger Games its just cold-hearted slaughter for the entertainment of the rich and fat (that right there deserves a post). But still. They should be at home learning times tables, not out fighting. That's what I was doing.
True, these brave young one learn valuable lessons if they survive, but for whatever reason, I don't think its worth it. Or right. It's sick of whoever made these rules. Though, to play devil's advocate on myself, Why do they deserve to live anymore than anyone else?
I guess its just a fact that we all live with. We think people younger than us are weaker, more innocent and vulnerable, and, having gotten to live less life then us, we think they should have more time here.
Or is that just me????
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
My first blog-mentor-thing is Nina's blogpost on books for boy target audiences and girls reading. Firstly, I loved this post because I could completely relate to it. Being a girl, I also have tried to read a lot of "boy books". But I always get bored of them because I can't relate. I remember I used to read very girly books in 5th grade, about girls heading off to middleschool, and even though they were short and frivolous, I could relate because I was going through the same thing, and so I could read them.
I could write my second ALLSTAR!!! mentor post on any post of her blog really, but i choose this one because It got me thinking. Hannah's posts are always very provacative (thought provoking). This one in particular. It made me thing about how as we grow older, we seem to forget what it's like to be young. We condescend people younger then us, because OBVIOUSLY if we're older, we're smarter.
Right?
No. Maybe in some ways yes, because we do get more education. But that doesn't make us emotionally smarter. Adolescense is an age where you're full of emotions and can form connections with things. As we grow older, it seems we sort of emotionally disconnect. And we forget that we knew things when we were younger. Yes, we knew about sex and drugs and alcohol when we younger.
But we consider those "mature, grown-up topics", and pretend that just because we say they're for grown up, that means they really are for grown ups and kids dont know abouth them.
Sorry, this was supposed to be a paragraph right?
My third allstar mentor post I picked because It was something I thought only I had noticed. (If you havn't read Harry Potter 1-7 you probably won't get this, but you probably have read them. Because who hasnt?)
She falls in love with Harry because he is THE-BOY-WHO-LIVED. She used her coniving red-head (joking, i have nothing against redheads) ways to lure him into loving her! Its ridiculous. Plus she seems very shallow. Maybe its because of how deeply all the other characters are developed, or maybe its because she really is. She seems like an unimportant character. If J.K. Rowling had killed her off during the Battle of Hogwarts, no one would have cared. Harry could marry Cho Chang. Because at least he actually liked her. I stand by my theory that Harry only likes Ginny because she convinced him to and because he doesn't know what love is. (Sure, the whole theme of the book is real love conquers evil, but all Harry's loved are gone. Basically, Harry would love anything that could live.)
I could write my second ALLSTAR!!! mentor post on any post of her blog really, but i choose this one because It got me thinking. Hannah's posts are always very provacative (thought provoking). This one in particular. It made me thing about how as we grow older, we seem to forget what it's like to be young. We condescend people younger then us, because OBVIOUSLY if we're older, we're smarter.
Right?
No. Maybe in some ways yes, because we do get more education. But that doesn't make us emotionally smarter. Adolescense is an age where you're full of emotions and can form connections with things. As we grow older, it seems we sort of emotionally disconnect. And we forget that we knew things when we were younger. Yes, we knew about sex and drugs and alcohol when we younger.
But we consider those "mature, grown-up topics", and pretend that just because we say they're for grown up, that means they really are for grown ups and kids dont know abouth them.
Sorry, this was supposed to be a paragraph right?
My third allstar mentor post I picked because It was something I thought only I had noticed. (If you havn't read Harry Potter 1-7 you probably won't get this, but you probably have read them. Because who hasnt?)
Ginny Weasly is a obnoxious, famewhore brat.
She falls in love with Harry because he is THE-BOY-WHO-LIVED. She used her coniving red-head (joking, i have nothing against redheads) ways to lure him into loving her! Its ridiculous. Plus she seems very shallow. Maybe its because of how deeply all the other characters are developed, or maybe its because she really is. She seems like an unimportant character. If J.K. Rowling had killed her off during the Battle of Hogwarts, no one would have cared. Harry could marry Cho Chang. Because at least he actually liked her. I stand by my theory that Harry only likes Ginny because she convinced him to and because he doesn't know what love is. (Sure, the whole theme of the book is real love conquers evil, but all Harry's loved are gone. Basically, Harry would love anything that could live.)
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