Sang Woo Lee 3rd Giving my Opinion

Title: The Greatest Showman

Director: Michael Gracey

Text type: visual(film)

Date read: 25/4/18

Short Summary: The story is about a boy named P.T Barnum. Barnum and his father Philo works for the Hallet family. Charity, who is their daughter is getting closer and closer with Barnum and they start to like each other. When Charity is being sent to finishing school, Barnum tells her that they will never be separated and Philo dies. Barnum and Charity are keep in touch through letters until they meet again as an adulthood, eventually marrying and raising two daughters. They live a humble life; though Charity is happy. Unfortunately, Barnum loses his job and he uses loan to buy ‘Barnum’s American Museum. Then Barnum searches talented “freaks” for the performers of the Barnum’s American Museum.    

The reason that I chose this text: It was one of the most impressive movie that I ever watched.

Quote 1:

“You don’t need everyone to love you, just a few good people.”

-Charity Barnum

When P.T Barnum was chasing for praise, his wife, Charity reminds him that he doesn’t need everyone to love him. He just needs a few good people. I think this quote is really good because we wish to be famous and be loved but actually, we don’t need everyone to be loved. Just a few good people such as family, and your friends.

Quote 2:

“I am brave. I am bruised. This is who I’m meant to be. This is me.”

-Lettie Lutz

Lettie is one of the performers of Barnum’s American Museum. This is my favourite quote because it means be yourself and don’t be afraid of other peoples eyes.

The ideas in this movie: Do not judge a book by its cover. For example, no one likes performers of the Barnum’s Museum because they look a bit different to other people, but they have feelings like us and they are talented.

Language feature: Repetition

The songs were repeated as well as its rhythm in this film. Also some lyrics were repeated because it’s important and to make the idea more clear.

This movie can be linked to the real world because our life may succeed but it may lose everything.

giving my opinion I love lemonade

Author: Mark and Rowan Sommerset.

Title: I Love Lemonade.

summary: Quirky Turkey wants revenge on Baa Baa, sweet revenge. he get billy the goat to pee into a cup then Quirky Turkey will act as it is lemonade. Then Little Baa Baa came along. Will Quirky Turkey get Baa Baa to drink the pee or not.

Why I choose this book: Because it is a easy read, it's funny and any one can read it.

Quotes of the book: "Quirky Turkey wants revenge"

Quotes of the book: "I love lemonade"

Discussion on the language features: It has a bit of rhyme and onomatopoeia.

what text relates to: It relates to me when I try to prank my friends but it goes horribly wrong then they get me back,

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Title: We're Going on a Bear Hunt. 

Date read: Saturday the 17th of November. 

Text type: Picture Book 

Author: Michael Rosen

Illustrator: Helen Oxenbury

I chose to read this book because once in a while I get tired of reading the same kind of books and wanted to read something different. 

1st Quote: "We can't go over it. We can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it."

Opinion: I think that this is a way of saying that you will have problems in life and sometimes the only thing you can do is push through it.

2nd Quote: "We're not scared"

Opinion: I think that in life it is okay to be scared, but it is good to be brave. 

Summary:  It's a beautiful day, a brave family is going on a bear hunt, there not scared. They go through long wavy grass, a deep cold river, thick oozy mud, a big dark forest, a swirling whirling snowstorm, when finally they come across a cave, could this belong to a bear? They tiptoe in when they hear something, it's a bear!

Quick! Back through the cave! Tiptoe! Tiptoe!

Back through the snowstorm! Wooo Hooo! Wooo Hooo!

Back through the forest! Stumble trip! Stumble trip!

Back through the mud! Squelch squerch! Squelch squerch!

Back through the river! Splash splosh! Splash splosh! 

Back through the grass! Swishy swashy! Swishy swashy! 

Back home and under the blankets. There not going on another bear hunt.          

Language feature: Onomatopoeia

"swishy swashy" (when the family is walking through the long grass).

Onomatopoeia helps the reader to have a better idea of what is happening in the book and helps you create a

clearer picture in your head.

It is linked to the world in a few ways:

1. In the book a family is going on an adventure and in the world people go on adventures with their families

too.

2. In the book there is a snowstorms and in the world there are also snowstorms.

I enjoyed this book and I think you will too. ❤👍

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Night Vision

14/11/18

Ella west

Giving my opinion

Short Summary: Viola is a 14 year old girl who is born with Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) which means that sunlight is deadly to her. She lives on a farm outside of Ashburton and one night she is running through the forestry at night time, the only time she can go outside, and she comes upon something she shouldn’t. A man, Geoff Harris, is lighting a car on fire with a man in it and then Geoff buries $1,000,000 million dollars in the ground. Viola goes and digs up the money then sends it to her parents anonymously so they can pay of the mortgage on the farm. But one night Viola is tailing lambs and she looks over and see Geoff Harris watching her. Later in the story Geoff kidnaps Viola and and forces her to tell him were she has kept the money or he will make her sit in the sunlight. But thanks to a sow (female pig) with a piglet who charges at Geoff and makes him fall down a cliff into a river Viola is safe.

Why I chose this text: It was a stand alone story which is really good to write about because it will not end in a cliffhanger. But if I had already read this book I would have chosen it for this category because it has so many different points of view in the story that you can look at and it is such an amazing book written with passion

Quote: A quote in this text that I really like is at the end of the book when it says “I think a spotlight will be okay”. Even though this is not a big part of the story I thought that that was a good way to end the book because it shows us the viola is coming out of her shell and making what is left of her life count as she does not know how long she will live.

Quote: “I am my father's daughter” is another quote in this story that I think is not a big part in the story line but is just a interesting sentence. I think this because Viola to us is not, as we may view it, a normal human and this condition she has makes her sound like an alien. But to her she is, like she said, her father’s daughter and even though she knows that she is a bit weird she is still a 14 year old living a life.

Ideas in this text: An idea in this text that I think is really big is to keep on going even if things get hard. Viola had such a tough life with XP and when it was made even worse by seeing Geoff Harris murder another person it would have been so easy for her to give up. Yet she persisted and she defeated Geoff, if you can call it that, and she made so much progress in her emotional life. She is now more open and this was all because she kept on going and never gave up on herself or others.

Langue features: In this story the author has told the story in first person which is a really clever way of writing a story that has quite a lot of emotions or opinions. For example, Viola does not know what to do with the $1,000,000 that she has come across until she realises that she should give it to her parents. Using first person we can clearly see what Viola is thinking and how she is feeling.

Links: This story could just be linked to the children who have XP and what they go through. Even though Viola in in a position where she has a house and curtains to protect her from the sun others do not and it is really sad to think that kids with this condition have to go through with it.

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Written by: J.K Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne
Read: October 25

This book continues on from the original Harry Potter series. Harry is no longer at Hogwarts, he has grown up now and works at the Ministry of Magic. He is still great friends with Hermione and Ron and is Married to Ginny. Harry has three great children called James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna. Albus is the main character/son, kind of like Harry. He struggles with his families legacy at Hogwarts, and doesn't no what to do with all that weight on his shoulders. Both Harry and Albus learn things they have never known before and a lot of surprises hits them both!

I chose this book because I have always loved the Harry Potter series and storyline through it. This series is always getting better and the characters are all so unique.  My Dad had recommended the first couple of books and I instantly fell in love with them.

My favourite quotes from the book are "Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters at Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew." This is one of my favourite quotes said by Harry because it is telling you not to judge a book by it's cover. This may be him referring to himself, because when Harry first started at Hogwarts he thought Snape  was nasty without really meeting him, but when he new everything he learnt how sweet and how protecting he really was. Another one of my favourite quotes was "Big. Wonderful. Full of food. I'd give anything to be going back there." In this text Ron is referring to Hogwarts and how amazing it was, and that they would go back there is heart beat. I think this is really sweet and makes the reader think back to the other books.

This text is telling you to not let anything put you down and to continue on trying or you will never get anywhere.

This book has a lot of things referring back to the other books which I personally like. It makes you remember everything that happened and lets the story flow better too.

Obviously I can link this book to the other Harry Potter books, mainly because many of the things that happens in this book connects with what had previously happened in the other/past books.

 - Ashleigh

Giving my opinion Fortnite

Fortnite is possibly the most popular game in the world right now. Personally I play it a lot, I started playing this year and I haven't stopped playing since. it is a addictive game. I chose this game because it is a popular game with a estimate of 80 million people playing in august 2018. If you don’t know what fortnite is it is a 100 player battle royal game. In this game you collect guns and materials to eliminate opponents to get to the top of the royal. The one thing that Epic put in that everyone wants is vbucks and the battle pass. If you don’t know what vbucks are they are in game currency and the battle pass is something where you can tier up and get cool skins, emotes, back blings and more. Epic games made like everyone needs skins and vbucks when really it will be a waste of money because you won’t be playing fortnite in a year. Everyone who plays the game would know someone or you are this person that rages everyday people rage quit because they die or they lag then they die.. This game getting everyone addictive and epic games are making a lot of money from fortnite because we think that we need all these skins and vbucks. Things that everyone says before there game is "where are we dropping boys" or "lets get a dub boys" people use similes and onomatopoeia like describing players to nba players when they coby's a grenade into a opponents building. fortnite links to war and battles. That was my giving my opinion on fortnite.

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George by Alex Gino this book is about a boy but with a secret. He is a transgender but he like to be called a she. They read charlotte's web about the spider then she starts to cry in charlotte  web and then they do a school play on it to be charlette you had to be a gill but know one knows his secret this is about a boy going through being transgender.I chose this text cause I wanted to tell what information is in this book. My opinion on this book is it is a great book to read I highly recommend to all senior ages and and all genders. A quote about this book is never judge someone on what they have. A text was went she cried in charlotte's web know one judge cause they thought she was a boy. My other opinion on this book is that it is ggo that is good for all genders and it has a lesson in it.

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Title: Lyla

Author: Fleur Beale

Short summary: Lyla has started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits Christchurch. While Lyla's mum and dad are helping out with the mess, Lyla opens up her home to all the neighbours and was leading the community clean up.

Explain why you chose this text: Because this is a very interesting story because it actually happened,  and it also makes you appreciate what you have 

A quote and opinion of it: This time the noise and shaking seemed to go on forever. 15 seconds felt like 15 years. And when it did stop we were in an alien place full of chaos

Discussion of the ideas in the text: I think that this story is trying to get the message across that some people have life so easy compared to other people. And that the world isn't perfect, and that even though that you feel like all the bad things are happening to you, that you are not the only one. e.g When Christchurch was in the middle of the earthquake, Japan had just also had an earthquake but also a tsunami.

Link the text to other text, the world, you life- The world, because so many places have earthquakes like the one in Japan or even the one that happened in Kathmandu 

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Gangsta Granny: By David Walliams
I chose this book because from what I have heard and red David Walliams is really funny.This book is a action packed comedy with family troubles and more. 

A boy named Ben goes to his granny's house every week and everytime she is SUPER boring she reeks of cabbage and plays Scramble and that's all she is, or so he thinks. He finds his granny "Robbing" the jewelry store, granny turns out to be a international Jewel thief and Ben is about to help her do the crime of the century, stealing the Crown Jewels but granny won't let him. Ben one day finds in his Plumbing Weekly magazine (Ben's favorite magazine) finds that there is way to sneak into the Crowns Jewels tower and tells granny about this, she finally agrees to do this as long as they put them back the next day. With this grannies nosey neighbour Mr Parker is trying to prove that she is a jewel thief but she is to smart for him and he can't find any proof.

Along with this ben has some family troubles he wants to be a plumber while his parents want him to be a dancer, they are addicted with dancing and just so granny doesn't get ratted out he has to claim he's dancing when he goes to granny's house and now he's stuck doing a dance tournament in front of his mom's favorite dancing.  If you like comedy robbery and cabbages this is the right book for you.

There are two quote in this a really like such as "I was also young once" this is because it tells the message of respecting your elders also the other one I like"Take them away,lock them up and throw away the key" I like this one because it's another way to say lock them up forever so I like the way of the language that David, along with that subject I like the comedy and the cliffhanger affect that David puts in because it puts a lot more action and laughs into it.The way that this story is told is a way of narration so it makes it feel like you are reading it from a report or something under the lines of that. This story links with not judging people by who YOU think they are.

Giving my opinion - Eliana

The war that saved my life Written by: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Ada had been stuck up in a small apartment all her life because her mum was ashamed of her own daughter's foot. Suddenly her whole life completely changes. A war began to come to Ada's town. It kept getting worse and worse that one day every child was told they have to evacuate the town. Ada's mum told told her that she couldn't leave with with her brother because she was too embarrassed with Ada's foot. On the day that the children evacuated Ada told her brother Jamie how she was going to evacuate with him. Next thing they knew was that they are going to be living with someone else until the war was over which isn't certain that is going to be any time soon. Ada is now a whole other person, with a whole other life. I didn't exactly choose this book, a friend of mine recommended it to me. I don't think I would of picked it out for myself if I saw it on a book shelf, but I am happy that it got pointed out to me. Quote: "I wanted to say a lot, but, as usual I didn't have the words for the thoughts inside my head." - I thought this was a really good quote because it shows that not many people have such a good education as us and how much some people struggle. Quote: Then I did what I should have done at the start. I thought myself to walk. - This quote is kind of sad because Ada is realising she could of done simple things and her foot wouldn't be as bad. Discussion of ideas: Not everyone gets as much love and education as others. Also that a lot of us don't have things that affect your whole life like for example, Ada has club foot that that she is going to be stuck with all her life. In the book it also talks about war which is something that has happened. Links to the text: I think that this text links to the war, It also tells us about how much people struggled in the war. Eliana Peart

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Pudsey, My autobidography.

Date Read: 25th to the 27th

This book is about a dog called Pudsey with big dreams.
It shows the life of a dog who stresses about finding a home and when he does,
is to scared to follow his dream, which is to dance. When he finally gets up the courage
to do so, it shows of his way to stardom, fame and eventually winning britain's got talent.
Of course he can’t do it without his friends Brad the cat, the guinea pigs, his Mum and his
beloved owner Ashleigh.
As you read along with the fun loving characters you can’t help but falling into
the story too.

I chose this text because I wanted a fun and humorous read which is exactly what this
book is. Also it involves lots of animals, bad jokes and laughs,
which is exactly what most books need!

Quote 1:

“What happens when you stop chasing your tail and start chasing your dreams?”

-Pudsey

My opinion:

I think that this is a subtle way of telling the reader that if you get a chance to follow
your dreams, do. Never stop believing and working hard, it never
hurts anybody. I like this quote because it focuses on the positive things and inspires
you to work harder.

Quote 2:

For I had found my special place at last. After so much searching,
I didn’t need to call upon my imagination for somewhere I could go when
things go tough. This was very really and available to me at anytime. -Pudsey

My Opinion:

I think that this is his way of saying everyone needs that special place where they feel safe.
Somewhere that they can relax, be themselves and feel safe and at home.
I also think it’s a fantastic way of ending this book by making the reader relate to
themselves.

I think a message this text is trying to convey is to follow your dreams,
because anything is possible if you keep trying and believing in yourself.  
Stay around positive people who can help you achieve your dream, have fun and
work hard!

Language feature:

-Onomatopoeia/repetition

“Thud, thud, thud.” (Pudsey falling down the stairs)

The impact on the reader is the repetition which makes the point stronger and
seem more important and the words “Thud,thud,thud,” help you to imagine the
noise and create the picture in your mind.

This text can be linked to the book “a dog called homeless,” because it’s about a dog that influences the lives of people around him.
It can also be linked to the world by the fact all the characters are so different and diverse, there are some nice people and some not.

To sum up, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I hope that you will too.