Journal Entry #8
1/28
Because of the type of non fiction reading selections i've chosen so far this school year, it's obvious i enjoy reading books that teach me how to deal and comprehend the problems i could be faced with in life. The lessons i've obtained from reading these selections will stick with me and hopefully help me out when im in a difficult situation that i dont know how to deal with. These are the kind of non fiction books that i belive everyone should get a chance to read so they get to obtain the same or similar knowledge to assist them in challenges they face.
West In The Night by Beryl Markham
Journal Entry #7
1/20
1. How do you feel while flying? Do you feel a sense of control?
2. When you've finished flying do you get a rush of joy?
3. Are you ever scared of crashing?
4. Have you ever had a panic attack while flying?
5. What did your acquaintances think when you decided to be a pilot?
6. Did anyone ever try to get in your way on your journey?
7. Did you ever doubt yourself?
8. Was there ever a hard time when you wanted to give up and stop?
9. When did you start learning how to pilot?
10. Did anyone influence your decision to start flying?
West In The Night by Beryl Markham
Journal Entry #6
1/14
As a pilot, there are always problems being face. One major problem that comes up is when she gets into a plane crash and lands in Africa, moderately stranded. Getting stranded somewhere is definitely a fear of most, but as a pilot, learning how to deal with that should be something learned in the very beginning before flying over seas.
West In The Night by Beryl Markham
Journal Entry #5
12/24
I feel this book relates in many ways to Columbia High School. The passion is thriving from students of Columbia High School and that reflects on what their current success looks like and what their future success will look like if they pursue their dreams, challenge themselves, and give it everything they've got. I think reading "West In The Night" or a book that tells a similar story would really influence and inspire the kids at CHS to do more with what they've got. Similar problems are faced with the students at Columbia in life and Beryl Markham shows amazing ways of dealing with life problems and what comes up in life.
West In The Night by Beryl Markham
Journal Entry #4
12/14
From an outsiders perspective, the current events of the book would be referred to by some as 'history being made'. Beryl Markham's amazing story is one that is hard to compete with. As an outsider, i would feel very intrigued by her talent, courage and passion. An outsider who was actually there during this time it would be honorable and exciting be apart of the process of 'history being made'.
West In The Night by Beryl Markham
Journal Entry #3
11/29
A new perspective that could be obtained from reading "West In The Night" is the outlook that sometimes it doesn't matter who you are if you know that the battle you're faced with is worth fighting for. In other words, race, gender, or even sexuality in the 21st century, doesn't always have to get in the way or have an impact on what is desired if you make the effort to not let it get in the way and not let anyone else allow it to stop you and get in your way.
West In The Night by Beryl Markham
Journal Entry #2
11/22
I believe the purpose of Beryl Markham writing this piece was to tell the world her phenomenal story. Because her story is so special and unheard of, it seems that she may be trying to show that no matter who you are or what your gender is, you can still accomplish and achieve greatness, and you can do anything 'if you put your mind to it'. No matter how cheesy the quote may be, the real life stories that prove the quote to be true, are still fascinating.
Beryl Markham has a very different story than most authors exposing their life challenges. She explains it greatly, and especially to a young woman, she opens my eyes to the greater life i could bring for myself if i fight for what it is i really want in life and challenge myself to the fullest.
West In The Night by Beryl Markham
Journal Entry #1
11/18
In a nonfiction book i look for lessons and morals to learn. As a high school student, i feel its appropriate for me to get as much learning in as i possibly can while I'm still here. Though learning is something that never stops occurring, I feel there are lessons I should learn now rather than wait for it to be taught. The previous book i read gave me a lot of knowledge on friendship and just different aspects of life. Different outcomes that were possible and different ways my life could turn. It helped me feel a type of confidence that right now, everything was okay, and things can go very wrong or very right, but the faith that after the bumps everything will return to being okay is how to overcome those bumps.
In the book I am reading now I feel i will gain a very different type of knowledge. Rather than reading about friendships and life of a writer, I'm reading an older story about a female pilot. I feel that though it will be a whole new type of lessons learned, they will be just as important, and just as interesting. (23/293)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #6
11/5
This book is in a way a story of a very strong friendship, that lasts for many years. As a reader, I take away a lot of new knowledge about life and what it brings to one, and different ways to go around those occurrences, or to simply embrace them. To read this book, you would have to have some fascination with the beauty on the inside of a person, a a kind of acceptance for what that brings to the table. In this book, Ann and her best friend Lucy live their lives together pushing through Lucy's remains of her cancerous childhood. Going through something like that changes a person and the audience of this specific book was probably changed through reading this piece, giving all of us a new perspective we can all look at life with now. (257/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #5
10/28
Eliza Goldberg. I live in The Sky Dusk apartment building, Room 236, down the hall from Ann. We are both in the same writers program here in Province town, where we have to finish our new books by the end of May. If I were most people I'd complain about Ann's non stop typing at her computer all day, but I happen to be in the same place as her, so I'm sure she'd do the same. We're all up late at night, us in the program, working on our books. You'd think that would be the worst time to write but you'd be wrong. It's nice to all get coffee together when we do, or dancing, us writers need to stick together.
My story is a non-fiction about my childhood. kind of typical but what can i do? I might say I have a pretty interesting childhood, so maybe the book will work out.
When I was 14 my mom, dad and i were all in a terrible car crash. The airbag in the front seat killed my mo, immediately I assume, my dad was left paralyzed from the waist down, and I, unharmed and traumatized. My dad and I moved in with my grandparents, in need of day to day assistance after the accident. It was hard, which is pretty obvious, but it made me the strong person I am today. After a while I got used to it, the same way that animals adapt to the environment around them, I adapted to mine.
So now here I am, doing what I love, with people I love and a story I'll never forget. (196/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #4
10/21
In my reading so far, Ann Patchett's life turns around when she lands her dream job in Province town, Massachusetts. She was thrilled and ready to finally move forward in her previously paused life, however telling her best friend who had also yearned for that job and didn't get it, would be somewhat difficult.
Ann's success in the job changes her life drastically. She went from working in a Friendly's restaurant, to staying in her room looking over the ocean typing away at her new novel. She ended up making tons of friends, getting a boyfriend and the chance to do what she loved for a living, rather that whatever she needed to in order to get by. Writing was what she loved and she was able to do that everyday no longer as a side job or elective, but as the thing she was meant to do in order to get money.
This is important in the book because it shows how one lucky acceptance or opportunity can help change a persons life for the better, making them closer to being the person they wanted to become. (129/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #3
10/14
The author behind this story, in my eyes, is trying to show her audience what really happens in life. She wrote HER story, it wasn't a sugar coated fairy tale where everyone lives happily ever after, or at least not yet. In the beginning of this section, Ann was working at a Friday's, waiting tables for her successful old high school friends and living with her mom. Sometimes it's important to move backwards in life before you can move forward, and I believed this is emphasized in Ann's story. Especially because after getting rejected by many of her dream jobs, she get to go work in Province town in Cape Cod and do what she likes best, write. Though her best friend and supposed to be partner-in-crime through this journey is across seas, she still manages to knock on every door there until she managed to find new friends and even a boyfriend.
Ann Patchett really finds a way to make her audience understand that no matter how unlike princesses we are, living as normal people, not everything is as bad as we think it will be. True love and friendship are real things too and very easily achieved. Even if you need some hope from the sugar coated fairy tales we all get introduced to as children, life doesn't always have to turn out completely opposite from the movie, who knows, I believe we all have a Prince Charming out there, and i believe that Ann Patchett know's that we do. (82/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #6
11/5
This book is in a way a story of a very strong friendship, that lasts for many years. As a reader, I take away a lot of new knowledge about life and what it brings to one, and different ways to go around those occurrences, or to simply embrace them. To read this book, you would have to have some fascination with the beauty on the inside of a person, a a kind of acceptance for what that brings to the table. In this book, Ann and her best friend Lucy live their lives together pushing through Lucy's remains of her cancerous childhood. Going through something like that changes a person and the audience of this specific book was probably changed through reading this piece, giving all of us a new perspective we can all look at life with now. (257/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #5
10/28
Eliza Goldberg. I live in The Sky Dusk apartment building, Room 236, down the hall from Ann. We are both in the same writers program here in Province town, where we have to finish our new books by the end of May. If I were most people I'd complain about Ann's non stop typing at her computer all day, but I happen to be in the same place as her, so I'm sure she'd do the same. We're all up late at night, us in the program, working on our books. You'd think that would be the worst time to write but you'd be wrong. It's nice to all get coffee together when we do, or dancing, us writers need to stick together.
My story is a non-fiction about my childhood. kind of typical but what can i do? I might say I have a pretty interesting childhood, so maybe the book will work out.
When I was 14 my mom, dad and i were all in a terrible car crash. The airbag in the front seat killed my mo, immediately I assume, my dad was left paralyzed from the waist down, and I, unharmed and traumatized. My dad and I moved in with my grandparents, in need of day to day assistance after the accident. It was hard, which is pretty obvious, but it made me the strong person I am today. After a while I got used to it, the same way that animals adapt to the environment around them, I adapted to mine.
So now here I am, doing what I love, with people I love and a story I'll never forget. (196/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #4
10/21
In my reading so far, Ann Patchett's life turns around when she lands her dream job in Province town, Massachusetts. She was thrilled and ready to finally move forward in her previously paused life, however telling her best friend who had also yearned for that job and didn't get it, would be somewhat difficult.
Ann's success in the job changes her life drastically. She went from working in a Friendly's restaurant, to staying in her room looking over the ocean typing away at her new novel. She ended up making tons of friends, getting a boyfriend and the chance to do what she loved for a living, rather that whatever she needed to in order to get by. Writing was what she loved and she was able to do that everyday no longer as a side job or elective, but as the thing she was meant to do in order to get money.
This is important in the book because it shows how one lucky acceptance or opportunity can help change a persons life for the better, making them closer to being the person they wanted to become. (129/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #3
10/14
The author behind this story, in my eyes, is trying to show her audience what really happens in life. She wrote HER story, it wasn't a sugar coated fairy tale where everyone lives happily ever after, or at least not yet. In the beginning of this section, Ann was working at a Friday's, waiting tables for her successful old high school friends and living with her mom. Sometimes it's important to move backwards in life before you can move forward, and I believed this is emphasized in Ann's story. Especially because after getting rejected by many of her dream jobs, she get to go work in Province town in Cape Cod and do what she likes best, write. Though her best friend and supposed to be partner-in-crime through this journey is across seas, she still manages to knock on every door there until she managed to find new friends and even a boyfriend.
Ann Patchett really finds a way to make her audience understand that no matter how unlike princesses we are, living as normal people, not everything is as bad as we think it will be. True love and friendship are real things too and very easily achieved. Even if you need some hope from the sugar coated fairy tales we all get introduced to as children, life doesn't always have to turn out completely opposite from the movie, who knows, I believe we all have a Prince Charming out there, and i believe that Ann Patchett know's that we do. (82/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #2
10/4
My book is an auto-biography, about Ann Patchett's life after college and so far just touches on her young adulthood. No debatable issues have come up so far. She's speaking of her time living with her friend Lucy, who has grown up through her cancer, and spent her entire childhood going through chemotherapy. Part of her jaw is missing and she spends a lot of their time together going to different surgeons trying to find away to fill in the missing pieces, of her face with the hopes it will fill in the missing pieces of her life. Ann, however, spends her days mostly trying to find good work, dealing with money, love and trying to make sure that Lucy is okay.
They live in a small town in Iowa and taught some local classes to get money to pay their rent. Shortly after the onset of the book, Ann falls in love and decides to move in with her boyfriend and leave Lucy alone. They go through a number of these changes in their life and friendship throughout the entire book, and learn to cope with the natural changes that occur throughout life. Nothing debatable has happened yet in this auto biography, yet the climax is barely arriving, and the story is bound to get more interesting as her life did while this was occurring for her. (58/257)
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Journal Entry #1
9/26
In my previous reads, weather for school or simply for personal pleasure, I've always found myself most interested in Adult, or Young-Adult Literature. Most of these books have ended up being fiction, but so far I'm enjoying the reality behind this non-fiction story.
When choosing what book to read to start off my year, I really wanted a book that could compare to one of my summer reading books, Looking For Alaska, by John Green, one of my all time favorite books. Just to my luck, my mom showed me Truth & Beauty, a story of two young adults, and how one lives her life after growing up with cancer, that happens to be very noticeable on her face. The story elaborates, from the friends perspective, on their day-day life and how they live around the constant reminder of her friends cancerous past. This sounded like a book that had similarities to my previous reads so I thought it would be a good book to read.
I can generalize that I enjoy reading books that center around young adults and how they manage to cope with their problems, and just the usual problems that come along with life. These books give me a sort of safety net for my own life, so when I go through these difficulties in my own life, maybe I'll
know how to deal with them, or learn how to live with them and continue on my life having been through them.
Reading a non-fiction book that has those same characteristics will be interesting for me. It'll no longer be someones imagination helping me cope with day- to- day problems, but it will be someones past, helping me with creating my future. (36/257)
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