Month: December 2022

If I was this school principal for a day, I wouldn’t like it very much because of so much to take care of, so much being reported, mysteries needing to be solved, and overall stress of the kids. However, I think some of the pros of being a principal would be having my own free will. I could go into whatever classroom, do whatever I want and roam campus without anyone to stop me. I could get kids in trouble which I think would be weirdly fun, but just because I know them and I could give them a bad or good punishment determining on them as a person and what they did. I would also know information about every student and have access to all the records, and I would be able to get all the information I need out of students. Another reason is I could make students clean. I could go up to a random area to make innocent students clean, or I could send everyone outside again to clean the campus which I think would be fun to watch instead of do. However, after a little while the students would bother me because they talk back, won’t listen, and aren’t scared so I would have a hard time. Overall, I don’t think I would be a good fit for a principal, but I think Mrs. Tanikawa is!

This month I read Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi. This book was extremely good and I will probably recommend it forever. A 17 year old girl named Juliette is placed in an asylum because of her crazy gift, and in the generation they’re in, the old, sick, orphaned, and crazy are mostly useless. But unlucky for Juliette, she can kill people with just her touch! However, one day, a boy named Adam is brought in as her cell mate. Immediately, Juliette is horrified. He stole her mattress, her bed, her space! But as it turns out, Adam isn’t who he seems and he’s really a soldier working for Warner. Warner is crazy, powerful, and obsessed with Juliette! However, there may be hope for who Adam truly is.

I LOVED this book because the author knew how to write all the correct scenes and keep the reader interested and wanting to read more. It had a combination of action, fantasy, love, and a crazy 19 year old who will do anything and I mean ANYTHING from getting shot, risking being killed by her magical touch, and being killed. He’ll do it all for his obsession with Juliette. This book had many different scene changes in the best way possible so the same old plot won’t bore you because after all, it’s just the first book. But that saying doesn’t apply to this book at all!

My favorite character was Juliette. One of the many reasons I liked her was because she was fearless, caring, and a little crazy in a good way. Warner, a powerful, feared man and leader of sector 45 would constantly try to boss her around since she was his hostage and obsession. But, if she didn’t agree with him or like something he did, she was quick to say she hates him, or when he prepared her a fancy dinner she didn’t give in and said she wasn’t hungry. When all of Warner’s soldiers had their guns pointed at her, she didn’t seem to care and still threaten Warner, which was quickly followed by Warner’s famous quote “Any one of you shoot her, and I’ll shoot you myself.”

My favorite quote was “It’s our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.” By the one and only Warner. I liked this quote because it’s meaningful and genuine advice, instead of a quote that has to do only with the book. This quote also shows how much his dad has negatively influenced him.

My throat was soothed. This lake was so refreshing, and cold too! “I should probably head back to my family.” I thought to myself. When all of a sudden, I saw it, I saw me! I yelled out, it smirked. “What-? Who-?” I began to question. But my feet acted before my words and thoughts and I was already off taking flight. I soared through the trees, avoided the logs so I wouldn’t trip, but soon enough my feet stopped and I flew. And when I turned around, it was right behind me! My evil twin! Destroying our habitat and I knew I would be blamed for it! Eventually I made it to a rock. My throat felt dry and like it was closing in on me, so pretty convenient that the river was right there. I drank and drank until finally, I felt good. I turned around slowly, wondering “Would he be there?” And I was correct. I had enough! We fought and fought and fought until eventually I saw my mom! “We caught dinner, you and your brother come home!” Oh no. It wasn’t my evil twin, but my brother. I cooled down and realized there was nothing to worry about, until I disappeared. Would I become an evil twin too?