Thursday, October 23, 2008

RW Oct 23

What does your book or character remind you of...another movie? Another book? Something that really happened? Write about it using 10 vocab words!

14 comments:

Unknown said...

"The Ironman" reminds me of the book holes. The Main characters are both cantankerous. These characters both had some sort of bane but for opposite reasons. They both were lackluster. They only wished that their lives would mellifluous. Sure the kids in holes were digging all day in the desert because of his to many peccadillos. Bo from ironman acted like he had a syndrome of some sorts but idk wat. The judges didn’t in remand anything for Stanley. If he could of just got some kind of a nepotism to give to the judge. But Bo had a belief in hedonism. If Stanley didn’t give the judge any type of casuistry.

Unknown said...

The book "For One More Day" reminds me of what my grandma used to always tell me. When she was sick she would have aberrations and would always seem spaced out. When I asked her what was wrong she would tell me nothing, that she just saw her grandma like I would be able to see mine one day, all I would have to do was think of her and there she would be. Her bane never really caught us off guard but it more snuck up on us when none of us were around just like Chicks mothers death. Now and then when I just think about her I can hear her mellifluous voice in my mind telling me that one day I would see her again.

Unknown said...

My book, "The Other Boleyn Girl" reminds me of the movie The other Boylen Girl. Some of the characters in both the book and the movie makes me feel cantankerous. They both have this uncle who cannot do any peccadillos and always has to make everything he does big. His way of thinking could be a bane for anyone. He really does not show any nepotism towards any one family member though. Poor George Boleyn, Mary and Anne's brother, has to be the harbinger for everyone else. It is sad that nobody has any empathy for the queen, except for Mary in both the book and the movie. Mary is always described as melliflous, sweet, and often panders to those less fortunete than herself, which is true in both. To me the king always seems unaware and kind of lackluster. When he is bored with something or someone, he will just remand it and send for a different one. When watching the movie or reading the book, you can have an aberration from the world around you.

Anonymous said...

My book reminds me of something that happened to me. I have not gotten to the bane of any of the characters so i can still relate it to my life. I met a girl and started to like her but she had a boyfriend. So another one of my friends tryed to get the two of them to break up. My friend would use depredation and find ways to make the boyfriend seem cantankerous. I had empathy for the girl because i didnt want her to braek up with him if she truely liked him. Even though my friend knew i was malcontent about the subject his piccadillos still went on. Any time i was with this this girl i would remind her of my piece de resistance and pander her in every way possible. i would also speak in a very mellifluous manner to her. And my frined was the first to harbinger the news that they broke up to me.

Unknown said...

The main character in "The Listeners" reminds me of my friend Patrick back in Conroe. He was clever, but sometimes cantankerous and he never pandered to anyone. Still, you couldn't help but like him. His personality was not lackluster. The main character is about to quit his job in the FBI, but his superior is going to send him on one last "mission". He is very malcontent toward this idea. I know I have read a book that started like this,but I can't remember a title. I feel a little empathy for this guy. I wouldn't want to do a big job right before I were going to quit. The blurb on the back of the book harbingers a romance and I think that his alcoholism will be his bane. I think that there will be many pecadillos and someone will have and aberration. Perhaps his old boss.
-Jenica

Todd S. said...

My book reminds me of my Aunt Dee.First of all she hates aberration of any kind and has no empathy for anyone else's feelings. She also remands anyone who practices hedonism or anyone who doesn't pander to her wishes. She is cantankerous and hates nepotism of any kind. She is a wonderful foil to the story Dave Barry tells involving minor peccadilloes being blown way out of proportion and acting as harbingers of weird events. The piece de resistance of the articles involve the precise mathematically determined end of the world that never happened and he goes on and on about it and it is people like my Aunt who would believe in insane stories like that.

Unknown said...

my book is the plague maker. the main character donovan reminds me of the typical fbi agent in every cops movie. the chinese englishman reminds me of mr. meeogy from the karate kid series. aberration,ad hoc,bane,bathos,cantankerous-all words i must use in this blog. however donovan seems to be a little bit more intelligient than most typical hollywood fbi agents. he seems to want to really find the killer of the man eaten by asain rat fleas. syndrome,remand,piece de resistance,pecadillo,pander-also words i must try to cram into wierd spots in this short paragraph blog. "Li" (mr. meeogy) seems like he is the typical, white-bearded, intelligient, master of karate asian man who sits back and observes the world.

Unknown said...

The Things They Carried reminds me of the movie Platoon. It might just be the atmosphere of the book and movie. They are both about the vietnam war. The two definatley are not lackluster. I can make a connection with charachters from the movie and book. It seems like the movie was written about the book but it was not. Alot of the bane in each peice is the same. Each peice shows a small sense of aberation. My feeling torwards the book and movie are the same. I show empathy for the charachters in each. Each of the peices has its own mood and is definatley not mellifluous. THe movie seems to be more malcontent with the book. I like the book better. One of the charachter in the movie had an peccadillo i did not like. The men in the movie and book did not shoe any signs of hedonism. The movie is most like the book in there is alot of depredation within the two armies. I definatley saw at lest one cantankerous charachter in each. Every time i read my book it makes me think of that movie.

Anonymous said...

The main character in my book reminds me of Meredith Grey on Grey's anatomy. Both of them complain a lot. They both can be very lackluster at times and sometimes act with aberration. I think they both would be cantankerous at times as well as acting mellifluous when they want something. They both seem like they would offer a lot of empathy. I would consider them both to be a malcontent in some situations. I think they are both good people but they are guilty of a few peccadilloes here and there. I think they both have even shown a syndrome that could indicate depression at times. they're never pleased and whine a lot. Casuistry is put into consideration when a problem arises in both cases.

Anonymous said...

Today I continued reading the Things They Carried. I feel like Vietnam is a place where aberration thrives. This book reminds me of The Dirty Dozen because of all the cantankerous men. It was also similar in that fact that ad hoc planes happened a lot. The bane for curt Lemon it was playing a game with smoke grenades. Curt’s best friend Rat Kiley inflected an act of depredation upon a baby water buffalo. The de facto for this was Rat Kiley's anger over his best friends death. In the Dirty Dozen they livered there life in a hedonism similar to that of the men from the Things They Carried. Rat Kiley was suffering from losing a friend syndrome. The soldiers that witnessed the killing might have thought it was an act of peccadillo but no one said a word. By saying nothing his fellow soldiers pandered to his level.

Unknown said...

I'm reading more of The Things They Carried. The main character reminds me of a regular American soldier. The war has a get impact on their lives. They read letters from loved ones to get themselves through the day. They experience awful things daily. After Lavender was killed, Cross went into aberration. Burning Martha's letters was ad hoc; he wanted to forget about her. He felt that he was the bane of Lavender's death, and he will always carry that with him. After this all happened, Cross was cantankerous with himself. He was always in casuistry. He always wondered if Martha's love was de facto. They experienced depredation on their enemy. Their families has great empathy for their loved ones at war. Some soldiers were lackluster on purpose, to try to forget about the war. They hoped that after the war, their home lives would be mellifluous.

!!Jee*Soo*Choi!! said...

My book "World War Z" did not mean anything to begin with. It started off lackluster because of the cantankerous people that it involved. The thing that got my mind jogging to the beat was the amount of bane the stories carried.

There was empathy that the reader must understand simply because everything is first person talking. Also hedonism is not a huge belief in this book. The series of stories aren't very mellifluous, they have some horror in them. In some of the plots the citizens are the piece de resistance. The zombies' have many syndromes that indicate their sickness. This book reminds me of all the zombie movies out like "28 Days Later" and some of the other ones out there that there s depredation of the not infected people.

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Anonymous said...

I read the book "Night" by Elie Weisel. It started out to be a great book. I think I might have already read it. I just dont remember it. In the beginning the ghettos became de facto when the gestapo take control of the Jews. Elie was a hedonism for the Jewish bible and his customs but his father wouldn't let him practice them until he was older. Moshe the Beatle was Elie's mentor for a long time but became cantankerous after he came back from being taken by the Germans when he saw how Jews were starting to be killed and slaughtered. Elie felt empathy for Moshe but he couldn't believe him. No one did.