Death is Inevitable

            In King of the Mild Frontier Chris’s grandfather passed away. This showed Chris that death is very inevitable. Then when Eddie Breidenbach Chris started to think that he could go to heaven any day. Chris thought about it even more when he saw a very little boy’s picture in the news paper because the boy was his age and had passed away.  Chris just felt very bad about these deaths that had occurred and couldn’t stop thinking about it. Chris had a dream that him and his grandpa were sledding then towards the end of his dream when Chris was about to wake up his grandpa left and went back to heaven. This made Chris really think about his grandpa.

            Just like Chris my grandpa died. I was older than Chris but it is hard either way. Just like Chris I was very close to my grandfather. He was probably the closest I was to anyone in the family. He gave me the confidence that I could do anything. Just like Chris I had weird thoughts. One is the night of his funeral I kept seeing his face in the moon at night. This just reminded me of how special he was to me. Also how death is inevitable. Death is going to happen sooner or later it is just a matter of time. But at the end of the day there are going to be people that care about you so much. Also when you die yes people are said but people are going to celebrate your life and what you have done for them and everyone else.

Something Neat

           In King of the Mild Frontier Chris's brother and Eddie Young got Chris to do "something neat". This was always something that Chris's brother wanted to do but never wanted to get in trouble for it, so he would convince Chris to do it. Some of these instances were to pee on the furnace to make the whole house smell like pee. Then the worst instance was when they wanted Chris to run naked at the bottom of a hill and they would shoot at him from the top of the hill with a BB gun. This wasn’t there best plan. Every time they wanted Chris to do something neat they would always tell him we won’t tell. This time they had to tell their parents because they hit Chris and he was bleeding. Chris never did “something neat” ever again.

This reminds me of something that my friends wanted me to do. This thing was to ding dong ditch someone’s house. They kept telling me it will be funny and all this stuff. Unlike Chris I didn’t fall into their peer pressure. I didn’t do it and I kept telling them that it would be wrong. Also I told them that we would get into trouble for it. They agreed and none of them did it. If I was Chris I would’ve told them not to and hopefully they wouldn’t have. Or I just would’ve said no and left the situation.

  

Big Bawlbaby

In King Of The Mild Frontier Chris, main character, was a very big cry baby when he was a child. He would cry over everything. He would cry about the silliest stuff. He cried when the New York Yankees lost the World Series. He would cry when anyone hit him, and when he couldn’t go somewhere he wanted too. This eventually stopped but it went on until he was almost a teenager. This reminds me a lot of myself when I was younger.

I also would cry over a lot of things when I was younger. I don’t think I had a temper as much as Chris but I sure did have one. I guess you can say I was one longer than Chris. The reason for that is last year during eighth grade after every game we lost I would cry because my competitive spirit let out of me. I guess this isn’t too bad because I see college and even pro athletes that cry after they lose something. Like Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat. If anyone was watching that game you saw that he could barely get to the locker room because he broke down because they lost. But there are other cases like when I was a lot younger I would cry when I didn’t get what I want. Say I didn’t like what we were having to eat that night then I would cry to let my parents know I didn’t like it. So I guess that Chris and I were very alike in this case.

Temper

     

In King of the Mild Frontier Chris, the main character had a temper problem when he was a child. He let it get the best of him quite a bit. There were many occurrences when his temper showed. One time was when he broke the mirror in his bathroom. Or the time when he hit his head on the bathtub out of anger. This really truly showed that his temper was very bad.  Also his parents really let him know that his temper was very bad. Such as when he broke the mirror they didn’t replace it to remind him of his temper. He also says in the book that his temper is still some what bad, but not as bad.

My temper wasn’t as bad as Chris’, but still pretty bad. One time on vacation I had what I think is the worst outburst I had ever had. We were in Florida on our fifth day day of vacation and the plan was to go to Disney World one last day. My brother was old enough at the time where he could take me on his own. Well there was a problem. Him and I had been fighting all day, and it got to the point neither of us wanted to go to the park. Well let me clear that up we wanted to go just not with each other. My temper was so bad that I was throwing things in the car, and the car was a rental. My parents were a lot like Chris’. They told me that we could just go home and I didn’t want to that obviously we were in Florida! So I ended up straitening up and we went the park and it ended up being the best day we had all week.

Intorduction to new book

     My last blog over Reality Check went very well. My teacher gave me a grade of 98 out of 100. Ont thing that went well in my first blog was that it was very well organized. It was easy to read and see that everything was there. All of my post were very infomanitve and has the right information and more, I could of done one thing better and that was check my gramical errors. There weren't many put that is where I got points off. I have one major goal for my second blog assingment and that is to get as good or better of a grade i did on the first one. Overall my first blog went awesome and I'm looking foward to this next blog.
     Overall I really enjoy blogging. I like that we can tell basically the world about are opinion on anything. Of course for school we have to blog about the book we are reading but I think i will continue blogging about something that intrests me. Maybe basketball or another sport i enjoy. The blog assingment that we have been doing is really fun too. Most people think of blogging as a ton of paragraphs about something that might not even intrest them. But what I have found out that it isn't just that. We have done a lot of different things, insert pictures, a music piece to repersent our story, even a video to summarize our book. I'd much rather have a blog then write essays.
     I'm about to start blogging over a new book called King of The Mild Frontier. This book is by Chris Crutcher. I have only read the first couple of pages. The book seems like it is going to be very good. It has already had a lot of humor in the book. I look foward to blogging about this book. It seems like it is going to be a good book to blog about, a lot to talk about. I'm truly excited to read the King of The Mild Frontier.

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Five Literary Elements

There are many examples of Lierary Elements in Reality Check, here are a few.

Setting - the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation occurs.

The time of the story is present day. The main place the story takes place is North Dover, Vermount. That is where Clea got lost and where she was going to school at the time. " At 1:07 - Cody noted the exact time- he drove into North Dover, the most beautiful of all."

Protagonist - A protagonist is considered to be the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem. 

The protagonist in Reality Check is Cody. He is a football star, then he tears his acl and it ruins his whole life. He drops out of school and breaks up with his girlfriend, everything was going wrong for Cody. Then he sees in the paper that his ex girlfriend Clea is lost and he went to where she was saved her.
" Cody and Clea sat together, the armrest pushed back, sharing a blanket. They slept the whole way."

Antagonist -  a character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character, or protagonist, in some way.

The antagonist in Reality Check are Big Len and Orton. They capture Clea and then they also capture Cody. At the end of the book they thretan to kill them and make up a story to say why it happened.
" Orton, gun still pointed at Cody, moved sideways, closer to the rear of the car."

Rising Action - a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

 

The rising action in Reality Check is when Cody also gets captured. This is the rising action because Cody can now save Clea, because they are at the same place.

" He called out, " Clea!" Or tried to; they'd taped his mouth shut too, muffling the Clea sound down to something between a grunt and a groan.

"Cody?""

 

Climax -  a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.

 

The climax in Reality Check is the face-off between Cody, Clea, Big Len, and Orton. This is the climax because this is when they escape and are safe.

 

" Cody drove for the gun. Big Len hit him witht he spade while he was in midair, a tremendous blow that knocked the wind out of him."