Deepest Childhood Book: The Velveteen Rabbit

This was a story when at one point in my life I hate to read and only picked this book because of the cute rabbit and pictures in it. Though after reading the book I felt a feeling that my younger self didn’t understand which was now sadness. The book was mainly a boy got a toy rabbit for Christmas and through the story the boy and rabbit were always together. Then one day the boy got sick and the boy’s doctor said that any toys which were with the boy be burned. When the toy rabbit heard this he cried, then a fairy came and granted him with a wish to be real rabbit. After that the rabbit came and saw the boy again, though when the boy saw him he said he looked just like his old toy rabbit which he thought was lost. That’s how the story ends, in turn left me and other children sad and in tears.

There where many lessons and morals in this story. In my own interpreation I though this taught kids on how to handle separation. In the story near the end is where the message was really strong and it applies to all of life tough good bye. Even though the toy rabbit was sad to leave the boy, he was granted to be a real rabbit for this tough good bye. You can say it’s like saying good bye to your lover and even though its tough with all the memoirs you have together. Though with time you heal and find someone or something to make you heal. This is certainly a book I would read to my kids to teach good morals. 

Video of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUEYHrnxYyI

My Favorite Book from Best Sellers

My favorite book is Divergent, or the main character Tris. The main reason why I like the book is that it’s very different from what I usually read. The dystopian genre which is popular now of days is’t my type of read. The reason is that typical it is that in those books it seem to follow the same plot and in the end it’s sad ending and happy. Though I like those ending in other genres but dystopian it doesn’t seem to grab me. 

So when I was placed in my group to read it, me being an open person to everything that includes books. I did and to my surprise it was enjoyable and made me rethink about lead female character. Tris is different from your average lead one which are either too girly or to much acting like a guy. That in the end they seem less realist and more unreliable. Though Tris seem to a good mixture of both types and it seems like a teenage trying to find who she is. A good quote was 

“Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me.

But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.”  

“People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.”

I can relate to this quote a lot and she is so reliable and she seems to be the person I want to be. She has courage and confidence to do what she did, leaving her family, going through hazing in her faction. I believe she is a good role model to show what really going in the world in teenagers. 

Here my group video trailer we made in that class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAXPiwjWDzQ&feature=player_embedded