Monday, June 3, 2013

Book 3


Fault in Our Stars was a book filled with useless information that made the book seem like you were living inside of it, it made you feel like you were the characters and you could see and think what they saw and thought. A dog’s purpose was a journey through the eyes of a dog. It's Very challenging to write from a point of view of a dog but the author made it work and it was a long and good example of personification. The Fifth wave was a challenge of survival the author’s writing purpose made you fear what the characters feared; it gave both perspectives of the alien invasion it had the silencer have a voice in the chaos that he caused.The survivors got to share their side of the story too and that made the book unique , most books only give you one side of the story.

Survival was a theme in all of these books, even with the different genres. Fault In Our Stars being realistic fiction, a Dogs Purpose as general fiction and The Fifth wave as being science fiction. All books are unique, but they share the theme of survival even though they all survived different things.  Fault In Our Stars focused on the survival of cancer, a very emotional sickness for many of the readers. It made you connect and made you have an idea of what it is like to have this sickness. It pin pointed that Gus and Hazel were not fighting cancer but themselves because they were the cancer. “Like, you are a familiar with the trope of the stoic and determined cancer victim who heroically fights her caner with inhuman strength and never complains or stops smiling even at the very end, etcetera” This is when Gus is talking to Hazel about her cancer and her survival and how she is strong even when she has cancer. A Dog’s Purpose was surviving a world that wasn’t designed for you as it is seen through the eyes of a dog he has many different names and gets to relive life."Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort” It shows that to survive you have to try. He doesn’t survive in his first life the big dog hurt him and they had to put him down. He gets to enjoy and experience things that he didn’t get to in the first life; he got those things in his second life. The Fifth Wave showed the theme of survival through an alien invasion and that caused people to flee and look for a safe haven. The aliens were one step ahead and knew that humans like to be together in herds they were a social species. The chaos that Cassie had to go through to survive and understand how she the world was now was different. She went through a struggle to survive this tragedy but for what? The author showed that you aren’t surviving if you don’t have a reason and her struggle is to survive and find a reason why when so many others took their own lives. ““you’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “ my twelve-year-old sister died in my arms. She choked to death on her own blood. And there was nothing I could do. It makes me sick, the way you act as if the worst disaster in human history somehow revolves around you. You’re not the only one who’s lost everything “Even after the world ends and Cassie and Evan are fighting about being selfish after the world is dead. To survive anywhere you have to be mentally strong and that shows a lot in the book.

Love is another theme found in the three books. Love is shown in Fault in our stars in many ways through the love of the parents and the love of Hazel and Gus. “Even when you die, I will still be your mom, Hazel. I won’t stop being your mom. “Have you stopped loving Gus?” I shook my head. “Well, then how could I stop loving you?” That highlights the love of everyone for each other and how they stay strong even through death and how love is unconditional. In A Dog’s Purpose love is shown between a best friend and his dog and how they could go through everything and they will always love each other “My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.” The Fifth wave had love after the world ended they found love to keep each other and they needed each other for company and to keep each other safe. “ I feel his kiss more intensely now, in the darkness of the room were his sister died,” Evan kissed her after they made up after the fight they had and it showed they cared for each other and had each other.
Fault In Our Stars : 5/5 Stars, for the style of writing and the plot line.
A Dogs Purpose : 3.5/5 Stars, for bieng a good book but not catching my attention as well as i would've liked
The Fifth Wave: 4/5 Stars , for bieng suspenseful and having more then one genre