Thursday, March 15, 2012
The Hunger Games
The title of this book is The Hunger Games and the author of The Hunger Games is Suzanne Collins its genre is fiction. The hunger games takes place after the destruction of North America in a nation known as Panem. Panem consists of a wealthy nation that is surrounded by 12 unwealthy districts, which we start in district 12. The main character is Katniss who is a 16 year old girl that lives in Panem, the other characters are Katniss’s sister, mom, Gale, and Peeta who Katniss knows only from school and who lives in a bakery. Once a place known as North America now lies the nation of Panem. Twelve districts outlying the cruel capitol. To remind the districts of their past they have to send one girl and one boy between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death. When twelve year old Prim is chosen for the tribute of District Twelve, Her older sister, Katniss takes her place. She has been close to death before, but with little hope and a promise to come home. The boy for district twelve was Peeta Mellark.
This would and wouldn't be a good book to read. It would be a good book for adults and teenagers to read but it wouldn't be a good book for little kids to read because it can be kinda gruesome when they are fighting in the arena. The beginning of the book is getting to know about Katniss and her sister and mom. There mom is not doing good. There mom got depressed when their dad died in an accident. Katniss likes to go out of the electric fence to go hunting. The electric fence is for protecting them from the wild animals. Then Katniss describes what the hunger games is and that she would have to enter her name more than once. When it comes time to pick the district twelve’s participants they call Prim, when Katniss hears that she doesn't want her sister in there so she volunteers herself instead of Prim. My favorite part of the book was when Katniss and Peeta enter on fire and when they announce that there can be two winners.
Monday, March 5, 2012
“THE SNOW STORM”
BY NICK BONNEMA
As I was walking from my house to my cousin Christian’s house in Colorado. it started to snow, we live about a mile away and I like to walk to his house. I was starting to get cold and wet, when all of a sudden I heared a semi horn blaring at me. I didn’t know what to do so I start to run, but, it keeped getting closer and closer to me when all of a sudden It passed, and when it passed I feel a sharp object on the tip of the semi and I went flying to the side because of the wind of the semi and I feel a warm liquid on my arm and I look down to see blood gushing out of my left arm and I feel a tingling sensation on my right arm. I lift my head up to the smell of something burning i look towards the semi and there is a big flame and a bunch of smoke pouring out from the semi. All I hear are tires squealing and people screaming and calling 911 because I am lying here not moving. Five minutes later I hear sirens from ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars. Then I hear a chopper land to take me to the hospital. but then the chopper takes off and I am still lying here. I heard a man say that I was going to be okay and everything will be fine. Two minutes after they hook ivies and more blood because “I was losing blood fast” says the doctor. They loaded me onto a gurney (which is a rolling bed) and roll me in the back of an ambulance to take me to the hospital. After I think, about five minutes we get to the hospital, then they get me out of the ambulance and wheel me in when I hear a voice tell me “Hi my name is Dr. McSuleeney and I will take care of you while you are here.” Then he starts to ask me all these questions like, “where are you from? What were you doing out in the blizzard today?” Then he said that they had to do surgery on my leg. So we get in the room and they rip my clothes off and put on a gown. Then they hooked me up to a thing to check my blood pressure. They start to wheel me into this other room to do the surgery. Then this girl started to talk to me so we talked and then I was out. They woke me up and they said that the surgery went well and that it took three hours to repair my leg, they said that I lost a lot of blood but I should be fine in an hour or 2. They explained that I was in the hospital and they said that I might have amnesia for a while but it should go away. Then my parents came and stayed for a while. They were talking to me when the doctor came in and asked “Do you have any pain”? and I said ”No I’m not having a lot of pain on my leg but my arm is feeling weird, but otherwise Ill be fine”. Then he said “I have to check on your leg to make sure that it is not bleeding and healing and getting better” I said. After about six days in the hospital they say that I can finally go home, and he said that I should stay in bed and rest. While I was laying in my bed, my cousin George came to see me. he asked “ How are you feeling” “I am feeling fine thanks for wondering”. “How are you your mom and your dad doing at your house”? “My parents are fine and our dogs are just fine”. “I was expecting you to come over when I got a call from your parents that said that you were in the hospital because you got hit in the arm and they said that in surgery they had to amputate your leg, so I came down as soon as I was done with school”. “WHAT?, I have an amputated leg, the doctor never told me that, and neither did my parents”. Then my parents came in and wandered why I was screaming. “Why are you screaming so bloody murder?” “Why didn’t you tell me that my leg was amputated?” “Because we knew that you would be mad and wouldn’t accept it.” “So now I have to live without a leg and can’t do all the stuff that I want like: soccer, basketball, and baseball.” “Well you can but you will have to get a fake leg in order to do all that.” Then they said that if I get one that I would have to be careful with it so it doesn’t break. “I’m not going to get one of those fake leg things.” “Well you either get a fake leg or you can’t do the stuff that you want.” “Fine I will get a fake leg but it is going to be hard to get used to it.” So I went to the doctor the next day and he gave me a choice on what leg I could have. I picked the one that I like the best and it will do good for when I do sports. Now after five years I can do everything that I used to.
BY NICK BONNEMA
As I was walking from my house to my cousin Christian’s house in Colorado. it started to snow, we live about a mile away and I like to walk to his house. I was starting to get cold and wet, when all of a sudden I heared a semi horn blaring at me. I didn’t know what to do so I start to run, but, it keeped getting closer and closer to me when all of a sudden It passed, and when it passed I feel a sharp object on the tip of the semi and I went flying to the side because of the wind of the semi and I feel a warm liquid on my arm and I look down to see blood gushing out of my left arm and I feel a tingling sensation on my right arm. I lift my head up to the smell of something burning i look towards the semi and there is a big flame and a bunch of smoke pouring out from the semi. All I hear are tires squealing and people screaming and calling 911 because I am lying here not moving. Five minutes later I hear sirens from ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars. Then I hear a chopper land to take me to the hospital. but then the chopper takes off and I am still lying here. I heard a man say that I was going to be okay and everything will be fine. Two minutes after they hook ivies and more blood because “I was losing blood fast” says the doctor. They loaded me onto a gurney (which is a rolling bed) and roll me in the back of an ambulance to take me to the hospital. After I think, about five minutes we get to the hospital, then they get me out of the ambulance and wheel me in when I hear a voice tell me “Hi my name is Dr. McSuleeney and I will take care of you while you are here.” Then he starts to ask me all these questions like, “where are you from? What were you doing out in the blizzard today?” Then he said that they had to do surgery on my leg. So we get in the room and they rip my clothes off and put on a gown. Then they hooked me up to a thing to check my blood pressure. They start to wheel me into this other room to do the surgery. Then this girl started to talk to me so we talked and then I was out. They woke me up and they said that the surgery went well and that it took three hours to repair my leg, they said that I lost a lot of blood but I should be fine in an hour or 2. They explained that I was in the hospital and they said that I might have amnesia for a while but it should go away. Then my parents came and stayed for a while. They were talking to me when the doctor came in and asked “Do you have any pain”? and I said ”No I’m not having a lot of pain on my leg but my arm is feeling weird, but otherwise Ill be fine”. Then he said “I have to check on your leg to make sure that it is not bleeding and healing and getting better” I said. After about six days in the hospital they say that I can finally go home, and he said that I should stay in bed and rest. While I was laying in my bed, my cousin George came to see me. he asked “ How are you feeling” “I am feeling fine thanks for wondering”. “How are you your mom and your dad doing at your house”? “My parents are fine and our dogs are just fine”. “I was expecting you to come over when I got a call from your parents that said that you were in the hospital because you got hit in the arm and they said that in surgery they had to amputate your leg, so I came down as soon as I was done with school”. “WHAT?, I have an amputated leg, the doctor never told me that, and neither did my parents”. Then my parents came in and wandered why I was screaming. “Why are you screaming so bloody murder?” “Why didn’t you tell me that my leg was amputated?” “Because we knew that you would be mad and wouldn’t accept it.” “So now I have to live without a leg and can’t do all the stuff that I want like: soccer, basketball, and baseball.” “Well you can but you will have to get a fake leg in order to do all that.” Then they said that if I get one that I would have to be careful with it so it doesn’t break. “I’m not going to get one of those fake leg things.” “Well you either get a fake leg or you can’t do the stuff that you want.” “Fine I will get a fake leg but it is going to be hard to get used to it.” So I went to the doctor the next day and he gave me a choice on what leg I could have. I picked the one that I like the best and it will do good for when I do sports. Now after five years I can do everything that I used to.
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