Blog Reflection

Throughout the whole trimester is think the best blog post I did was the How Long can they Last post - http://ericgilenesreadingblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-long-can-they-last.html. In this post I think I did a very good job of analizing the text and making connections. I made a connection when saying "The first thing this made me think of was the Simpson's movie when the government put a dome over their town because of pollution." I also didnt just summarize the text instead I gave a breif overview then talked about what this would be like in real life and how the town would have to handle this to survive. I then ended by giving my opinion on the dome "The dome was going to be an ultimate test of how well the citizens of Chester's Mill could work together and for how long they could do it."

Next Trimester my goals for reading will be to get on a normal reading scheldule instead of reading a lot at a time. I would also like to improve upon my creative writing and using figuritve language in my writing. I am already pretty good at non-fictional writing and writing reports and research papers, its also really easy for me to write about history so I am taking APush next year and honors english so I can improve even more in my writing skills and analization skills. Overall I think I did a good job with the writing I did but I needed to be way more consistant.

Book Recommendation

I am nearing the end of the book Under the Dome and it is one of my most favorite books I have read. The entire time you are always trying to solve some mystery like how the dome got there and why its there. Stephen King did a very good job of making the book entertaining and interesting. Its cool to think of what would happen in real life if something like that happened there are so many possible ways it could turn out.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys mysteries, action, or science fiction. There were so many twist and turns that you never would have thought of which made me never be able to predict what would happen next. The TV series was quite different than the book which makes it interesting to see the different ways the director and author took the story. I'm glad I chose to read the book and I would  definitely recommend others to read it. 

Resources are Scarce

As the weeks go by resources are dwindling down and the citizens start getting protective. A week after the dome came down the store owners started only accepting food and other supplies instead of money, the restaurants all closed and saved the food for them. Big Jim went to the farmers and told them to give some of their crops to the town so they can feed everyone but some farmers refused and things of violent. They also started running low on water because normally they get their water from the next town over but they have had to use the towns well which had been drying up because there wasn't any rain since the dome came down.

In a desperate attempt to get the town food they got a group of men together and they attacked a farm to get food. After a lot of violence the farmer gave them some food, and then later the next day it finally rained and they collected water anyway they could. Unless someone can get better control of the town things can very easily get out of hand very quickly.

Well that escalated quickly

When i first started reading Under the Dome is pretty much was the same as the TV show but there are actually big differences. One of the main characters in the story for the TV series dies within one chapter of them being introduced in the book which really caught me off guard because I wasn't expecting that at all. Junior the boy who killed the character was talking to them but he has really bad headaches and was very agitated and when he got angry he killed them over pretty much nothing.

Other than some very obvious differences the characters in the book and TV series are very much alike in how they act. Big Jim is the antagonist and always wants to control everyone and Barbie the protagonist wants to help people. While Barbie is helping people there is a struggle for control over the town between Big Jim and Barbie. Most authoritarian figures were also not in town when the dome fell, the fire department was doing a training exercise in a neighboring town, the city council was gone in a neighboring town as well. The Cheif of police touched the dome and his peacemaker exploded leaving the town with no one to run it.