Icefall

Pages: 114-207
Prompt: If the author were here, what would you say and ask him/her?

What would I ask the author?  That's easy.  I wold ask him why he decided to call the book Icefall.  From what I have read so far, there aren't anything about the title.  I suppose that the ice is melting away but it is not falling in any manner.  In the cover of the book there appears to be a hammer striking ice.  Perhaps this hammer is called "The Icefall" or something like that.  From what I have read, the title does not fit the story. It may at the end, but I don't see it making sense anytime soon.

Another thing I would ask the author would be, why he chose the setting.  I think it is a good setting, but I just want to know why he choose that particular cave in the mountain.   Why not send the characters over seas, or beneath ground closer the the kingdom?  The cave is very secluded, so it makes sense to send them there because no one would ever find the royal family.  That makes an even bigger problem because they would not be able to receive supplies.

The last thing I would ask the author would be why are the berserkers be considered outcasts?  They are the nations strongest and most ferocious warriors!  Surely they have nothing strange about them.  Since they are so strong, many people could fear them.  Perhaps the people were just scared that something was going to happen to them if they made the berserkers upset.

 

AOW Impressions 2/20

What many people seemed to focus on was the ISIS beheadings and or what Egypt did in response.  What seems to be in most of those articles though, is that ISIS is spreading and becoming more a serious problem.  During the early days of ISIS they would only do maybe one or two beheading at a time, now we see them doing group killings.  This problem is only growing, and we need to stop it before we see more countries than in the middle east having these problems.

We now know that some of ISIS is stationed in Libya, which is only a boat ride away from Rome/Europe.  Like I said before, this problem is only going to spread and get bigger.  We see them growing at an exponential rate which we have not yet been able to gain control of.  We must stop this here and now before too many more lives are lost, and we can only blame ourselves for not acting sooner.

Icefall 2/19/15

Prompt: Do you like what you’re reading? Why or why not?

I do like what I am reading because of three aspects that really help build the book up.  The first thing that I think really makes this a good book is how the story progresses.  The story does not progress too fast or too slow.  They bring up parts that have been in previous chapters so we know what is going on, and they progress from those parts.  The author keeps the story moving along at a good pace so it is easy to keep track of what each character is doing and or thinking.

Another thing that I think helps build up the story is the suspense.  It uses this to force the reader to keep wanting to read the book, because they want to find out who the traitor is.  This helps build up the book because it gives it a more interesting plot.  With the development of the plot, the suspense thickens along with the desire to figure out who is the mysterious traitor who s sabotaging their means of living.

The last thing I m going to talk about are the characters.  The characters personalities really help get the plot further along.  All of them at time to time act suspicious, which really makes it interesting when someone plays detective and ties to blame them for being the traitor.  Little by little people are cleared of suspicion and everyone seems to always find someone new to blame.

Reflection Blog

For what I have done so far, I think it's pretty good.  Sure, we do not have any posts on our blog, but we set it up in 2 days.  Nadrian, Reese, and I are now figuring out who does what show.  Other than that, we just need to do some extra decorating to make it look really cool!  What I was doing before, is the effects of CO2 and why we could do to help stop the execs amount of it.  I decided to do a different thing instead simply because I got bored, and was not being very productive at all.  What I am going to do with my current blog for my Passion Project, is wait a few week before putting it up places so we could have more materials.

12/15 Late Blog: Icefall

Prompt: List at least three problems the characters faced? Which was the most life

changing? Explain

     Solvieg seems to face many challenges that the group as a whole needs to overcome for them to last the whole war.  They all seems to stem out from a long list of trust issues.   They all seem to be getting onto each other nerves and they all are throwing accusations at each other.  Better yet, these accusations are based on nothing but suspicion, which of course, make everyone mad when it is they who is being accused.

     They all know that someone in their midst is a traitor, they just have yet to find out who that is.  Some of the problems that they have faced are the loss of their cows, their guard being poisoned, and Solvieg's goat Hilda was killed by one of the guard for food.  With their cows gone, they no longer have a supply of drink which is milk.  With their guard poisoned, they are all able to be attacked with virtually no defenses.  The goat dying takes a huge toll on Solvieg.

  I think the biggest problem that they faced is Hilda dying.   Not only did Solvieg feel extremely sad and depressed for awhile, it also had huge affects on the rest of the people in the cave.  Once the goat is eaten, all the people who ate is fell sick.  It was poisoned to the traitor.  One berserker has already died from it, and there are still many who we have yet to see their fate.

House Of Hades Book Talk

     House Of Hades is a fantasy book written by Rick Riordan

     This book takes place in multiple places in Europe and in the Underworld.  Two of the main characters, Percy(son of Poseidon) and Annabeth(daughter of Athena) fall into the Underworld while trying to retrieve a item of power for the godess Athena.  They fall into a crevice that opened from the Underworld.  They need to make it to the exit the same time their friends make it to the entrance or they cannot cross through to the other side.  Think of it as a portal that needs to be opened from both sides instead of one.  Both sides make their way through the perilous land, to extract Percy and Annabeth.  The mood is both a funny and serious one, and the theme is never give up, because both sides had to endure life threatening challenges.

I really liked this book simply because it was very exciting, and because there are so many ties to the previous ones.  I remember most about this book is all the characters hardships that the characters had to endure.  I would recommend this book to all middle schoolers because it is challenging, but not too challenging.  I think you would want to go out a get this book because it is a really good book, and it's just plain awesome.  That's it.  It's just awesome.