Month: March 2023

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Rad Reading – February

This month, I read the book If I Ever Get Out Of Here is a 350 page book by Eric Gansworth. If I Ever Get Out Of Here is about an American Indian, named Lewis Blake who is dirt poor, gets bullied, and makes friends. Lewis has struggled to make friends in the past couple of years and has a feeble hope of finding any this year. He meets George Haddonfield, a boy from a military family who is also new to the school and they befriend each other. Whilst Lewis’ oldest friend Carson, switches between friend and antagonist with the Wedgie King, Evan Reinger who makes Lewis’ life miserable.

I enjoyed this book because there are many different music references. There are also many scenes that are funny and extremely entertaining. I watched him face his trials and grow to be a good kid. There was a lot of description, like similes, metaphors, and hyperboles which made it interesting.

George Haddonfield was my favorite character. George is kindhearted. He brought Lewis out into the world(away from their reservation) and took him to concerts, invited him to their house, hung out with him many times and gave him a multitude of gifts. He gave Lewis vinyl records to many of his favorite artists, mainly the Beatles. A quote to prove his kindness is, “Friends are always worth the moments of joy you share, even if they don’t last.”

My favorite quote is from chapter two, page nineteen. It says, “All this time, I thought I had been the problem, not my address.” Lewis becomes aware that some of his social struggles isn’t because of anything he’s done but because Native American.

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The Invisible Man

The possibilities are endless when you are invisible! The first thing I would do if I’m invisible is scare my family members. I have always loved to scare them to see how frightened their faces are when spooked. Although I hate being scared. I would stalk them(not in a weird way) and wait for the perfect opportunity to spook them, like when they get out of the car and boo! them, or to make creepy noises around them like creepy laughs when nobody‘s around. I would then sneak into a rollercoaster park and ride totally free! I would walk around to see the control rooms for each ride and see how they work. I would also get the arcade prizes because I have wanted to do them but thought that they are a waste of money and are rigged like the claw machine. I would catch a free ride via airplane to Dubai or the Pacific Northwest and look at the volcanoes because I haven’t travelled out of the country. But I have been to Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Florida, Oregon, Utah, and if you count flying over states, Texas, Louisiana, and Mexico. I think it would be really funny to just slap someone (not very hard)and have them wonder who it was. The last thing I would do is mess with a sporting event. If my favorite basketball team started losing I would just cause one of the opposing players to just “slip” and start losing because they were a star player.