blog response 1 -conflict

ive gotten pretty far in the novel "Missing Person" and now what im mostly looking forward to find out is if the main character Carrie ever finds her lost mother. I think later in the story her soccer games are going to clash with her searching for her mother and make it hard for her to continue searching. I think Carrie may become grumpy and stressed out later in the story though because of her tendency to panic easily, especially before soccer games.

blog response 3 - symbolism

I like the colors that the author chose for the cover. She chose blue for the main color. i thought she chose a nice tone of blue. I thought the design for the cover was very generic though. On the front cover there was a picture of a young woman with a shocked look on her face and next to it was a smaller picture of a mother and her younger daughter. I thought it was just a little cheesy and predictable since the title of the book is called "Missing Person", but it still got the job done anywaywhich was to sell the book.

blog response 4 - conflict

I personally think that the intro of the book im reading sucks. I think the author of "Missing Person", Sally Pfoutz, could of done a better job with the hook. When i first started reading it i wasnt hooked at all, i had to force myself to read the book(or i might have just been sleepy). But later in the story it became interesting because things that i could relate started popping up. One example being the main character Carrie is on a sports team, which i used to be, and has lost her mother, which i could relate to too. I think that if an author really wants to pull an audience in all they really have to do is say something that they can relate to.

Did the actions of the characters seem plausible? Why? Why not?

Janie, after hearing her parents explation of her being their granddaughter has a lot on her mind. She can't sleep. Lack of appitite , more dreams. She wakes up and instead of going to school, skips school with Reeve. They take a road trip to New Jersey. The place she may have been kidnapped from. She locks in a phone book and finds an address for the family who's missing their daughter. As she gets to the address, school bussses are dropping off kids. She sees a set of twins, with hair the same red as hers! Another older boy withe the same hair gets off another bus. She's over come withe memories.I think under the cir cumtances her actions are right on the money

William Szczupak

The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney pg. 87 -117

Do the characters read the way you think you would in a similar situation ? Do you find their actions troubling? Are their actions consistent with their characters? If not, perhaps ask yourself if it is resonable for anyone to be expected to act consistently in character?

Janie is barely sixteen . A normal sixteen year old worries about boys,driving ,their friends, proms the usual. Janie has a whole new issue. Since finding the milk carton with the the polka dot dress, she has memories, day mares as she calls them. So much stress its more than a child can handle. Was I really Kid napped? Way am I remembering things? people? Who really are my parents? She talks with her best friend. Her parents have answers but everything still doesn't add up. She feels so strange in her own life.

William Szczupak

The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney pg. 47-87

As you read today, what surprised you? Explain how it changed you thinking about the stay

Janie's parents are confronted by her about a trunk she found in the attic .It contained school papers by a Hannah . Who's Hannah? Their answer for her is that Hannah was their daughter , making Janie their grand daughter . They tell a story , an emotional story . A story of how their sixteen year old got mixed up with the wrong people . A cult, hare Krishna . She joins the cult, disappears for years and shows up one day with a little girl. She wanted a better life for her daughter . The more Janie thinks about it, the more it don't make sense . Now her parents are looking guilty.

William Szczupak

blog response 5 - character

In the book im reading, "Missing Person" by Sally Pfoutz, I seem to be pulled by the main character Carrie who is trying to solve mystery of her mothers dissapearence . In the story she runs around frantically looking for her mother everywhere. To her though, it seems as if no one really cares. I can relate to this because my mother is in a similiar predicament. That is why i undrertand why she feels that no one cares. I think that sice everyone around is not enthusiastic as her about finding her mother she feels that they dont care.

my point of view

Mr.Stanley Yelnats was given a choice its was go to jail or he may go to camp green lake because stanley stole a pair of sneakers.The sneakers were clyde livingston a famous baseball player.The sneakers were for raiseing money for the homeless shelter.I think stanley did the right thing by going to the camp green lake then go to jail because I think stanley didnt do that bad of a thing to end up in jail.I think stanley wouldnt last 3 days in jail hes way to young and every one would mess with him if he would of went.
Do you think stanley made a good choice by picking camp green lake and not jail.
CORY MOSER

The Face On The Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney, page 1-46
Janie Johnson, a boring name.That's what Janie used to think about her name.a boring name, she tried changing it to up make it more interesting. As a usual boring day in school, Janie, lactose intolerant,couldn't drink milk .While eating her peanut butter sandwich she felt like one little sip . she picks up a milk carton belonging to her best friend, only to half a surprise . It was her face starring back at her off a milk carton. So now the name Jennie Spring, starts to set off memories, familiar yet strange. Was I kidnapped at the age of three. Are may parents, really my parents.

William Szczupak