Freshmen,
Please respond to the prompt below to receive credit for your outside reading. Your response should be roughly 150-250 words. This is due by Monday, December 7th.
In many works of literature, there is a character who serves as a voice of reason. This character is someone who offers advice, who tries to lead someone else in the right direction, or tries to help another character overcome his problems. The voice of reason may or may not be heeded by other characters, and may be a friend, a teacher, a mentor, a classmate, or even a character's own conscience.
Choose the character from your book that best fits the definition of a "voice of reason." Explain how he/she fills this role by discussing 2-3 specific examples from your book. You may discuss more than one character if necessary.
Make sure you include the title and author of your book. Also, include your name and class period at the end of your entry.
Thanks!!
M. Lambert
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I read The Smile, by Donna Jo Napoli. It’s a fictional story set in Italy around the 1400s. The main character, Elisabetta, is an Italian noble girl. Through her we are introduced to Florence's colorful nobility, some of whom truly lived during this time period. Elisabetta becomes a fast friend of Leonardo Da Vinci after meeting him at a funeral in Florence. Leonardo is already famous for his paintings at this point, and Lisa eventually becomes the subject of The Monna Lisa, hence the title.
The Medici Family is a real Florentine family that practically ruled Florence in the 1400s. Elisabetta meets Guiliano Medici, the youngest brother, at his father's funeral. Guiliano is a voice of reason. He knows that Piero, his eldest brother who is now the highest noble in Florence, is a fool and will bring the town to catastrophe. Guiliano has tried to reason with his brother, but is ignored. He also advices Lisa when her mother dies. He convinces her not to play the blame game and helps her cope.
Elisabetta's mother died and her father takes another wife within a year of her death. Because of this timing and because Elisabetta loved her mother, she is not fond of her new stepmother. But Caterina's honesty and amiable character eventually win over Elisabetta. Caterina is another voice of reason in this book and her friendship with Elisabetta helps lead the young girl in the right direction. She convinces Elisabetta to marry a widower, Francesco, who already has a child that Lisa loves. Elisabetta never wanted to marry a widower, but Caterina helps her see the reason in it and the marriage is arranged. Caterina also helped Elisabetta plan her coming out party. Lisa wanted it to be in the country, but Caterina knows that few nobles would make the trip. She convinces the girl that a city party is more appropriate.
Caterina and Guiliano are both sage advisors to Elisabetta. Their influence helps the child grow up appropriately and succeed in this tumultuous renaissance time.
Jordan Finizio 3rd period
(sorry its so long)
I read The Pact, by Jodie Picoult. This is a story that Picoult wrote based of off a life story. Before becoming a writer, she was a junior high english teacher. She asked the children to write journal entries, she noticed that one child(a girl) would always write about dark, evil, and death. She had her own investigation and concluded that the child was suicidal. She tried her best to help the child, but even therapy didn't treat her. After becoming a writer she decided to write a book based on this child but add a few twists to it.
The Pact is about two teenagers, Chris Harte and Emily Gold. They are two neighbors that have grown up together and their parents are best friends. They are also best friends, but in high school their friendship blossoms into a relationship. Every one suspected that this would happen. Emily and Chris grow up in happiness, wealth, and are both very intelligent. No one would suspect Emily to be suicidal. It was senior year, she kept hinting to Chris that she was upset, she couldn't focus, and she could see herself in ten years, but she didn't know how to get there. She pleads with Chris a few times to let her kill herself. Chris thinks this is just a stage and that Emily will grow out of it, but sadly she doesn't. Chris is the voice of reason in this novel. He leads Emily in the right path, giving her things to do so she won't think about killing herself.
Things start to get more intimate between the two teenagers. Chris thinks that this will get Emily's mind of of suicide, but it just leads her to think about it more. She doesn't like to think about Chris in a romantic way, she likes him as a brotherly figure. She doesn't want to break Chris's heart, or let down her parents. So, she decides the only way to get out of this is suicide.
Chris pleads with her, trying to convince her that he will stay with her through college if she just doesn't kill herself.
Sometimes, the voice of reason doesn't win in novels or in reality. Thats what happens in this novel. It is epic that in the end Chris kills Emily because she is so depressed. It is not in a homicide, she asks him to kill her. So she sits in his lap and puts her hand around his as he shoots the gun.
This story is sad, it tells us that good should always try to convince bad out of harm's way, but good does not always win.
Kimia Movahed
First Period
I read The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. There was five people who served as a voice of reason to Eddie. Eddie died saving a child from a broken amusement ride. He lead a good life but he doesn't realize it until he dies and goes to heaven. His life basically ended when his wife,Marguerite, died. The first person Eddie meets is the Blue Man. He taught Eddie that everyone on Earth is connected. Eddie could remember seeing him in the freak show in the amusement park where he grew up; but he didn't understand what it had to do with him. The Blue Man was killed by Eddie and his friends on accident when they were on the road playing baseball. The Blue Man swerved to avoid hitting them, which caused him to have a heart attack and die. His lesson was important to Eddie, because it opened him up to the world he had been avoiding. The second person was the Captain. This brought Eddie back to his days in the war. The captain taught Eddie sacrifice. He said that he was willing to sacrifice for his troops and he showed Eddie his death. The Captain was killed by a bomb, and the vivid scene was enough to make Eddie apoligize for his selfishness. The third person Eddie meets in heaven is Ruby. She tells Eddie of how Ruby Pier was named and founded. Her beloved husband built it for her but it only caused grief; and this was her lesson to Eddie. She reminded him that his Father did love him but put anger in the way of his love. She shows him the night his Father died, and told him he died a good man. The fourth person Eddie meets is Marguerite who tells him that their love will never end although life may. She brings back the memories of their love and opens his heart again. The fifth and final person is Tala. She was the little girl he couldn't save in the war. She tells him that his purpose was to keep children safe. She also tells him that he saved the girl from the falling ride the day he died. Eddie learned a lot from these people, and finally understood the real meaning of "Eddie Maintenance".
Heather West
Third Period
This grading period I read The Five People You meet in Heaven. It is about an old man, Eddie, who dies saving a childs life in a roller coaster accident. In heaven he meets five people that will teach him lessons in life. Some of the people he meets he barely even knows, but they still know who he is very much. The first person was the blue man that worked in the carnival. The second was his army captain who died by a bombing while trying to save eddie. The third was Ruby who the Ruby Pier carnival was named after. The fourth person was Maugerette who said that their love will be forever. The last one was Tala a little girl that Eddie tryed to save but failed. These people hlped Eddie understand life in a better way, an what his job really is.
I read My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. This book is about Anna Fitzgerald, created to save her older sister Kate. Kate has a rare type of cancer called acute promyeolytic leukemia. When her parents find out about the cancer, Kate is very young. The doctors say that unless she finds a perfect donor match, her chances of survival are small. So, the Fitzgerald’s doctor “creates” a donor, Anna. Over the past 13 years, Anna has donated bone marrow, blood, and more for Kate without ever being asked if she wanted to. When Kate is 16, her kidneys begin to fail, and the Fitzgeralds expect Anna to donate a kidney. Anna hires a lawyer to sue her parents for medical emancipation, but no one knows the real reason behind her case.
The voice of reason in this book is Julia Romano. The judge assigns her to be Anna’s guardian ad litem to be sure the parents are not influencing Anna and her decisions. As the guardian ad litem, Julia learns about Anna and her family. She informally interviews the parents, Kate, and the older brother, Jesse. Julia advises Anna and tries to lead her in her own direction, not that of Mrs. Fitzgerald. At the courthouse, Julia informs the court of what she learned about the family and her opinion on the possible emancipation. Julia is undecided and tells the judge so, but she served as a confidant for Anna throughout the book.
Mary Scott Manning
4th Period English
I read Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman. This novel is about an average teenager named Vince Luca whose father happens to be the boss of the mafia. You could say that Vince is the “voice of reason” because no matter how hard Vince’s father tries to get him to join the “vending machine business,” he still resists because he knows it’s wrong. Sure, Vince thinks it would be nice to get rich without working hard, but who doesn’t? But his fight to be civilized and away from the hectic family atmosphere makes him stronger than his family gives him credit for. An example of how he is strong is when his father goes out at 2:00 A.M. to “fix a vending machine,” he keeps calm and doesn’t express how he really feels on the inside. Vince shows courage because he is able to deal with the pressers of keeping the family secret under wraps and that is why I think he is the voice of reason in this thrilling novel.
Caroline Austin, 1st prd.
I read the book Snakehead, by Anthony Horowitz. This is an adventure novel about a teenage spy named Alex Rider. I would say the voice of reason in this book would be his godfather Ash. During Their missoins Ash is always trying to look out Alex and make sure he dosent do anything stupid. While they are undercover Ash does all he can do to protect him. He also teaches Alex how to survive in nasty situations.He also tells Alex about his parents who died in a plane crash because he was a life long friend of them. I think Ash is the voice of reason because he is experienced and does all he can to protect Alex
I read Someone Like You, by Sarah Dessen, which is about two best friends, Scarlett and Halley, that need each other more than they ever realized. Scarlett's boyfriend died in a motorcycle accident right before she finds out that she is pregnant. Halley must help her friend through his time of coping with loss and the decision of whether to keep what she has left of her boyfriend. With Halley's support, Scarlett is confident when she decides to keep her baby, although her mother strongly objects. During Scarlett’s pregnancy, Halley becomes very close to someone named Macon, but she doesn’t always feel comfortable going out with him while leaving Scarlett alone while her mother goes out. Halley’s parents find out about her relationship and do not approve of it. She has to decide whether she should continue to go out with Macon, or keep her family’s trust and respect for her. While fighting with her own conscience, she decides that she must end her relationship in order to stay strong for Scarlett, her family, and most of all herself.
I read Eragon, by Christopher Paloni. The main character Eragon is a boy who lives with his poor uncle. He helps provide food by hunting. One day when he was hunting he came across a dragon egg. This changed his life forever he meets an ex dragon rider named Brom who tells him how to take care of the dragon. They come up with the name saphira for the dragon. Then one day two suspisous people come to town and eragon hears them questioning someone asking where he is. The next thing eragon knows sapharia comes flying from the sky and picks up eragon to try to save him. When they return to his uncles house they find him dead and eragon gets very upset with saphira and tells her to leave. Brom then comes and tells eragon they have to leave immediatly before the people that killed his uncle return. When they are running from the them brom is trying to teach eragon how to fight with a sword and use magic. During the first half of the book this continues with brom training eragon how to be a dragon rider.
The book I read for my outside reading is Crazy For the Storm, by Norman Ollestad. The main character that was the voice of reason would be Norman's dad. In the book he showed Norman the way of life and how to get through the toughest of obstacles that later saved his life and took his dad's, his dad's girlfriend's and their pilots life away in a plane crash. Norman's dad was always there for him and helped him with his problems. The first would be giving him confidence in whatever he did so he would be the best at it like hockey, surfing, and skiing. The second would be that he would take him through Mexico and showed him how some of the people would live there and they got stuck in a rain storm and had to live there and had to live in very harsh conditions. The last would be to never give up in what you were going to do and that ended up saving his life. Hunter Brizes 3rd period.
I read Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer. This is the third story written in the Twilight saga, the one that sums Twilight and New Moon up so people will understad them better. Eclipse still continues the drama of Bella and Edward. The problem they are having so far is that Bella would like to become and vampire but Edward doesn't know what people will think about that and doesn't want Bella's family to think bad about him if he does that to her. Edward's family all agrees that she should become a vampire but Edward does not want her too. Edward proposes to Bella and claims that he is so in love with her and will always be, Bella doesn't know what to think because of the werewolf Jacob Black, they shared a kiss and she found out that she was in love with him too. Bella and Edward think about telling Bella's father about the engagement but are not sure yet.
Alice is Edwards sister and Bella's best friend, they are very close and Bella tells her everything. Bella can talk to Alice about anything and she will always lead her into the right direction no matter what. Bella tells Alice about how she wants to be a vampire but also how she wants Jacob Black at the same time. Alice lets Bella know that if she wants to be a vampire then she can not have anything to do with Jacob Black because vampires and werewolfs do not get along at all, this really make Bella think about what she is doing and wonder if she really believes everything Alice is telling her.
I read Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer. This is a non fiction story based on a young man’s journey across the country, all the way to Alaska, that is given from different points of view. The character Ron Franz in the story really plays the closest role to the voice of reason. Throughout the book, he is the main character, Chris McCandless’s, closest companion. During Chris’s travels, Franz arranges to pick him up no matter how far away he is. Franz has supplies given to him and offers advice for living in the wilderness, really playing the father role during this stage in Chris’s life. Franz himself is also affected by becoming close to McCandless. He learns to appreciate the outdoors and to rely more on Nature for his need, better understanding what it feels like to be happy. Through their relationship, Franz and McCandless’s both learned a lot about each other and became better people.
I read Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer. This is a non fiction story based on a young man’s journey across the country, all the way to Alaska, that is given from different points of view. The character Ron Franz in the story really plays the closest role to the voice of reason. Throughout the book, he is the main character, Chris McCandless’s, closest companion. During Chris’s travels, Franz arranges to pick him up no matter how far away he is. Franz has supplies given to him and offers advice for living in the wilderness, really playing the father role during this stage in Chris’s life. Franz himself is also affected by becoming close to McCandless. He learns to appreciate the outdoors and to rely more on Nature for his need, better understanding what it feels like to be happy. Through their relationship, Franz and McCandless’s both learned a lot about each other and became better people.
I read Ark Angle by Anthony Hurwitz it is about a kid spy called Alex rider who has a very close encounter with death. The voice of reason I think would be his mind he battles himself back and forth. For instance he is trapped in a burning building on the 40th floor. He has to make a decicision to walk across a plank to another building and conquer his fear of heights. Or he could wait and hope that someone miraculously comes to save him. He decides to go with his gut and walk across the plank. He had more of a chance of living if he walked the plank nut had to conquer a fear. I think that is a great example of how he is his own voice of reason. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes intense thrillers and doesn’t mind a lot of suspense.
I read The Magician by Michael Scott for my outside reading requirement this semester. This is the second installment in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, with the same plot as its predecessor: that is, good vs. evil.
The first book ended in a cliffhanger, in which the reader just learns that the twins Sophie and Josh have with Nicholas Flamel fled to Paris, after their short sojourn with the Witch of Endor. However, Flamel's hometown, the "City of Lights", is teeming with even more enemies than in the Americas. One of the most prominent is Niccolo Machiavelli--a man even more ruthless than Dr. John Dee. Soon after their arrival, Flamel takes the twins to meet his apprentice and friend the Comte de Saint-Germain, who has married Joan of Arc. They stay at the couple's cottage in Paris, and Saint-Germain teaches Sophie the magic of Fire. All the while, the twins and Flamel are being pursued by Machiavelli's allies and Dr. Dee. Flamel gets weaker and more frail as each day passes, unable to make the recipe for immortality without the entire Codex.
It is difficult to decide who the best "voice or reason" is, since all of the characters primarily listen to their consciences. However, especially for Sophie, Joan of Arc is a good example of a voice of reason. She and Sophie both have the same type of silver "aura", which controls their magical powers. Joan taught Sophie how not to let her aura control her, and she also helped her organize all of the memories given to her by the Witch of Endor.
Similarly to The Alchemyst, its sequel, The Magician, ends peculiarly in a cliffhanger. Flamel's friend and warrior, Scattach, has gone missing, and Paris has almost been completely destroyed by Dee and Machiavelli. Flamel flees with the twins to London, and the author hints at a different Elder there who could teach the twins a new elemental magic.
Tara Pilato
4th Period
For my outside reading book I read Eragon by Christopher Paolini. This book was a great book! Its about a young boy, Eragon who is off hunting for food when he comes across a dragon egg. He takes this dragon egg home and it hatches. Eragon now has a dragon to take care off. This causes many problems for him. One day he meets a man named Brom and he explains everything to Eragon. Brom tells him that he is now a dragon rider. And he should first name his dragon. Eragon names her Saphira. Brom is the voice of reason in this book. Being an old dragon rider himslef he knows everything. He teaches Eragon everything from fighting to magic and riding. Without Brom, Eragon would have had no clue what to do. Many times throughout the book Brom tells Eragon how to get through conflicts he is placed in. Brom shows Eragon how to develop a type ofcommunication with Saphira. Eragon falls in love with Saphira they are best friends. Throughout this whole book Brom gives advice to Eragon. Up until his death he was the voice of reason. After he died Saphira stepped in and helped Eragon get through everything. This book was a perfect example of how other characters can really help and influence the main characters actions. Without Brom and Saphira, Eragon wouldnt have been able to make it through everything. They were the voices of reason who helped Eragon overcome everything thrown at him.
Dale Delaney
3rd period
I read The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. There are five people who serve as a voice of reason to Eddie. He dies saving a child from a rollercoaster accident. He first meets the Blue Man. He told him everyone on Earth is connected. Eddie remembers this man from an amusement park where he grew up. Eddie and his friends accidentally killed the blue man while playing baseball, the Blue Man had a heart attack because he had to swerve because if he didn‘t he would have hit Eddie and his friends. The second person was the Captain. He taught Eddie sacrifice. He showed Eddie his death and that and that alone made Eddie apologize for him being selfish. Rubby is the third person Eddie meets in heaven. She told Eddie his father did love him but he put anger in the way of his love. The fourth person Eddie meets is Marguerite, she tells him that their love will be forever. The fifth person Eddie meets is Tala. She tells him that the day he died he saved the girl.
Vinnie Wooten
1st period
Alex Riddle 1st
The Host by Stephanie Myer is about the earth in the future. Aliens have taken over the earth and invaded almost all the human bodies. The only humans left are called the “wild ones” but there are not many left. Melanie, a “wild one,” gets captured by the Aliens she begins to resist her Host, Wander. Melanie is strong and resists the control of Wander. Melanie begins to dream of the man she loves, Jared a “Wild One”, and Wander begins to want Jared too. Wander begins to get consumed with the dreams of Jared and begins to love him as well. Melanie becomes the voice of reason because she convinces Wander to go on a journey in search of Jared. Melanie explains to the wander why it is wrong for the aliens to invade and kill incent people. Wander’s case is very weird because most humans die after their bodies have been invaded; and because Melanie is still conscious the Aliens want Wander to tell them where the “Wild Ones” are. Melanie then convinces her not to tell the Aliens the whereabouts of Jared. Melanie save Jared’s life this way this is why she is the voice of reason.
This grading period, I read My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I determined that there is more than one voice of reason, but only one of the voices of reason is the one that Anna takes seriously, although it is not the most traditional voice of reason in a family, but this is not a typical family. Her parents had Anna because the doctor said that if no currently living sibling was a complete donor match, another sibling might, which plants the idea in Mrs. Fitzgerald’s head to have another child that would be a specific genetic match for Kate. At the time, Anna’s cord blood was going to be donated to Kate. However, as Kate got older and relapsed, Anna’s parents kept calling Anna to donate some part of her body to Kate, and Anna has gotten sick and tired of it.
Anna’s mom believes that she is Anna’s best voice of reason because of parental authority. She thinks that if she tells Anna what she should do, Anna should do it even if it’s not the right thing for Anna to do, such as having Anna undergo surgery to give Kate bone marrow when Kate relapsed, just so Kate would be around a little bit longer. Although Anna’s mom, Sara, believes she is doing what is right for both of her daughters, she’s not doing what the daughters want her to do.
Julia is Anna’s court appointed guardian ad lietm. She is appointed to give her opinion about Anna’s case to the court and be a voice of reason for Anna, instead of Sara; however, Julia cannot determine her recommendation to the court.
Kate is Anna’s sister, and I believe Kate is Anna’s voice of reason that she would listen to most. Kate and Anna are siblings, and close in age, but since Kate can’t go to school like a normal kid because of her leukemia, Anna hangs out with Kate. They are sisters who are best friends who spend almost all of their time together, pretty much making them inseparable. After Sara (their mom) comes to talk to them about Anna donating Kate a kidney, Kate tells Anna that she doesn’t want her to donate a kidney because she thinks that she’s messed up everyone’s life enough because Anna can’t go to her hockey camps, her mom gave up her job, and their parents are too worried. Anna said that she’d give the kidney to Kate, but Kate insists that “it’s not suicide if you’re already dying.” Kate has told Anna to kill her, although Anna doesn’t mention it, and Anna respects Kate enough that she’ll do it, but she wanted to do it in the nicest way possible to her parents, although it may not appear that way. Kate is always there for Anna, and Anna is always there for Kate. I think that because Kate and Anna are so inseparable, and because they know each other so well, they would be a voice of reason for each other. Also, friends are always there for each other, and they support and help the other decide, which is what Kate does for Anna, although sometimes it may not appear that way.
I read The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. It is about a rebel seventeen year old girl named Ronnie who lives with her mom and brother Jonah in New York. Her mom is making her and her brother spend the whole summer with her dad at a North Carolina beach where he lives. Ronnie doesn’t want to go at all; he hasn’t spoken to her dad in three years since her parents divorced because her father Steve had an affair.
Her first week she meets her first friend Blaze and starts to hang out with her and her boyfriend Marcus and his two friends Teddy and Lance. She soon starts to realist that Marcus is bad news and tries to get her to sneak off with him all the way to Florida. Blaze gets jealous so slips cds into Ronnie’s bookbag and she gets caught for shoplifting.
Ronnie then starts to hang out with a rich, nice looking, and kind guy who has hid future planned out to go to Vanderbilt.
Will is the voice of reason in this book. He helps lead Ronnie away from Marcus and her friends. He helps her make up with Blaze. Most important of all hes there for her when she finds out that her dad is dying of cancer in his stomach that has metastasized to his pancreas and lungs and when she finds out it is her mom that has really cheated on her dad making her regret those three years. Ronnie finds her life completely changed thanks to Will and finishes a piano piece that her dad has been trying to compose for years and plays it for him before he dies. She goes to Julliard and has a piano audition and Will moves to a school near her in New York.
I read The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. It is a book based on a murdered teenager. She was killed by a neighbor in the community and is not the only victim. Her family and friends try very hard to find the murderer, but without the evidence and patience of the police, the case does not go very far. Susie Salmon, the murdered girl, views her neighborhood from heaven. She sends down many hints and clues to her family to find the awful man.
While in heaven, she also looks down on her sister, Lindsey. She had become very emothional and secluded to her self. Susie would help her through school and her relationships to make her happier. Lindsey makes decisions based on her sister's actions. Lindsey is able to find a boyfriend and friends with her sisters guidance and help. The family was all impacted on the murder and was devistated to hear the death of their child. They sometimes feel the help of Susie and are comforted. From heaven, she views many dreadful things and has led her family to safety. The murderer was trying to attack the family in the corn field, where Susie was killed. It was terrible for her to watch and helped defend from the wounds.
Susie was a voice of reason for her family and neighborhood. She helps her sister overcome her fear of falling in love and helps her family with finding the murderer. Her clues and defense help uncover the neighborhood enemy.
Langley Mills
1st period
I read Flush by Carl Hiaasen the main character is Noah. Noah is a very intelligent kid and solves many problems on his own, well mainly, but with a little help he accomplishes his best goals. His fathers old fishing boat sunk and he wants to fix it. But after his mom’s death his father doesn’t do much of anything anymore so its all up to him. Noah tries to help his dad get back off his feet and do something productive, which eventually he does. He also helps him with advice. His dad knows about this ship that dumping sewage into the river and with the help of Noah’s persistence with his advice his dad hijacks the ship and sinks it in the bottom of the river. So Noah is a overachieving character who in the end fixes the ship and makes his father proud and get off his butt and start working with his fishing boat again.
I read the book Hard Work, by Roy Williams. This book is a nonfictional autobiography talking about UNC's basketball coach, Roy Williams. The main subject of this autobiography is talking about his trials through the 2009 basketball season and UNC's National Championship. He also talks about his childhood and the trials he faced at that time also.
Roy Williams lived a bad childhood. At first everything was okay but when he was about 7 years old he started to relize things werent so good. When he was 7 years old his mom and dad split putting his sister (frances) who was about four years older then Roy, his mom and him without a place to stay, so they went and stayed with an aunt at a hotel which she owned. His mom and dad soon got back together but it didnt last, because Roy's dad was a drunk and the relationship was off and on one for a couple years till Roy decided he was gonna step in and tell his mom no more getting back together with dad, even though they were gonna be poor he knew what was right, showing right from the start he was a good leader.
Once Roy was old enough to play sports he really got to liken basketball. He would go out and pratice everyday after school and that was like his get away from all the trouble at home.Once he was old enough to play high school ball he did and was the leader of that team.
Ever since he played high school basketball he knew he wanted to be a coach and now he is a coach at one of the prestige basketball universites in the nation an has lead kids all over the nation to be better player and better people. Like in his book he lead the 2009 team to a National Championship and also made some players much better people.
Over this past quarter, I read Eldest. Eldest is the sequel to the book Eragon. In the book Eldest, the battle between the empire and the Varden just ended and the Varden won with the help of Eragon and his dragon, Saphira. Just as they were about to celebrate the Varden’s victory, Ajihad, the Varden’s ruler, and Murtagh and the Twins were killed. The Varden had a huge funeral for Ajihad. After that, Naduada, Ajihad’s daughter was chosen to be the next ruler of the Varden. They then had the celebration for that. Eragon soon left to go to, the city of the elves. On his way, he stopped at Tronjheim. He met a clan leader, who gave a big feast. Then they left again for Ellesmera. When they got there, Eragon was tested for how good he was at fighting and using magic. He did not do very well because of the cut that Durza left him. He went to another feast there and a magical dragon changed him into a half-human, half-elf hybrid which made him stronger, faster, smarter, and even healed his back fully. He met another dragon rider that no one but the elves knew about. His name was Oromis, and his golden dragon was Glaedr. Eragon was soon being taught by Oromis everything that he knew about fighting, magic, and being a dragon rider. Glaedr was also teaching Saphira everything that he knew about flying and fighting.
Meanwhile at Carvahall, Roran was back in town. He tried to see what was left of his farm, but there was nothing of value left. All of the wood was rotten; the fields were all filled with weeds. Not long later when he was going out to hunt with one of the people in the family that was letting him stay in their house, Baldor, they stumbled across a group of the kings’ soldiers and the Ra`zac. They guessed that the soldiers had come for Roran, and they were correct. Roran and Baldor crept away from the group of soldiers until they were out of hearing and ran back to town. When they reached Carvahall, Roran and Baldor told all of the other villagers what they saw, and Roran decided that he had to hide in the mountains. He stayed in the mountains for a long time, getting his food from people in the village that brought him his food. One day, a villager went to Roran and told him to come back to the town. He thought that the townspeople were giving him up to the empire, but they really only wanted to tell him what had happened that he missed, and that they had to fight. They fought and made barricades, trying to protect the town against the soldiers. Eventually, the villagers came to the conclusion that they had to abandon the village. They left and went to Teirm, where they ‘borrowed’ a boat to get to Surda. On their way, other ships followed them, trying to stop them. The ships kept on shooting green magical flames at the ships which led them to assume that the ships had magicians on them. Even with this hindrance, they still reached Surda alive, and just in time to give the Varden some reinforcements.
After a while of training with Oromis and Glaedr, Eragon and Saphira left to go back to where the Varden were. When they got there, there was almost no time before a battle that was about to start. Eragon saw that there was a new, evil dragon rider working for King Galbatorix When the battle begun. As Eragon battled the new dragon rider, he realized that the rider was far more powerful than he was. Eventually, Eragon found out that the rider was Murtagh. He also found out that Murtagh was his brother. Eragon was defeated, but Murtagh let him go, only taking his sword, claiming that it was his.
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The Varden fought well, but there were two magicians that were very powerful. It turned out that the two magicians were the Twins that were working for the empire all along. The Varden could not get past the twins. All of a sudden, Roran and the other townspeople came and started fighting for the Varden. Roran crept behind the twins and killed them with his hammer. After this, the Varden had an easier time fighting. The Varden won and Murtagh left.
The voice of reason in this book would be Oromis because he was the one who taught Eragon about everything that he needed to learn about magic and fighting.
Ryan Smith
third period
Bang. A seventeen year old girl is dead. Her boyfriend is in the hospital with a head injury being questioned about the incident by detectives. A grief stricken father identifies the body. Chaos and confusion rip through the busied hospital. What really happened?
This is how The Pact by Jodi Picoult begins. The seventeen year old girl is Emily Gold and her boyfriend is Chris Harte. Having known each other for years, the Hartes and Golds are next door neighbors. The two kids had been inseparable since Emily’s birth only a short while after Chris’s. It was no surprise when Chris and Emily started becoming more than friends in their early teens. It was expected, even wanted. Everything seemed to be perfect.
It all began to change years earlier when Chris unknowingly put Emily into harm’s way through a childish dare. While at a McDonalds in an unrespectable part of town, he dares her to go into the men’s restroom. An older man who works their and is not trusted by anyone greets her. Being so young, she cannot defend herself and the man assaults her. Emily never tells anyone, not even Chris as they get older and become more serious. She cannot shake the feelings of fear and disgust from that day for the rest of her life. Soon Chris begins to want more from Emily as their relationship matures. The memory is still etched in Emily’s mind when they get closer. When she is seventeen Emily becomes pregnant with Chris’s child and does not tell a soul. Stressed about school, her past, and the pregnancy, she confesses to Chris that she wants to die, but will not explain. Chris is shocked by the admission and tries to ignore it as long as possible. In the end, he gives in hoping to change her mind and agrees to kill himself too. A suicide pact. Chris tries desperately to be her voice of reason and attempts to show her what she will be missing. Even with Chris being such a huge part of her life, Emily will not change her mind.
After Emily’s death, the authorities immediately put the blame on Chris. The trial rips the families and what is left of Chris’s heart in two. Melanie, Emily’s mother, has only revenge on her mind, crazed about getting justice for her daughter. Leaving reality and reasoning behind, she throws herself into convicting Chris, the boy who has been like a son to her and loved her daughter, of first degree murder. Michael, her husband, tries to reason with her, but she refuses to change. Proving the true bond between the families, Michael consoles Chris’s mother throughout the trail and even testifies for Chris saying that he does not believe he would kill Emily. Michael ends up being the voice of reason for Gus, Chris’s mom, when she has no idea what to think and no one to turn to.
I highly recommend you read The Pact to discover Chris’s fate. Picoult makes her readers think about how strong the bonds of family, friends, and teenage love are, yet how easily they can be broken.
Hadley Bryan
1st period
I read The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom. The main character in this story is Eddie, who dies trying to save someone from an amusement ride. He meets five people when he goes to heaven. He will meet five people in heaven and from these people, he will learn the true meaning of Eddie Maintenance. The first of the five people that speak to him is the Blue Man. This man explains that everyone is connected, and what Eddie does remember is that he has seen the Blue Man before, at the amusement park where Eddie was killed, but what he doesn’t know is how this man is relevant to Eddie. The answer is because this man was killed by a heart attack, while driving, attack trying to avoid Eddie and his friends playing baseball. This man is important, because ever since then Eddie was trying to get away from everything. The second guy was a captain. He showed Eddie sacrifice, the same such thing Eddie did when he died. The captain took Eddie to his days in the war and described sacrifice that way. This is also important, because Eddie was no longer selfish after the captain showed himself dying from a bomb. The third person is Rudy, who had a pier named after her. She showed Eddie that her father loved her and was in the inside a good man. The fourth person is Marguerite who shows Eddie love by taking him back to the days of their love for each other. The last person is a girl named Tala. Although he couldn’t save this girl in the war, she showed him that he did save the girl from the ride and his purpose was to save children in the war.
Henry Piner
3rd period
I read the novel Push by Sapphire. The main character is a 16 year old girl named Clareece Precious Jones, she is overweight with a dark complexion and dreams of being skinny with light skin. It tells of the horrors of her life, the sexual and physical abuse she suffers at the hands of her father and mother, being illiterate, still in middle school and pregnant by her father for the second time.
She spends her time in class dreaming of a normal life, unable to concentrate on school work due to the chaos around her. Other students are disruptive and disrespectful to all teachers, so Precious simply daydreams becomming invisible in class. Unable to keep her grades above failing and being pregnant she is suspended from school and sent to an alternative school where she meets a teacher, Ms. Rain, who beleives in her as well as makes friends who like her for who she is.
The voice of reason is Ms. Rain, who takes Precious from learning her ABC's through fighting for the rights of herself and her two children. Precious learns to read, gets away from the horror of her home life and continues to push for a better life for herself.
This book does not come with a happy ending but leaves you wondering what becomes of Precious.
Nick McIntosh
4th period
Turn the first page of A Walk to Remember and there he is — Landon Carter — standing on a Southern town road. It's a cool spring day; he’s fifty-seven, his hair falls in grey wisps, and his eyes look somewhere far away. It’s the gaze of a man with a story to tell. He starts walking and the years slip off and the road turns to dirt and the trees shrink down and forty years hurry past in the wrong direction. The wisdom behind his gaze falls away, splashing his much younger features with the guile of innocent youth. In just three steps forward and infinitely more back, he’s a senior, on top of the town. He’s once-again immature enough to believe he’s all grown-up.
The sun sinks low in the sky, the stars pop out and midnight cascades its mystery over Beaufort. A graveyard emerges from behind an old church, and with it the headstones of the Preston family. The younger Landon has found his way here, friends missed for forty years have reemerged. Laughter. The crunch of boiled peanuts. It’s not hard to guess they’re supposed to be home sleeping, but since when has this crowd followed the rules?
The high school emerges from over the horizon. The sun peaks up from a sleep not long enough enjoyed. Landon haunts these hallways, wishing he was somewhere else. But at least seniors can take easy classes, and drama is next: easy 100, and a bunch of girls... Perfect. He takes a seat in the back and leans back to watch. The teacher rambles on and the ministers daughter stands up from the front row, looking at everyone, smiling at him. He rolls his eyes — and forty years winces from somewhere far way.
Then his dad comes home and for no reason at all he’s running for class president, and suddenly he’s been elected and the homecoming dance is in two days time and Landon realizes he has no one to go with. He calls everyone in the yearbook. No. No. Oh, sorry I can’t make it. I’m already going with so-and-so. Sorry. No...And suddenly there’s only one girl left: the ministers daughter, Jamie Sullivan, with her hair in a bun, whose never worn even a hint of makeup, who had absolutely no reason to say yes. And Landon got so nervous he could hardly stand himself — and forty years far away gave a small laugh and shook its head — and she told him “I’d love to, on one condition. You have to promise not to fall in love with me.” And they both laughed. But forty years long gone smiled sadly and thought of the only promise it’d never kept.
And to the great surprise of the trouble-maker boy, he and Jamie had as good of a time as he could have hoped for. She’d helped him take care of his last girlfriend when she’d gotten drunk and could barely stumble into his car. No other girl would have been willing to that except Jamie, who rescued small animals from side roads and loved everyone and everything. Landon had never really thought about how important that might be. He didn’t like her of course, but she wasn’t half bad...for the minister’s daughter, at least.
And then a few weeks passed and his phone rang and Jamie was on the other end. She needed to ask him something, it was really important. And when he found himself over at her house later that day, she asked him to take the male lead in the the drama Christmas play. He couldn’t believe it. He wouldn’t do it. And then he took one look at her face and understood that for some reason this meant the world to her and sighed and said, “I’ll do it.”
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Logan Beyer, 3rd
(continued...) And after that they spent almost every afternoon together, they had to because of play practice. He absolutely did not like Jamie Sullivan, as he told his friends time and time again. But he didn’t mid spending time with her. She was changing him, little by little. Before he knew it, he was helping at the orphanage where Jamie always volunteered. He was walking her home from rehearsals, and they’d talk and life would make more sense. And then, without any warning, he emptied his life savings to buy presents for the orphans, because he could stand to think of how little money Jamie had managed to raise in an entire year of the town’s stinginess - Forty years watched him thoughtfully and smiled sometimes and sighed at others - Jamie was his voice of reason, and through her he was finally growing up.
It was Christmas Eve when he realized that Jamie was more than just his friend. They were at the orphanage, handing out gifts for the children together. The night slowly drew out to a close, and just the two of them were left in the room, save for one little girl asleep in Jamie’s lap. As they sat beneath the Christmas tree, she gave him her mother’s Bible. She had never met her mother, who died as she was born, and it was her most prized possession. Landon didn’t know what to do or say, but he knew he loved her.
After that, they started going out, just like any two normal teenagers would. But they weren’t normal - Forty years winced as it remembered the night she told him - Jamie had leukemia. She had stopped responding to treatments. She was going to die. And Landon cried.
He watched her fade: first grow tired, then stop walking, the stop getting out of bed. She need around the clock help and she was going to have to finish out her life in a nursing home. Landon was lost. And suddenly the father who had never been there for him stepped in and paid for in-home care. Landon and the forty years past could only watch, hopeless, wanting to do more...
And finally Landon knew what he could do, what he needed to do, what he wanted to do more than anything else. He asked her father, and he asked her, and they both said yes. And Jamie walked down the aisle before she died, and her dad married them, and they were together for all the time she had left on earth. It was her final touch on his life, her final breath that made him into the man that he eventually became. And the forty years spun by and he stood once more alone, but he took a deep breath and smiled at the world... Jamie had once walked this street, too. And her walk was what kept him walking now. And with this final contentment in pain and love, Nick Sparks watched Landon Carter walk away from his pen.
Logan Beyer
3rd Period
i read The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, in this book, a student a princeton, tom sullivan starts out a project , trying to do what his father does, and decifer this ancient text, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphii. this simple project tunrs into a full out obsession, that nearly ruins his life that he has worked so hard for.
in this book, the voice of reason for tom is one of his room mates, paul. he mainly keeps tom from slipping over the edge like his father did. these similarities between him and his father are those things that tom tries so hard to defy, but in the end are the things that nearly ruin him. the difference between him and his father is paul. at first, paul starts getting involved in his project, but after seeing how deeply tom is obsessed with this project, he tries to pursuade tom to let go what his father never could accomplish, and forget about the Hypnerotomachia Poliphii. paul pleades with tom many times, each time we see thier friendship more strained, and tom more deeply obsessed with this text, and as they unravel the ancient text, you see how the demons inside them come alive
through their obsession.
Josh Ewy
3rd period
I read A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass. This story is about a girl named Mia, who for all her life has seen colors. Not just the normal colors you and I see but sounds and letters to her have color. She thinks that everyone has it but finds out in Third Grade that this isn't the case. She now feels like a freak and is having problems in school. She finally confronts her parents and they help her figure out what is wrong with her.
In this novel, I think there are many people that hep Mia in some way figure out what to do about her Synesthesia ( the name for seeing colors and shapes). Dr. Wiess is so nice to Mia explaining her condition to her. He tells her what Synesthesia is, when most people see their colors (whether its through smell, taste or sound), and then asks her questions to see if she fits the personality type who has Synesthesia. He tells her that this condition isn't bad but helps her observe the world. He even helps her by arranging a tutor to help her in math. Out of all the characters in the book, I think Dr.Wiess is the best example of voice of reason because he is the one that is telling her, "Nothing is wrong with you. Your special." Dr. Wiess makes her realize she isn't a freak
P.S If after reading this you have no clue what the heck Synesthesia means, please look it up. I promise that this is a real condition that normal people do have. Thanks,
Sarah Seawell 4th period
I read "Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle" by Gordon Korman. In the first book the voice of reason would be Vince, because he helps his Uncles do any work they need done. Even though Vince is the smallest in the family everyone looked up to him in the first book. Also in the first book Vince doesn't want to be anything like his dad or be involved in the family business at all. By the second book Vinces' dad is someone he can look up to and take guidance from. Vince knows this for sure after the warehouse scene where he learns that his dad would take a bullet for him. After this scene Vince figures out that his dad really loves him and that he is not all about the family business. Vince has been getting advice from his dad all along, even in the first book, like when his dad tells him that he doesn't have to work in the family business if he doesn't want to but he would like him to. Even though Vince didn't realize that his dad loved him and gave him advice, his dad has loved him all along.
Tyler Gibson
1st Period
I read The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. Although I wouldn't recomend it to anyone this was a fairly simple, easy to read book. It's about a man named Eddie who dies trying to save a little girl from an amusement park ride. Eddie was essentualy a good man, so he goes to heaven. IN this particular book there are actually five voices of reason. The first is the blue man, he teaches Eddie the lesson that everyone is in some way connected. Eddie and the blue man are connected because he swerves to avoid Eddie and his friends playing baseball then has a heart attack and dies. The second man Eddie meets is the Captain. He takes Eddie back to veiw his days in the war to where he was killed by an exploding bomb. To me the captain is a lot like the Ghost of Christmas Past. The third person he meets is Ruby; she tells him all about how Ruby peir was founded and named for her, then she took Eddie back to the night his father died and they have a conversation about how he was truely a good man. The fourth person Eddie meets is his wife, Marguerite, she explains to him that although they're both dead their love will live on forever. The fifth and final person he meets is Tala, the little girl that he tried to save in the war. He failed to save Tala, but she tells him that he did manage to save the girl the day he died. She also explains to him how his purpose on earth was to protect and look after children. Eddie learns a lot and ultimately becomes a better person because of the five people he met in heaven.
I read The Five People You will Meet In Heaven by: Mitch Albom. Its about a guy named Eddie who is old. He had gone through life living a great one but unaware of it. He died because he sacrafised his own life to save a child from a roller coaster accident. He meets five people in Heaven that he has had an impact on sometime in his life, and they teach him life lessons. He first meets the Blue man, he is just a man who worked at the carnival. Then came his army captian, he was killed during a bombing. Rudy was the third person and he is the guy who the carnival was named after. Followed by Maugerette, she made him learn that there love was never going to end even after death. Finally came Tala she was the girl that Eddie tried saving but he couldn’t. These five people helped Eddie learn the meaning of life
James Stroud
4th period
In "Five People You Meet in Heaven" the main charecter Eddie dies trying to save a young girl in a rollercoaster accident. There are a few people I would like to discuss and tell how they were voices of reason to Eddie. Ruby was one of the people I spoke of, she told Eddie that his father didn't hate him and that he actually just put anger in front of his love. Another charecter is the blue man, he explained sacrifice to Eddie. When Eddie was just a boy he was playing baseball in the street with friends and the blue man had to swerve to miss him, unfortunately it killed him. And the last person is Tala, she told him that the day he died he saved the girl.The author of my book is Mitch Albom and I'm in third period.
I read True Believer by Nicholas Sparks. It is the story of Jeremy Marsh, a journalist in New York who comes to Boone Creek, North Carolina to write a story on the mysterious Ghosts of Cedar Creek Cemetery. On his first day there, he meets Lexie Darnell, the town’s librarian. Lexie is wary of Jeremy, for she had a few bad experiences with dating men who lived in another city. AS they get to know each other, they begin to fall for each other. Lexie feared this, so she left town and went to the beach her parents got married at, expecting to never see Jeremy again. But that day, Jeremy goes to her, a thing she had not expected, and they truly fell in love with each other. But when they return to Boone Creek the next day, Lexie acts more distant than ever, and when Jeremy is about to leave to go back to New York, Lexie ends their relationship. Jeremy heads back to New York, but is depressed without Lexie. Lexie's grandmother, Doris, comes up to New York and convinces Jeremy to go back to Boone Creek and stay with Lexie. When Lexie sees that Jeremy had returned and was going to stay, she allowed herself to stay with Jeremy, and Lexie becomes pregnant with a girl.
The voice of reason in this novel is Lexies conscience. Though she sometimes let her instincts take over, her conscience always kept her wary of Jeremy so she would not get hurt again, like she was hurt by Avery or Mr. Renaissance. However, after Jeremy's sacrifice to leave New York and stay at Boone Creek, Lexie knows, as well as her conscience knows, that staying with Jeremy is a good thing.
Summer Taylor 3rd Period
I read Dracula, by Bram Stoker. It's a fictional story of several people who accidentally wind up entangled in Count Dracula's existance and even worse, in his evil plot to regain power over people by using women to rule over men. The book continues to become more mysterious and enthralling by adding newspaper clippings, and entries as if the novel were a journal.
Van Helsing, an old professor, was called in by a former student of his, Jonathan, who was trying to solve the mystery of attacks and an illness of Jon's sick friend, Lucy. Van Helsing diagnoses her, but cannot help her. He knows she has been turned into a vampire, and tells the others. At first they don't believe him untill they find Lucy preying on young children. The crowd is upset and look to Van Helsing to help them destroy whatever corrupted their innocent Lucy. Van Helsing is the "Voice of Reason". He fearlessly and whole heartedly leads the big hunt to track down Dracula while all the while providing the moral inspiration to amp up the others as they flirt with the dangers of the vampire. His knowledge combines science and superstition to solve the mystery of the attacks on Lucy. Having helped destroy the evil the Count left in his wake, Van Helsing left the novel in the same state of mind and the same reasons that he began with, good intentions to god and his friends,aka "Morally righteous and religiously committed". Van Helsing hunts down the Count with the same mannerism he started off with. He regarded his group of hunters as “ministers of God’s own wish,” and inspires his hunting buddies that they "go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more.”
Samantha Waida 4th prd.
I read Alabama Moon by Watt Key. Its a fictional story set in the woods in Alabama. The main character, Moon, had the most voice of reason towards his friends and his friends dad. He becomes close friends with another very dependent kid named Kit who is trouble maker and doesn't respect anyone. Moon inspires him to help other people out and attempt to learn how to live on his own. Another character Moon influenced to change was Hal who is mean and cruel, he grew up in a trailer park in a bad part of town, he always acts tough and lost his dad. Moon changed his thoughts and told hom to not give up and searching and he didn't give up and eventually found his dad. The final person Moon was a voice of reason for was Mr. Mitchell, Hal's dad, he is a sorry abandoned loser who doesn't care about anything but Moon changes his morals to care for others and help others out.
Nate Staskleunas
4th period
This grading period, I read Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper. This novel is all about following your own heart and doing what you want to do, so it is packed with characters who act as voice of reasons. Anna Fitzgerald is a 13 year old girl who has the pressure put on her of donating bone marrow and undergoing several surgeries so that her older sister, Kate, a leukemia victim, can hopefully live a little bit longer. Anna cooperates with her pushy parents for 13 years straight. However, as Kate relapses at age 16 and is told that she must have one of Anna's kidneys to survive, Anna suddenly backs out. She gets herself a lawyer named Campbell Alexander to sue her parents for medical emancipation. Mr. Alexander is definitely considered a voice of reason in this book. He attempts to give Anna what she wants and not what her mother, Sara, wants for her. Another voice of reason in this book is Julia Romano, a woman who is appointed as Anna's guardian ad litem. Her job is to basically be a voice of reason for Anna. She guides her into making her own decisions and makes sure that her parents aren't trying to persuade her into doing anything. In the end, Julia is unable to give her reccomendation to the judge. Anna ends up getting her medical emancipation, but still gives her organs to Kate in a different way. To find out how, you must read the book. This was a great novel which had many characters acting as a voice of reason for Anna.
I read “The Invisible Man “by H. G. Wells. In this story a man named Griffon discovers a process that would allow him to turn objects and animals invisible. He first experiments on a sheet of wool, then a stray cat. He then tries the process on himself. When he realizes that he cannot be seen, he torches his apartment and leaves with his notes and three giant diaries’ of his research. Before his landlord and his two sons barge in to find out what he has been doing in his apartment. After he gets himself a disguise he arrives himself in a small town to find a way to reverse his predicament. Within only about five days he revealed himself as an invisible man. He is then hunted. He then finds shelter at an old college friend’s home. He spends one night in that house till the local police come knocking at the door from a call from the old friend. In this story I could not find a character that resembles a “voice of reason”. It may have been the invisible mans conscience, but there really wasn’t a person who offered advice or direction in this story.
I read Eldest by Christopher Paolini. Its about a Dragon and it's rider. I really liked this book and it fits this prompt well because the dragon in it is a voice of reason to Eragon the main character. The dragon's name is Saphira and only Eragon can understand and talk to her. She help's him a lot throughout their journey's. She calms him down, give's good advice, and is Eragon's best friend. I think Saphira definitely fits the description of Eragon's "voice of reason". She is alwase following him and even when they are not together their mind's are linked so she is like a second conscious.
1st Period,
Ben Vest
I read "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire. There are several voices of reason in this book. Nanny is a main voice of reason for Elphaba (later in life) and Melena(Elphaba's mother) earlier in life. She helped Melena through the 2 births of Elphaba and "Nessa" (Elphaba's sister a.k.a. The Wicked Witch of The East).She also helps Elphaba as a young adult, through the death of Dr. Dillamond, her sister "Nessa", Prince Fiyero, and the assassination of Madame Morrible.
Another voice of reason is obviously Galinda (Glinda) towards Dorothy Gale. She gives Dorothy "Nessa's" ruby slippers (which belongs to Elphaba), which were given to her by her father(Frex).
Taylor Ezzell
1st Period
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