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Second task

We have now started to work with an elective book; I selected to read Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates. Our first task was to write about our first emotions that we got when we read the first chapter. The first chapter is always the most imported one. It´s the one thing that decides wider you keep reading this book or not, or with witch attitude that you keep on reading.

The first impression I got when I first open Sexy was that it was printed in kind of big letters with not much text on each page. My experiences tell me that not many really good books look like this, and I think that that reduced my expectations a bit. And the first chapter didn´t put them up either.

The first chapter was all about introducing the reader to the main character. His name is Darren Flynn. I got the feeling that something bad are going to happen to him. Actually I don´t know why, perhaps it´s the way the author is describing him. She describes him in third person, like he doesn´t exists. It feels like a dark book full of secrets, you just have to give it a chance. That´s why I never quit reading a book after one or two chapters, some books are just slow before they get exiting or just “start”.

But back to Sexy. The first chapter was just almost about Darren’s look. That makes me feel that the way he looks, or that he is sexy, are going to be a thing that´s repeats in the book, a thing that are going to be very important in the story. That all the “bad” (that I think are going to happened) starts with that Darren goes from nobody to a good looking guy that get´s everyone’s attention, both girls in his age and older women on the street.

Okay, time to summarize. My emotions I got when I read the first chapter was both negative and positive. The negative was that I thought that the book was going to be kind of slow in the beginning. The positive ones were instead that I got the feeling that the book is going to get better after a while. So listen to my advice, don’t give up on a book after the first chapter, just keep on going and you will feel that you have to read until the end ;)

2010-01-22 @ 15:54:47 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (2) Trackbacks ()

Hotel Rwanda

My first easement is to write about a movie that we saw in school; Hotel Rwanda. This is o movie about the war in 1994. In Rwanda the people were divided in two groups; Hutus and Tutsis. This two nation’s didn´t come along and a war broke out. An army of Hutus wanted to exterminate the Tutsis. 800,000 Rwandans were killed in just 100 days.

I thought that this was a good movie because it left a mark in you, I had never even heard about this war before I saw the movie. You got to follow a man who worked as a hotel manager on one of Rwanda’s finest hotel. He was married to a Tutsi, which made him as much of a victim as any one of the Tutsis. When the war started he took his family to the hotel because he thought that the hotel was the safest place to be in. But it wasn´t only him who search for safety in the hotel, after a while it was overfull with harmed and frightened persons. You got to follow his struggle to keep his family and friends alive, you got to see when he changed and got more and more desperate. It wasn´t just like one of the American war movies with bombs and solders, it was a civil war were neighbors got enemies and were your friends just could disappear…

Now are you probably curios about what happened to this man and his family, well I aren´t going to tell you, just see it!

2010-01-11 @ 15:54:20 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Welcome to my new blog!

Hi Everybody! This will be my English blog where you are going to follow me and my English work! I hope you will enjoy it =)

2010-01-10 @ 16:33:41 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()