It's not always about the reward .

In my book Vanished by Meg Cabot the main character Jessica Mastriani cares more about others than herself, and that i love. She isn't self absorbed and cares more about the well being of there's than herself . The way Jessica cares for people throughout the book truly shows that sometimes , it's not all about you .

Jessica has power that is getting her all this attention of a sudden that she doesn't really need. Especially, not with her brother Douglas hearing voices and all . This she realizes and as the press come around and they start surrounding her house, it is causing Douglas's voices in his head to start up again  . Jessica feels that all this attention is messing with her family so she goes away asuming that the press would follow her . That they did and Douglas was able to recover from his incident .

If it were me in this situation i too would have left so that My brother/sister could get better because hat wouldn't be fair to my family , to put them through it . I can see that in the book , Jess's family has always been behind her in everything she does. Even when they had learned that she has psychic powers they were supporting her in using them for the greater good . i feel that now family should have to suffer because of another family member.

When Jessica gives a runaway boy 10 grand because he was being abused by his father , i truly felt touched . She had only known this boy for maybe two days and she already felt like she loved him and that she couldn't let him go back to his rotten father . This shows that not only is Jessica generous , but she's caring .  

This book truly show's that you should put people before your own needs and not do it because of the reward you may get, but do it because of the greatness you will feel in the end . You may feel some sort of accomplishment in what you've done and shouldn't that mean more ?

Should We Change the hurricane .. ?

In the book house rules by Jodi Picoult. There was one line that really stuck out to me. " In reality, you don't ever change the hurricane, you just learn how to stay out it's path" I love the meaning behind this line because, when you think about it on a more personal level, you can't change people's mistake's, you just have to let them make those mistakes and learn from it. I;ve began to realize this. "You can't change the hurricane .." 

Independent Reading :House Rules

I am almost done with my book house rules. i am finally at the part where Jacob is on trial. So far it is looking good for Jacob, but how long will that last. i dont want to know whether Jacob is going to go to jail or not, i really just want to know if he did or not. like did he really kill jess ogilvy his tutor. In some ways i think he's capable of it, and in others i think hes not. Well i'll just have to wait and see.

Independent Reading

My book House Rules by Jodi Picoult has made me think about the world in a completely different perspective. Jacob hunt, a 18 yr kid with Asperger's syndrome has been accused of commiting a murder. I stilll have not made up my mind as to whether i think Jacob did it or not. There are moments when i think "how could a child with Aspergers syndrome be capable of such things" but then i think "he's done other things. Maybe not as bad as this but they were still pretty bad". Jacob sometimes may seem as if he's the smartest person in the room, but the next, just a little thing will set him off. I hope Jacob didn't do it, especially not to his own tutor, Jess Ogilvy. Well this book has touch me, and made me think a lot about children with Aspergers.