Ordinary World

     In the  book No Escape by Norah McClintock we learn about Terri Tyson's attack. Terri Tyson was brutally beaten to the point where if her mother hadn't heard her scream and come to find Terri, she would likely be dead. Terri suffered permanent brain damage from her attack. She will never walk again and spends all of her life in a wheel chair. She can bearly manage a couple of words and gets very upset when anyone (including her parents) touch her.
     Before Terri was attacked she was a very smart, beautiful and happy girl with tons of possibilities for a pleasing future.  In high school we hear that she was very smart and a tutor to Calab Darke (a boy who didn't want to be at school). After spending enough time with Calab she began to fall in love, before her attack she had been dating him for several years. Fact is they were engaged. Even though Calab loved Terri and Terri loved Calab her parents didn't like her being with him. Terri had been accepted to a university before her attack and her parents wanted her to leave Calab to go to the university.

Above is what I imagine Terri and Calab to be like before her attack. Completely in love and ultimately happy with their lives together.
Tickr. "Love Couple Timeline." Www.flickr.com. O4 Nov. 2010. Web. 07 Dec. 2011.
     Even though we never actually hear Terri talk in the book I was still able to gather the following quotes that I believe will help readers get a better idea of what Terri's ordinary world is like. "Terri is a bright girl with a good future"(McClintock, 175-176) and "The right thing was accepting the university scholarship Terri had been offered." (McClintock, 176).

Free Choice

     In the book I'm currently reading (No Escape by Norah McClintock) there is controversy over whether or not a convicted felon (Calab Darke) should be able to live in his home town after serving his time. He wishes to live there because he still loves his ex-fiance even though he was convicted of brutally beating her until she suffered extreme brain damage. He however didn't confess that he did it even though it would have shortened his sentence. Everyone else wants him out of town because they believe he is guilty and that he is going to come after Terri Tyson (his ex-fiance) again.
     I want to know whether or not he is really guilty. Why he wouldn't plead guilty if he was? Why is it such  a big deal? If they want him to leave Terri alone so badly why don't  they (Terri's family) move? Why does it seem that Terri still loves him? Why does Calab act as though he still loves Terri?
     I believe these questions can be answered best through reading the rest of the book however because I'm not done reading this book yet I feel there are a couple of ways these questions can be answered. If we suppose that Calab Darke really didn't Hurt Terri then we have an answer to most questions. She really does still love because he did nothing to harm her and he didn't plead guilty because he isn't guilty. As to why Terri's family doesn't move her away from Calab it could be because it would be to traumatizing for her to move away from everyone she's every known or it could be because if they move away we have no story. However, if we assume Calab really did hurt Terri then it's possible that because of that very traumatizing night she doesn't remember that he hurt her and therefor she still thinks that she loves him. It is also possible that Calab regrets his actions and still loves her even though he hurt her to such extent. I think he didn't plead guilty because he doesn't want to admit that he would beat Terri (someone that he loved very much) to the extent of almost killing her.
 
 Because of Terri's beating she will spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
Mattlin, Ben. "Of Dragons and Disabilities." Adventures in Modern Life. 29 Mar. 2010. Web. 07 Dec. 2011. <http://benmattlin.blogspot.com/2010/03/of-dragons-and-disabilities.html>.
I feel this picture represents what I imagine the looks Calab and Terri give each other even though they look nothing like this.
Stephen. "Man Fall In Love In First Look, Not Woman." HowCanThis Blog. 06 Sept. 2011. Web. 01 Dec. 2011. http://howcanthis.com/2011/09/man-fall-in-love-in-first-look-not-woman/.

     I decided against putting any videos because the videos that would suit this book would be one of a man beating a woman and I feel that even though that is something common in our society, it is not something that we should be watching. As you may know youtube videos can be violent and contain scenes not suitable  for our school audience.

Who's the 'hero' in your Book

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The book I'm currently reading is No Escape by Norah McClintock. I believe the hero figure in this book would be Chloe. Chloe is the main character who goes around unraveling the current crimes that are happening in the small town of East Hastings. Chloe is very willing; even when every urge in her body is saying turn around and run she continues on her path until the mystery is solved and justice is served. To me this also illustrates how brave and courageous Chloe is. To help prove how brave Chloe is I got the following quote from my book:"My heart thudded to a stop in my chest. Bang! His fist hammered the window again."

Cuddly Comments. Digital image. Cuddly Comments. Web. 25 Nov. 2011.
I chose this picture and quote because I feel it represents the evolving character of Chloe (the main character of my book).

Character Archetypes

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       I'm currently reading No Escape by Norah McClintock. I chose to my character archetype on Ross the main character's best friend. Because I just started this book and because it's the sixth in the series I'm will be using information from some of the other books to support my theory. I believe Ross is a shape shifter because through out the series he moves from good to evil and to pretty while any other archetype.  In the book Scared to Death, he was following the girl he liked when she was murdered, so it seemed to the main character, Chloe, that he was guilty. At this point he was clearly evil/ the villain; however in the book Break and Enter he believed that Chloe was innocent of all the things everyone else believed she did. At this time he looked somewhat like a hero. In the book Over the Edge I thought he was the mentor because he was helping Chloe learn more about the town when she had just moved there.
        Right now in No Escape( the book I'm currently reading) he is holding back information from Chloe so I think he's acting like a shadow. I know he's acting like a shadow because one of the lines in the book  is: "I can always tell when Ross is holding back. A five year-old could figure it out. His eyes darted around the tiny office, looking at everything except me." (pg 55-56, No Escape by Norah McClintock). To me this sounds suspicious and that is what I believe to  be one of the most common characteristics of a shadow. In this particular sentence you can tell that Ross is not the best at being a shadow so I think he will transform throughout the book into one of the archetypes that he is more suited toward (ie. mentor, shape shifter, hero [in his own way]).

Main Character

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In the book I'm currently reading (Break and Enter by Norah McClintock) the main character, Chloe is very determined, intelligent, witty and a bit sarcastic. Chloe is determined cause she can never really catch a break and now that someone is trying to frame her for cheating, vandalism and breaking into a car, she won't allow any thing to stand in the way of proving herself innocent. she uses her intellect to narrow down the suspects and try to bring them to justice. I find her quite witty and sarcastic because a lot of them time she will be sarcastic or think of a saith comment that would be hard to come up with on the top of one's head. To demonstrate her sarcasm I chose the following quot from the book. "Here." I said, taking a sheaf of paper out of my pocket. I was the essay Davis had given me at school. "Add this to your fire." (Norah McClintock, Break and Enter, pg. 124)
      I think that Chloe will find the person who framed her but by doing so she will unravel a bigger mystery about who has been braking into the local cottages and who murdered Stanley Meadows.  I chose this video because in the book on of the things Chloe gets framed for is breaking into a car even though she didn't do it. I know there is bad language in his video however I feel it helps explain my point because the owner of the car is very upset just like Mr.Green in the book.
P.S. I checked with Mrs. McConkey.

What This Reminds Me Of...

In the book I'm currently reading, Break and Enter by Norah McClintock, the main character, Chloe, is walking through the park which is home to many cottages but because its not the summer many of the cottages are empty and as is the road. A pair of sunglasses catches her eye and when she decides to walk up the drive and return them she stumbles upon the died body of Stanley Meadows. This reminds me of when I go up  to my cottage in the winter to check on it. All the other cottages and trailers in the park are empty and closed up and there is never anyone in the park and that's what  I imagine the park that Chloe was in looks similar to. Sometimes when I'm at my cottage I'll see that someone left something they shouldn't have behind just like Chloe saw the pair of sunglasses and thought someone left them behind and she was going to return them.

Review It

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Hi Bloggers! The book I'm currently reading is not my favourite book so I'm going to review another book I've read. This book is called Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The first time I read this book I thought it was awful and kind of disturbing but over the summer I thought I 'd give it another try. I feel in love with it then and even though many people believe it's a bad book  I really like it. It's about a freshman girl named Melinda Sordino who was raped and then called the police at the end of summer party and is now an outcast because many of her friends who were at the party got in trouble because of the under-age drinking that had been happening at the party. In my opinion the topic of teenage outcast and rape is a very hard topic to write about without offending anyone and I think Laurie does a fabulous job of giving emotions, details (but not too many) and describing what Melinda is going through.

Break and Enter

http://www.canadianauthors.net/m/mcclintock_norah/break_and_enter.php  Hey bloggers! I'm now reading another wonderful book by Norah McClintock called Break and Enter. Chloe has all ready gotten herself into trouble by not only lipping off to the new supsitute teacher and having him find a cheat sheet under her desk written in purple ink(the colour she uses) but of course its not hers. Then when the same teacher's car tire is punctured with the same purple pen and she doesn't deny that she did it to all the students congratulating her on her fine work she finds herself being mentioned on the fifth page of the paper. Even Levesque is beginning to have his doubts on whether or not she's guilty. Will our hero be found guilty or not or will she find herself in even more trouble?

scared to death

I have just finished reading Scared to Death by my all time favourite author  Norah McClintock. It is the forth book in the Chloe and Levesque series. in this thrilling adventure Chloe (the main character) tries to unfold the  murder of Tessa Nixon a girl who was found floating upside down in the pond. Many people believe it to be either Tessa's boy friend who she has been fighting with much more recently or Chloe's best friend, Ross, who had had a crush on Tessa for years and had been hanging out with Tessa for the past couple days before the day before her murder when she had said she wasn't interested in him. Chloe wants to believe Ross but at the same time she also wants to believe Jake. She gets herself wrapped up in a bad divorce, creepy men following and murders trying to to the same thing that they did to Tessa to her! She escapes death twice but will they catch up with her again? And will she be to escape it this time?  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/read-up-on-it/015020-025000-e.html

reading quote

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.”

- Edward P. Morgan I chose this quote mostly because I find it just so true. The fact that you can explore thoughts and they can't hurt you even if it turns out it is the worst ever. The fact that no one can bother you in a book and all the stuff in the the book is private even if other people read the same book  they can't know what you're thinking about the book. You can  think whatever you like whether it's inappropriate or not that smart, it is and always will be private. You can do so much with a book and nothing can ever happen no matter what. Your imagination can run wild and a book is the only place where you can do this without you being forced to ask yourself "but if I do that, what will happen".