" Matt Cruse has the life he has always dreamed of a cabin boy on the Aurora, a luxury passenger airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean. Then one night he meets the a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creature drifting through the skies who are completely real and utterly mysterious." Just by reading the back cover of the book makes me want to read what the dying balloonist has to say about the creatures no one has even seen

The book I chose for my summer reading project is Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. The main character in my book is a teenage boy named Matt Cruse who works on an Airship who's name has not been mentioned. The main setting of the book takes place on the airship over the pacifucus ocean or on the island that they crash landed on. So the main conflict I am at right now is that the airship just crashed on an island and the reason they crashed is because they were taken over by pirates. When the pirates were leaving the ship they messed with the ships fuel and caused them to lose so much they had to land.

Sunrise Over Fullajah

Sunrise Over Fallujah

Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers. First off this is my favorite book because it just has so much detail about all the little things in this book. I'm not very far right now but I have read it before but I'm reading it again because I just love it so much.

So the main character Robin"birdy" Perry. This girl named Marla in his squad keeps calling him Birdy because of his first name is Robin. Robin doesn't like being called that and he tells her to stop but she doesn't listen. Robin is scared to go into combat but at the same time he wants to go in to Iraq and help out the locals.

Walter Dean Myers writes this with such a way that you never want to put it down! He uses some syntax patterns like anaphora "And now, when I was hearing about the Sunnis being killed ,or the bombs going off in the marketplace, the only thing I could think of was I was so glad is wasnt me lying in the streets of Baghdad, or Fallujah or Mosul. I was glad it was not my blood being cleaned off the streets or getting swept up on the roads out side of the city."(213) This is anaphora because Myers keeps repeating the word I in the paragraph.

Divergent

So right now I am about half way through Divergent. I think it is a really good book and it kind of reminds me of a Hunger Games society.  The vocabulary is pretty much just like a normal conversation so the diction is low. I haven't read a part that has elevated diction. "I think about stepping closer to him not for any practical reason, but just because I want to see what it would be like to stand that close to him; just because I want to"(239) This shows that it is just like a normal conversation but with syntax is it is a long sentence with  30+ words.

Beatrice who renamed herself Tris after she joined a new faction Dauntless. She renamed herself after she was the first jumper from the top of the building which would lead to death if there was no net but they didn't know there was a net.      

During training the group of transfers take a feild trip to the gate. Where Tris sees someone from her old faction and he transferd out too. Some of the meaner people in the group start to pick on Tris for talking to him. While they are obut to leave Four the man incharge on the group pulls Tris aside and tells her to attack first in the fight after she just lost to Peter.  

So I picked up Divergent by Veronica Roth. So far it is about Beatrice. In the world they live in right now there is no war they live only with 5 factions which are; Abnegation who are selfless, Amity who are peaceful, Candor who are honest, Dauntless who are brave, and last Erudite who are intelligent. During the test that the take when they're 16 Beatrice finds out her test resaluts are inconclusive. this means she doesn't belong to a faction. They call these people Divergent. The person that gave her the test is named Tori and she tells Beatrice not to tell anyone ever about the test. Soon she has to chose a new faction what will she choose? Stay in the same one or not.