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Mymuna Hossain                                                                                                        11/17/11

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                                                           Blue is for nightmares

            In the book blue is for nightmares, the main character is Stacey. She is in a boarding school, her dorm roommate is Drea. They have been dorming for over two years together. Stacey always performs rituals and Drea is the best roommate she could have.

            Stacey performs rituals by burning candles, then running her hand around the fire with oil all over her finger. She does all of this so that she can stop having nightmares about Drea. She doesn’t tell her this though. It all started at the beginning of this year, after summer vacation. She thinks that she is able to see the future and does not want to any more. The first time she performed her ritual, it had no effect on the nightmares. She even carved Drea’s initials on it, to stop the nightmares from happening. She found out it was because while she was having the nightmare she through the candle on the floor along with the crystal rock she had. So the candle had not burned all of Dreas initials.     

            That same day Drea had woken her up because she was choking herself on her own. Drea had been shocked of why those nightmares kept on repeating, but Stacey clearly had no answer. Stacey had been wetting her bed, she kept dreaming about how she was being chased by someone, while she heard Drea wailing. Drea hadn’t noticed that at all though.

            I haven’t read the whole book I just started and it seems really interesting. I want to know mostly why? And what? These illusions are. I wished that I had read more but so far I haven’t been resisting text or seeing any of the social action critical thinking questions yet! I am looking forward to reading more so that I will be able to say more too!                  

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Mymuna Hossain                                                                                                          11/3/11

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                                    Social action question # 3: who’s perspective is missing?

Title: Rules Author: Cynthia lord

            In the book, rules by Cynthia lord the main character are Catherine. All she ever wanted was a normal life. Of course she doesn’t get a normal life in her perspective. Her little brother has autism, she has always helped in every way she can. She even wrote down rules for David. I think she has a really normal life and she should be happy.

            The perspective that is missing in this book is their father. He never talks about if he was happy or not. So you can’t really tell if he’s even there for them. We get mostly Catherine’s perspective and how she feels & thinks about stuff. Her mother’s perspective is also visible, and you can see how she feels about her son. The only one who you couldn’t even tell was there was the dad. I think the author wanted his perspective to stay out because it would become a little too emotional. Also Catherine thinks the world only revolves around David but the author probably wanted to keep that out to prove it wrong. That’s why the author also kept the fathers perspective out.

            All in all, the fathers perpective was the one that was missing after all. Authors have a reason for doing what they did. I can only guess and come up with the reason for the missing perspective but I can’t prove why. It was a really good book and I really enjoyed reading this book. I learned so much from characters perpectives. Also I figured out what happens when one of them are missing!