Plot For Seriously I'm Kidding

       I am up to page 57 in Seriously I'm Kidding and have realized something. There is no plot or characters. That is because Ellen Degeneres, the author, didn't write a fictional book with characters. The characters are the people she sees everyday and herself. She is basically writing about herself and anything that has happened to her that is comedic. Her main goal of the book was to bring people joy and entertainment by reading something that is funny and you don't take serious. That's probably why people choose to read this book to relax, laugh, and not have to get emotional about characters in a silly fictional book. I recommend reading this book, even from just explaining the plot only.

Seriously I'm Kidding

      You may have heard of Ellen Degeneres from her show Ellen Degeneres. She is at it again with hr book Seriously I'm Kidding.  Her book consists of many little chapters where she talks about many different things that we can relate to. I have read to page 33. The chapters within these pages are: Writing This Book,  CoverGirl, Stuff, Personally Speaking The Secret of Life, The Secret of Life-Part Two, and Thunderclap: A Short Short Story. 

      I would say my favorite chapter was CoverGirl, because she tells you these ways to be a supermodel and they are like ridiculous things. Basically, the whole book consists of satire. She is sarcastic and just makes jokes about her life and really anything. 

Fahrenheit 451

         In Fahrenheit 451, I have started the book before thanksgiving break and have read to the second part. In the first part, the story begins with the setting at a firehouse, but no ordinary firehouse. Firemen are supposed to extinguish fire's right? Not in this book. The government has banned all books and now firemen are burning any book they see. Guy montag is the main character here. He has been working there for 10 years now and seems to know everything about burning books and loves his job, until montag is called to a house with a book citing.

           He is forced to burn every book the homeowner has, which is a heaping pile, and the homeowner refuses to leave. His rules state to light the entire house up and anything inside it, including people. Montag is now sick of that scene he had done the niht before and has taken something back with him that could get him in major trouble. His wife finds the book he has hidden behind his pillow from the night before and is very scared what might happen is Captain Beatty finds it too. which is coinsidence since he is there wondering why montag didnt go to work. Beatty leaves and Montag leads his wife to the opening of an air vent and shows his wife something that nobody could have ever guessed about Montag.
 

Reflection

I chose A Link Between Gossip Girl and Life to exemplify as my best blog post. This is becasue I linked Gossip Girl to what it would be like in everyday life and even at your own school. I felt like this related and met the requirements most to having our first post be related to life in some way. Also, in my blog I felt like I tried to make the blog posts about some of the rubric requirements and even some different topics, like grammar. I think I stuck more to analyizing over a couple chapters and characters then to putting more effort in the harder things like theme and book recomendations, just to make the whole thing easier. Over time though, I must admit that I got lazy and didnt want to read this book anymore or post.

During writing my blog, I had struggles with was figuring out what to write about half the time. Like some days i would have a really good section i wrote about and then the next week i had a section in the book that i had a hard time to write about in some way. I just overcame it by looking at the rubric and choosing something to writy eabout it with and maybe putting a picture in to just make it seem not so empty. Although I was really good at putting pictures in to realte to what I talked about. It seeemed easy to link anything to a picture.

Friends?

Are Serena And Blair Friends? Well, Blair has been dogding Serena sometimes, and just doesnt feel like friends with her still. Especially since she just ran off and didnt talk to her the whole time she was gone. Now Blair is throwing a huge party and Serena isnt invited. Will they ever be back to normal?

S is Back!

     Serena Van Der Woodsen is back at Constance Billard School for Girls! She has showed up, late, underdressed and in a new uniform that stood out from the rest of the seniors. This because the girls get to switch to a blue skirt from a tunic, and keep their skirts for the rest of their school years. Therefore, they are all so short. So when Serena walked in with a brown tunic that was to her knees she was noticeable.

Does grammar change...?

Does grammar change in all books when they talk about Blogs? In Gossip Girl, it'll switch to about 2 chapters then go to Gossip Girl's blog. Yet the grammar doesn't change on her website. For instance, text language. Lol, c u l8ter, etc.

 She doesn't talk like that though. Also, Cecily von Ziegesar's grammar is pretty good, considering she is talking in 3rd person.

gossipgirl.net

I still don't know who gossip girl is on her blog, because she talks o=about everyone that I know in the book and I have no suspicions.

 Is it a girl from school? Or maybe its Blair or Serena but mentions herself to get out of the clues to lead to her. I also want to know if she is specificly spying on the girls, like who sees B's mother holding hands with her new bf. I mean really, talk about creeper.

Characters throughout the book.

   So far in the book, Cecily Von Ziegesar has introduced a handful of characters. The main characters are Blair Waldorf, Serena van der Woodsen and Nate. Some other characters are their mothers and Blaire's friends from Hanover Academy, her school.

 

 

   Blair Waldorf is a regular rich, pretty brunette that lives in a penthouse Upper East Side New York. She went to a rich school and was popular with lots of friends, got to do whatever she wanted, as long as she kept up her appearance and reputation, and had a boyfriend she could do anything with. She has everything.

 

   Now Serena is the complete same as Blair but has had many more boys to hook up with, yet she is madly in love with Blair's boyfriend, Nate. She also gets in trouble alot more than Blair, there fore causing herself to be kicked out of her new traveling, boarding school that she left to attend two summers ago.

 





Geting closer to Blaire Waldorf.

       Have you ever wondered what Blaire felt like when Serena came back? Imagine your best friend right now and you do every single thing together. Then she moves somewhere and is traveling the world while studying and that's her new school. While she's gone you and your boyfriend get closer now that she is gone since your boyfriend and best friend had a special something and you and her lost touch and you are not her friend anymore because she hasn't called you back or anything. A summer passes by and you and your boyfriend are closer than ever and at a your mom's dinner party one night, your ex-best friend is back. Almost instantly your frozen from shock while your boyfriend practically runs to her. You would feel horrible right? That;s pretty much what Blaire felt like.

Conflict in Gossip Girl

I have read to page 39 in Gossip Girl A Novel and there seems to be some conflict for Blaire. Ever since Serena has been back she has been stuffing her face just to not talk to her and that's not what Blaire does. Especially after she made her self throw up the food after wards. Talk about YUCK! Any way, I think the rest of the plot is going to be about Blaire having to deal with having her ex-bestfriend back again, while her boyfriend is in love with her but won't com out and say it because he is dating Blaire and likes her too.

A Link Between Gossip Girl and Life

 Have you ever noticed that one girl who just walked in to your class on the first day of school and just sit right next to the cute guy you were eyeing and deciding to sit next to and just starts talking to him like no big deal? She looks like she has been at the beach all summer long and is wearing possibly the smallest size and lastest trend that you were saving babysitting money for. That is exactly what Serena van der Woodsen is in Gossip Girl. She is the girl who went away to a boarding school, came back this year, probably got kicked out of boarding school, and is just crushing your dreams like an everyday mean girl in an everyday highschool. Although in Gossip Girl, every character is rich and they go to a fancy highschool, it still is surreal. Gossip Girl also relates to the movie Mean Girls, because the mean girl, Regina George, is the girl who stole her friend's boyfriend, but the friend is still Regina's friend because Regina is popular, and so is Serena. But don't let those girls get you down, because I think farther in the book, Serena loses her popularity and Blair takes over.

First Post About: Gossip Girl A Novel

      I have started reading the book Gossip Girl A Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar. With reading the back, for a view of what it will be about before I start it, it talks about how there is a girl that is back from boarding school and they call her S. It is in the perspective of someone typing a blog and goes by gossip girl and that how that if she, and possibly her friends that are close to her, don't be careful, S could be the girl that fits into the dress that you couldn't and steal your brother's and boyfriend's heart away from you. It seems to me like S could be your, as the reader, enemy that always out do's you and makes you strive to beat each other at everything; so realistic to world we live in today. It makes me wonder though is why S left to go to boarding school. I also have read a few pages and am very interested in how Blair and Nate's relationship will work out and how S is going to act since Nate is in love with her.