A series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival

This book is called The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket. It's about 3 Baudelaire children wanting to know if one of their parents survived the fire. The oldest Baudelaire children is a girl, named Violet, the second oldest Baudelaire is a boy named Klaus and the last Baudelaire, which is the youngest one is a baby girl named Sunny.

The obstacle that the protagonist goes
The 3 Baudelaires disguised themselves into a freak to go in the carnival so they wouldn't get caught by a villain named Count Olaf and his henchmen.
Violet and Klaus almost got eaten by 3 lions in the pit.

Life of Pi Article #3

                                                                                        The Life of Pi

                

The story I am reading for my book project is called the Life of Pi it has 354 pages and was written by Yann Martel. It tells about how Pi Patel survived on a sailboat with a Bengal Tiger for 227 days. The book is based on true happenings in the past.

Through his journey Pi stumbles upon many obstacles. Pi is forced to fight for life with a tiger during his journey to shore. There are those people who fierce will to live and will overcome every obstacle to succeed this is truly Pi. There's a quote by which I believe Pi Patel lives by. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Throughout Pi’s odyssey on the Pacific Ocean he withstood the dangers of the ocean and weather. He was faced with dehydration, starvation, blindness, loneliness while trying to maintain hope and the will to live. Pi was faced with mental obstacles he had to bare with the death of his family and the decision to kill another animal.     

      

Divergent -Obstacles-

I read a book called “Divergent” by Veronica Roth. This book has 489 pages.

Throughout the book, Tris Prior encountered many obstacles that interfered and changed her life, as well as her understanding of what’s right and what’s wrong.  These obstacles became part of her life and growing up.  These obstacles include her parents’ death, Jeanine Mathews’s plan to overthrow the faction in power and change the order in the society and Dauntless Initiation.

The main obstacle that changed Tris and her parent’s lives is the conspiracy plot of Erudite and their leader Jeanine Mathews to overthrow the faction in power (Abnegation) and change the order in the society by Erudite making alliances with the Dauntless leaders. The plan involved using the Simulation Serum in order to overcome the enemy and speed up their defeat.  Tris finds out about this threat to the society and feels responsible to help. She knows that her actions can save the people and the society she once knew as her home. Therefore, she decides that she must stop the Simulation Serum and defeat Jeanine Mathews’s plan.

Another obstacle in Tris’s life, on a more personal level, was the tragic death of her parents, which itself came as a result of Erudite plan to overthrow the government. For the purpose of defeating Jeanine Mathews and Erudite and for the purpose of saving the society, Tris’s father and mother both sacrificed their lives.  This was a personal loss and defeat of Tris and had a huge impact on her life. The main issue for her was whether her parents’ life was worth less than the society.  

The final obstacle that she encounters is the envy of another initiate that she encounters when she commits herself to Dauntless as her new faction. After choosing Dauntless as her new faction, Tris and the other initiates started Dauntless initiation training to become stronger fighters. As soon as Tris became better and higher ranked on the Dauntless score board, Peter, another initiate from Candor, became jealous of her and worried that he would get outranked by her. He immediately turned against her and tried to make her life miserable. This is an obstacle for Tris because aside from Jeanine’s plan and surviving Dauntless initiation, Tris has to save herself from Peter. An example of Peter’s actions against Tris would be when he and his gang of friends attacked her and tried to throw her off a chasm, in the hopes of killing her and becoming top of the score board. This is an obstacle for her on a personal level, since she became aware that aside from fighting the external enemy she had to fear and fight the enemy from her own faction.  

Percy Jackson Lightning Theif- Aleksa D

The author of this book is Rick Riordan. This book has 377 pages, it is a really good book because their are a lot of unexpected moments. Percy goes through a lot of obstacles to find out who actually stole the lightning bolt. He fights mythical creatures like Hades with his friends. 

Grimm Sisters

Hi everybody!

The book I am reading is named Grimm Sisters. It is written by Micheal Buckley. The book has 284 pages. The main characters in the book is Sabrina and her sister, Daphne. They are Orphans. The problem is that their parent disappeared when they were young and then they had to go to a women that the police says is their grandmother. Sabrina And Daphne's parents said that they don't have any relatives. When Sabrina and Daphne meet their grandmother they discover she is a detective. The obstacle is that Sabrina and Daphne still don't know if they should trust the women or not. This also leads to their adventure and chances of finding their parents.

Obstacles-Ender's Game

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

There is 384 pages in this book.

Obstacles

Having to choose to stay with the family or to help defend the world from buggers (aliens). He was given a choice to stay with his family or to defend the world when he was extremely qualified for the job, as tested by the Space force army in the end he decides to go with the army, into space. Another thing is when he shows superiority in skills at the school and totally destroys the others in mock combat (the people are 5 years older). One of them tries to kill him, so that Ender wont mock him anymore.

Protagonist Obstacles

Alex Nedera
Ms. Sonja
Language and Literature 6B
22/2/2015

In the story "Saxon Tales" the protagonist, Uthred has to reach many difficult decisions and is faced with betrayals by close friends. For example, Uthred was relaxing in his hall, when a horseman appeared and asked if Uthred wished to join the Danish force of vikings that were pillaging England. An hour later, another horseman arrived asking if Uthred wished to join England's defense. In the end, Uthred sided with the Brits. Afterwards, a slave Uthred rescued became king and needed troops. Uthred and Guthred (The Slave King) become close friends and so Uthred offers Guthred his soldiers, however Guthred said he needed more so he begged Uthred's uncle, Aethelred. Aethelred despises Uthred and so in return for his Aethelred's fighters Guthred must sell Uthred into slavery. These are some examples of obstacles Uthred faces in his adventures.

Gully's Travels

             







The book that I am reading is name Gully's Travels. Gully's Travels has around 170 pages. It was published on September 1, 2008.  Gully's Travels was written by Tor Seildler.  This Blog is about the main character of this story. The main character of this story is Gully who is a purebred Lhasa Aposo. He lives with his single professor with the best food and best everything.  His professor falls in loved with a women who is allergic to long hair dogs. Then everything changes. Now Gulliver has a lot of challenges to face. This main character Gully goes through changes that no one never did. He has to go from the best things to dry food. He wants some of his old life to come back so he go to a lot of travels. But he does not realize he might stay there for his rest of his life.  

Accomplice - The obstacles the protagonist goes through

        The title of my book is "Accomplice". The author of the book is Eireann Corrigan. The book has 296 pages.
        The two protagonists in this book are Chloe and Finn. They go through some big obstacles throughout the book. The best friends Chloe and Finn decide to stage a kidnapping so they will get more attention. In the beginning it's a bit confusing weather they are the protagonists or antagonists.
        They had to of course figure out how to hide Chloe (the victim). Then they had to be very careful so no one would find Chloe. People would think that Chloe had actually been kidnapped, so they had to make sure that no one would figure out that they were staging the kidnapping. All these things are hard to do and it slows down what they are doing. Later on when things happen that they did not think of or expect they get even more obstacles. For example, innocent people start getting arrested, they empty their lake. They also have to lie to reporters and their family about a very big deal, which is not always easy.
        So, in this book the protagonists, Chloe and Finn, go through some big obstacles.


     

Touching Spirit Bear: What are the obstacles that the protagonist goes through?

The protagonist in this book, as you might know if you read my previous blog, is a 16 year old boy called Cole Mathews. I have read 112 pages so far and that just concluded the first part of the book. Now will come the second part. The author is Ben Mikaelsen. With that out of the way lets talk about the obstacles that the protagonist of this book goes through...

Cole Mathews is, as we know, a 16 year old boy who has committed many crimes. With only that said we could think of law as an obstacle for him. The law sent him to an island where he would be all alone and learn how to behave better. On that island he faced a lot of obstacles so far. Since he is all alone and there is no human on the island, the only possible obstacles that could come would be from nature and the animals. That was the case! But, it wasn't only nature that put out the obstacles that Cole needed to go through. Cole didn't realise it, but he also contributed. The first thing he did when he came to the island is try to escape by swimming. Nothing happened because while swimming he didn't move at all because of the waves. He was exhausted and came back to the island. Cole needed to rest on the beach because he burned down his shelter down before. It was all because of anger. From that moment everything went downhill for him. Cole went unconscious and nature "attacked" with constant rain. Not only that, but the spirit bear appeared and Cole did a really stupid by trying to kill it. The bear attacked and won the battle against Cole. He had almost no chance of surviving. He had a lot of broken bones and couldn't even move. With the rain it was even worse. We will see how he overcomes his struggles on the island in the continuation of the book.

The Maze, Will Hobbs

Page 135

The main character Rick stayed in the Maze, part of the National Park in Utah with biologist Lon. Every day is full of adventures with different birds they try to feed and save from hard life in wild. Being runway Rick is always scared that someone will find him and take him back to the detention camp. One day ranger came to their camp and he is very scared ranger is after him. The ranger was only interested to tell them about his problems and to hear about what they were doing. Rick was nervous until he was gone. He could feel free and happy only with two of them and the birds they were taking care off.

 

 

The Return of the King-Protagonist

The protagonist of the book is Frodo Baggins. He has to go through tough times to save the world. Frodo has to throw the ring of power into the volcano. Before though, he goes through the dark land Mordor to even get close to the mountain. The land is full of orcs, fumes, Sauron(the anatogonist) and the ringwraiths. He also goes through greed because when he gets to the mountain, he tells his companion, Sam, that he wants to keep the ring for himself. But he overcomes that and survives.










Here is a picture of Frodo

Protagonists's hardships in Shivers - Ghost Writter

Shivers - Ghost Writer
M.D.Spenser

           I've changed my book and in this book the main character is Amber Elliston. She is 12 years old and loves her life. It's hard to imagine that people who love their lives still face hardships in life but it happens even to the greatest of souls, so why wouldn't Amber face hardships. She did face hardships and here they are.

           First she has to move to a new town which means leaving her friends, next she sees crazy scary things and her car runs into a tree in her trip to Jackson, Georgia. Once she is there she gets pranked by her brother. Later that night she sees an old witch, she later discovers that that witch is really her aunt Ms. Mc Afee. She goes deeper into all of this and discovers secrets that were beyond imagination of the reader and the main character herself.


  

Obstacles the Protagonist Goes Through-Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons

351 pages
Arthur Ransome  

      
     The  obstacles that the protagonists have to go through in the book Swallows and Amazons are all because of Captain Flint. That is why the four adventurous Swallows team up with two tomboys the Amazons in alliance against the hated Captain Flint (who is also the uncle of the two Amazons). Captain Flint is the antagonist in the story because he keeps blaming the four innocent Swallows for messing with his houseboat (which he stays in in the summer) and he has the entire area believing that they are the guilty ones. For example on the day that the Swallows set sail to their 'desert island' early on in the book they saw the captain waving his fist at them as they passed. He told every body that the Swallows had set of fireworks off on his roof, but in reality it wasn't them. Events like this  go on for a while until Captain Flint's house boat is robbed! The boat was completely turned upside down with his important work stolen. For the crime he blamed the Swallows again, even though they are innocent. To prove themselves innocent they have to find the stolen treasure and return it. These are the main obstacles, but the four children also had  some problems with the Amazons during all of this...
     The Swallows had some issues with their allies before their alliance. The Amazons started of as enemies before they managed to get together and talk with the Swallows. The Amazons were also the ones that caused all these major problems for the Swallows, they were the ones that stole feathers from Captain Flint's houseboat, they were the ones setting of the fireworks on his roof but they were not the ones who stole the important work. Along with raiding the Captain's houseboat they also raided the Swallows camp and tried to shoot them with their arrows, for the two tomboys were the first ones to stay on Wild Cat Island (the island were the four Swallows were staying) and wanted to keep it to themselves (even though they were not there at the time the four were staying there). But luckily the new campers had enough sense to  talk their problems out instead of fight, and that was when the alliance against Mr. Flint was formed.

Obstacles & Protagonists

Mr. Lemoncello's library

 The title of this book is called "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library. The book has 288 pages and the author is called Chris Grabenstein. There are about 15 Characters in this book, and 
the main Character is Kyle Keeley and his friend Akimi. The obstacles in this book are that Mr.       Lemoncello opened a new library where everything works with tablets, computers, and                     Electronics.  And the obstacle is that there were 12 students who won an essay writing competition and the were allowed to sleep in the library but when they woke up in the morning, everything was closed and all the doors were locked. By a speaker, Mr. Lemoncello told them that they have to figure out, how to escape from his library.The 12 students made up two different groups and they all wanted to win this game. Mr. Lemoncello said that the person who wins the Competition, will be his speaking model and will get popular. So the obstacles are basically the students against each other and the library against the students. The protagonists are Kyle Keeley, Akimi, Miguel and Sierra Russels.  

Treasure island blog #2

The book that I read is called Treasure Island and the author is Robert Louis Stevenson. It has 215 pages and I have finished reading it. The only main obstacle that the main character passes through is that he was captured by the pirates and he had to kill pirates so they could escape from them.   

Life of Pi Post # 2

The life of pi was written as a biography of Pi patels adventure as the author listened to Pi Patel himself explain the events which occurred during this story.

The story begins on July 2, 1977 and continues for 277 days. Throughout the story Pi patel and Richard Parker travel through many places. The story starts of in Pi’s home in Pondicherry, India. Then he departs on a boat to leave to Toronto through the pacific ocean. Then Pi ends up with Richard and they travel in the Pacific ocean on a lifeboat for a very long time. Eventually they travel to Tomatlan, Mexico and shortly to Toronto, Canada during the end of the story

In this story there are 3 main conflicts Man vs Self, Man vs Society and Man vs Nature. Throughout the novel pi is constantly struggling with himself. He must make the decision which is more important either for him to stay alive or remain true to his soul as well as him having to deal with the recent death of his family. Pi is forced to study and practice multiple religion from a very young age he must face all discrimination against him because he practices multiple religions and this is why it is also Man vs Society. Lastly when pi leaves Canada he is left alone started in sea with a life boat and a tiger. He has to  face harsh conditions and fight to survive try to find food to feed him. He faces hunger and thirst. He has to fight against nature which has take everything away from him including his family

Savvy blog post #2 OBSTACLES

Savvy

The book I read savvy was a great book the author is Ingrid Law I finished reading this book and it has 341 pgs.

Obstacles:

From this story I can recall 2 major obstacles the Protagonist Mibs had to overcome. One of the obstacles would be her dad having the terrible car accident putting him in a life threatening coma. The thing that makes such a tragedy is that it is a day right after Mibs the protagonist most special 13^th birthday making it really unbelievable and hard for her.

The second: Obstacle is that Mibs just had her 13^th birthday meaning that she would get her savvy/super ability and since her dad just had a tragedy she really wants to help out, “I wouldn't blame her because I would want to do the same for my dad”. So as she sleeps, she dreams that her power will most definitely be a power that can save her dad's life. So she got so confident that she sneaks out into a bus that she assumes will take to the location of her dad hoping to use her savvy on him to save him. But the bus wasn't really heading to her dads location which is Salina Hope Hospital instead the bust goes somewhere else and something happened on that bus ride that changed all the lives on it. But all I can say is that it was on that bus ride that she learned that her savvy was the ability to talk to people made of ink so basically talking to tattoos was her savvy.

"If you want to find out the life changing event on the bus read the book" 

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