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“We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It's like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we're somebody totally different.” This relates to you doesn’t it? This quote is one of many quotes that are included in the young adult fiction book, I Will Save You, by Matt De La Peña. Matt De La Peña has also written the books Mexican Whiteboy, The Living, The Hunted, along with many other books. The book I’ve recently been reading, I Will Save You has brought so much life back to reading for me. I couldn’t drop that book because the moment I stopped reading from it was the moment a new surprising cliffhanger came along. This is what the book was all about. Kidd Ellison is struck with a hard life to keep up with. His mother loves him and tries to keep him safe from his abusive father that mistakes love for his fists. Kidd becomes post traumatic after an incident that changes who he is. He comes upon meeting a former surfing star, Mr. Red that usual...

My special item is a pendant on a chain that I received on my baptism when I was a very young baby. It’s really important to me. I always wear it around my neck, it is the one thing that just makes me feel safe anywhere I am. I feel protected with it. My aunt and uncle gave it to me in 2005. In a way it’s like my good luck charm. If I don’t have it on, nothing feels right. I always need it on. I feel blessed to always have it on with me.

The first quarter for me has been a pretty decent quarter. I’ve started the year off on a good note. All my classes were good and my grades were good as well. I could still improve on a little more things to make them even better. For next quarter, I’m going to need to stop with talking and distracting my peers. I need to improve on being more focused. Outside of the classroom I joined the Me to We club and I also made the Varsity school basketball team. I plan and hope that throughout these four quarters I develop into a better learner.

Reading the article, Herd Behavior made me come upon these connections to the book our class recently finished reading, The Outsiders. It made me realize not only how similar the main character Ponyboy was, but the whole Greasers group. Adding onto that, it also made me realize that both the article and The Outsiders book brought some insight to the same theme. That theme was that everybody would follow the group's behaviors. They wouldn't just focus on them, if it involved one of their group members it would involve everyone else part of the group. The article Herd Behavior states, “All of the animals band closely together in a group and, in panic mode, move together as a unit. It is very unusual for a member of the herd to stray from the movement of the unit.” (Paragraph 1)  Throughout the story, no matter what happened, the Greasers always stayed together through everything. All the rough times they went through, they fought those times and got passed them. And all those g...

There is a plethora of similarities between the novel and the movie of The Outsiders. For instance, a similarity between both the novel and movie is that they both began in the same way. Ponyboy was writing in his diary and he began writing down, “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.” In addition, when Johnny was in the hospital, in both the movie and novel they acted out Johnny passing out when he responded to the nurses that for his mom to leave him alone. Moreover, before Johnny passed away, he called Ponyboy and told him to “Stay gold”. Those were his last words to Ponyboy in both the movie and novel. Although, there is also some differences that were in movie and some that were in the novel. Like so, when the novel began, Ponyboy was about to get all his hair cut off by the Socs. But in the movie, it starts off with Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally chasing after some kids that w...