dreamland

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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:19:01 +0100

Novel: I really liked this book. It had a really neat story line, that was easy to follow and kept you trying to guess what would happen next. So many crazy situations happened in this novel that actually happen to girls everyday. It's unbelievable all the stuff she went through, and to think that it actually happens to people, today, is upsetting. Sarah Dessen (the author) made this novel very realistic and easy to see that this story could be in real life. I highly recommend to read it-mostly teenage girls- because i'm sure you will enjoy it.

Halee's Novel: The Lovely Bones. I am unsure if i would or would not read this book. It seems very interessting to me, but at the same time i don't know if i want to read a bout a girl you got raped and then chopped into a million pieces. The story line in it seems like it would be a good book.

Emilie's Novel: Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen. I would be interested in reading this book. It seems like a neat story line, how two people old and young work together to achieve their dreams. It sounds fun to read.

Chapter 15

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:53:52 +0100

Chapter Sumarry: Caitlin is finally ready to move back in at home now. Evergreen has helped her, and now she's ready to start her life again. Before she leaves she takes a picture of herself now, she looks like a normal teenage girl. Her bruises are gone, she's smiling, her sking has colour, she's wearing a red t-shirt, and she's happy. She goes home to find all her close family and friends throw a welcome home party, and the someone she hasn't seen in a while steps out of the crowd.
Main Characters: Caitlin, her mother, father, Boo, Stewart, Rina, and the special someone.
Character Developement: Caitlin is back on track to a normal, good life. She has been on a rollercoaster this year, and is finally back to a normal teenage girl.
Setting: Mostly Caitlin's home.
Quote: "Caitlin." The someone Cass had been waiting to hear her name called by, had said this to her when she finally gotr home.
Vocabulary:hoisting-to raise or lift.
mosaic-a picture or decoration made of small coloured pieces of glass, picture or stone.

Chapter 14

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:29:57 +0100

Chapter Summary: Caitlin had now been there for a month. Her mother decided to bring her mail. She had a pile of it, but the two most important were from Corinna and Cass. Corinna apologized for not telling her about her moving away, she told her what a great friend she was. Cass had plenty to say, that really helped Caitlin.
Main Characters: Cailtin, cass, Corinna, her mother.
Character Developement: She is finally coming back around to normal. Still struggling but doing much better.
Setting: evergreen Centre.
Quote: "Coming here was like starting from scratch, and scary as it is sometimes, I like it." Cass wrote this in her letter to Caitlin. She didn't regret leaving, she always envied her because she could make her choices, where as Cass's were her parent's.
Vocabulary: Perception-awareness, sense, recognition.
Fringes-members of a group holding extreme views.

Chapter 13

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:19:13 +0100

Chapter Summary: Caitlin got put in the Evergreen Centre. it was a place where they help people with different problems: Depression, drugs, addictions, abuses, and such. they are allowed to have visitors every Wednesday and Sunday. Cailtin always had a different visitor. It would either be Rina, her mother, her father, Boo, or Stewart.
Setting: evergreen Centre.
main Characters: Caitlin, Rina, her mother, her father, Boo, Stwart, and Caitlin's doctor.
Character Develpement:Caitlin is recovering well, but for some reason, she still misses Rogerson.
Quote; "Rogerson did," I told her. "rogerson knew everything." Caitlin's doctor asked her to satrt her story anywhere. She asked the doctor if she knew the name of Pymalion's sister. The doctor, surprised, said she didn't know, and Caitlin told her this.

Chapter 12

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:06:45 +0100

Chapter Summary: on the day of their Fool's Party, Rina dame to Caitlin's house and told her that she was "kidnapping" her for the afternoon (to her cabin) untill the party. Her mother told her to go, but she was supposed to get together with Rogerson, like everyday. She tried to call him, but he didn't pick up so she went. Rina's boyfriend drove Caitlin home, to find Rogerson waiting. He was so furious, that he beat her untill her mother, then the whole party saw. She was lying in the grass, bruised, and kicked. The police came for Rogerson.
Main Characters: Rina, Caitlin, Rogerson, Jeff (Rina's boyfriend), Caitlin's mother and father, boo, Stewart, and the people at their party.
Character Developement; Now everyone knows what was wrong with her, and we are still waiting to see how she took it.
Setting: Rina's cabin, caitlin's house 9the party).
Quote: "I was worn out, broken: he had taken almost everything. But he had been all I had, all this time." even though he hurt her so much, she still wanted him, didn't want the police to take him away.
Vocabulary: Bleak- cold and piercing.
Discards-to throw out.

Chapter 11

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:08:17 +0100

Chapter Summary: One day Cass called when Caitlin was home alone. Caitlin ignored her and then hung up. She later went to Corinna's house to find her and dave fighting. She then went home and her mother sensed something wrong. Caitlin was going to tell her about the abuse, her life, until her mother gave her a beautiful green dress to wear to their Fools Party. Her mother only thought she wasn't interested in colours anymore (since she only wore black now).
Main Characters: Cass, Caitlin, her mother, Corinna and dave.
Character Developement: Caitlin is confused, she wants to tell her secret, but can't at the same time because she loves Rogerson.
Setting: Corinna and Dave's house, and her house.
Quote: "I still do," she thought."Look here, on the back of my wrists, those two spots the size of my fingertips. Or here, at the base of my back. That's blue too." Caitlin thought this as her mother said how nice she used to look in blue, but now only wears black. And she thoght to herself that she still does, with all the blue bruises.
Vocabulary:Chancellor-secretary to noble or monarch.Lull-to put to sleep.

Chapter 10

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:38:25 +0100

Chapter Summary: Rogerson's beating is becoming worse and worse. The little slap on the face Caitlin got from him has turned into pulling of her hair, full contact, pushing, and kicking. She always has some bruises on her. If she talks to anyone, especially men, she gets abused. Really only Rina and Boo think somethings wrong, but they don't suspect anything of it. She feels like the gap her sister made with her absense, she's just falling into it, deeper and deeper. She got kicked off the cheerleading squad, her abuse, the smoking, her sister finally calling, but she won't talk because she'll know something's wrong.
Main Characters: Caitlin, Rogerson, Rina, Boo, and the cheerleading squad.
Character Developement:Caitlin is being more and more invisible. She's not herself anymore, she's not anyone, she's falling deeper and deeper into a black hole.
Setting: Caitlin's high school, and her home.
Quote: "When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it, I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up..." I feel sorry for her, she can't get out of being such an invisible person, stuck in this gap, and you want to help her but just can't.
Vocabulary: Uppity- an attitude of snobbish, or inflated self-esteem.
Trigonometry- the branch of math that deals with angles.

chapter 9

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:21:29 +0100

Chapter Summary: Caitlin, Boo, and her mother have their last photography class. Her mother is in such a good mood lately since talking to Cass on the phone. They showed their last pictures that show their relationships. Caitlin did a photo of Rogerson, and Mathtew thought it was really good. As Caitlin was waiting for Rogerson to pick her up, her and Matthew were talking and then they shook hands and wished eachother a Merry Christmas. Rogerson saw them shaking hands and he got really mad and abused Caitlin again. This time it was so bad her parents saw and she said that she slipped.
Main Characters: Caitlin, Matthew, Boo. her mother, her father, and Rogerson.
Character Developpement: Caitlin feels like she should tell, but for some reason can't. She really needs her sister to lean on right now.
Setting: The art studio.
Quote: "He really hurt me, Cass. It still hurts now..." Caitlin wrote this to her sister Cass in the journal she gave her.
Vocabulary: inevitable-unable to avoid.
eccentricity-strangeness, oddness, the amount by which someone is eccentric/

Chapter 8

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:21 +0100

Chapter Summary: Caitlin had been spending a lot od time with Corinna. She found that they had a lot in common. One day during her photography class in the supermarket with Boo and her mother, Caitlin took one photo of an old women that both her and the teacher were really proud of. It was the day of the Winter Athletic Ceremony, and Rina was having a rough day because she had two boyfriends, and her one Bill, saw her and the other Jeremy together. Caitlin decided to stay with Rina instead of meeting Rogerson. But after the Ceremony, on their drive home, she found out it was a big deal, as he hit her across the face. She didn't have anyone to tell, as her parents were busy finally talking on the phone to Caitlin, so she went to Corinna's work (Applabees) to see her there.
Main Characters: Caitlin, her parents, Rogerson, Corinna, and Rina.
Character Developpement: Caitlin is now confused after what Rogerson did. She has no sister to tell, and she couldn't tell a friend or family. I think she is feeling sort of lost.
Setting: Mostly at the hihg school for the ceremony.
Quote:"But I couldn't tell her. Instead, i just let her walk me to the bar and sit me down before she wrapped her arms around me, drawing my face to her shoulder. She smelled like fried food and grilled peppers as she drew her fingers through my hair, telling me it was alright, all right now." This is what Corinna did as she saw Caitlin's swollen eye. It was nice because she kind of acted like the sister Caitlin didn't have right now.
Vocabulary: pinprick-little puncture made by pin like needle.
peril-exposure to danger

Chapter 7

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:37:09 +0100

Chapter Summary: Rogerson picked Caitlin up after cheerleading practice, like the usual, and then drove her home. At home her mother and Boo were trying to find some kind of hobbie for Caitlin'd mother to do. They picked photography, and Caitlin agreed to do the class with them. People like Mike and her other friend Kelly keep telling her that Rogerson isn't a very good kid, but she won't believe it because she loves him. Then when Rogerson comes to pick her up for a date, her parents think it's time they met this boy. He surprises everyone including Caitlin her parents and her neoghbours by knowing absoloutely everything. After meeting her parents, they went to Rogerson's friends house, Corrina and Dave, and Caitlin seems to really like Corinna.
Main Characters: Caitlin, her friends, her neighbours, Rogerson, and his friends.
Character Developpement: She is still feeling like herself everyday, but is drifting more and more from cheerleading and the kids she called her friends.
Setting:Mostly Caitlin's house, and Corinna and Dave's farm house.
Quote: "I'm a cheerleader," i said,"And i hate it." Caitlin said this to Corinna when Corinna said she wanted to be a cheerleader. She had never told anyone else, and it's interessting because even though she hates it, Caitlin is still doing it for everyone else, but not for herself. She didn't even expect herself to say that/
Vocabulary: Circumnavigate- to sail or to fly around
Constellation- any various group of stars