Fleabrain Loves Franny

I loved reading this book! I couldn't wait to finish it, and now I did. Franny is stronger now, she can't walk yet, but she's better. Fleabrain took her on more adventures like shrinking to his size so she can know his world and he took her through all the 7 wonders of the world in one night. It's Franny's birthday and she is inviting some friends over, like her best friend Walter Walter, Katy and Teresa (the girl who thought she was contagious). Fleabrain and Franny shrink Nurse Olivegarten temporally but they regret it later when they discover there's no instant cure for it. She had a little fight with Fleabrain and they stop talking and spending time together. Fleabrain tries to reach Franny with his letters but she isn't responding to any of them. One day Franny starts to miss Fleabrain and she wants to be his friend again. They become friends again but they don't talk as much as they did before. Franny tries to go back to her old school but they say she can't assist anymore because she's in a wheelchair and the school is not designed for wheelchairs. Alf is scratching a lot and Franny's parents suspect he has fleas and they are about to put a flea spray that kills all fleas and Franny is worried about Fleabrain dying because of the spray, but luckily he doesn't die. At the end, Franny goes to the front of her old school and protests because she can't assist there. Now everyone understands that Franny isn't contagious and that they can get close to her without catching Polio as well. Some scientists finally discover a cure for Polio.

"Spring had always meant hope to Franny, for good times and imagined beginnings." (Rocklin 183)

This quote is really important in the book. It shows how Franny is starting to feel like she can do anything she can to feel better and recover soon. Before she had just wished that she got better, now she has hope and she is sure that she will be better really soon and that she can go back to do the things she did before she caught Polio. This happened when Franny knew that some scientist found a vaccine that would help cure Polio and all of Franny's family was happy about that. Unfortunately, the vaccine had to be tested in order to be able to sell it and for people to use it without having any colateral damage later.  However, it was too late now, for Franny to take the vaccine, there was nothing she could do at this point. everyone was upset that the cure wasn't found before so Franny could get cured faster. Franny got a little mad because she felt that she was never going to get better, but she had hope and she knew, even though sometimes she thought she couldn't, that she would get better. Her family tried to help her by telling her that the exercises that Nurse Olivegarten made her do to get better. It is important in Franny's recovery that her family is there for her when she needs them and that they will help her understand what she's going through.

"He was happy for her. Oh, he was so happy for her. He was happy" (Rocklin 224)

This quote is when Francine and Fleabrain fight. Fleabrain missed Franny very much and he missed the moments he spent with her. He wrote a lot of letters to her, hoping for an answer but he didn't get one, Franny didn't answered to his many letters, she was sad. Fleabrain wasn't angry, he just missed her, she was a true friend to him. They were so close, it hurt having to lose contact with someone that close to you, specially when you care about that person, you care about him/her so much, that even though you two are in a fight, you want the other person to be happy and you wish them the best, even when you don't admit you do. That's how important friendship is, your true friends will always treat you well and they will always care for you, if they aren't your true friends they wont'c care if you are mad with them because they don't value your friendship, unlike true friends who will always appreciate you for who you are inside. Those are the ones you have to stick with because those are the ones that will never let you down, those friends are the ones YOU can't lose and you have to take care of them because they have value in your life.







I chose to include this specific picture because it relates to Franny's situation. she is ill, but if there's a "we" in her life, she will get better, as it explains in the picture. That "we" is the support all of us need to move on and go forward.








I'm really glad about how the book ended. Franny is stronger than ever. She has a strong character and that's what matters in life. Franny has showed me that you don't have to give up and that even in the toughest moments in your life, you have to keep your chin up and, the most important, never lose hope because with hope you will find a solution to the problems you thought were impossible to solve. At the end, Franny and Fleabrain reconcile and they go back to being friends again. I really hope that Franny fully recovers from Polio and that she can go back to normal as she wanted. I'm also glad that medicine has advanced because now it is less probable that someone with Polio dies or never fully recovers than back to the time when Franny lived. I think that medicine is one of the biggest progresses that our world has been successful with. Something I learned with this book is that friendship can make a stormy weather feel like a calm sunset in the sea shore. It also taught me that I have to value my friends because one day I may lose them, and I will not like how that feels. I really recommend this book because it teaches you many things, like the importance of friendship and little moments.

Fleabrain Loves Franny

Spider Charlotte's web dedicated to her Wilbur, her pig friend.

Fleabrain Loves Franny is a book wrote by Joanne Rocklin, it's about a girl named Franny Katzenback who lives in Pittsburgh and has Polio, in 1952. She starts receiving notes from a flea that lives in Alf's tail (Alf is Franny's dog) named Fleabrain, he is like her Charlotte from Charlotte's Web (Franny's favorite book). Franny returned to her house after being in treatment for her illness and when she finally meets Fleabrain, they go on  marvelous adventures together. Nurse Olivegarten was Franny's nurse who was sure that her treatment will make Franny walk again and get rid of her wheelchair but Franny thinks that the treatment is painful and she doesn't like to do it. The first adventure Franny and Fleabrain had was when Fleabrain took Franny in a magical horse ride because Franny had never tried a ride in a horse before, and she couldn't try it now because of Polio but Fleabrain used his FB Saliva #1 to make Franny able to ride a horse in the middle of a night through the sky. Nurse Olivegarten always wanted Franny to show everyone her progress but franny wasn't comfortable with that, at least not under that kind of pressure, but she did insist her sister Min to let her walk a bit, even though she couldn't do it.

"Franny's heart ached. Loneliness hurt." (Rocklin 77)

 The previous quote shows a moment when Franny is feeling sad. 'Loneliness hurt', that's what Franny felt, loneliness, before she had Polio she had many friends, and they played with her outside and they were kind. Everything changed when she went back home, they didn't played with her anymore, she couldn't play the things they played, she was in a wheelchair now and she was far from walking and running. Some of her old friends said that she was contagious so if they touched her, they would have Polio too. Fleabrain wanted to end that loneliness and that's why he used magic to make Franny happy, but he didn't realized that that's not the only thing she needed to reencounter the joy in her life. Franny also felt bad because of her sister, who had always been the "saint" one, but Franny knew that she was no saint and that she was just pretending to be good to Franny because she was sick. But later she discovers that Min really cared about her and although she wasn't saint she still cared a lot about her younger sister. Sister Ed, she was what Franny missed the most from the Children's Hospital. She was a kind nurse that motivated Franny and she helped her through hard times during her recovery, it was hard for both them having to say goodbye after such memorable days at the hospital. Now, Franny's motivation was Fleabrain, he was her friend and he was the one who will help her cure.

"She'd wiggled one left toe, but in real life! She was looking right at it, wiggling away. Her toe bobbed above the water, then under, then up again, like a dancing toe-fish. Or a puppet. And she, Franny, was the puppeteer!" (Rocklin 79)

Yay! Franny moved all by herself, just a toe, but something is better than nothing. This event happened when Franny was in the bathtub and she was taking a normal bath with the help of her nurse until she got a call and left Franny in the water. She started to imagine how would it be if she could actually move her legs by herself without braces and without supporters. She tried calling Nurse Olivegarten but she couldn't hear over her phone call. This was a moment that brought hope to Franny. Hope that she would finally be able to walk, run and play just like old times, when nobody thought she was contagious and her friends played with her. This was hope that one day soon, she would be a normal girl. A toe, such a little part of our body, and yet, moving it means a lot. "Enjoy the little things in life for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things" (Unknown), moving a toe may sound insignificance to the majority of us, but what we don't realize is that when you lose the ability to control your body, moving a toe, that insignificant toe, will be the best thing ever because you are controlling it, you are moving it with your brain, the same brain that couldn't move anything before, it moved a toe, your toe. Imagine how joyful Franny was when this happened, she will appreciate this moment forever, it was the start of something big, it was the start of recovery.

I can't wait to keep reading! I really want Franny to be able to play again and go back to her school, I hope that she recovers soon. Fleabrain has been a great friend to Franny and she has really gotten better since she met him, but he really needs to see that Franny doesn't need fantasies, she needs her old reality back. I think that Franny is soon going to be able to do the things she did before and I think that Fleabrain will still be her friend but they won't spend as much time together anymore because Franny will have other things to do now that she is back to normal. I think that her friends who treated her badly will apologize to her, but that isn't so easy to forgive, specially when it was about something as serious as Polio. But Franny is a good friend so she will forgive them and they will go back to what was like before and now everyone will appreciate what they have. But, I can't fill my head with expectations about what's going to happen, the only way of knowing for sure what comes next is to keep reading the book until I'm done with it.

The Giver

The book has finally come to an end. Jonas found his friends playing a war game on a holiday and he tries to stop them from playing it and Asher gets mad at him, but it's helpless, they can't understand what war really is. The next day, The giver explained Jonas what happened ten years ago with the last Receiver, Rosemary, he said that after she saw loss, she was released and the memories she had were set free. Jonas learned what release was when he watched a tape of his father releasing a baby twin, he realized that the baby was killed and he was angry at his dad. The giver tried to explain that nobody knew that release was murder, and that's why they were ok with it. Jonas stayed with The Giver that night and they plan something so the memories are all set free. The plan is this: at the Ceremony in December, Jonas will sneak out of his dwelling at night and will go to the Annex where The Giver will be waiting for him with some food and supplies, then Jonas will go to elsewhere in his bicycle while everybody goes to the ceremony, The Giver will place some if Jonas' clothes beside the river so everyone will think he drowned, when Jonas reaches the edge of elsewhere and crosses it, all the memories he had will be set free and everyone in the community will have them, so The giver must stay there to help everyone handle all the pain. The next day, when Jonas goes home and finds out that Gabe will be released so he leaves that night to be able to save him, he grabs his father's bicycle and the leftovers from the family units' dinners. He goes to elsewhere, where he has to hide from searching planes and manage to survive and keep Gabe alive, he gives him strength with happy memories. By the time he reaches the snowy part of elsewhere, he starts feeling weak, but then he found a sled and he sled down a hill just like in his first memory, he reached the edge of elsewhere safe and with Gabe and he sets all his memories free, he finds a home where he heard music for the first time and he believes that maybe, he heard music from far away, from the place he had left.

"Jonas looked at her. She was so lovely. For a fleeting instant he thought he would like nothing better than to ride peacefully along the river path, laughing and talking with his gentle female friend. But he knew such times had been taken from him now. He shook his head. After a moment his two friends turned and went to their bikes. He watched as they rode away" (Lowry 134)

 The previous quote shows how Jonas' life has changed since he became the new Receiver. He started seeing all the colors and he started feeling. He was able to feel because he stopped taking his stirring pills and he had been feeling for four months. When Fiona asked if he wanted to go on a ride beside the river, he wanted to say yes, but he knew he couldn't because now he had feelings for her. If Jonas went with Fiona in the ride, it wouldn't have been the same as before, because before, Jonas saw Fiona a s his friend and he felt good around her but now, he started to like her, and the created tension and made Jonas feel awkward around her. But this this quote means that Jonas' life changed completely, he now has a different perspective of life, and he wasn't blind anymore, he felt things, he saw things and he knew things that no one else did, he saw the world and he wasn't going back to living a fake life. I think that what Jonas did was the right thing to do because that way he's proving that he can't be controlled or manipulated.

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared" (Lowry 153)

I chose this quote because I think it shows a lot about Jonas' relationship with The Giver. After The Giver tells this to Jonas, he says that he is now sharing the memories with him and that he doesn't have to handle the pain by all by himself. It shows how they both care about each other, how they both love each other and they want the other to be safe. I think this is important because caring for each other is what makes a family grow in a healthy way. In some way, Jonas and The Giver have become family, specially because they don't know who their blood relatives are so they need someone they can trust and rely on. This quote shows the importance of sharing because by sharing, you help other people and you help yourself, it also shows the importance of love because with love you can create so much, you can create magical things that feel nice and they give you strength and courage to keep going in your life. If you have someone to truly love, and someone who loves you, you can't give up.

It's so good to have finished the book! I'm glad I liked this book because if I hadn't liked it, it would probably have been really boring for me to read it and answer the questions I was asked about it. I think that Lois Lowry is a very good writer because the way she wrote this book shows us how creative she is, I mean, she created a whole world that isn't like in fairytales, where there's magic or somewhere where the impossible happens, she created a more realistic community that is more similar to our actual world than the other worlds created. This book has many messages to give us, one of them is that we have to fight for what we think is right,  Jonas almost died trying to save his community, he almost starved, froze, but he was brave, and he survived, and he was alive. I would really recommend this book because it's a really good book and once you start it, you just want to keep going until you reach the end without even realizing. I think that if anyone is going to read this book, read it before you watch the movie, that way, you will create a different world in your head, you will imagine differently and that will make the book even more special for you.

I decided to include the trailer of the movie here.

Found

Yay! The book finally came to its end! The mystery is finally solved. The everlasting road trip lasted 21 hours at the end. Everything was going fine until they almost died, they were in the road and there was a gigantic cow in front of them, Ben saved all of them by turning the steering wheel right, avoiding a crash with the cow. When they arrived to New York, they had little trouble finding Agloe but at the end they found Agloe's only building, it was an abandoned farm house. They went inside and found Margo in a desk writing something, at the begging she was a little mean with them, but then she softened up when she was alone with Quentin. She explained everything to him, she had wrote a story when they were little, the story was about ten-year-old-Margo being in love with ten-year-old-Quentin because he was brave. That night was Quentin's and Margo's first kiss. She didn't agreed in going back to Orlando, instead she would go to New York and travel. I'm happy for Quentin because he finally found Margo, but I'll admit, I was a little disappointed when Margo said she wasn't returning.

"But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists" (Green 299) 

I'm shocked! Seriously, this book contains so many important things that we need in our life. I've learned so much reading this, and I bet that every other book John Green has written it's the same, full of wise stuff. Imagination could be a very powerful weapon, even if it seems insignificant. Fascists don't know what diversity is, they just want everything to be as they want it to be. So, imagination, is creating your own things so fascism its destroyed because everybody gets to decide how they live so they don't live according to another person's desires. I feel like Quentin says many things that are true and he  is very intelligent. 

"It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in" (Green 304)

Ok, let me explain this, to "these things" he means "I'll write you" or "I'll call you" and he says that those phrases keeps them (Margo and him) from falling apart because they both like each other and they might not see each other for a long time. Sometimes, we need to say those things to know that we won't loose the person that's going away entirely, so we try to keep communication. That's something humans do, they hold on to tight to persons so when they leave it's to hard for us to let go. And then, when the moment arrives, we go into darkness and we feel lonely, but we have to see the others who are by our side as well. It was hard for Quentin to let margo go her own way when what he wanted was for her to build a future with him and they'd return together to Orlando to continue their lives where they started living them. We are always looking for a last hug and a last kiss to keep something with us.

I can't believe it! I actually finished the book! I really liked it. Paper Towns was a really incredible book. I enjoyed it until the last moment, although I was a little disappointed by how the story ends because it's not what I expected, I wanted a happier ending, I wanted margo to go with Q and the rest that went to look for her. I wish that Margo hadn't been so mean at first with them, but that's how I would have wanted the story to be. There's nothing I can do about it, just imagine how it would have been the way I wanted it to be. Well, the point is, I really liked reading it. It wasn't like other books I've read, where I don't actually enjoy, if I'm about to read something, I would want to enjoy it because reading a book that you don't enjoy it's not reading. I like the way John Green writes because his stories are inspired by real life stories and situations that many people can relate themselves to. I would really like to read a book that's similar to this one. I wonder if John Green writes his books  based on things that really happened. In my opinion John Green is a really good author that I would recommend.

I decided to include the Paper Towns movie trailer in this last post, so... here it is.

Margo

In this chapters of the book Quentin, Ben and Radar continue finding the clues Margo left. After Ben discovered that the phrase highlighted in green was an instruction, they went to Margo's house to unscrew her doors. When they did, they didn't found anything, which made Quentin feel upset. Some days passed until Quentin decided he would try Margo's instructions in his doors, this time he found a little paper with this address: 8328 bartlesville Avenue. He looked it up and found a strange building 34.6 miles away so he plans to skip class the next day with Ben and Radar to go to this building, which was an abandoned mall, they break a window to get in but they just found 3 rooms connected bu TROLL HOLES; a bookstore, an office with calendars in every desk (all of them in February except one, which was in June), and a room that seemed to be a souvenir shop. They found nothing but a phrase in the wall that said:

You will go to the paper towns and never come back  

When prom night arrives, Radar takes Angela while Quentin goes back to the building to see if he can find something and this time, he does. He found Margo's nail polish and blanket, which made him discover that Margo is not dead. He stayed there until Ben called him while he was drunk and told him he was his designated driver. He went to prom's afterparty and when he went to the bathroom, he found Lacey in the bathtub, he went in and then Lacey felt asleep, later Quentin took both Lacey and Ben to their homes.

"This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead" (Green 140)

This quote shows how scared were Quentin, Ben and Radar when they found the building Margo had sent them to. It was all covered with dust and it was old. There were old doors that didn't open. The windows were covered, and no on e was there. That was the place that took Quentin to the conclusion that Margo was dead because he couldn't find her sooner. I wouldn't like to be in a place like that because, like Quentin, it would remind me of loneliness and dead. Now that's SCARY! 

" "No one will ever be the new Margo," I Said. "Anyway, you have what she really wants. People like you. People think you're cuter" (Green 184)

I decided to include this quote because it shows the different personalities of the different characters. It shows how sweet and motivational Quentin (Quentin is the one talking, he is the "I", since he is the one who tells the story) can be with someone that's feeling sad and ashamed, people like Quentin are really nice friends. It shows that Margo is unique and no one would ever be like her and no one would ever replace her. It shows that Becca (the "she" in the quote) wants what the others have, she is not original and she needs to be like the others to feel accepted. It also shows that people like Lacey (the "you"), they think she's pretty and that she is a nice person. 
In this quote Quentin is speaking to Lacey when they're in the bathtub when she starts complaining about the things that Beca has done to her, and Quentin tries to cheer her up. I like how this little amount of words can say much about some of the characters in this story.


As I read, the story gets better and better. I realized Quentin won't stop looking for Margo never. He will continue looking until he finds her, because he is crazy in love with her! I think that after prom night, everybody needed some rest, so after that, I think that Quentin will want to keep looking for Margo but his friends tell him that she's gone and that he should stop looking for her because maybe she will never appear. But Quentin decides not to listen to his friends and goes look for more clues. Anyway, that's not so right because Radar and Ben are unlikely to fight with Quentin, maybe they will help him after all. I can't wait to see what happens next! I'm really enjoying this book.

Crazy in Love - Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z

Gone

In this chapters of the book, Margo and Quentin finish their crazy adventure. They go to Sea World and then they returned to their houses at 5:00 or so. Later at school, Margo doesn't show up, at first everyone thought it was the other times Margo had ran away, they thought she would come back. But, a few days later, Quentin starts to find clues he thinks Margo left for him. Ben and Radar helped him look around Margo's room for clues she might have left. They found a poetry book "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman with lots of blue highlights and one phrase highlighted in green:

Unscrew the locks from the doors!

Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

Quentin couldn't understand. Lacey will go to prom with Ben, who later figures out the phrase were instructions.

"She let go then, but kept looking at me, taking step after step backward.She raised her eyebrows finally, and smiled, and I believed the smile. I watched her climb up a tree and then lift herself onto the roof outside of her second-floor bedroom window. She jimmied her window open and crawled inside" (Green 81) 

 Poor Quentin, if only he knew that was going to be the last time he saw Margo before she disappeared. This quote shows how much Quentin cares about Margo, and how much he is in love with her. We didn't stop looking at her until she was inside her bedroom. I wish Margo realized how much Quentin loved her, maybe, if she had, she wouldn't have escaped. It would be really nice to have someone love you the way Quentin loves Margo. I think that if Quentin would have known that was the last time he would see Margo maybe he would have told her how he feels.

"It became a weekend of reading, or trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me. I could never get anywhere with the lines, but i kept thinking about them anyway, because I didn't want to disappoint her. She wanted me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the bread crumb trail until it dead-ended into her" (Green 117)

Quentin must be tired! All that reading but still he doesn't know what it meant. This happened before Ben realized that the phrase was actually something Margo was telling Quentin what to do. He was really losing his mind trying to figure out what it meant, he read the whole poem like a hundred times. I wouldn't like to feel this way because you feel like you will never find a n answer to what you are questioning. If I was in his position, I think I would have had a headache.


"Now we're stressed out" is a fragment of the song "Stressed Out" by Twenty One Pilots.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_uzF-Tdw0g That's the link to the full song.






This book is so catching! Once you start reading it, you can't stop. I was wrong in my last prediction because I thought that Quentin and his friends were going to be part of Margo's group, but that didn't happened because Margo was gone. But Lacey started spending tim with Ben since they're going to prom together. I think that in the next chapters of the book, Quentin will unscrew Margo's door from its jambs and he will find something that will lead to another clue. If thats the las clue, I think he's gonna find her, if it's not the last clue, I think he will keep looking until he finds something.
 

Agloe

Finally! Quentin (Q, as Margo used to call him) discovered where Margo is, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Before that happened, Q, Radar, Ben and Lacey decide to go to the mini mall again, to look for more clues they think Margo left, where they run into Gus (the guard from Sun Trust building) and he was with two other guys, it turns out they had always explored places like the mini mall with Margo who always wrote something in her black notebook. On Friday Q finished looking for Margo in every pseudivision (a term Q's mom uses to describe places like paper towns) there was in Florida and there was no sign of her. Later Radar and Q went to the mini mall again and this time they found a map. They pinpointed the places that had been pinpointed before but some of the locations were ripped off so their names couldn't be read. The night before graduation Q looked the zip code near the Catskill Park in New York in Omnictionary (a website that Radar uses to look things up), he found a response that said:

Agloe, New York, is a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the early 1930s and inserted into tourist maps as a copyright trap, or paper town.

He looked up the full article and it said that there was only 1 building in Agloe and the population was zero, but in an anonymous user comment said:

fyi, whoever Edits this-the Population of agloe Will actually be One until may 29th at Noon.

That's Margo's capitalization, looks like Q has finally found her. The next day, Q's graduation gift results to be a car, so he, Radar, Ben and Lacey skip graduation to go on a 23 hours road trip to find Margo before she's gone for good. No body has clothes exept their dresses and gowns, the only things they have are half of a sneakers, 212 beers that were for graduation, printed directions to Agloe, wintergreen gum, a pencil, tissue, $35, a BP card, and more stuff from Lacey's purse. During the first 3 hours, Ben has wanted to pee but they won't stop until hour 4, so they continue their trip with just 4 stops during the whole it and Ben wanting to pee.

"Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a precious thing. She was a girl" (Green 199) 

Excuse me? Of course Margo could've never be a miracle or, even worst, a THING! She's just a girl,a person, just like everyone else in tis world, even though we don't always realize that. There are people that are so much like you, but there are others who are completely different as well. But here's the thing, different does NOT mean worst. Yes, there are people who hurt other people, but they're still people. No matter what you do, even if it's good or bad, you are a person. It was about time that Q realized that Margo was a common girl. I'm not saying Q is bad for saying she was a miracle, actually, I'm glad he finally realized she wasn't one. Maybe meeting her was a miracle, but not her. I wouldn't like for someone to think of me as a miracle, even though I would like of someone thought that meeting me was a miracle. I wish Margo knew this.

"This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again" (Green 228)

Applause for Q! So few words, yet so meaningful. Reading this book, I've realized that every character has something important to say, something significant and needed. This quote happened the last day of school when Quentin was leaving his school and he realized that he would never do many things that he did in high school,like waiting for Radar and Ben to finish band practice, or see what a mess his locker was. This quote showed me that you have to cherish every moment because one day, you will never get to do that again. Never. So you have to appreciate every moment and the people that lived them with you, before that moment, becomes a memory. It's like Margo said, you don't wanna look back to your life and say, I graduated from school and college and got perfect grades and live a perfect but boring life, you want to look back and find precious moments you could share, because those moments, are the ones that will always live with you.

I'm so excited to know what happens next in the going-to-Agloe-to-find-Margo road trip! It seems like this group of friends is willing to do anything for their dear Margo, from eating out of a BP card to pass all speed limits. Maybe supporting Ben wanting to pee seemed the hardest part of their trip, but who knows, maybe worst things are around the corner. Now, what do I predict will happen next? Well, since I will finish with the book soon, I predict that after the long trip to Agloe, they arrive soon enough before they loose Margo. Q speaks with her and convinces her to go back with him and maybe they'll even end together as I had already predicted in my previous blogs. Lacey will talk to her too and Margo will forget her for not telling about Jase's relationship with Becca. Well, the only way to find out, is to keep reading!

Miracles

In this chapters of the book everything starts to change. The revenge night began, Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin Jacobsen are reunited after many years, in the middle of a school night. Margo asks Quentin to drive her all around Orlando to do eleven things, Quentin has doubts about accepting but, after all, he agreed to help his childhood friend in this crazy adventure. Margo's Boyfriend had been cheating on her with her best friend, and Lacey didn't told Margo about it. Now, Margo will avenge with some of her punishments (which include dead fish and graffitis). Quentin will get even with Chuck by doing some hair removal. All that craziness, without getting caught. finally, they accomplish 10 things out of the 11, but Quentin gets nervous when he finds out what the last one is, going to Sea World.

" "Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look a t it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm." (Green 57) 

 WOW! That is so true! People nowadays just live fake lives hoping everything is perfect to fit in a perfect society. They just worry about how other people think of them but they can't realize that what really matters its outside their paper worlds. Those persons need that the strongest wind blows their paper lives away so they realize what they really have with them even when the rest is gone. Margo is one of the few people that has seen the world as it is, real. As Margo says, everything is paper-thin and paper- frail, including the people. Everybody just wants to own as much as possible to feel important, to "fit in".

 

"Margo nodded then, and I walked over to Chuck. I wrapped my hand in my T-shirt, as she'd told me to do, leaned forward, and- as softly as I could- pressed my finger against his forehead and then quickly wiped away the Veet. With it came every last hair that had been Chuck Parson's right eyebrow" (Green 66)

OUCH! Poor Chuck, that must have hurt. Well, at least now he won't make the girls refuse to dance with Quentin. And that's not all. Margo's punishments can be much worst than taking your eyebrow. She took away Becca and Jase's love by telling Becca's dad about their secret love in the basement, I don't think that went well. This quote shows that Margo is not the type of person you wanna mess with. While reading this I realized how we react to this kind of stuff. Probably we just stop being friends with that person that hurt us, but removing his/her eyebrow, that's something only Margo would do.

As the story continues, it gets more interesting. Margo's and Quentin's adventure is almost finished, but if we're talking about Margo, you never know what comes next. If the story keeps going like this, Margi being with Quentin, even though they hadn't spoke to each other in years, maybe Margo will spend more time with Quentin. I predict that when their adventure is over, everything will be different, maybe Quentin and his friends, Ben and Radar, will be part of Margo's group and they will make Jase, Becca, Lacey and Chuck regret what they did. I'm guessing, that at the end of the book, Quentin and Margo will be together as a couple. At the end, this isn't a book you can predict a lot because it has lots of twists that you would never expect.