feed part 3

Hi, everyone. These past few weeks we have been reading a book called feed. We have now reached part three (It's nearly over!).

 The book so far is about a boy in the future, who has a computer in his head, and who meets this girl (cheesy much) and they fall in love. This is the blog post about it. Below are my favorite quotes from part three:

1. "It makes good times even better when you know they're going to end." 

p. 145 I completely agree with this quote. You always enjoy something more when you know it's going to end, and I can relate to that, because since I have lived in different countries, I know a lot about schools, friendships and basically your entire life ending and starting over. For some reason, I always prefer the last year and enjoy it more because I know I'll never live that type of life again. The same can be said about friends. You become 10 times closer with your friends if one of you is leaving because you try to enjoy them until the end. 

2. "I want to go out and see the world. There's so much. There's ... just so much."
 p. 175 I can relate to this quote so much. Although I have lived in 3 different countries, and I have visited more than 20 countries (i actually counted), I still have an urge to visit the rest of the world. I have a calendar at home that is a different place to visit every day, and there are so many beautiful things to visit that I still haven't seen. It makes me excited about the future if I am to visit it, but also a bit sad that I haven't been there yet. This must be what the characters feel in the book.

3. "You toss something up in the air, and you expect it to come back down again."
p. 175 This quote is very interesting because I have already been told something like that. This sentence is basically saying that if you stop caring about something or someone, don't expect it to come back. This is very powerful and it makes sense, and it's such a good quote it should probably be used as a real quote. 

4. "Everything's dead. Everything's dying." 

p. 180 This quote is super important because it shows that the characters had no idea what was happening in the world and that they didn't realize what was happening to the planet until it was too late. The sentence has a mix of sadness, anger, frustration and wishing, which makes it a great sentence, even if it is so short.

This Weekend

This Weekend was one of the most fun weekends yet this year. This weekend we had JoMUN. JoMUN stands for Johannesburg Model United Nations. Basically, it is a Model United Nations, so the united nations, but for teenagers. I had already done it last year, but this year was ten times more fun. Firstly, my committee was really cool. We had interesting issues that we were talking abut, such as Boko Haram, women's rights in the middle east, Protecting the rights of refugees, and protecting the rights of LGBTQ people in Africa. I was assigned Australia, which I was quite happy about since Australia and I share similar views on a few things.

 The issue I choose to talk about was LGBTQ rights in Africa. I merged the resolution with 8 other people, and I was voted to main submit, which means that I was reading it out, and the "leader" of the resolution. Unfortunately it didn't pass, although it being great because most countries were against LGBTQ rights, such as DPRK and Saudi Arabia. This year 16 different schools came to attend JoMUN, some schools coming from as far as Sri Lanka! I made many new friends from different schools. I made friends with the delegate of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, DPRK, Argentina, New Zealand, USA, Ethiopia, and many others. On Saturday, all people participating in JoMUN, more than 350 people, all went to a restaurant, with a huge garden, for supper, all organized by the school. It was really fun, but so much DRAMA!!! To say the least, there were more than two new couples, two new heartbreaks, and lots of dancing. Overall, I loved JoMUN so much, and I was really happy with how it went.

Feed

Sample Dialectical Journal entry: FEED by M. T. Anderson

Passages from the text	Pg#s	Comments & Questions
“-We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck”.	Pg 1	(R) This is the first sentence in the book, and it says a lot of things. First off, it states that the moon has become a thing that people just go to, that isn’t a big deal, and that isn’t a special operation. Secondly, it states that the moon has become something so common that people say that “it sucks”. No people now days would say that as the only people ever on the moon are astronauts, whose passion is the moon. It also means that the moon’s “value” and “specialty” has diminished. All of this means that the moon has become accessible and that the book is set in the future, and in a different time than ours.

Passages from the text	Pg#s	Comments & Questions
“-Most of the rest of the city had pretty good artificial gravity”.	Pg 10	(R) This sentence, that doesn’t hold much importance in the story so far, really intrigued me. It really made the moon into a touristy place, and it made it easier to imagine it. It made me think of Dubai for some reason! Both the moon (from the book) and Dubai seem to be very different to their surroundings and trying to change the “unchangeable”. In Dubai, I saw read article about how they are planning to have “air-conditioned” streets, for the tourist, because of the extremely hot weather. The weather is one of the things that seem to be the hardest to change about a place, however, with technology, this seems closer and closer to happen. Gravity to us seems like it can barely be changed, and would never be “reduced” or added to for tourist’s sake.

Passages from the text	Pg#s	Comments & Questions
“-like big thanks to everyone for not telling me that My lesion is spreading”.	Pg 21	(R) This is one of the many sentences in the chapter that mention the lesion. From what they have described, it seems like some type of disease or virus, that is very common and that most people have. It also can happen to any part of the body, and is big, red and full of puss. Another alarming thing about it is that it grows. Nobody seems worried or concerned about it and take it as if it was a normal thing to have. The blonde lady even said that she wants hers to grow so it covers her whole neck and it can look like a necklace! A lot of questions popped into my mind such as “is it spreadable?” “Is there a cure?” “Are there serious consequences?”

Passages from the text	Pg#s	Comments & Questions
“-We’re going to have to shut you off now”.	Pg 40	(R) This sentence, which is one of the last ones of chapter one, made me think about how much people have changed in the future, according to this book. Now humans can be “turned off” by the touch of a button. This made me think on how human are they really? The reader assumes that they are humans, but could they be robots? We already know that they have a chip in their head, that works as a computer, but how human and how robot are they? Are they cyborgs? If they were to appear now, would we count them as humans? It also leads to other questions such as “can anyone turn anyone off?” “How do you turn someone off?” “Do they have a noticeable on/off switch?”