“Forget Me Not” by Carolee Dean

            The book that I have recently finished is “Forget Me Not” by Carolee Dean. On my last blog post I was at the part were Ally was in the hallway scared, alone and upset. Since then Ally has realized that she is in a coma and that is why she is invisible to everybody except Oscar and Elijah. Twice she gets trapped in the hallway, with the ghost of others who have met their deaths at Ally’s school, only to be saved by Elijah. The Hangman-one of the ghosts- keeps trying to get Ally to commit to death and stay in the hallway forever but he actually wants Ally out of the hallway even though he says she has to stay.

            At the end of the story when Ally finally defeats the ghosts she sees the Hangman smile once she has silenced him and has finally made her decision to live. At the end of the book the Hangman starts telling Ally that she needs to stay in the comfort of the hallway where the hardships of life can’t reach her and she can live in a blissful world of nothing. When Ally refuses Hangman starts to tell Ally all of the reasons why she shouldn’t return to the real world like how all of the people at school have seen the embarrassing picture of her and how Davis hates her and how Bri doesn’t want to be her friend. Finally after hearing all of these things that made her jump of the roof in the first place Ally is able to tell Hangman to stop talking. After he hears this he smiles because he knows that Ally is going to live and this was the choice he wanted her to make all along.

            Even though not all of us have been in a hallway of ghost we can learn from Ally to face are fears and always keeping going. Ally didn’t give up even when life was hard because in the end Ally learned that you always have to keep going. I highly recommend this book.

 

“Forget Me Not” by Carolee Dean

            The book that I am currently reading is “Forget Me Not” by Carolee Dean. So far in the book the main character Ally is really upset because an embarrassing picture of her has been sent to all the people in her school. In the book the picture has already been sent but the story id told in flashbacks up to that point. Ally is really upset about the picture of her being sent around school.

            The reader can tell Ally is upset because after everyone has seen the picture she decides to hide in the haunted hallway. The haunted hallway doesn’t lead to any classes so people don’t bother her while she hides there. People are also afraid to use the hallway because before the building was a school it was a convent full of scandal then a military institute where a young girl was murder and then the building was a private university but then some people ran away with all the money. These are the reason why nobody ever goes down the G-Hallway. Ally goes in the hallway to hide because she is upset and wants to escape all the people who have seen her picture. Ally is really upset about the picture.

            So far this book is really good and I like how it is told in flashbacks. I also really like the story and the main character because they are both so really. I highly recommend this book. 

Take Me There by Carolee Dean

The book that I have recently finished is Take Me There by Carolee Dean. On my last blog post I left off at the part right before Jess and Dylan meet for a second time. After that part a ton happens. Dylan escapes the law by running away to Texas. Jess comes down to Texas to find Dylan. While Jess is there Dylan’s father admits to a murder he didn’t commit but has been in jail for it for 11 years and has now been sentenced to death by lethal injection. At the end of story Dylan is convicted of a murder that he did commit but only for protection. This book doesn’t end like most books with a happy ending.

Most stories end with happy endings or at the very least fairly. But Take Me There ends with Dylan being sent to jail because he killed Spider a gang leader who was about to shoot Jess through the head. Most stories would end with the jury seeing that this murder was only an act of protection but in this story Dylan is seen as a heartless killer. This isn’t how most stories end because it doesn’t end with a happy ending.

From this book we can learn that life isn’t always going to be a happy and end in a fairytale. This book helps us face reality and the fact that sometime life just isn’t fair. I highly recommend this book for 12 and older because of the killing and overall content of the story. This is a very amazing story. 

 

Take Me There by Carolee Dean

The book I am currently reading is Take Me There by Carolee Dean. This book is about a boy name Dylan who has a trouble past. He falls in love with a girl named Jesse. At the beginning he has started to clean him self up but then he makes a giant mistake. Dylan really loves Jess and he is really trying to clean himself up.

Right before he goes to meet Jess he, “ I went to the bathroom. Peeled off my grease-stained work shirt washed my armpits in the sink. Combed to my hair.” This quote shows that he is trying to clean him self up for Jess. He wants to look nice and cleaned up for her. He really wants to act like a new person and forget his past in jail.

I highly recommend this book for people 12 and up because of some of the content. I really like how exciting and dramatic it is. I met the author in New Mexico and she was really nice. I highly recommend this book. 

 

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a metaphor for life and making hard choices. Frost writes about being in the woods and having to choose which path at the fork in the road. He then looks back on that moment and thinks about his decision. The speaker doesn’t actually take the road less traveled by like he says at the end of the poem because textual evidence earlier in the poem states that the roads are the same.

In the last stanza of the poem the speaker says, “I shall be telling this with a sigh… I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” He almost seems to regret his decision. He says he took the road less traveled by and he is almost ashamed of his decision because of evidence earlier in the poem states both paths were the same yet, he says the one he choose to go down was less traveled by. The speaker says in the second stanza, “Had worn them really about the same.” Both paths had been traveled the same amount of times and the same amount of people. This means that one can’t be more or less traveled by. In the third stanza the speaker thinks, “And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.” This means that the leaves on the path weren’t step on which means no one has walked on either path. If no one has walked on either path then one path can’t be or less traveled because no one has traveled either.

The speaker is embarrassed with his choice and decides to tell people the other option. This connects to be personally because I have made decisions and I have been embarrassed with my choice so I decide to tell people I different story. When the speaker says, “ Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” (in the 1^st stanza) I can relate this felling of, what should I do should I do this or this? What is going to happen? Frost probably fells the same way. 

1. The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;         5   Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,         10   And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.         15   I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.         20