Friday, March 11, 2016

Michael Hoover Blog 3/10/16

Michael Hoover
Book blog
Book: Year Of the Hangman
Prompt: what is the book mainly about
What do you think is going to happen in the future of your book
Spoiler Alert

In the book "Year of the Hangman" the book is mainly about Britain winning the war and not the U.S.A. The way that they won the war has not come up yet in the book in any war so far. The way that I think that Britain will win the war is by having the leading general be Creighton (main character). The reason that  I think that someone close to him is going to die and he is going to take everything into more consideration and he will become general and help win the war is because the ship got taken over and I think that his uncle might die.

The first event that I think could take place in the future of the book is that Creighton will work for the pirates for a while. Mainly due to the fact  that he said that he was pretty much a slave when they caught him after taking over the ship. The reason that I think Creighton might work for the pirates is because he  has portrayed himself so far as a greedy person that would let someone else die to get a better chance of living for himself. If he does work for the pirates he will probably try to escape because when  he got kidnapped by good people he tried to escape. Now bad pirates have caught him I wonder what he will do now and they will probably let him walk free on the dock.

The second possible event that I think will happen in the future of the book is that Creighton will try to get back to Britain by smuggling himself onto a boat. The reason that I think he will try to do this is because throughout being in America he has been plotting to somehow get back to Britain and his main plan is to jump onto a boat. I feel like he is somehow going to sneak on the wrong boat and get into a lot of trouble because he has been running into a lot of that lately, if he fets back his mom won't take him in that if for sure. 

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Personal book blog

"Year of the Hangman" by Gary Blackwood
Prompt: what character do you dislike the most out of the book and why.
What is something that you found bizarre in what you have read so far.

 The character that I dislike the most in the book "Year of the Hangman" by Gary Blackwood is probably Creighton because he takes everything for granted and he causes chaos. There has not been a part in the book were Creighton has been nice to anybody which I found weird because the author usually makes the protagonist a good person. Even after he barley lived from getting kidnapped by pirates he still acts annoyed with everything and everyone around him.

The first thing that I found interesting in the book so far was that Creighton was terrified of going to Florida because it was supposedly the roughest place and also the most easy place to die. The reason that I thought that this was bizarre was because modern day Florida is probably the nicest place that you can live or visit. Another reason that I thought that this was bizarre was because the reason that Creighton thought that Florida was such a bad place was because in school that was what they were taught about the new world and the states.

Some thing else that I found bizarre in the book so far was how Creightons mother had him kidnapped. The reason that I thought that this was bizarre was because some creep did not snatch him off of the street, his mother got him snatched off of the street on purpose. I did not really be live this part of the book at first because I thought that he was just dreaming but it turns out he wasn't. People must have been different back then because my mom would not ship me to Europe or to Britian for being bad.