Keeping the Moon

            The book keeping the moon is a book about a girl who is trying to make sense of her life and find herself. For example in the book, she can't tell if she wanted to be who she was before she was skinny or if she wants to lets loose a little.

            The main character, Colie, went through what she and her mother called the fat years. Colie remembered as herself being less self conscience and more sure of her self. But when her mother helped them both get thin, and she became the model for change, Colie couldn't help feeling that things were better the way they used to be. 

            I believe that the world revolves around how pretty you are or how well you dress, or that's what every teenage girl feels at least. But is it really all that matters. That is the question of society. Why is our society built on these ideas and these looks. I mean look around, it is. The popular girls are the pretty and skinny ones. Do you think that's the way it should be?

Matched

The book Match is filled with social commentary as far as science fiction goes. The social commentary is what if the government knew too much about our lives, Patriot act, and what if the tart to take over it, The government taking control of what we can and can't do now.

            The book Matched is about a society that picks what you do for a living, and who you marry and when you die. This society shows that the government knowing too much about your life is not always the best thing because, if the government is monitoring what you do 24/7 then even if you kiss a guy you are not supposed to, they will find out and get you in trouble. This is kind of like the Patriot act in the sense that, the government always knows what you are doing and you have no privacy.

            The book Match shows that the government having control over your life is not always the best thing because it shows that the government is not always right. For example in the book, the main character is supposed to matched with this guy, her best friend, but instead falls in love with a different guy. This is something a government can't always tell. This has to do with the way the government is trying to control everything nowadays, on the fact of abortion for example. The government can't always tell the circumstances for an abortion, but they want to make it illegal. How does that seem fair if they can't predict every possible outcome. 

The Outsiders

            The Outsiders is my all time favorite book. I have read it more that 20 times and every time I read it I get a different idea, or thought on the book and the different characters. The characters that changes every time I read the book is Ponyboy and Dally.
            The character Ponyboy is the main character at the first glance could be an innocent young boy born into a life that is not the best for him. But at second glance you see a strong boy that stands up for his friends and knows what everyone wants before they have to ask.
            The character Dally is the tough one in the gang. He appears to not care about anyone. He appears to have one and only goal, to look and act the strongest and to show everyone that no one can bring him down. But by the end of the book you realize that Dally cares about to gang pet Johnny more than he cares about his own life. Because when Johnny dies Dally decides that he doesn't want to live anymore.  

Luna

            In the book Luna, the main character is struggling with keeping her brother's secret, her brother, feels like he's a girl born into a girls body. The main character has to face the question, "just because he's different, does that mean I have to treat him different?" throughout the entire book.

            Regan the main character, has to put away her social life in order to protect her brother Liam, aka. Luna. Regan lives in this constant fear of what would happen if she would let the secret slip, and once she did, would her brother ever find a way to for give her.

           Regan tries not to treat her brother any different but it's hard when her dad is a total homophobic and her mom doesn't like to deal with trouble. Liam thinks that he could turn to his best friend, but when he tells her, she gets scared and starts to cry, this leads Regan to another question, "will anyone love my brother the way i love him?"

          Bitter Melon

            In the book bitter melon the main character and her mother have a struggling relationship. Her mother wants what is best for her but, she wants something else. This story is a great representation of a girl struggling the find herself in a world that won't let her get free.
            For example the main character is raised by a very strict Chinese mother that expects the most from her. For example the mother wants her to get straight A's and get into Berkley, but the main character wants to be a writer and go to a small collage that her teacher recommended. It starts out starts out with the girl ending up in speech instead of calculus. But she fell in love with speech, so she started lying to her mom, because she knew that he mom would have never allowed her to take speech. This shows their struggling relationship because the daughter is not able to talk to her mother about anything and she feels trapped
            In the end of the book, the main character does get into the collage she wanted called, Scripps. At first her mother lies to her and tells her she didn't get in, but when she finds out she did get in she gets really mad, but this lets her break her shell. She tells her mother that she wants to go to this collage and runs away. But then in the epilogue she realizes how good it is for someone to find their own path and not just the one her mother laid out for her.