My Favorite Quotes

There are only two people that all these quotes come from , Jermaine Lamar Cole and Rupi Kaur. Jermaine (J. Cole) has always been an inspirational person for me. He shows me that no matter how much money you have, how big your house is, how many cars you have, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have your family or people that love you, push you to your best capabilities, and care for who you are and what you do with your life. Rupi Kaur is a poet that has written many poems that have reached me on a very personal level. In her book Milk and Honey, she talks about three different things you could say. The hurting. The breaking. And finally, the healing. To me all of her poems gives you a lesson about loving yourself and what/who you have in your life. Also, to be grateful for the things that have happen to you even if it was a negative impact because it shapes who you are as a person. The first quote from Rupi Kaur is in he Milk and Honey. “Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.” This quote means a lot to me because I have lost many friends over major things they did to me but I still went running back to them and gave them my forgiveness in a heartbeat. Another quote I really love by Rupi is “how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. My favorite quote of all time comes out of a song by J. Cole, and it’s called Love Yourz. In the song he talks about how he went from broke to being wealthy, also how much money, fame, etc. you have doesn’t matter if you don’t have family who loves you and pushes you to the best you. 

Piecing Me Together

Piecing Me Together is a book by Rennée Watson, is about a young women named Jade and how the color of her skin and the place she lives, effects her in and out of school. Throughout the year she joins a program called Women to Women which makes a very large impact on her life. Also throughout the book she bumps into conflict with many things like her art, friendships, and one more thing is that she is how she is a minority at her school. I really enjoyed reading this book because in a way it makes you think about your life and how you are living it “correctly” and how you should enjoy the things you have no matter what.

First Quarter Reflection

The first quarter has honestly not been the best. I know I could do way better then what I have been doing. I have almost the same grades in all my classes, and they’re bad. I don’t put much effort into more then half of my classes. I wish I could change the decisions I made within the first quarter. This quarter I am going to put all of my effort into my work so I can bring up my grades. One thing I lack is putting my effort into my work and completing them with good quality. I understand everything that happens within my classes but I just don’t finish my work/assignments/etc. I have joined a after school group called Me to We and the only other thing I’m waiting for volleyball to start because that is the only other team I really enjoy playing on.

Book to Movie Comparison: The Outsiders

Some of the similarities between The Outsiders book and movie is that they both did stay true to how the characters looks, personality, actions. An example is how the characters were alike to how they were described within the book. Another similarities are how the movie still had many of the minor details that were also in the book. An Example is how when Darry starts picking on Cherry and her friend. They stayed true to how Cherry reacted to Dally then how Johnny and Ponyboy started reacting to the girls and Dally.

Some ways that there are differences is how the characters didn’t exactly reach my expectations as an acting point. They didn’t seem to have much emotion and yes even though they did stay true to their look and most of the time, their reactions, I believe they didn’t put enough detail into the story. I understand that a majority of movies made have a time limit but I also believe that they added unnecessary details to parts that weren’t major. An example is when Darry slapped Ponyboy for coming home late and caused him to run away. In the book there was so much detail about how much it had hurt Soda but in the movie, it wasn’t the same. Another example is how in the beginning of the book, Ponyboy gets jumped by who find out later is Bob.

In my personal opinion, I understand the time that the movie was made there wasn’t perfect camera quality, sound, etc. but the least the directors was make the actors fit their role by adding more facial expressions, and little details like that that would’ve emphasized the major things within the story. Along with my examples with the differences how Darry had hit Ponyboy. I just believe that there wasn’t enough time put on that part of the movie.