The main character of my book, Sylvia Faye, has finally gotte permission from her parents to be considered to be on the list. The list is the black kids who are possibilities to go to the newly intergrated Central High School. Sylvia has a white friend named Rachel even though this was not common at all back then because of the distance socity put between the two races. Rachel’s parents own the grocery store and they allow black people to shop there. Sylvia believes that Rachel will be very excited for her, “Actually, she knew that Rachel would be thrilled.” I predict that Rachel will not be as thrilled as Sylvia thinks. I predict this because I feel like if Rachel is around other white kids she will treat Sylvia awful.

Tiarra Andrews-Owens -Prediction

Reverend Dimmesdale walked through the town in fine clothes on evening. He went to the scaffold where my mother and i were seven years before. My mother and i looked up onto the scaffold and saw him standing on it. He was crying out of pain. Eventually, Dimmesdale started to laugh. I started to laugh a little bit as well. He Called out saying who is there. My mother and I stood up on the platform with him I stood in between them. I held both of thier hands, and linked myself between my parents. Dimmesdale said as soon as he held my hand, it felt as if a new life flowed through him. The three of us formed a chain. I asked him if he could stand here with my mother and I tomorow. Sadly, he said no.  I tried to pull my hand away but he held my hand tight and would not let me pull away.I Asked him again if he could take my hand and my mothers hand the next day. Dimmesdale replied. He said he would not then. Dimmesdale said he would do so another time. Judgement day is the day he said we would all stand here together. He was looking into the sky because he saw a red A. I pulled his hand again and pointed down in front of the scaffold. He looked to see what i was pointing at and saw Roger Chillingsworth standing in front of the scaffold. Roger told my father that he is too important of a man in the community to be acting a fool. My father was told to come down from the scaffold and follow him. The next morning, my father made one of the best speaches of his whole life. A resident of the town came up to my father with one of his gloves. The man found it on the scaffold. I was only seven years old when this all happened.

This is the book that comes after All these Things I’ve Done. Anya is the main character the daughter of an ex mafia boss (Chocolate is illegal in the future and her dad was one of the mafia bosses who sold it in the black market). Even after her father’s death his reputation still cause catastrophic events in her life. I am in a part in the book were somebody has tried to kill her and her sister. Unfortunately they accomplished killing her brother a boy who was so sweet, kind, and “special”(his personality is learned in the first book). Anya is a brilliant, strong, and vengeful girl. She is not going to stop her search for the person who ordered the kills. She is trying to keep her calm and not take any actions until she is sure who the killer is. I fear for the person it is because Anya is most defensive of her family. She will kill who ever it turns out to be but I wonder if she will torture them first.

-Jennifer Posada

Evaluation

Their is a leech on my heart (10)

        My soul is deteriorating, my mind is going with it. As you know I, the one who is called minister, have committed a sin. I don’t know who is my enemy and who is my friend. Chillingworth keeps on asking me things that touch on my guilt, he knows that I am not being completely honest. How can I even utter the truth of what bothers my soul. Lately I have been getting worst. Their are days i can not eat, as if my body does not deserve nourishment. Other days I can not sleep, as if afraid that i will not awake. I walk around and mumble to myself when I feel nobody is looking. In my mind I contemplate the decisions I  have made, the worst that always keeps coming back is the desicion not to reveal myself.

I saw my two loves today. When i see them their is a moment of clarity. Then it all comes tumbling back. My daughter’s strange ways amuse me even though i do not show it. I realize when see them that I am not a good father, husband, or minister. Pearl is growing up without a fatherly figure, Hester is not receiving the support of her husband, and the people are being lead by a fake.  It feels as if their is something or some one sucking the essence of my soul. Sometimes a horrible thought creeps in my head, would it be better if i was no more. Then I am more disgusted in myself, how dare I be so weak to try and find an escape from my troubles through death. This site helped me get through a moment were i felt as if i had hit rock bottom: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/ I thought about it clearly and realized it would be selfish of me to kill myself. This thought does not cross my mind any more. Even though their is still that invisible weight on my shoulders I realize that it is my punishment to live.

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Tonight, I was in the forest with my daughter Pearl and noticed a figure in the dark. I squinted my eyes and noticed it was Dimmesdale. I questioned myself because I did not believe it was him, I was wondering what would be doing in the forest this late at night. I called out his name and to my surprise it was the love of my life Dimmesdale. It had been 7 years since the last time I seen him and touched him, he grabs my hands and the touch felt weird, maybe because I have not felt him in so long. We sat down and I have to admit the conversation was kind of weird, we asked random questions like we did not even know each other such as how my health was and how it was a wonderful night. Then, it all hit me and I remembered I needed to tell him the truth about everything. It was really hard for me, so I practiced on this website on how to reveal a secret; http://www.orato.com/self-help/how-to-reveal-secret. I practiced and practiced until I finally built up the courage to tell him the truth. So, it was my time and I just spilled everything out, I told him about Chillingworth being my husband and everything. At first he did not want to forgive me but in the end he did, but at the same time he decided to blaim everything on me. I looked him in the face, and he did not look like the person I once fell in love with. I loved this man to death to us part and I made sure he knew just that. We made a decision that would help the both of us! We planned to leave on a ship to Europe and just be a family with Pearl. I was really happy because I would have my family back and everything would be wonderful.

I have no clue what to do with myself. I am unhappy and I still feel the guilt. I took my vigil at night by myself. Well that is until Hester and Pearl came. We were all standing on the scaffold out of sight from the townspeople. For a moment I actually felt like I was in the right place. Pearl asked me why if I was going to stand with her here tomorrow. I told her no but maybe on Judgment Day.

I am so unsure about this Chillingworth guy. He seems a little strange. As I was on the scaffold, I look over to see him standing in the dark staring at me. I hope he does not think something is up but you never know. Ever since I met him I thought he had a dark side. He doesn’t seem like the normal guy. He says he is a doctor though so hopefully he could help me with my health issues. Speaking of Chillingworth, I heard something from Hester not too long ago that kind of caught me off guard. She said,”… That old man!—the physician!—he whom they call Roger Chillingworth!—he was my husband!” [153] I was in complete shock when I heard that. I knew that he would have had some relation to Hester. I was so mad that she didn’t tell me before. That Chillingworth!

I have been looking up various ways on how to relax. The website I found was http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/blissing-out-10-relaxation-techniques-reduce-stress-spot. I should just breathe deeply and try not to let things get to me. I have been so stressed due to the situation I am currently in. It has taken a toll on me and my health. When I got home, I will meditate and hopefully I will be much more relaxed.

In the book this girl named Netta grew up without a father and a mother that was on drugs. She fell in love with this man they called Black, and he ended up hurting her. So she felt like she did not have anybody that would be there for her so she started to use people to get that she wanted and what she needed. I connect to the part about using people to get what I wanted because there was a time when I was in love with this person and I felt like he was my world. But in the end he hurt me real back and I felt like my life was all over. So instead of getting my heart broken first I started to break other peoples hearts. I used them and when I got what I wanted to quickly dropped them. I learned from that though because I felt what I was doing was wrong, and just because I got hurt that one time I should know and understand how that felt, so I should not do that to other people.

On the last part that I had ended off, Bobby Pendragon, the lead traveler had just found the traitor of a traveler, Nevva Winter, whose last decision may have redeemed her as a traveler and possibly saved the world, also Bobby had found the exiles and past fried and lover Courtney Chetwynde in a secret society that her and the exhiles had developed. The place they were was on the planet Eelong of a place called Black Water. Now recently in the story the village was filled with exiles from the planet, Second Earth and with the gars that were basically midget humans that had already made their home on Eelong. However, the gars were prey and the Klees which were huge cats and the superiors of that planet. Before the influence of Saint Dane the Klees and the gars lived together and they had signed a treaty to not eat the gars but instead live in tranquility with them. Now after Saint Dane’s influence that treaty became over ruled. Therefore, the gars alongside with the exiles were going into a war with the Klees, a battle for survival. Bonny was a bit uncertain and terrified of the war because of the fact that he had finally found the exiles that could possibly be approaching certain death, throwing away everything he had worked so hard for. However, they had some things under their sleeves. The gars and the exiles had built brand new sonar technology which is a weapon that uses waves to destroy machinery. With the weapons they were able to defeat the Klees, and save their society, or for a well enough time before they have to face the real fight, the fight against Saint Dane’s army.  My prediction would be that Bobby would create a flume that would take all of the exiles to third earth and help prepare for the battle against Saint Dane.

The reading strategy I’m going to use is prediction. As I’ve been reading, Andi wants to have a closer realtionship with the eldest daughter than the youngest because the eldest doesn’t like her. The eldest gives her attitude because she wants her fathe and mother back together. Even though Andi and her husband have been together for several years now, Emily still doesn’t feel the need to have a relationship with her step mother. She disrespects her step mother all the time. Andi’s husband never stands up to his daughter so it puts a lot of stress on her. I predict that Andi and her husbad will get into a big fight because of his daughter.

As you should already know, I am Hester. You know my background, and most of my problems; but right now I have a bigger one. I have asked my husband Chillingworth if I can tell Dimmesdale who he is. When I got the answer, I had to ask my self what was I going to do next. Was I going to actually tell Dimmesdale? What was he going to say? How was he going to react? Why do I still care?.. So I decided to take a walk with Dimmesdale in the forest, where no one can see us talking. I can’t belive I had finally grew some balls, because I had several oppurtunites to tell him. I had to keep my daughter close because I was afraid that I’d might lose her or someone was going to snatch her up; Plus I heard Chillingworth was lurking around. Even though he is my husbdand, I don’t trust him. When I saw Dimmesdale, he didn’t know it was me because it had been 7 years since we saen eachother. When I tell him that Chillingworth is my husband, he sinks to the ground and buries his face in his hands, claiming that he should have known it. He declares that for this, he cannot forgive me. I told him that he will forgive me but to just leave punishment for God. I put my hands over him. All I remeber him saying was : “I do forgive you, Hester,” replied the minister at length, with a deep utterance, out of an abyss of sadness, but no anger.  “I freely forgive you now.  May God forgive us both.  We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world.  There is one worse than even the polluted priest!  That old man’s revenge has been blacker than my sin.  He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.  Thou and I, Hester, never did so!” Page (154)…  I’m so happy that he finally admitted it. Anyways… Later I went home to search the internet for a website to show me quotes for guidance for a man and woman. Hopefully this gives me and Dimmesdale some advice on where to go now..  http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43921/13794351/Let_God_fix_your_relationship_problems_or_you_will_screw_them_up

Look at us. That’s my family. Don’t you think the truth set us free?