Hello.  This is Sarah Yang.  I am going to talk about the book now.

SPOILER ALERT!  THIS IS ABOUT THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS SO IF YOU’RE NOT THERE YET THEN…READ ON AT YOUR OWN RISK.  :)

Some of the parts I appreciated about Miller’s writing:

-He had a very materialistic perspective of life during his childhood, which kind of connects to how I saw things as a kid.  I feel like spent a lot more time than I would know just thinking about what I wanted next.  I remember waiting in the lobby to get picked up after preschool and watching TV with the other kids; everytime a Hot Wheels or Barbie commercial came on we would be all, “I WANT THAT!  I WANT THAT!  AHHHHFASDFGGA I WANT IT!”  And then we would talk about how great they were and put them on our Christmas/Birthday wish lists.  And when we got what we wanted we would play with them for a while and they would end up in the closet or under the bed somewhere, never to be seen again.  Until they were threatened to be put up for yard sale, and then we would scream and refuse and say we would love them all over again, but nooooo, they were thrown into black trash bags and put out on the street…Anyway.

-”I looked purposely as he opened a beer, the tiny can hiding itself in his big hand, the foam of it spilling over the can, his red lips slurping the excess, his tongue taking the taste from his mustache.  He was a brilliant machine of a thing.”

-I liked how he labeled his friends (“Tony the Beat Poet” and “Andrew the Protester”).  Idk it just made it a little more interesting to read.  It was different.

-”The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances…It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.”  I actually read about this in AP Gov for my summer assignment…Woll handbook, anyone?  But yeah.  The founding fathers were very cynical.  They thought the human race was stupid and incapable of making its own decisions.

-C.S. Lewis poem on p. 21.  YESSSS  :D

-”I am only saying that true change, true life-giving, God-honoring change would have to start with the individual.  I was the very problem I had been protesting.  i wanted to make a sign that read ‘I AM THE PROBLEM!‘” (20)  He finds so many life lessons in his everyday actions…I wish I had that kind of openness to learning new things and reflecting on my life.  I feel like I miss out on so much each day because I’m so busy running from one obligation to the next; I have no time to stop and reflect.

CHAPTERS 1-2 SPOILER OVER!


Sarah: “Say something interesting for the blog.”

Susie: “I think Where the Wild Things Are is very thought-provoking but it was not what I expected.  I expected it to be more like, cutesy, and like, happy and stuff, but it was like…children shouldn’t watch it, I don’t think.  I feel like if kids watch it they will be depressed.  Or angry… It was pretty good.”

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