Review of Hate List

The Hate List is a book for teens that will make you not want to put the book down.  It's a page turner and it will make you want to keep reading.  It is a good book for teenagers in high school.  The book reminds kids to stop hating and accept one another for who we are.  In the Hate List it shows how after the shooting everyone has forgived everyone for past moments and made peace with one another.  After reading this book it will make the reader think what if this happened in my school and it gives u a different outlook on everyone and things in the world.  The author writes the book in different times in each chapter. One in present time and then it changes to the past and tells what happens.  The author also includes newspaper articles so you get to know more about each of the victims. I would definately recommend this book to anyone.  It tells a lesson and feelings real kids would have.    

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I think it's weird how he shoots Christy Bruter in the stomach and not in the head of heart.  She was the first one on the list so you would think he would for sure want to kill her and know she was dead.  She was Val's worst enemy.  I don't know why he shot Mr. Kline either.  He didnt't do anything wrong.  He didn't really know where the other teacher was and he was being civil with Nick and he just went right along and shot him.  Another part of the text I was questioning about was why the man who cam in to question Valerie didn't question Jeremy more then he did his parents.  And something I don't like was how the book didn't tell about when he shot himself or at least it just hasn't told yet.  Did he kill more people after he shot Valerie or was it right after that? Did he go up to her to see how she was?

Hate List Title

I think the significance of the title has a lot of meaning and it says a lot about the book.  The novel is about a school shooting who a boyfriend and girlfriend discuss who they do not like in school and the boyfriend carries on the with the list more than it should have and ends up killing people.  I would think the hate list is the people they do not get along with and hate and think the worse on.  When I think about the hate list, I think about the movie, Mean Girls.  In this movie there are four girls that have a "burn book" and they cut out and paste the pictures of people they don't like or just make fun of and they right mean things about the person.  The book ends up getting out to people in school, but of course no killing was involved.  Titles have a definite significance to a story.  It ends up saying the title somewhere through out the book and when it comes into play you can tell there is a meaning to the book.  I think Hate List is a good title for the book. It is gripping from just hearing the title and it is just sounds hateful and makes a person curious about reading it.

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Reading Can Better

I must be honest. I'm not a big reader and I'm not the kind of person to read for leisure time.  I used to when i was in grade school and I would before I went to bed.  It would help me fall asleep, but some books can keep me up and make me want to keep reading.  It seems like I don't have much time to read anymore. I either have homework or school and when I'm not in school I have work.  By the time i get done with my daily things, I want to be able to go do stuff and hang with friends.  When I go to bed now, it's put in a movie and fall asleep.  I think I should take more time on reading books because this is probably why I have to take this class and that reading is my weak point because I don't do much of it.  Practice makes perfect I guess and I would have been able to read faster then I do right now.  I think reading does give you more of an imagination and I would think would help you in school more and educate you more.  Even my vocabulary would progress because I do find a lot of words in a book that I don't know and I think if I start identifying them and figuring out what they mean my vocab would be more educated, rather than just skipping over the words and keep on reading.  When I am reading I want a book that will keep me reading and stay more interested in the book.  If a teacher asked me to read a chapter out of a boring text book, I can read the chapter and by the time I'm done, I ask myself, "What did I just read."  If the reading does not catch my interest, I can read and think about other things to myself while reading.  It doesn't work very well.  If I am reading a book that I like and interest me, I can keep reading and won't want to put the book down.