Inspire

Inspire
Inspiration is a very important thing to me. A lot of times I find myself standing without inspiration and don’t usually know what to do then. A lot of times life seems very pointless when there’s nothing to look forward, or up to. Usually if I look up to a person it means I look to them for help, or stability. I’m inspired by very little sometimes, and when I do find something I end up clinging to it, which doesn’t work out very well for me. That also results in my liking a rather small group of friends. When you’re reading/listening to this please don’t judge me on how my life works.
Since I have many issues with large amounts of people I find myself being very isolated at times, which sometimes leads to reading. When I do read, I read a lot. I find getting into books very soothing, and the ability to escape the reality around me is something that really makes me happier. I can really get into a book, and as anyone that knows me probably has seen I get very emotional along with the books I read. A good book can force me into a good mood, or reduce my happiness to nothing. I enjoy reading many types of books and trying to understand the viewpoint of each author. Which a lot of times really gets my mind off of anything bad that’s going on around me.
Another thing is music. The first thing I have to say about music is that music doesn’t change a person. Influence is something, but just because a person listens to angry sounding music doesn’t mean they’re a bad person. I personally listen to music that most people hate. Yeah that screaming loud stuff, but I also listen to music that most people either like, or are fine with. Different kinds of music usually have differing meanings and moods. Music always just helps me get over some sad moods.
My last example would be movies. Yes I understand that movies are just actors pretending to be other people and can be completely pointless and bad, but I find that some movies really make me happy; Like Zombieland for instance. I was having a horrible day before I came home. My dad had rented the movie and told me I could watch it in my room. (He’d already watched it and was watching something else.) I laughed through most of the movie and felt so much better once it was over. I’ll watch certain movies again and again; sometimes it’s just for the comfort of familiarity.
I apologize for not being able to pick out a certain individual, but I have a pretty special life and my ability to trust people has been partially severed. Most of the time I do not find people as comforting as some other things.

Characters pt.3 Crispin

In the book Crispin by Avi there is an obvious main character; Crispin. At the beginning of the book he was extremely withdrawn and humble. He couldn’t/wouldn’t look up at people. He never made eye contact, and never seemed to show any signs of any self esteem. When he met bear acted as though he was worth dirt. Bear though began trying to get him to change this. Eventually Crispin began looking up at people and making sure he was looking out for himself as well as Bear. He slowly started gaining character and personality and by the end of the story was a completely different person. He went from being the absolute slave clone to an entertainer with the ability to speak his mind. By the end he shows his emotion and speaks out against the steward and is just essentially the best definition of a dynamic character. Crispin is young and scared at heart through the whole book even though he’s much better at hiding it than he was at the beginning of the story.
He was actually accused (wrongfully of course) of stealing for the steward of his town and was proclaimed a wolf’s head. This meant that anyone could kill him. This is why he left and the reason he met Bear, who eventually became his best friends and mentor. Bear was captured later I the book and was nearly killed Crispin saved him at the very end, but I’m telling too much. This is my favorite book in the world so of course I want you all to read it.

Character pt.2 The Last Book In The Universe

The main character of this book, to start, is called Spaz. I do believe that we are pretty similar in a few traits. He and I both have a tendency to go after what really matters. When Spaz found out about his dying sister he knew that he had to go see her, even though he knew that it was against the rules of the latch boss. I recently found out that a family member of mine was in the hospital. As soon as I heard that the first thing I did was make sure I could get myself over to the ICU to see her. I knew she couldn’t see me, or hear me, but I knew that she would want me to be there so I was. And I believe that was how Spaz felt when he got the message of his sister.
Also I think that his general fear of the unknown comes into play in my life as well. I have a horrible fear of getting myself in over my head. In fact a lot of times I will tell myself not to do things that would probably benefit me only because I am afraid of having to deal with the new people. He is afraid to travel through the latches, let alone with an old man and a little boy that he doesn’t know very well. He is very uncomfortable and untrustworthy as I see myself being very often. I’ve had some bad experiences with people that have led me to take a little longer to open up with people.
God these new versions are so much shorter. I may have to greatly exceed the limit a few times this quarter. Which is surprising coming from me.

Opinion pt.2 The Last Book In The Universe

I love the abstract characteristic in this book’s diolouge. It uses different slang and it’s fun to seriously try and figure out how they got the new words. I now often he’ll use the term ‘zoomed’ instead of crazy. Like when he’d talking about Wryter. Another part of this special diolouge is the way they spell things. Like Wryter’s name. It’s spelt odd because it’s supposed to be writer, seeing as though he was writing the last book in the universe. (Thus the name)
I’ve also come to love the way that Spaz, the book’s main character, has his problem. In a world were people shove needles into their brains there is a boy who can’t. Spaz is epileptic, meaning he can’t shove probes into his head. The probes are like a drug. They are rotting the brains of every leader (Latch boss) in the Urb and causing lethal chaos. They’ve actually spelt the death of a whole latch, untill Spaz and Wryter come along that is. Because in the whole huge adventure of The Last Book in the Universe Spaz is the last beacon of hope. He is the only thing that may fix, at least in the very distant future, the devastation of the Urb.
That and you have to love the whole super dramatic plot description. In a world that has been crushed by devastating natural disasters; one that is feeling the dark, horrible side of technology, one that has lost all connection of the past and any will to change the horrid atmosphere back to what it was there is one last hope. One boy with a defect that he believes has ruined his life. He will be the savior of what has become of our destroyed Earth. He is our last hope. *End dramatic rant*
I’m quite happy with this.

Conflict pt.1 Trials of Death

Trials of Death in an interesting book on the topic of conflict. There are at least five different things that I could and will go on about. There were the Trials of Death, (NOTE THE NAME) where Darren Shan, a mere half vampire is forced to go through trials in which many full vampires have failed. Larten Crepsley, his ‘teacher’ per say isn’t against it, but a man named Kurda Smahlt is. He actually goes and complains to the princes that the trials are not something that he can manage as a half vampire. Mr. Crepsley agreed to this along with the princes who narrowed down the amount of the trials he would be forced to endure.
The first trial was called the Aquatic Maze. And if you couldn’t guess already, it was a maze that was drowned from the inside out. Darren was told to learn how to map things with his mind and how not to panic when the water levels rose. Darren of course did survive but he came very close to death. He in fact was delusional right after he made it out, thinking that he was on a beach. He actually looked up and told Mr. Crepsley to get out of the sun before he burnt up.
The second trial was called something like the Cave of Needles. Hall of Needles, maybe? Either way Darren had to go through a cave by jumping from one stalagmite to another, trying desperately to make it to the other side. Sounds kind of easy right? Not at all. Darren accidentally made a little too much noise which caused the ceiling full of stalactites to start falling on him. There were many that nearly killed him and one that he was forced to catch with his bear hands. (Even a half vampire has more strength than we do.)
The third trial’s name is completely gone from my mind by now but it was by far my favorite and the most horrifying. In this trial Darren in shoved into a room that has many tunnels going through it and many openings to these tunnels. Each one of these tunnels leads to another room in which a group of vampires makes and sustains a very large fire. This fire if you couldn’t guess is shoved up through the tunnels and spouted out at or anround Darren. He has to spend like 15 minutes in this place and if he’s alive at the end he wins. Though badly burnt and in desperate need for a long break Darrren survives. Just barely.

Theme pt.1 Trials of Death

DO NOT READ IF YOU EVER THINK YOU MAY READ THIS BOOK!
(I explain many things that will spoil the whole reading experience if you do.)
Theme is a terrible topic to try and write about when you have a book as short as Trials of Death. I has a great plot yes, but it is a plot stretched out over many books. That and just in general trying to analyze the theme of a horror story is hard in general. I will though try as best I can.
A possible theme to Trials of Death would be something like though there may seem to be no hope left for you, do not give in. Darren throughout the whole book is faced with some challenges that would have left me a crying, emotionally crippled mess. Darren though somehow finds light at the end of an obviously endless tunnel. He is faced with death many times, just in this book, and yet, as he’s been taught he does not stop to cry. He doesn’t stop to think, or complain about how unfair his situation is.
Also there could be something like watch who you trust. Darren’s friends are his greatest assets in certain parts of this book. Kurda for instance convinces some the princes to make Darren’s trials a bit easier. Although as the book goes on you find out a terrible secret about Kurda that ruins that whole trust. Darren is very trusting I believe, and it kind of got him into a very awkward situation. You see Kurda seemed like the absolute best friend you could think of. Higher up in the social ladder, and very opinionated. Kurda essentially saved Darren’s life more than once in this book, but ended up to be the worst of them all. His betrayal was not something I would have ever seen coming, and I can’t, even now, stand to remember how nicely he treated Darren and Larten. And Gavner… I loved him.
Enough spoiling this for you guys. It’s terrible.
And seeing as though I can’t exactly tell a theme for a plot that hasn’t ended yet I’m afraid this must end here.

Characters2 pt.1 Trials of Death ((Larten Crepsley))

Larten Crepsley. The creeper of all vampires. He’s much older than Darren and makes sure that Darren understands and respects him for it. He’s very old fashioned. He’ll never slur his words like any of us do, and he speaks as though he’ll kill you if you don’t respect him like he wants you to. He doesn’t actually even let his first name slip until the third book. He has a supposedly hideous scar on his right cheek that he will often scratch unconsciously. He has bright orange hair that is also apparently hideous. Darren doesn’t often make fun of him, but does make a note to laugh at him when his old mate called him handsome. I thought that part was hilarious. He’s great friends with Gavner Purl, though he sadly passes away in this book. (Mark my mentions of killing Mr. Shan.) Larten has been through many hardships and he’s actually quite like Darren in himself. He, as an assistant, idolized his sire. That’s actually why he talks like he does as well. When he was still an assistant Larten accidentally told his sire that he did in fact idolize him so his sire (Whose name is Seba Nile) would pluck hairs out of his nose every time he combined his words. Eventually though Larten got the smart idea to burn the hairs out so they wouldn’t grow back, but then Seba started pulling the hair out of the inside of his ears. Larten is a very powerful vampire who has earned himself a lot of respect. At one time he was a vampire general, and was even offered the position of prince. He refused though and for a reason I haven’t found out yet Larten quit being a general and became an actor at the Cirque Du Freak where he preformed with his spider named madam Octa. (The spider which in the first book brought Darren into Larten’s way.) For a very long time Larten had not wanted an assistant, and I don’t think he has yet made it clear why he took Darren in. LARTEN CREPSLEY IS A CREEPER, but he’s my best buddy.