How Do Authors Create Empathy.

The ability to understand through imagination into the thoughts or feelings of another person. Authors have a very good way to show empathy in there writing. The author Deborah Ellis shows many different empathy examples in her Writing. When I Was reading the book The Breadwinner i felt empathy on many different parts.

Another way a writer can create empathy is describing the situation and feelings well. Whenever I feel empathy from a book, it's usually because it is a very well written book. The writing has to be descriptive so the reader can fully understand it and picture it in their mind. For example, when Parvana's father came home, Deborah Ellis described Parvana's emotion on how she felt about her Father who is coming home. She used lots of description, and I could imagine what Parvana was feeling because of how many adjectives and adverbs she used.

So finally I think empathy is always going to be in books no matter what book or passage it is in. Weather it is in a book, magazine, or comic book feelings in books are always going to be there.Empathy is everywhere all you need to do is look. Empathy is a great way to make your book interesting so whenever you are writing you should always try to add feelings and emotions to your book.

How Would You Feel?

Imagine that you lived in a world were you had to cover up your body every were you went. If you wanted to simply get some fresh air and have a short walk around the neighbourhood you had to Ware a heavy hot burqa. Well I couldn't even imagine living in a world tat you had to be forced to do things you really dont want to do. Well In Afghanistan all women are forced to do horrible things.

They are not allowed to go out side with out a burqa, they are not allowed to even pick there husbands. There are many storys of young teen aged girls marring men who are 35 to 40 years old. Also women are not allowed to vote so they have no say in who runs the country. It is extemely sad, horrible and discriminating towards women's rights. I hope in a couple of years the taliban is gone forever.

Life would not be a very fun place for a Afgan women and if I was one it would be very different to how women are treated in Canada. In Canada women are allowed to vote, be free and go out side without a burqa. Waring a burqa would change my life drastically. I cant even believe how women suffer so much and just except it. It would make me very angry seeing all the other women in different country's so free and having to not ware a burqa. Now you decide is the burqa good or bad.

Eva Olsson

The Holocaust was one of the worst events in history but that's only hearing about it.When Eva was only 19 she was forced into working at a brick factory. Little did she know little Eva who just wanted to make some extra money was shipped to Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a concentration camp held in Poland, it had very little space and people were forced to do slave labour. In my mind Auschwitz is the worst thing a person could ever do to another. People thought why, why did they hate the Jews well i think it is because they dint like difference. People at the time probably didn't really know what was happening in Auschwitz but Eva was living there for 3 hole years.

Her speech really made me think about how awful the Holocaust really was. At first the speech stared off slow but once she stared getting into it i felt great empathy for her. As the presentation continued i started to think about my family. My Grandma and Grandpa are from Poland and lived there around the same time, I hope they didn't get harmed from the Holocaust. My Grandpa (Bubcha in Polish) is still alive to this day and he is a very kind loving man.

I cant even imagine how Eva survived the Holocaust. It was a horrible place and not even animals should have gone let alone people, human beings. The Nazis were horrible people, they would torture, kill and, discriminate Jews. In my mind Eva Olsson is one of the biggest heroes in the world and I think it would be great if she spoke to bigger audiences about her biography and to spred the word about how bad the Holocaust really was. The Holocaust was a horrible time in histroy when families, young kids, hardworking men, and Innocent young teenagers. I hope the Holocaust never happens again and people just except each others race.

Norval Trip.

On Monday October 23 the whole middle school spent the afternoon at an out door team building field trip. The day started off very slow but after the day went on we all got to know our concealers and it was all right. When we stepped off the bus we put our lunch bags down and started our first activity. When everyone saw our low rope pole, it was a little intimidating. There was a 7 foot pole with a small rubber tier at the bottom.

Our team was very organized at some parts but others everyone was talking g at the same time. I think our group could have done better by taking terns talking. At some points of the day quiet kids didn't have a say in what to do but you could always tell when loud people were talking (Saski and Hannah) no offence. The group i was working with got the tier over the pole so that means we worked well together. It took alot of effort but we did it.

One thing our group did very well was communicating with each other. We all got together in a round shaped huddle and talked about what we are going to do next. If that strategy didn't work we would get back into the circle and brainstorm again. Another thing our group did well was complementing people on what they did. Aj had a great idea and wanted to climb up the pole but sadly his idea didn't work. Instead of telling Aj that his idea was crap we told him it was a good idea and that he did a good job.

Personally I think Norval was fun at sometimes was lame but others like the drum circle was a great time to get together and spend time with each other. Norval is a great place to realize how cool the earth is. All the trees plants and animals we saw was a great experience to me. In conclusion i think Norval was a great experience and an awsome way to learn about everything.

Does Clothing Shape Who you Are.

Does clothing shape who you are? I think there are many different ways to look at this question. You can always tell who a person is simply by the shirt on their back. If someone is wearing bright green pants and a highlighter pink shirt, you can always tell they are an exciting, fun person who doesn't care about what other people think. If you are walking in the mall and you see a little boy with Abercrombie pants, hat, shirt and even Abercrombie cologne that means they care about what people think about them and want to look better than everyone else.

If you go into a job interview, you always want to look good. I don't really know because I'm 12, but still you should. Schools have a lot of bullying because some kids cant afford all the name brands like other kids can and sometimes they are made fun of by what they wear. kids should not care about what they wear, how they look and what brand names they have (exept me because i have to look good haha). To answer the question: no, i dont think clothing shapes who you are.

My first blog.

This is my first blog, kinda. Well you see, my first blog was called my first blogski but that got deleted :( so i got over it and made the all new redisighned first blog. Its awsome.













by alex craig.