Blogging Assessment #1

The blog post that demonstrated my writer’s voice best was my book review on Doomed.  Some words or phrases that show my voice as a writer are, “I enjoyed this book because it's really suspenseful and the characters are really well developed.”  This shows that I like to explain why I liked the book. One example that shows my personality as a writer is how I like to leave the reader questioning about the book so they’ll want to read it. “Within the blog are twelve pictures of her past in which Pandora downloads, unknowingly she unleashes the worm as well. Now it's up to her to play the game and save the world. Could her past really be the key to saving the world?” This shows that I like to leave the reader hanging.

One example of diction used in this post is abstract diction. “Pandora's Box was a game created by Pandora's long lost father in hopes of creating a better world. On Pandora's seventeenth birthday she gets an email from her father with a link to a blog that her dad created talking about how they'd used to be so close.” This shows the emotion Pandora felt when she got the email from her long lost father on her seventeenth birthday. An example of syntax being used is when I left the reader hanging with a question. “Within the blog are twelve pictures of her past in which Pandora downloads, unknowingly she unleashes the worm as well. Now it's up to her to play the game and save the world. Could her past really be the key to saving the world?” This shows punctuation being used to create suspense for the reader.

The Girl is Murder

So I'm still reading The Girl is Murder. Iris has finally made friends with Pearl who everyone avoids and calls Pearl Harbor ever since her brother was killed at Pearl Harbor. Iris has successfully helped her dad with the case I mentioned in my previous blog post. Now more problems have risen. Iris finds out that her dad has been avoiding their landlady because their rent is overdue. A new case has popped up and it has to do with one of her classmates, Tom Barney who has gone missing. She knows her dad's on the case, but he won't let her help after helping him without permission on his last case. Iris knows her dad can't talk Tom's friends into giving away his location without a rise in suspicion so Iris decides to take matters into her own hands and decides it's up to her to find out where Tom is.


I predict that Iris is going to be the one that finds out where Tom is and then her father's going to finally agree to let her help with his detective work. I also predict that Iris's relationship with her father won't be so awkward anymore if her dad agrees to let her help with his cases.

Krista Ramsey

Here's the link to the column I chose.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/03/22/krista-ramsey/6760681/


The column I chose is about how a newlywed couple spends their first year raising the groom's twin sisters.


Best Written Line

"When they left their old life behind to move into Megan's apartment in Eastgate, they left with nothing but the clothes they were wearing" (Ramsey). I think this line is the best written because it shows how rough their lives were before Ryan and Megan stepped in and adopted them. This also shows how family sticks together. This line makes the column really touching and inspiring because of how she described the condition the twins were in before they were adopted by Ryan and Megan. One type of diction used in this line was abstract diction. It shows how the couple feels about the girls because they pushed back their plans to raise the twins and care for them. It also shows that even though they barely knew each other the couple still loved them unconditionally.


Krista Ramsey's Writing Style

Some writing styles I've picked up in Krista's writing are how the titles of her columns are very descriptive like, "For better vision, kids need time outdoors" "Super Bowl QBs score points for great style" "Newlyweds spend first year raising groom's twin sisters"(Ramsey) She also tends to use pathos  and logos a lot in her writing. An example of pathos is when she shows emotion in her columns like in "Newlyweds spend first year raising groom's twin sisters". She uses a lot of logos in her other two columns we observed in class.

Questions for Krista Ramsey

1. What was your first column about?
2. Do you ever get writers block?
3. What's your most favorite thing about being a columnist?

The Girl is Murder

I just finished Find Me and now I'm reading The Girl is Murder. This book is set in the year of 1942 during World War ll in New York. So far the main character, Iris Anderson is struggling at her new school. She originally lived on the Upper East Side of New York, but after her mother's death, Iris and her father move to the Lower East Side of New York. Iris being used to the private school she once attended now faces a lot of things she's never dealt with at the public school she now attends. After her first day going to public school she comes home to find her father with one of his clients. Iris has never been aware of how much money they had until now when her father is begging his client to give him more time to solve the case he's working on. Iris knowing her father can't chase down the suspect after losing his leg in the war and decides to try to track the suspect herself.

 

 



Find Me

The reason I chose to read Find Me is because it's a murder mystery. I enjoy reading murder mysteries because they keep you on the edge of your seat and they also keep you thinking about who the murder is. Another reason why I chose this book is because it seems like there is going to be a lot of suspense because it's a murder mystery. The summary also sounded really appealing to me. Summary: Wick Tate finds the dairy of Tessa Waye who has just been found dead and written on the dairy are the words  "Find Me". Wick has the right computer hacking skills for the job but little interest until her sister, Lily is the next target. Foster child. Daughter of a felon. Hacker girl. Wick has a bad attitude and sarcasm to spare. But she's going to find this killer no matter what. Because it just got personal.

 

 

 

 

From what I've read so far I think some of the possible suspects that could have caused Tessa to commit suicide are Carson the detective who has been watching Tessa's house and Wick's house . I suspect him because he seems really suspicious and he just so happens to be the detective trying to capture Wick's father. I also suspect Joe whose a friend of Wick's father and forces Wick to use her hacking skills for the bad. I suspect him because he tells Wick that if she doesn't get the job done he's going to harm her and he also knows where Wick and Lily's foster home is. Another person I suspect is Jim Waye, Tessa's father who Tessa is afraid of because he is really violent and he's really strict. Finally I suspect Griff because he seems to know too much about Wick. He also indirectly claims that he's been stalking Wick for the past three years.