Name Blog

When I was younger my teacher told us to go home and ask our parents how we got our names. On the walk back to my house i asked my mom about it and she told me that I was named after my Uncle Paul. I learned that i was supposed to be born on the 10th, my uncles birthday, but I was born on the 9th. I also learned that all my siblings are named after people in my family too, my one younger sister's middle name is my grandmothers name, and my other sister's middle name is my mom name. My brother is named after my grandmothers uncle and my other brother is named after his moms dad. My middle name is my grandfather's name, Hendrik. I havent had to many nicknames. My mom and grandmother used to call me Paulie and my brother used to call me smalls but that was just because of the sandlot. In second grade my friend gave me the name turkey because he was coming over for thanksgiving

1. The novel is suspenseful because each chapter ends with a little bit of uncertainty. You get to look at the story through one characters point of view but you never learn what they are really thinking. Each chapter tells the story of one character, and tells what they believe is happening. The thing that keeps it suspenseful is the fact that every chapter ends right before a real conflict begins and it leaves you wondering what’ll happen next. As the story goes on you begin to be able to piece together what’s happening by putting all the characters accounts of it together, but Jodi Picoult never comes out and says what’s going on.

2. Sara seems a little too focused on Kate. It looks like she believes Kate is the only child that really matters. She sees Jesse high and drunk all the time, she sees how he drives and she knows the trouble he gets into but she doesn’t do anything about it. She acts like she only has one child. I don’t doubt that she loves her children but she doesn’t show that she really cares about them too much.

25 Random Things

1. I have 2 dogs
2. I have 2 older brothers (each more than 9 years older than me) and twin little sisters
3. I've broken 7 bones in 5 years
4. I enjoy reading
5. I can play several different instruments
6. I own a banjo
7. i have two dogs
8. I had a lizard named Fancy Pants
9. I play Football, Lacrosse and Basketball
10. I was born in Delaware
11. Both my brothers are half brothers
12. No one else in my family has curly hair
13. My dad's adopted
14. My grandfather owned an elephant
15. I do wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weaner
16. I'm color blind
17. I once drank a jar of pickle juice because its supposed to be good for you, It doesn't taste like it though.
18. I live in Towson
19.  My middle name is Hendrik
20. I once fostered a dog named Jingles
21. I don't know the muffin man
22. I've ridden a shopping cart down the street while it was tied to a bike
23. My friends and I play neighborhood golf every weekend
24. Chipotle is my favorite fast food restaurant
25. I can make a funny noise with my hands

Keeper

I consider myself the keeper of one of my friends that I've known for years. I met her in kindergarten and we've been good friends since then. She's always been a little bit of a follower so I've tried to keep her in the right crowd and even though I'm not going to school with her right now we still see each other every so often. When we do get to talk I try to help her out and she has some good advice for me about other things that affect me.

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult wrote My Sister's Keeper. She was born in Long island and later moved to New Hampshire. She wrote her first story at the age of 5 and then went on to Princeton University and graduated in 1987. She wrote two short stories for 17 magazine while still in college. After an assortment of jobs after college she wrote for DC's comic Wonder Woman.Now she is married to Tim Van Leer and had 3 children.
       In her novel, My Sister's Keeper, Anna has to donate organs for her sister Kate, who is battling  leukemia. After years of giving her sister her organs she decides to stop and it almost rips their family apart.


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