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I am reading The Breadwinner book. Parvana is like a mother to her family because she is the one who has to do all the housework. She also looks after her little sister, Maryam. Nooria is her big sister who is her mother’s favorite, Nooria never has to do the hard chores. All she does is clean the cupboards with her mother. I connected to that part because I always do the chores and my brother never does any, so I understand how she feels.


Parvana adores her father, who makes her feel safe. She’s always willing to help her father walk to the market and back home again. I think that Parvana is a very caring and loving person who generally loves her father. One night the Taliban came to their house and took Parvana’s father because they don’t want  his “foreign ideas”. I think that it was stupid for the Talibans to take Parvana’s father because he has done no crime and nobody should go to jail just because they have education. I mean they could actually use his knowledge for things because the Taliban does not have a lot of education, they can't even read.


After Parvana and her mother got back from jail trying to get her father back, her mom was so depressed. She has been laying in her toshak all day and doesn't even talk to anyone. after a couple days, she still has not done anything. I think that her mom isn't being reasonable about this situation. I understand that her mom is depressed because her husband has been taken away by the taliban not knowing where he is, and how he is doing, but she has kids who are sad as well and need her to be their mom again. They also need food and water. The kids can’t go to the market to get food because they are too young, and frightened.


 
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Q1. How would you have reacted if a friend told you that they were going blind?

A1. I would feel really bad for my friend but i would stick with my friend and help her/him through it.


Q2. If Molly had 'acted' more blind do you think she would have still been bullied?

A2. I think she still would have been bullied because she’s different. Not a lot of teens are blind.


Q3. Should Molly's mom have told the school about the incident in the forest?

A3. Yes, because it would probably resolve the issue about her being bullied for her being blind.


Q4. Why would Molly's "Friends" turn on her and eventually bully her?

A4. They don’t want to deal with being with a blind person and they probably think it's “uncool” to hang with a blind person.


Q5. Do you think Molly would have become a motivational speaker if she hadn’t been bullied?

A5. No, because Molly was a motivational speaker being of her being bullied and how she got through it.


 
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Today we had a presenter her name was Tara Teng, who is Miss Canada. Tara Teng isn’t your normal “pageant girl” She’s one of those people that I look up too. She was talking about Human Trafficking, it was hard topic to hear about this afternoon. To just think about all those kids, as well as teens, getting taken advantage of. Knowing that their are people who do this kind of stuff to kids in our city! or even our neighbors! Well, really anywhere. I wish the world wouldn't be the way it is today. But as Tara Teng said, “We can’t just pretend that this isn’t happening”. Tiara is right. How could we ignore this terrible issue? Together we have the power to change the world.

 
Wonder has ended and I really enjoyed this book. I would give this book five stars. It let's kids know that they shouldn't jugde people by how they look, like Augie. They could be the nicest person ever. so I think that's a really good message to kids or even adults.
 
My first New Years resolution is that I will try not to get angry when I play video games. My other one is to try to get better grade by asking my teachers when I need help.
 
My new years was awesome, me and my brother had air horns and was blasting them of all night and we had chinese food which my mom made and it was really good. we also had donuts and other junk food. I cant wait to see what 2013 brings!!!!!!
 
I had a really fun Christmas this year. I got skull candy headphones which i love! I also got an Ipod Touch 5 gen 32G :) i had fun spending time with my family on Christmas, eating turkey and Hungarian food that my grandma makes. Cant wait till 2013!
 
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My favorite Christmas memory was in 2010 when i was with my whole family to celebrate it and open presents with them and also having Christmas dinner with them was fun. Because Christmas isnt about the presents its mainly about Jesus birthday and spending time with family. That was my favorite Christmas memory.

 
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I connected to the when Julie told summer to not hang with August anymore. When i was younger I had situations like that where I would be friends with someone and they would tell me not too.

 
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Today was August first day of school, I feel bad for him that he didn't really makes friends. Summer is this only friend, she might of just been nice to August just for that day. I think Jack might be his friend.