Blog 8!

I read an article about how different Christian Culture is different From the Jewish Culture. In Christian culture a common food that they eat is bread and drink wine for the spirit of jesus. But outside of church the can eat whatever they likethere is no restriction on what they can and cannot eat. Most clothes are what they perfer, obiously no swearing, or dirty words or onthe clothing and it must not be to short or skimpy. There religion is to respect god and others around them. "Do on to others as you do on yourself" or the golden rule. Another constant phrase which is said at the end of church services is "Go in peace and serve the world thanks be to god". Different versions are said throughout bu there is something like that. In the Jewish culture they are different by having food restrictions. If you are very orthodox it is said you may not eat any kind of pork, shell fish, and you cannot eat any dairy and meat together. Also in the orthodox jewish "payas" are grown by the men. Which is hair behind the ears. Along with that on the sabbath a jewish orthodox person cannot do ano kind of work such as carry anything or turn on a light switch. In the christian religon they have christmas but the jews have hannakah which is based on the maccabes.

blog 7!

In the book Eclipse there is change that occurs throughout the book. In earlier times vampires and warewolves would never interact with eachother. They never crossed paths, they even had a boundary line. In other words they were greatest enemies. who would ever think bella could change all that...
When the vampires thought that the newcomers were coming to attack them, they needed back up or help. So they called on the warewolves to help. They would not do this if they were not it great need. So they both formed a pack to help and so the vampires and the wolves worked together. That is great change which has never been done before. Another change which occurs through all of the books in the twilight series is how edward is in love with bella. In the vampires before none of them started to like a human...
This is a big change that came throughout the series...

blog 6

In the book eclipse there is hope shown throughout. When they think that the new vampires are starting a fight they form a group to fight them back. Bella asks Edward to not fight because she doesnt want him to get hurt. So she hopes that none of the vampires will not get hurt. When she is in the tent she is constantly hoping that jacob or any of the vampires or warewolves did not get hurt. When edward is fighting with victoria in the fight bella is hoping to live. To hope is to anticipate. Bella has much hope throughout the novel and this is well show by many tough scenarios. Lastly she hopes that she can become a vampire like edward. She doesnt want to leave him and getting married can lead to that she can live forever... will she do it?

Blog 5!

In the Twilight series a main belief is that the cullen family will fall in love with another vampire and some vampires suck humans blood. It is not common for a vampire to go for a human. But Edward doesnt care he goes for bella and goes beyond his beliefs. In the beginning it was hard for him he wanted so hard to just go beyond his beliefs of not sucking human blood and suck hers but he did not. He held back. He loved her. From then on they spent more time together and then began dating. So even though he did go from one of his beliefs he went beyond the other one of not dating a human. His family was schocked at the beginning but soon loosened up. So it will show that true love can make a human/vampire go beyond there beliefs and it can end up for the best.

Blog 4!

In the book twilight both genders are represented. The cullen family has both girls and guys and they are all treated equally. The cullen family is an equally distributed vampire family. Unlike some cultures the girls are treated as well as the guys. Except there is one thing the guys in the family are known to hunt. They do the hunting for the family well the girls stay back and look after the house. That is the only thing that has gender roles. In the human world girls are treated some what differently. Like today girls do not apply to be president except for Hilary Clinton but still no one really does it. Some girls are not police and fire fighters because they are known as "butch" but to this day it has gotten way better. More and more girls are having those occupations. So to this day we are having much better gender roles then india.

Blog 3!

In Twilight series edward is a vampire so basically he has a different culture then me. In my culture is to go to church and respect god. In edwards culture it is not to eat except human and animal blood. They dont talk to outside humans they dont socialize. Except for edward, he is an exception. He goes beyond his culture and does what nobody has done before. He goes for Bella. He spends his time seeing/dating her. A human. A totally different "culture" from edward all together. At first Edwards siblings were not happy about him going beyond there beliefs but he didnt care he went for it anyway. And soon enough they all liked Bella as if she was one of them. So even though edward went beyond his beliefs it turned out for the best in the end. I believe that sometimes if you turn your back on your culture if you strongly believe something its okay because it can turn out for the best. For an example in the book "nectar in a sieve" Ruku goes beyond her culture when she knows how to read and write and she teaches her kids how to read and write which is not what most indians do but it turns out for the best in the end because her kids get good jobs and are educated.

Outside reading 3

Facing a difficulty,
In the book Eclipse the main character Bella faces many diffuculties in this book such as when she is talking to edward she asks him to get out of the fight be because she is afraid it may kill him so she asks him stay to stay out of it. He is not so sure about it, he has to fight with the warewolfs and he needs to but he doesnt because bella is going to be to worried about him. Bella also faces diffuculties because she realizes that Victoria is still after her , she is not dead. They are going after her to kill her. She faces many diffuculties in all books, thats what keeps them so intense. I love it!!

Outside reading quarter 3

Natural Disaster,
In the book twilight she moved to the town of forks when she realized it rains a lot. She moved from arizona which it did not rain at all there. In the town of Forks it rains a lot during the week. This could be bad for the town because it may flood it. Im currently done with the book and am on eclipse. Another example of a natural disaster is when there is a thunder storm in Forks, thats when the vampires play baseball. They play it then because it will sound it out by the lightning. That is when Bella meets james and the whole problem begins...
In forks the natural disasters there are a lot of rain and some thunder storms but thats about it.