New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)

Name : Hoh Tjin Li

Class : S4A

School Num. : 08160

Book Call Num. : F MEY C2

Book Title : New Moon

Author : Stephenie Meyer

Publication Year/ (Edition) : 2008

Setting

The small, rainy town where Bella lives is in Forks, Washington. It is the main setting throughout the whole series. While Italy, is where the Volturi live. There, Bella rushes over with Alice to stop Edward from killing himself.
In this book- New Moon, one of the main setting is Jacob's house- Where Bella is most of the time after Edward leaves. She spends time mostly in Jacob's garage, watching him work on his car.

Synopsis of Characters

Bella

When Edward leaves her, Bella is destroyed emotionally and spends the next several months in a deep depression after a birthday party for Bella goes horribly wrong. Her life was put in danger. After renewing her childhood friendship with Jacob Black, she begins to feel alive again.

Edward Cullen

Edward decided to leave Forks with his family so they wouldn't be able to hurt her. After keeping tabs on Bella through his sister Alice's visions, he learns that she has fallen to her death, but Alice doesn't realise yet that she can't see everything, and it's a race against time to save Edward from the biggest mistake of his life. He returned because he realized he cannot live without her.

Jacob Black

Jacob is also hiding a supernatural secret himself. He's a member of the Quileute tribe, and as he hits puberty, he discovers he's inherited the genes that turn him into an enormous, powerful wolf – part of a pack that protects the tribe from vampires. Instantly Edward and Jacob become natural enemies, but with one common aim - to protect Bella.

Conflict

Edward leaves Bella, after Jasper attacks her and tells her that he does not want her anymore. She starts to spend time with Jacob and finds out he's a werewolf. Bella jumps off a cliff, not suicide, but just for fun. Alice saw that, and comes back to forks to console Charlie as she thinks Bella is dead. Edward calls and Jacob told Edward that Charlie is at "the funeral".

Conclusion

At the end of New Moon, Bella went off with Alice to save Edward in Italy. The Volturi at first say that Bella can't leave because she knows too much about vampires but Alice and Edward promise Bella will be changed soon. They go back to Washington. When they get back, Jacob has returned Bella's motorcycle, and when Charlie sees it, he gets really mad and grounds Bella.

After that the Cullen family vote for whether Bella should become a vampire takes place, and since the majority says yes, Edward loses his temper. He eventually offers to change her if they marry, which she freaks out at, because she remembers how her parents' young marriage was like.

Opinion

Actually, in my personal opinion, this book is educational in the way that it teaches young women not to be so emotionally dependent on their boyfriends because of the way it can feel like "your world is ending" when you break up. Besides it would be a good topic for a mother to talk to her daughter, after they both read it, about how those kinds of relationships can be so self-destructive.

Name : Hoh Tjin Li
Class : S4A
School Num. : 08160
Book Call Num. : F MEY C2
Book Title : The host
Author : Stephenie Meyer
Publication Year/ (Edition) : 2008
SETTING
The idea for The Host originated on a trip from Phoenix to Salt Lake City. Filled with boredom, the author made up stories to entertain herself, and was halfway through outlining the story of The Host in her head before realizing what she had created. She notes that the story grabbed her attention, and that she "could tell there was something compelling in the idea of such a complicated triangle." Originally meant to be a side project, The Host eventually became a priority.
Characters
Wanderer/Wanda
She is actually a silver blob with antennae but she currently occupies Melanie's body. Wanda is very kind and sees herself falling in love with Melanie's loves: her brother Jamie and her romance love Jared. Wanda is kind and very selfless. She receives happiness from making others happy. She never looks to help herself but what she can do to help others.
Jared
Jared is Melanie's love. He shows great signs of leadership as he is in charge of the raids that go on for food. He is very reluctant to become friends with Wanda/Melanie because he doesn't feels it's possible.
Melanie
She has a temper and may be considered volatile compared to docile Wanderer. Melanie is passionately in love with another human, Jared Howe, and shares a strong mother-like bond with her younger brother, Jamie. She grows to care for Wanderer deeply as a sister, as well. Melanie is described as pretty, tall and athletic with long brown hair, hazel eyes and tan skin.



Conflict
The main conflict was that the alien was invading the human's body. The person who used to control it still had part of her mind; she was a fighter. This conflict was solved when the alien fell in love with someone the human didn't love, when they used the alien to help and she found she could be useful to the hiding group of people. Besides, they took the alien out of the human's body and put her in another body.
Conclusion
Wanda has Doc remove her from Melanie's body, believing that she will die there after, according to their agreement. However, she awakens in a new human body whose original owner was possessed as a baby and therefore has no suppressed human personality, and it is revealed that Jared and Ian forcibly prevented Doc from carrying out the agreement and that most of the humans want her to stay as one of them. This book ends with the rebels discovering another group of humans who also have a soul among them. This discovery suggests that humanity and souls together may still have hope for the future.
Opinion
I don’t know if it’s fair to compare this book to Twilight because they are not even the same genre. However, I think I pick up this book because of my enjoyment of Twilight.It was an interesting story. I think it was an amazing thing to combine the alien and the human in one body so we can get the perspective of both from the same experiences. It was fascinating to see how they could view the same thing so differently. Overall it was a captivating story and it surpassed even my high expectations.

Name : Hoh Tjin Li
Class : S4A
School Num. : 08160
Book Call Num. : F MEY C2
Book Title : Twilight
Author : Stephenie Meyer
Publication Year/ (Edition) : 2006
SETTING
The setting to Twilight is Forks, Washington. It was chosen by Stephenie Meyer (the author of the Twilight Series) because it is the rainiest city in the United States and the main character is a vampire.
Forks is about 5 hours away from Seattle, along the Olympic Peninsula. Along with Forks, there is also First Beach in La Push, which is also a place mentioned often. This is an Indian Reservation near Forks home of the Quilette Indians. Jacob Black, a friend to the main character, lives here.
Character
Isabella Swan
Bella is the frictional protagonist of this book. She moves to her father's home in Forks, Washington, meets the mysterious Cullen family, and falls in love with Edward Cullen. However, she soon discovers that the family is a coven of vampires. Bella expresses a desire to become a vampire herself, against Edward's wishes.
Edward Cullen
Like all vampires, Edward is described as impossibly handsome, to the point of being almost godlike. In the sunlight, his skin sparkles like millions of diamonds. His eyes change color depending on his mood. They are described as a butterscotch when he is delighted and fed and gradually darken to black, like onyx, as he is angered and when he is thirsty. A member of the Olympic Coven, Edward only drinks animal blood and has the special ability to read minds. He falls in love with Bella soon after she arrives in Forks.
Jacob Black
Jacob Black is Bella's best friend. He is a Quileute Native American and a werewolf. In Twilight, Jacob plays the minor role of a forgotten childhood friend of Bella's, and he develops a crush on her. In an attempt to learn more about Cullens, Bella flirts with Jacob, and he tells her tribe legends about "the cold ones", or vampires.
Conflict
The major conflict in Twilight is that Edward is a danger to Bella's life. But she continues to love him anyway. And it doesn't help when other vampire's smell the Cullens and then smell mortal blood (Bella) close to the Cullens. So when the other Vampire come. Bella has to leave her home and hid out some where. And ends up getting hurt anyway, almost becoming a Vampire herself.
Conclusion
To me, the conclusion was kind of left open for New Moon (the second book of the twilight series).
Although Edward was a vampire, it didn’t matter as Bella wanted to be with him no matter what.
Opinion
The Twilight Saga is a great series to read. It is a fantasy that you will wish is possible. I am truly addicted. ^^ The characters are easy to connect to and there's just the right amount of love, mystery, and action. I fully recommend the Twilight series!

My Sister's Keeper

STORY SUMMARY : WRITE ABOUT A BOOK

Name : Amanda Lo Class : S5C

School No : 07044

Book Call No : F PIC

Book Title : My Sister's Keeper

Author : Jodi Picoult

Publication Year/ (Edition) : 2008

SETTING

This story is mainly set around the Fitzgerald household where there are undoubtly tears and laughter in abundance. Just like any normal family would be. the only difference is their daughter, Kate, is dying from a rare form of leukemia, blood cancer. Thus, the story moves from trips to the hospital where Kate recieves treatment after treatment to no avail, to the garage where Kate's elder brother sets up his room because he cant stand the tension at home, to the girls' bedroom, where Kate and her little sister, Anna, share stories and secrets... if only they were a normal family, but it is not to be that way...

Character

The main character of the story is Anna Fitzgerald. Kate's sister knew from the start that she was a 'planned' child. a baby conceived with a specific use for her in the future. Anna is genetically identical to her drastically ill sister, Kate. Kate has a rare form of leukemia, and the doctors say the only way to save her is to practically 'sacrifice' Anna by extracting stem cells, cord blood, bone marrow, lymphocytes etc. for Kate's medical treatment. No one likes being used as tool for someone else. Thus, Anna make a firm decision to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.

-Sara Fitzgerald is mother to Jesse, Kate and Anna. She left the legal world to become what she loves most- a mother. But when Kate is diagnosed with APL leukemia, her comfortable world falls apart. Sara knows she will do anything to save her daughter, or any one of her children. Whatever it takes.

-Campbell Alexander is legal counsel to Anna Fitzgerald, helping her sue her parents to the rights of her own body. Never before has he took on a case that touched him so much, and hit so close to home. Although he suffers from frequent strokes since he collapsed a year ago, he is determined to see this case to the end, even if it costs him his peace of mind, he believes no one should be forced to do something they don't want to, even if in Anna's case, the reslut is her sister dying.

Conflict

Kate Fitzgerald is diagnosed with a deadly form of leukemia, blood cancer from a very young age. The family was torn apart. Her mother, Sara took on the responsibilty of caring for her, even if it was like driving a dagger through her heart everytime the doctors drew blood from her daughter's arm. Therefore, when they were offered a chance to try and save Kate, Sara jumped for it, even if it meant creating a new baby specifically genetically identical to Kate. Years passed and Anna started having a change of heart. She did not want to continue donating stem cells, bone marrow and whatever else to her sister anymore. She doesn't care what happens to Kate anymore, she is suing her parents for medical emancipation, the rights to her own body. The idea in itself shatters the already fragile family. Now Brian, the father, immerses himself in fire-fighting and doesn't come home, while Kate's brother, Jesse, creates those fires just to get his parents' attention. the story encompases a mother's love, forced to be torn; a child's struggle with cancer; a family buried under conflict; tough decisions to be made; and in the end, Fate's cruel hand.

Conclusion

Fate dealt the last blow in the end of this heart-breaking story. The results of Anna's lawsuit are revealed, and she is granted medical emancipation. Anna chooses not to donate her kidney to Kate even though her sister is nearing Death's door.... The results are good for Anna, but why is she crying? A few months later, Kate has a healthy kidney, her cancer is cured and she is free to live her life normally.. What happened to Anna? I suppose you'll have to read the book to find out!

Opinion

I love this book. It is heartbreaking yet mesmerising. Each event is relevant to the next, although you may not realise it the first time, the realisation comes brutal and hard. Most of all, this novel highlights a family's struggle, that inadvertantly makes them stronger, and teaches us that love conquers all.

Rating

Star : 5