Comics and Fiction

The 7 ½ deaths of Evelyn Hardcasle is an interesting book. It starts you of in a forest with no memories yelling the name Ann. You are beaten up and one of your presumed attackers gives you a compass pointing a direction and you follow to a big mansion with many people inside. A doctor checks you out and says you will be fine and will gain your memories back in a few months. In the mean time you make friends around the house. You also try to learn what happened you you and Ann.  When you are get back from a walk and are resting in your bed a man in a strange costume approaches you. He tells you you have 7 days and 7 bodies to find out who will Evelyn Hardcastle at 11:00am and then you can escape this trap. Whenever you go to sleep, die, or it is pasts midnight you switch bodies. If you fail you die permanently. There are two other people competing as the same time as you and the person to get it right first, wins and escape the mansion.  You later find out each body has a his...

     We asked a random high school student to write down as many methods of picking an enjoyable book as possible and rank them from worst to best. Of course, there is only one true way to analyze any work of literature, but we didn’t tell him that. The subject started with legitimate advice but eventually began writing pure misinformation. The more egregious claims were ranked at the very beginning of the list as per instructions. The study was called off after the subject experienced catatonic shock from the sheer pointlessness of his exercise and was rushed to the hospital. His sacrifice was an important asset to the scientific community. Now, you can bask in the complete and utter nonsense he has spat onto his page. We hope this study serves as a lesson to all: (1) Don’t bother coming up with multiple answers to a problem with only one true solution, and (2) Don’t trust everything you read. Whoever wrote it may just be messing with you... Method 1 – Flammability: Th...

  “Tintin in the Congo” Summary This story starts out with Tintin and Snowy traveling to the Belgian Congo, and once they reach the Congo, they meet up with their travel guide named Coco. As Tintin is traveling through Congo, he notices a similar face from the ship to Congo, and this mysterious man attempts to murder Tintin. Luckily, Tintin is saved by monkeys who throw coconuts down from the trees which then hits the man's head. Tintin immediately flees from the scene, and the following day, Tintin gets into a car crash, but luckily a reporter spots them and is able to tow their car and bring them to his local village. In that village, Tintin is greeted by the king, and the king offers to go hunting with him. When Tintin is hunting with the king, he is knocked unconscious by a lion. Right when Tintin is about to be devoured by the lion, Snowy comes and bites off the lion's tail which makes it run away. When Tintin comes back alive with the king, he is looked at as a hero by ...

Since I wrote a blog post about the 7th Wings of fire book and the 8th Wings of fire book, I decided to read the 9th Wings of fire book. If you’ve read my previous blog posts, or if you’re familiar with the series, you probably know that the Wings of Fire series is a series which is told in the point of view of a dragon. Since the main character changes each time, the main character for this book is a dragon named Turtle (confusing, I know) who finds out that the evil dragon from book 6, Darkstalker, has reawoken and someone has to stop him. Turtle thinks that he isn’t the “someone” who can stop Darkstalker so he tries to look for someone who can. However time is running out so Turtle realizes that he might have to do it himself. This book is great because the overall plot is well-thought out and deep and has lots of plot twists. I’ve mentioned this briefly in one of my previous blog posts, but one of the best things about the WOF series is the character development. Every book has a m...

Since I liked the previous book, I decided to read book 8 of the Wings of Fire series. Just in case you aren’t familiar with Wings of Fire, it is a series where the story is told from the point of view of a dragon and the main character changes in each book. In this book, the main character is a dragon named Peril. She was previously loyal to the evil queen Scarlet, who was supposedly killed in book 1. It turns out that Scarlet was alive, and now she wants to take revenge on Peril and all her friends. So, Peril needs to stop her. This book is pretty similar to book 7, in a sense that the main character sets off on a journey to stop a villain. Although it is also different, because book 7 is more focused on the main character himself, while book 8 has a wider range of “main” characters. I think this makes it better overall because you get to see the perspectives of many different characters. Another thing that book 8 does differently from book 7 is that it is kind of more connected with...

English Doesn't Love You      The purpose of language is to facilitate communication between people as quickly and legibly as possible. Over the course of human history, we have been working tirelessly to develop the perfect language, and I think I speak on behalf of everyone when I say that finally, after thousands of years… we’re still working on it. English, despite being the largest and most widespread language in the world, is far from perfect. Hi, my name is Michael Wu. Welcome to the world of my mind, where today I am going to be explaining, in full, in depth, in English, why this language doesn’t love you and never will. Part 1: The Alphabet      Lets start with the basics. We know that English is structured off of 26 basic symbols called letters, each corresponding to certain vocal sounds. This may sound obvious, but there is no intrinsic link needed between speech and writing. Some languages such as Mandarin have no correlation between writt...