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I read the book Flawless by Sara Shephard for the month of November.  This book is the second in its series.  At the beginning of the story, the book goes back to wen the Alison first discovered the four other girls.  It talks about how there is always this one person in the neighborhood who is the creepy and lonely outcast.  In this series the creepy person is Toby Cavanaugh.  The last thing I read was when the groups' leader, Alison, set a firework towards Toby's treehouse.

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O'Henry Blog Post

• His real name is William Sydney Porter.
• Born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862.
• Died in 1910.
• He was accused of embezziling money and was sent to prison for five years.
• While in prison he started writing short stories to support his daughter Margret.
• In 1901 he left the prison after only doing three years
• After prison he changed his name to O' Henry.
• He is mostly known for "The Ransom of Red Chief", which is in the collection Whirligigs.
• O Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver on June 5, 1910 in New York.

"Maqueof the Red Death" Essay

            When most people think of the color violet, they associate it with red, suffering or pain, and that death is near.  In “The Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allan Poe revolves the seven apartments with the cycle of life.  Each apartment has a different color representing a specific time in life.  There are age ranges’ for each color except for the last apartment color which is black.  The age range of violet for the life cycle is sixty or seventy to ninety.  Violet is located in between white and black in this color scheme.

            The seven apartment colors are blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black.  Blue represents a baby, happiness, youth, and being young.  Blue is like the start of life, speaking in colors, birth.  The next apartment color is purple.  Purple represents happiness and fun.  The age range for purple is five to eight years old.  The next apartment color is green.  Green represents adolescence and money.  The age range for green is ten to twenty years old.  That is the color that represents us.  The next apartment color is orange.  Orange represents vibrant, parties, lust for life, autumn and fall.  The age range for orange is twenty one to fifty years old.  The next apartment color is white.  White represents plain, wisdom, and knowledge.  The age range for white is fifty one to sixty or seventy.  The next apartment color is violet.  Violet represents red, suffering or pain, and that death is near.  The age range for violet is sixty or seventy to ninety.  The last and final apartment color is black.  Black represents death and darkness.  There is no age range for black because there is no more life on earth.

            Violet does not relate to me that well right now because I am nowhere around that age.  The only connection that I can make is the color violet and my grandma.   My grandma also drives a white car and so does every other person that qualifies to be in that age range.  That is the only thing that I can really think of for the color violet because I do not know many things that are that old or remind me of violet.  I think that violet is the most depressing part of life because most old people think about death a lot.  Thinking only about death is just so depressing to only be thinking about the negative and not being able to enjoy the last moments on Earth. 

             Thinking of months of the year, some people would consider violet as the month, November.  People would say the month November because it is not quite at the end but it is fairly close.  This color symbolizes not the last stage but what is leading to the last, the second to last.  Sadly, this is one of the critical and saddening part of life.

Edgar Allan Poe Webquest

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I have only heard of the name Edgar Allan Poe.  I have never known anything about him or his work.

QUESTIONS:

1.) Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 9, 1809.  He had died October 7, 1849.

2.) Tragic childhood events that influenced his writing was when he was that within three years since his birth both of his parents had died.  Edgar Allan Poe and his siblings were separated into different families to be taken care of.

3.) Five of the thirteen theories on Poe's death are drunkness, heart problems, epilepsy, murder, and beating.
4.) Edgar called Virgina home.
5.)  The Poe Toaster was the nick name given to to mysterious person that visited Edgar's grave every year on his birthday.
6.) "The Raven" was published in 1845.
7.) "The Murders of the Morgue" was the first detective story.
8.) The US Military Academy at West Point Expelled Poe in 1831.
9.) Poe married Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe and she was thirteen years old.
10.) "The Black Cat" was written in 1843 and "The Tell Tale Heart" was written in 1843 also.

Second Quarter!

Welcome back to my blog. I like reading William Shakespeare because even though sometimes it is hard to comprehend what he is exactly saying he has a real twist in his stories.