Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Prediction Post #3

From the beginning of the book "Burned" we learn that Pattyn is very pressured by her family to live up to the expections of a good Mormon girl. Also that her life is very hard and sometimes lonely. Pattyn's father is never home sense he has to work to support there family of nine and that she doesn't really have a good relationship with her sisters, except Jackie the one closest to her in age. Pattyn also doesn't really have a relationship with anyone outside of her family except the kids in her church because she always has to be home to watch the little ones. Pattyn has handeled her life and the expectations she's supposed to live up to until she starts sexually experimenting with boys. I predicted in the beginning that Pattyn would lash out from her family and get herself in trouble. Also that Pattyn might find herself regretting the sexual things she does rebelliously or get into trouble sexually by getting pregnant or getting hurt by a boy. Although the books ending is very unexpected and sad most of the other things I predicted are right. Pattyn does get pregnant but she doesn't regret it because she's in love, but the first boy she experiments with she does regret it because he just used her to fool around. When her father catches her she does indeed get into trouble. My predictions overall where pretty acurate, I'm usually pretty good about making predictions by using the information I gather from the book or my peers.

2 comments:

  1. I think that reading as much as you do must make it difficult to read a book that can truly offer a surprise story line and/or ending. I like to predict what will come but I'm not sure I want to get it right.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Yeah I know what you mean, that by predicting you don't want to ruin the surprise for yourself? Also could you send this link to Dan or someone else who'd be willing to comment on my blog because I need comments from five people outside of the school, and I currently have four. If you could find one more person it would be really helpful. Thankkss mommmyyy.

    ReplyDelete