Devil in the White City

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The book introduced a man who is a famous architect around the world. He is stuck in a room on a cruise and is unable to leave because his feet hurt. He constructed the Columbian World Fair which celebrated the discovery of America. It was a magnificent sight for all where diffrent cultures came together. Despite all the fun that people were having, there was a murder that took place your so so some bad and evil things that happened, there was a murder. It starts talking about how woman from different places from different world come to the fair and how they are amazed at what they see. the book then goes on to talk about different things that kill humanity which is going up to something that they never heard of before, a serial killer. 

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"The prolonging of a man's life doesn't interest ne when he's done his work and done it pretty well."

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I agree with the reviewer of 127 hours. This reviewer likes the movie a lot and the way the movie was made like when he said the director made the movie more energetic instead of depressing by casting James Franco as Aron Ralston. He says that the director, Danny Boyle, goes after painful and unpleasant subjects but somehow makes it energetic  When the reviewer also says, "Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the film leaves you with the impression of having lived, vicariously but intensely, through something whose meaning is both profound and elusive." This is true because after seeing Aron resorting to drinking his own urine, cracking his bone and cutting off his arm with a little swiss knife, slowly you will see how better your life is. You will have an arm while Aron Ralston would not.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (201-268)

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This next section is continuing with Lola, Oscar's sister who went to stay over at La Inca's place in Santo Domingo. It's her last day there before her mother comes to pick her up and take her back to America. When her mother saw her she expected her to say that she looked beautiful but she did not. Lola thought she still liked only Oscar. When they got on the plane to America Lola started to cry, I believe she felt loved and and enjoyed staying with La Inca. Her mother help her hand throughout the whole plane ride and even defended her when someone told her to tell Lola to stop crying.
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She put her hand on mine and left it there.                                                                  
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I chose this quote because I think it was very emotionally. I thought this because when the mother saw her she still didn't show any love to her daughter but she comforted her when she was crying on the plane.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (134-201)

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (67-134)

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The second section of TBWLOW has the speaker recalling Oscar's mothers teen years in Baní with her aunt known as La Inca. Beli's parents died when she was young.The speaker talks about how fortunate Beli is for a girl living in a third world country. She has everything any girl in such a country could dream of but yet it looks as if she is not satisfied. It looks like she wants something else in life maybe something that has more value to her than anyone else.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (1-67)

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The book starts off by introducing Oscar. It makes one point clear which is Oscar likes girls. It is not saying anything is wrong with him just that it is his kind of obsession. This may have a part to play in the end of the story. Oscar had two girlfriends when he was seven. One was named Maritza, a beautiful young girl and the other was named Olga which you could tell by the name was not so attractive. One day Maritza went up to Oscar and told him to dump Olga or he cannot her. He made the decision to dump Olga. When Olga cried over the break-up, Oscar had not felt any sense of guilt. The next time he goes to the bus stop to wait for his bus. He finds Maritza with another boy. He then starts to think how the breakup affected Olga. He life  went downhill from there. He lost his groove when it came to dealing with the women. Olga's life had also gone downhill after their breakup. Maritza seemed happy but Oscar did not think so after seeing her slapped around by her boyfriends.
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"Mari Colon, a thirty-something postal employee who wore red on her lips and walked like she had a bell for an ass-all purportedly fell for him (Diaz 12-13)."
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When I first started reading the book, I found it confusing because the book started talking about the Tainos in the introduction. I felt like what was going on around here. I found that quotaion funny because the main character was young and he even had older women falling for him and he was just seven years old.

The Measure of a Man (41-100)

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Sidney's family moved to Miami. In that part of America racism existed a lot and Sidney witnessed a lot of it. His family was terrified because they did not want to endanger their lives but Sidney did not stand there to take in watever the racist was telling him. He would respond by saying he does not care about the different colors of their skin and he told people point blank that he would not take any nonsense about racism becuase he did not see the need or the cause to be racist to a fellow human being. After some time he could not take the pressure of racism anymore so he got a job and used his money to buy a bus ticket so that he could leave Miami for New York. When he arrived in New York he wanted to find Harlem because people in Nassau kept on taking about how nice the place was. Someone directed him to the subway station. Sidney became overwhemled when he say the trains. He started to wonder how the train travels under New York City. He thought that Harlem was a popular place because th trains could take you there.
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"Being new and from a different culture, I was wide-eyed with curiosity, mostly at my family's reaction. I just couldn't get used to this strange place and this strange way of behaving."
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I understand when Sidney says in the book that he wondered why his family was scared then he responded with the quote above. When your brought up differently in another country and your a teen or a kid and then you leave for another country, you do not usually agree with some of the rules because you are mostly arrogant and alwayswant things to go your way.