RJ#14

Dear ms.zrien,

I just finished reading the book about nelson mandala. It was a great book because I could really see what he went through some really hard time. Like being in jail for most of your life. Then being the president of South Africa with all of the stress that the president has. When nelson spent a lot of time writing to his self and to his friends that he kept in touch with. The setting takes place in South Africa and modern day. The author’s purpose is to inform about hid time in prison. The characters are nelson and that it. The genre is memoir. Nelson wants freedom and he gets thrown in prison. For protesting for his freedom. The point of view is first person. The conflict is nelson gets put in jail.

Sincerely,siraj  

RJ#13

Dear,Ms.Zrien

I am reading the book called “conversations with myself” by Nelson Mandala it talks about this man named nelson mandala. It has a lot letters from prison. Nelson Mandela was born in South Africa and he was poor when he was a child. Then he went to prison because he wanted rights for the people of south Africa. Once he was out of prison he became president of South Africa. He went to the south Africa university.

sinserly,

siraj

RJ#12

Dear.ms.Zrien

I am reading the book called “conversations with me” by Nelson Mandela. The characters are only nelson. The plot was nelson wanted right in South Africa and he got put in jail for that. The setting is in th1964 to modern day and it was in South Africa .the genre is memoir. The author’s purpose is to inform.  What happens in the story is Nelson Mandela is in prison for because the government was evil and he didn’t like it so he was in the resistance against the government. he didn’t like there was only one person in charge  of the whole county  and so he fought back and his actions let him go to prison .there he wrote letters to other people and he wrote to him self . in his childhood he was very poor he had to share a room with his brothers. When he got to be 13 he raised cattle while going to school . 

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RJ#11

Dear ms.zrihen

I just finished reading the book “bad pets” by Allan zullo. The book has a lot of funny short stories that are really interesting. Some of the stories that I found interesting was one about an eagle that thought a jet was a giant bird. The eagle dropped its fish on the jetliner because it thought it was a giant bird.   Another story that I found was interesting in the book was when horse. That horse went out of its den because it was hungry and it went in to it Nabor  for the apple tree and the horse got drunk of the apples and landed in the shallow part of the pool.it stayed there until the owner of the pool took a look out the window to see a horse .so the owner of the pool called the firefighter. The firefighters built a ramp .while they building the owner of the pool fed him the apples that he got drunk of.

RJ#10

Dear,ms.zrien

I just started reading the book called the “bad pets” by Allan Zullo. It talks about the animals that are trained to be house pets and those that are exotic. The funniest short story in the book is when a black cat steals t-shirts, hats, and towels. This cat would steal from neighbors. During the day she was at home during the night she lots of things. She would put in front of the door of her house. Her owner threw it out the first couple of times. Then she put it in the garage. She knew it was her cat not anyone else. Her owner had like a garage sale but it was really claim your things. The cat kept stealing stuff.

Another story I found interesting is when two cats learned how to flush the toilet. Their owner teached them how to flush the toilet so they wouldn’t use the bathroom on the floor. The cats were 18 months old.  So one day they were just flushing the toilet just for fun. The owner thought it was a ghost in the bathroom . so their owner checked I out and found them.