The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

In the book The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, the main character Robert Langdon friend Solomon has been kidnapped by this man named Mal'kha who is a tattooed covered villain. Mal'kah kidnapped Solomon so Robert can give the Ancient Mysteries to him. The special police agents search for the person who entered the Capitol Building. Soon after Solomon was captured, they were tattoos all over his hands. It was a picture of signs and these different shapes. Robert thinks that the symbol is the Hand of Mysteries. So far, I like this book but it gets really confusing to me. Half of the time, I have to read back what I already read so I can clearly understand it. I like the plot of the story so far and i recomend this book to you!

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

As I start to read the book The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, I see the main character named Robert Langdon who is a Harvad symbioligst. In the begining of the book, Peter Solomon tells Robert to go to the US Capitol building to give a lecture. Robert accepts the invitaion. While Robert travels to Washington and enters the capitol building, he goes to the room where he is assigned to give the lecture. As he enters the hall to give the lecture expecting a huge crowd, he becomes so surprised that no one was there. He quickly calls Peter's phone and the a person picks up telling Robert that he has Peter and that he is almost dead. The person tells him taht he has to tell the person a secret. This book is good so far but it gets confusing at some parts. I recoment this book to you!

Give a boy a gun by Todd Strasser

After finishing Give a boy a gun by Todd Strasser, I saw that the author is trying to tell us a message. I think the main message is to do unto others as the way you want to be treated. I think that this is the main message because even though Brendan and Gary treated other people well, he did not get treated well by others in his school. This led both of them into violent behaviors. In the book, Brendan talks about how his life would be perfect if people did not make fun of him or tease him. This makes them very angry and makes them want to kill the people who were making fun of him. Even though Brendan and Gary's plan did not work to kill the students at the school dance and no one was killed, the people in the school learned that they shouldn't treat others badly and make fun of people. This is what I thought the biggest lesson that I learned from the book. This book is really good and I understood the book with no problems. I recommend this book to you!

Give a boy a Gun by Todd Strasser

In the book Give a boy a gun by Todd Strasser, the main charcters Brendan and Gary were trying to get revenge on students and teachers who bullied him or teased him at school. Then there became a perfect chance for them to do it: the dance. They realized that the people who usually go to the school dances were the "popular" people. Then they thought that this would be the best opportunity to do it. Then that night of the dance, Brendan and Gary came to the entrance of the door dressed up with a comaflodge jacket and a ski mask. They carried many guns with them but was holding a semiautomatic gun in their hand because it was small and could shoot bullets as fast as machine gun. Then they started to shoot at the roof of the school and then ran to the door. The people relized that it was Brendan and Gary. They told everyone to get down and they start to tie the football players up. Then people reized that Gary and Brendan's plan was not to just shoot them but to make them suffer. They wanted to do this because they wanted the popular and cool to know how it felt like to suffer.

Entry #3- Give a boy a gun by Todd Starsser- 1/2 way through

In the book Give a boy a gun by Todd Strasser, there are many connections in the book connecting with the real world. One example of this is the Columbine shootings that happened in 1999. The characters from the book experienced the same situations as the people in the shooting. They all were bullied around a lot in school and were teased a lot by the popular kids in school. They all played violent video games and were fascinated with guns which led them into violent behaviors. Also, teachers and people in the school saw them getting bullied but they didn't do anything which made the bullies bully them more and more. After a long time of this constant bulling, they couldn't take it anymore and they started to think of a plan so every one can payback for what they did to them. One quote that was sent from Brendan and Gary email (the two main characters) were, "I will kill every friggin one of them. It's going to be Columbine all over agian but only better. Harris and Klebold did it right. Blow the friggin school, then blow yourself away" (p71).