Blaze

 



The Premise

 

      The novel Blaze by Richard Bachman and foreword by Stephen King takes place in Boston so far. Clay Blaisdell, known as Blaze, is the main character of the book and George Rackley, Blazes boss, is somewhat of a main character even though he dies in the beginning of the book. Before George died, Blaze and him were planning ton kidnap a baby from a rich family, the Gerard's, so they can get ransom money. Even though George id dead, Blaze still hears him give orders for him what to do and that is the only reason Blaze could go with their plan successfully.

 

What I Just Read

 

     The last chapter I read was about Blaze kidnapping the baby from the Gerard's house. Before the kidnapping, Blaze was told by George he needed all the things a baby needed so Blaze went and got them. Then, to get in the Gerard's gate, which is guarded by people sense they are a rich family, he used a parking attendant card to get in. Blaze go the card from George who worked for the Gerard's when he was alive. After Blaze got in, all he did was use a ladder to get into a window. He ended up in Mr. and Mrs. Gerard's bedroom where they were sleeping, but they did not wake up. Then, when he got the baby, he went through a different window to get out of the house. Blaze had made it out and past the gate without being caught except he had to knock out a women who had caught him leaving through the window but that was all.



 

Significant Passage

 

     "It would have to be fast: open the window, climb through, close the window again. Otherwise the inrush of cold January air would wake them for sure. But if the sliding window really squalled against the frame, that would wake them up, too.

     "Go on"' George said from the base of the ladder. "Take your best shot."

     Blaze wriggled his fingers into the crack between the bottom of the window and the jamb, then lifted. The window lifted without a sound. He swung a leg inside, followed it with his body, and thumped into place. He froze in a crouch, afraid to turn and look at the bed, ears attuned to catch the slightest sound.

     Nothing (Bachman 90)."

     That passage was about Blaze sneaking into the Gerard's bedroom window. It shows how George still talks to Blaze and tells him what to do in his head. Also, it shows how careful Blaze wants to be so he does not get caught. Blaze gets kind of scared when he was about to open and go through the window, but then George told him to just go.





Pet Sematary

    

The Premise

 

     The book I read was called Pet Sematary by Stephen King. It is a fiction book about a character Louis Creed. The story takes place in Ludlow, Maine. In the beginning, we learn that Louis, his wife Rachel, and their two kids, Eileen (8) and Gage (2) just moved to a new house. As the story continues, there is a Pet Cemetery in the woods which is in the Creed's backyard. The Pet Cemetery was made by kids so that other kids could bury their pets there when they died. The title of the book misspells cemetery because at the entrance to the cemetery there is a sign made by the kids that says "Pet Sematary". The Creed family figure out about the cemetery because Jud brings them their. Jud and Norma Crandall are an old couple who are the Creeds only neighbors just across the road. Jud also said to Louis that they need to stay safe by the road because big trucks speed by often. That is why there are many pets buried at the Pet Sematary. Later, Rachel, Eileen, and Gage go out of town for a few days to visit Rachel's mom and dad. While they are gone, Jud called Louis, who stayed home, and told him that there was a dead cat on his lawn by the road. The Creeds did have a cat, Church, that was Eileen's. It was Church when he went to go look. Jud knew Eileen would be very upset so he was going to go bury the cat with Louis. When they got to the Pet Sematary, Jud said they weren't burying Church there so Jud led him farther out into the woods. When they got to this area with a hard stony ground, Jud told Louis to bury Church there. The next morning Louis woke up finding Church, alive. Jud told Louis about if you bury the dead at that place, they will come back, but not the same they were when they were alive. Finally, something unexpected happens to the Creed and Crandall families. 

 

Spoiler Alert

 

     Louis was wondering if anyone had ever buried a person at the place where he had buried Church. Jud told him once someone did bury a person there but when the person came back alive, they were different. People believed he had killed many other people. Later, Jud's wife dies but he never thought of bringing her back to life because she would not be the same. A few months later, the Creed family and Jud were playing tag in a field. Gage had been running the wrong way, towards the road. Jud, Louis, and Rachel had started screaming and sprinting to Gage. They could see a truck speeding down the road, towards Gage. Gage was almost to the road and Louis was close behind. Louis leaped for Gage, only scraping his hands on Gage's jacket. It was too late anyway. Gage ran into the road just as the truck came. Gage got hit and had died. Later on, Louis sent his wife and daughter to her parents house. Louis planned on bringing Gage back to life and his planned worked  but in a horrible way. Jud had figured out what Louis was going to done and told Rachel to come back as soon as possible. She was on her way back to figure out was going on. After Louis buried Gage, he went home and slept. While he slept, Gage came back to life and made his way to Jud's house. Gage killed Jud when he was off guard and then Rachel came into Jud's house. Gage then killed her too by going over to hug her because she was so happy to see him. Louis went over to Jud's knowing what Gage possibly did because there were small footprints in the Creed's house and his doctor scalpel was gone. He went inside the house knowing he was going to kill Gage. Louis had injected three shots of morphine into Gage. Louis then saw his wife dead so he was going to bury his wife to bring her back. Before he left, he set the house on fire.

 

 Criticism

 

     What I did not like about the book was the beginning. The beginning was boring and nothing important or exciting happened. Then at the end it was very exciting and everything happened all at once. The author could have spread things out more.

Book Blog

The book I read was called Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It is a realistic fiction book about a group of young boys. The story takes place on an unknown island. In the beginning, we learn that a group of British school boys are stranded on an island after their plane crashes. As the story continues, they find out that they aren't the only ones on the island.

I thought the most exciting part of the book was at the end when half of the group turned on the leader, Ralph. Before this, Ralph had everything organized. Then the kids that hunted food wanted the main thing for everyone to do was to hunt. But, Ralph said fire and smoke was the most important thing because then they had a chance to be rescued. So all of a sudden, the group split into two and were against each other. Ralph ended up alone when they started fighting so the other group was chasing him down. Also, the other group set the island's forest on fire to chase ralph off. So when they all ran out onto the beach, there was a rescue team there who saw the fire. I thought that was really the best part of the book because the rest of the book, I thought, was really boring.

My favorite character in this story was Ralph. I would describe him as a leader because he stood up to be the leader and was the only kid to take charge of the group. For example, he organized the group into parts so each part had a job to do. The jobs were hunting food, gathering fruit, making shelters, tending to the fire, and cooking the food. He also seems brave because nobody else began to take charge and he always did the dangerous things that the others didn't want to do.