Showing posts with label Flipped. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flipped. Show all posts

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Innocence changes


I really like stories like this, it seems like a innocent child romance, but it actually has some depth put into it, which makes it seem more real. You get to watch these kids grow into the people they will be. Juli is such a free spirit, even though we do not see this right away as Bryce describes her in the first chapter. I really enjoyed her character. and Bryce starts developing an inner depth in himself as he grows older that represents a real struggle for the individual's own self awareness. Children are not the only people in this book that learned things, either, so do adults. And if you read it, you'll come to see things differently, yourself. Like, should you be honest or should you be polite? And what do appearances have to do with reality?

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Flipping Reversed Roles!

I have to say that I absolutely FLIPPED for this book. The characters, Bryce and Juli come to life in the novel. Well they may be a bit over the top, but their hearts are in the right place. Now Bryce starts to like the annoying girl Juli, whom he has hated for countless years. Juli reaches a new state of mind when thinking of Bryce too, she stops liking him. Now the roles are flipped again, but what will happen this time? Juli cannot forget about her sycamore tree which she loved, and Bryce ignored her, and threw away the eggs Juli gave him. Now Byce cannot foget about Juli adn her passion for everything that she loves. This just reminds me of elementary days and how people can change and mature from their younger years and figure out that people are not always as amazing or as bad as they may have seemed

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Deppilf (read to understand)

Actually it's Flipped, the story of two kids grwoing up from the second grade to the end of grade eight. This is a story I used to read over and over again when I was younger. Bryce, a blonde boy with blue eyes moves across the street from his worst nightmare, Juli. Not only is she annoying and living behind him as a shadow, she just does not know how to take a hint. Then in every other chapter we see the novel's viewpoint from Juli's point of view. She thinks Bryce has dreamy blue eyes, and one day he will have the courage to come up to her and give her a first kiss. Well from his point of view that will never happen and he did absolutely everything to avoid her. But she thinks that he is just to shy to talk to the exciting self that is Juli, but the reader knows that this was not the case. Grade eight comes, and suddenly things get flipped.