Random

Hello all! Just another random post because it's kind of depressing to have only posts for AP on here. Anyway my brother's birthday was on Wed and he now has his permit and is officially street legal. Just a warning to everyone. Anyway I got my AP Chem and ACT scores back which is good because I was going crazy waiting. I did pretty good on both. Better than I thought on AP and not quite as good as I hoped on the ACT but not bad overall. I haven't really been doing anything exciting. Just going to weights and putting off doing my application essays. On the plus side I have gotten faster and stronger this summer even if I still can't jump. Oh well I have to go do something productive.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is by Tennessee Williams and its the play I read since I've already read Romeo and Juliet. Honestly I was surprised I liked it. That sounds weird but I decided I like Tennessee Williams. The play was in an anthology so I read a couple of others in it too since they were on the master list too. The story is really convoluted. Its about this couple who have come back to the husband's (Brick's) house because his rich father (Big Daddy) is dying of cancer and hasn't made a will yet. Brick and his wife Maggie are fighting over it with his brother Gooper and Mae. Brick and Maggie don't have any kids and the other two do. This is a sore spot because Brick won't sleep with Maggie. He started drinking after his friend Skipper died. There is a lot of conversation about Brick and Skipper's friendship. There are two different third acts. I liked parts of both. The original ends with the line "Wouldn't it be funny if that were true" which is used earlier and almost gives different meaning to both scenes. All in all it was certainly interesting. I'm sorry this is such a convoluted description. I hope you understand.

Schindler's List

Schindler's List has been, by far, my favorite book off my summer reading list. Thomas Keneally did an incredible amount of research about the life of Oskar Schindler. He specifically mentions that most of the details come from detailed accounts given by the Schindlerjuden or Schindler Jews whom he spoke with. The book was incredibly well written. It is hard to believe it is a true story because some of the events just seem impossible. The number of things that lined up just right time after time seem like they are pushing believability to far. Maybe thats why the story is so powerful, because it's so unbelievable it has to be true no one could make this up and have it all work out the way it does. We aren't programmed to write these kind of endings.