Blog 3: Matched - Summary and Plot: ¶ 1-7

So far in the book Matched there are two main characters. This book is in the prospective of Cassia. She had her Match banquet. A match banquet is where you get matched with the perfect girl/boy. Something unusual happened that night. Her match was someone she knew. Usually the girls are matched with guys from all around the country. That is what is happening so far.

The plot in this story is that Cassia was matched with her life-long best friend, Xander. This doesn't usually happen at match banquets. Since they have been friends since they were little the already know everything about each other so they don't really have to study each other. While she opens the little box that was given to her with information about her match the face of another boy who goes to her school pops up briefly. This makes her confused and she wonders if Xander is really her match.

Blog 2: Eggs by Jerry Spinlli Summary and Genre

I have finished the book Eggs by Jerry Spinlli. I found the book very interesting. There were many events that you wouldn't expect. The main character is David. The story starts off at the scene of  a big car accident. Unfortunately David loses his mom in this accident. His dad is never home cause he goes on a lot of business trips. This brings up anger in David's life and he takes it out on his grand parents. Through out the story David meets a girl named Primrose. David and Primrose go on many adventures together. They become great friend and help each other recover from there loses.

This book has a combination of genres. I think that the two main genres are adventurous and fiction. I guess you could call that Adventurous Fiction. It is adventurous because David and Primrose go on many adventures including on to New York. They go by them selves to try and find Primrose's father. This book is fiction well because I don't think that two little kids could go so far all by them selves.

Lit Assessment

I read an article named "Fight for fair treatment of workers: Don't buy Nike". This article is about how the worker who make the shoes are treated. There are many problems in this world. One big problem is workers rights. Are workers treated fairly? At Nike workers are getting paid almost nothing and are being treated unfairly. They have violated the rights of the worker. They have abused the workers both physically and mentally. In the article it claimed that the workers only get paid $1.25 a day. They work in these harsh abusive conditions and only get paid that! The workers can get basic necessities like rent an 8-by-8-foot one-room apartment, obtain drinking water, secure transportation to work and buy two meals of chicken, rice and vegetables. These are good but if the workers need other things like cleaning products or medicine they have to starve in order to afford these things. The workers are also getting shoes thrown at them, kicked, slapped, and workers stand in the hot sun for making mistakes on the job. 

I also read a poem named "The Sweatshop". In this poem the writer argues that while working in the sweatshops she is treated like a machine. She has no feeling, no thought, and no understanding. She expresses how the minute she steps into the factory she is turned into a machine. She is forced to do the same thing over and over. The poem was different then the article because it makes you understand more how the writer felt. The words flow smoothy through your mind.