Blog Reflection

http://nolansraedingblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/characterization.html In this post I talked alot about the characterzation of each character in the story. Each one had a differant characterzation by the author. In my earlyer blogs I only summarized the storys and what was going on. In my later posts like this one i went into detail about how the small literary devices the author used to make the story better. For example how Josh in the story is viewed as this big person who doesnt listen to thers but is really swayed very easily by others.

My goal that I met for reading was read the majority of my book. I read about fourty pages a week which is a good pace for me. My inmrovment for writing was I was abole to go more  into details of the book like I did in my charcterzation post instead of just looking at the broad details of what happening and a summary. Some improvments I should make is I should try to read two books next tri and I need to go even more into detail and also use quotes from the book to show people who read my blog exact time swhere literary devices are used.

Conflict

In the book im reading there are alot of conflicts happening all at once. They main conflict is that Molly and Josh can not see eye to eye on anything. They always be fighting about whether or not Josh cares about Josh

Anouther conflict is Molly's family is moving to LA. This causes to prossess of Josh and Molly becoming family tough because if they make a decision soon it will be to late and Molly will be gone with little chance of getting to know Molly

A third a conflict is Molly does not like her current family. She feels like they truly don't care for her but they are just oblegated to take care of her. This is a main reason Molly wanted to see Josh in the first place because she though it would get better.

It seems like in this story on conflict leads to anouther. Because Molly doesn't like here family she is with she want to know Josh. This caused Josh and Molly to fight and not be on the same page. Then the move to LA came up causing one big conflict they all have to deal with

Right now in my story Molly just had her basketball game in which she had a huge suprise. LJ Brown, the Celtics player she likes the most, desided to show up to her game. This have her alot of excitement and she ended up having a great game. But after the game when they are getting ready to take her home Josh shows up and LJ and Molly finds out it is just a plan to get them to talk again.

I think this shows that everyone wants Molly and Josh to finally talk again if LJ is helping him talk to her. This also shows that Josh is desprite to talk to her any way he can. I also think it wasnt Josh's idea but is was LJ because Josh was not being assertive enough and talking to Molly.

I think this shoes that Josh has a little longing to know Molly. I think it was not the best way because Molly was forced to talk to him. I think it would be better if they just went out for a walk and talked about the problems they are having with eachother

Currently in the novel Molly has desides that she does not want anything to do with Josh. She wants to move on and move on with her life. Josh keeps trying to call Molly and try to talk to her about what happened but Molly keeps refusing to talk. She now is back to her old life of going to school and now playing basketball.

Right now i feel like the roles of Josh and Molly have reversed. Now its is Josh trying to get to know Molly instead of Molly trying to get to know Josh. This is interesting to see how each character reacts to being put in a differant role in their struggle. It will also be interesting to see if Josh really cares about Molly. To this point Josh has never really showed feelings towards Molly, but instead acted like being with her was a chore.

I think this could also be a way of Molly truly seeing if  Josh cares about her. She did not want a DNA test because she want him to love her because he truly did not because they shared the DNA. I think she is doing this to test Josh and see if is telling the truth about how he feels about her.

In this part of the novel The Miricle on 49th street josh takes Molly to New York. We find out that her mother was a very good figure skater and she was considering trying to go to the olympics.  When they get to New York Molly goes to the skating rink and skates with Mattie watching, but then Josh comes and watches so Molly trys to impress him. Then they go on a walk and Josh tells Molly about his times with Molly's motherr and how she came to see him play during a Christmas game and they beat the number one team Kanas.

The next day in the morning Molly goes to Joshs room and overhears him talking to his agent about how he is only being with her so the press doesnt find out that she is her daughter. This makes her angry and she goes out to New York on her own and now she is trying to find out a way to get back to Josh.

I think that now Josh will have to sincerly be nice to Molly now if he wants to get a second chance. I also think there relashionship will grow to more of an emotional level because he know how she is feeling and that she cares about how he thinks.

Characterization

In The Miracle on 49th Street I think the author does a good job characterizing the characters. For example at the beginning of the story Josh is viewed as this perfect person who is an amazing athlete who if Molly told him that she is her daughter would immediately let her live with him and act like a true father. But instead the book uses the way he interacts with others and the way he is quiet to show he is a quiet personal person who does not interact with others well and is easily swayed by others opinions like his agent.

Molly is characterized as a young girl who want what she wants and will do anything to get it. She wanted a real father and she knew it was Josh so she did everything she could ever do to convince him to believe her. She also is very mature and understands things better than kids her age do. She knows When Josh is pretending to be happy around her and when people don't trust her and it helps her in this story.