Zebra Forests, Stanley Suter *SPOILERZ*

         Prompt-List conflicts.

         This week I have been reading "Zebra Forests" and it gets much better the further you get in the book. The children and their grandmother are still hostage to their criminal father, but Ryan wrote a letter to notify the chief of police about their location and when to come where Andrew would least expect it, and his sister sent it when she was on a trip to the grocery store. They think they will be saved in about two days when mail is deleted.

          The major conflicts that pertain to the children and their grandmother is that first, they are being held hostage by a murderer and they have no way of escape. Also, they are conflicted to whether or not they should turn in their father, regardless of him being a killer and holding them with no outside contact possible. Their grandmother is psychologically damaged from the death of her husband (which I have a strong feeling had something to do with her son), that affects her to the point that she stays in her room for days on end.

          The largest conflicts for Andrew Snow is concerned about would be the fact that police are looking for him to no end, and have actually come to his door, where his mom saved him with her extreme lying skills. He also has to worry about the siblings trying to escape, while taking care of his mother. He walked in on Ryan trying to pick the front door lock with a knife, and he bent his wrist to disarm him. I really feel like he is in a pretty bad spot for what he has done in the past.

Aow Impressions for 2/20, Stanley Suter.

          Prompt- What did you learn from our Aow Gallery walk?

          My Aow was about how ISIS has taken Egyptians, over two different times, and how Egypt sent an air strike against them. But this was the Libyan authorities fault. They didn't complete the proper search protocol and many of them are thought to be ISIS members that have gone corrupt. The Egyptian leader is currently trying to hold their "police" responsible for the deaths, and we have names of suspects that are believed to have aided ISIS. That was pretty much my entire three page article.

          The most reoccurring article that I viewed was about how ISIS has recently killed 21 Egyptian (Christian) citizens, and how Egypt has bombed ISIS. I think things are near a peak for ISIS, mainly because they have shown themselves at almost every major country in the world and are acting out of line for most countries that will put a stop to their power. After hearing the articles that everyone else choose about ISIS, I have made the prediction that this was the straw that broke the "camels back", as the Truman Doctrine states fairly vaguely that anyone that wants to be free may be backed up by the U.S., meaning that we are going to wage war on ISIS.

Zebra Forests By: Stanley Suter

          Prompt-Who is your favorite character? Who is your least favorite character? Why?

           This week I have been reading "Zebra Forests" and so far I really like it. It is about a house outside of a town where two siblings live with their grandmother. They realize that they have been lied to since birth, thinking that their father was dead and their mother had run away. They find out, after "Andrew Snow," their father, excapes from a nearby prison and hides at their house, whether they like it or not. Oh yea, and their mother is dead.

          My favorite character so far is Ryan, the younger sibling. He loves the evil people in the stories, and he tries to fight his father when he barges into their lives. His creativity is the leading spark that allows them to escape from their now seemingly crazy grandmother, and their fugitive father. I disagree with how he feels towards his own family, but I give him credit for staying on his toes.

          My least favorite character is their grandmother. I hate her. She is a senile, uptight, lieing, rule making, son of a gun. Senile because she defends her criminal son from the cops and keeps the children inside the house. Uptight because she doesn't let them fight, or she freaks out and goes up to her room for days at a time. Lieing because she lied to her own grandchildren about their parents, and rule making because she won't let the children go out to the "Zebra Forest" while it is raining.

         

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