The world was very lucky on May, 19th/ 1966, that was the very day that god gave us Jodi Picoult. She is the proud author of fifteen bestselling novels. She was born and raised in Nesconset. Jodi wrote her first story at the age of five years old, it was titled “The Lobster Which Misunderstood”. She has been a professional writer from 1992 to present. Jodi Picoult studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while she was still a student. Jodi is a very heart felt writer, she has won many awards for her writing skills. Some of these awards included The New England Bookseller Award for fiction, The Alex Award (from the Young Adult Library Services Association), The Book Browse Diamond Award for book of the year and many more. (more to come)
Jodi is happily married and has three beautiful children. Her husbands name is Tim Van Leer, they met in while attending the same college. “My husband is fully responsible for making my life run smoothly,” says Picoult. To this day her and her loving family live in Hanover, New Hampshire.
“The best part of my job is my fans,” she claims this because she loves waking up everyday to find emails from her fans saying how fantastic she is. Who wouldn’t? She says that the worst part of her job is “The Actual world of Publsihing”. On that note Jodi talks about how mergers between companies, tightfisted marketing departments, and a bizarre fascination with Hollywood makes the publishing world a very difficult place to forge a career. Everybody has someone who has influenced their life by a great deal, and for Jodi that is her mom and Mary Morris. “My mom, who always said “You can,” and who believed in me. And Mary Morris, who made me a better technical writer and taught me to challenge myself.”
Jodi Picoult is a very talented writer, she makes you feel what the character is feeling. I have only started reading My Sister’s Keeper and I am loving it. I would love to be just half the writer that she is, she truly is an amazing author.
“It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.”
— Financial Times
http://www.jodipicoult.com/ is the website that I found most useful to me.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
My Synthesis...♥
Life is full of violence, indifferences and inhumanities, there is nothing we can do about it but do our best to live life as planned. Violence is something that is commited everyday, some people are very aware of their actions and some are so totally unaware to the point where they do not know as to why they are doing it. The short stories "The Lottery" and "The Perils of Indifference" both demonstrate that terrible violence and inhumanity can be demonstrated by the most "ordinary" citizens. I know that when there is a fight or brawl going on in our everyday life that people don’t intervene when they should. They find it entertaining and don’t feel the need to interrupt the acts of violence. Or just because no one else is breaking it up they feel that they shouldn’t. That has been going on for centuries, going all the way back to the very first wars. People were killing other people, not because they wanted to but because they were told to. They were told to go fight for their country, probably without even knowing the reasons they were fighting for. "Ordinary" people were drafted into the war and were told that, "These are the people we want you to kill," and with out knowing what was going on, we did it.
In "The Lottery" everyone in the village is gathered at the same spot to take part in the activity, known as the lottery. Now I know what your thinking, "It’s a lottery, someone is going to win" which is true, but what these people won wasn’t money or a reward. They won "Death", people would grab stones and gather around the winner and throw them at him/her (in this story’s case it was, Mrs. Hutchinson) until they died. Even the person's closest friends and family would throw stones. Mrs. Hutchinson had her family members, her own kids, throw stones at her to kill her. While they were throwing them at her, she was screaming "It isn’t fair, It isn’t right", which I think is true. People were participating in this act, this violent act which was so terribly wrong but they did it because other people were doing it and it’s been going on for years and years, it was somewhat of a tradition. (A very sick one indeed.)
"The Perils of Indifference" is a speech given by a guy named Elie Wiesel, he talks about all the indifferences in the world. "Of course, indifference can be tempting, more than that -- seductive" he had a point, we dont know why we are doing it or how, so it keeps happening. "Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end"
Terrible violence and inhumanity can be demonstrated by the most "ordinary" humans, i think that is only because we dont know about it. We take orders without asking. I can assure you that in the past if we knew about half the stuff that we were doing, it wouldnt have happened. Surely someone would have put a stop to it, if i was around i know that i would.
In "The Lottery" everyone in the village is gathered at the same spot to take part in the activity, known as the lottery. Now I know what your thinking, "It’s a lottery, someone is going to win" which is true, but what these people won wasn’t money or a reward. They won "Death", people would grab stones and gather around the winner and throw them at him/her (in this story’s case it was, Mrs. Hutchinson) until they died. Even the person's closest friends and family would throw stones. Mrs. Hutchinson had her family members, her own kids, throw stones at her to kill her. While they were throwing them at her, she was screaming "It isn’t fair, It isn’t right", which I think is true. People were participating in this act, this violent act which was so terribly wrong but they did it because other people were doing it and it’s been going on for years and years, it was somewhat of a tradition. (A very sick one indeed.)
"The Perils of Indifference" is a speech given by a guy named Elie Wiesel, he talks about all the indifferences in the world. "Of course, indifference can be tempting, more than that -- seductive" he had a point, we dont know why we are doing it or how, so it keeps happening. "Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end"
Terrible violence and inhumanity can be demonstrated by the most "ordinary" humans, i think that is only because we dont know about it. We take orders without asking. I can assure you that in the past if we knew about half the stuff that we were doing, it wouldnt have happened. Surely someone would have put a stop to it, if i was around i know that i would.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
My Top 3...♥
Choosing a top 3 of anything can be hard, there are so many things that people like or love out there that narrowing it down to a top 3 is difficult. I guess I would have to choose My top 3 sports because they are what I enjoy doing the most.
I am ranking these by how much I enjoy playing them. It goes from the sport that I have quite a lot of fun playing, to a sport that I reallllyyyy enjoy playing, to a sport that I wish was an all year round sport so that I could play it more. From fun to absolutely amazingly fun if you will.
My #3 would have to be Ball Hockey. Now I know its not really a major sport like Ice hockey or anything but i really enjoy playing it. I like the competitiveness it has, its not too much, but then again its not to little as well. I think a sport without competitiveness is just boring. Ball Hockey is really fun and playing it keeps you active. I enjoy doing a lot of sports but Ball hockey would have to be my number three.
My #2 Sport would have to be Basketball. There's a sport for ya. The team spirit and unity is just amazing, everybody shows there love for the game when they are on the court and off the court. You make friends with people you never thought you would be friends with, that's what basketball does, brings people together. Everybody who has love for the game would understand. Basketball is an exciting and fun game, all the running keeps you healthy and all the team spirit keeps you upbeat and feeling great.
My #1 Sport that i enjoy doing is Baseball, again there is a sport with an overwhelming amount of team spirit and team unity. Being on a baseball team has certainly changed my life. You learn to work with people, because you cannot do any of it on your own. In basketball you have the opportunity to be a ball hog, but in baseball you need all 9 people on the field to work together. You learn all about the other people, you learn about there strengths and weaknesses and you know how to work with them. They learn how to work with you as well. Playing baseball gives you somewhere else to be, its a place where all your problems go away and where you can clear your head and concentrate on nothing else but the ball and bat. And it feels great.
I feel that sports are amazing, they bring people together in a good way. And I think that you can learn a lot from sports because they have truly played a big part in who I am today and how I act. And I thank them...☻
I am ranking these by how much I enjoy playing them. It goes from the sport that I have quite a lot of fun playing, to a sport that I reallllyyyy enjoy playing, to a sport that I wish was an all year round sport so that I could play it more. From fun to absolutely amazingly fun if you will.
My #3 would have to be Ball Hockey. Now I know its not really a major sport like Ice hockey or anything but i really enjoy playing it. I like the competitiveness it has, its not too much, but then again its not to little as well. I think a sport without competitiveness is just boring. Ball Hockey is really fun and playing it keeps you active. I enjoy doing a lot of sports but Ball hockey would have to be my number three.
My #2 Sport would have to be Basketball. There's a sport for ya. The team spirit and unity is just amazing, everybody shows there love for the game when they are on the court and off the court. You make friends with people you never thought you would be friends with, that's what basketball does, brings people together. Everybody who has love for the game would understand. Basketball is an exciting and fun game, all the running keeps you healthy and all the team spirit keeps you upbeat and feeling great.
My #1 Sport that i enjoy doing is Baseball, again there is a sport with an overwhelming amount of team spirit and team unity. Being on a baseball team has certainly changed my life. You learn to work with people, because you cannot do any of it on your own. In basketball you have the opportunity to be a ball hog, but in baseball you need all 9 people on the field to work together. You learn all about the other people, you learn about there strengths and weaknesses and you know how to work with them. They learn how to work with you as well. Playing baseball gives you somewhere else to be, its a place where all your problems go away and where you can clear your head and concentrate on nothing else but the ball and bat. And it feels great.
I feel that sports are amazing, they bring people together in a good way. And I think that you can learn a lot from sports because they have truly played a big part in who I am today and how I act. And I thank them...☻
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Superpowers..♥
If I had to choose to have a superpower, I would most definitely choose the power to heal anything. I know that everyone would be choosing silly things like being able to walk through walls or the power not to go to school, but not me. Im not saying that power's like those wouldn't be fun, its just that I believe that there are worse things in the world. Why would I want to spend my time walking through walls, and being invisable when I could be healing my family and friends who are sick, or dealthy ill? I would be saving lives and helping people out, so in the end.. what better superpower is there?
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