Questions

What would you do if you see your sister is painful?

Do you think Lerenzo and his sister will be honest to each other?

Do you think their parents will find out the truth?

Chapter5 summary

In chapter 5, we read so many details about Lerenzo's sister. I am interested in this character because she has some interesting background information that I need to dig. This chapter is most about Lerenzo's sister goes to his house to find things  that she had left there. She also finds that Lerenzo hides in the cellar, and she stays in the cellar with Lerenzo for a night. As we can see, she is not in the good shape and she has no money on her, so she had to find a place to live. When she finds out that Lerenzo is hiding, she uses it to make Lerenzo to let her live with him for a night. She can ask her father to help her; however she hearts her father because her father doesn't really love her and he left her and her mother. I am looking forward to read more about her.

Olivia

Olivia is Lerenzo's half sister because she was born by another woman who had a relationship with Lerenzo's father. As we can see, she doesn't like her father, and she feels bad when her father helps her. I consider that she has a really bad childhood because her father has to leave her and her mother alone. She was so beautiful, but she is not in the good shape now. I think that she gave her self up because she lost almost everything she could lose. All those things directly cause that she does not accept her father as her father. She always say that it is your dad to Lerenzo. I am interested in this character than Lerenzo because I consider that she must has some secrets that build this character.  

3/30 In class writing

Lorenzo's mother was trying to pull her car in a free parking place. Suddenly, they hitted another yellow smart car's mirrow. Then the people from the other car said something really bad and did rude thing such as  yanking Lorenzo's mother. At the same time, Lorenzo was so angry and emotional, and he thought about to kill that guy who called his mother bitch. The whole thing made Lerenzo so emotional and extremely angry because no one can suffer another person to call their mother bitch. Also, the guy yanked her mother, and Lerenzo's mother fell on the ground in the rain. In my imagination, I can feel how sad and wronged his mother was. If I were him, I would go out and argue with the guy. However, he was too fear to go out of the car. This thing is so important to him because this was the first time that he was angry, and he cannot do anything to it because he was afraid. It influence him, and it also teaches him there are some thing he cannot fight with, so he had to think how to control his emotion. 

Review

This chapter is about a day when Lerenzo hides in the basement. In my opinion, he is dreaming in his head. For example, he thinks that he is the last one in Rome and he also thinks that he has slep for ages. They are all his imaginations. I consider that he is too boring, so he starts to dreaming to kill some time. He also had a conversation with his mom by phone call. In the dialogue between him and his father, he is nervous and worried because he cannot let anyone else except himself to improve that he is actually on the trip, and he doesn't want his mother to find out that he is in the basement. It is a interesting chapter because it gives us so many questions such as if he can hide for a week? If he can find another person to call his mom? Will his mom find out what really is going on? I am looking forward to see the next chapter.

In class writing

I like Lorenzo both as a character and a person because I think he is a good person inside, but he just does not know how to express himself. In the first two chapters, I see him as a hopeless kid, and I want to save him if I can. He is too shy to make frinds and get into the new group. I remember he pretend to be a kid who bullies others in his school because he wants to protect himself away from bullies. In my opinion, he is just scared and worried because he has no friends in school. If I were his schoolmate, I would be friends with him and influence him by using my positive energy. I know that having no friends at school is very tough for everyone, and it also will cause kids getting shier and more short-spoken. Once children start to blocking themselves from others, it will become harder and harder to get them back in the society. I hope that parents can find out as soon as possible and they can help their kids to beat the difficulty. Thus, I like Lorenzo, and I also want to help him out. We should not define anyone by just looking their outside reaction but inside. 

Confidence Is Not Arrogance!

I saw The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at The Black Box Theater, Cheshire Academy. It was a excellent show. Every actor did his or her best job in the show, and I suggest that everone should go and see the play. I like the character Chip and Barfee so much because I learned one most important thing from them. The things is that we should always be confident, and we should never be arrogant. 

We should always trust in ourselves. There is nothing that is impossible; however, people always doubt their abilities before they try to do something. For example, in the show The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the main charecter Barfee believes that he can spell words correctly because of her magic foot, but when Logainne's father spills coke on the floor, Barfee's magic foot doesn't work. He is so nervous and fear; however, he does spell the word correctly without the magic foot. At that moment, I saw that she jumps and yells excitedly and happily. This kind of thing happens not only in the show, but also in the real life. I remember when I was training my leg last night in weight room, I putted 9 plates on the machine, and each of them was 45 pounds. To be honest, I thought it was my limitation, but there was a sound in my head that kept saying a crazy idea "Maybe I can put one more each side". Actually, I did put one more each side, and I can handle it. I was tinking that if I never had that creazy thought, I could never know what I cnpan do. As we can see, we should always believe in ourselves and sometime we should push ourselves to break the limitation. 

We should be confident, but we should never be arrogant. Lots of people become losers, and the reason is not because they don't have their skills. The real reason is because they over think their power, and they think that others have pour skill. In my opinion, the biggest enemy to us is always ourselves. I remember a main character who is called Chip. He was the champion of the last spelling bee, so he too confident to focus on the match. Then, he fall asleep during the game, and suddenly Vice-Principal calls him up to spell the word. However, he has erection, so he asks if he can escape this round. Vice-Principal says that Chip has to spell the word. Tittup is the word that Chip has to spell; however he spells "t i t u p" which is not correct because of a missing T. I am so sure that Chip knows how to spell that word, but his arrogance beats himself up. When I was in primary school, everytime my mom always asked about my test, and my answer was always good or great; however the truth was that I never did well on my test when I said that I did very well. The reason was that I would be less careful, if I knew how solve question. Thus, we should always be confident, and we also need to try our best in even every little thing, because details make things perfect. 

As we all know, Barfee is the champion of the 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee, and Chip was the champion last year. I consider that Chip and Barfee has the same abilities. The reason why Barfee is the champion instead of Chip is that Barfee finds his confidence back and Chip is too arrogant. Finally, there is one thing that we should never forget. It is that we should be confident not arrogant.