Author: Ryan

IRJE#1 “YOU”

You is a book made by Caroline Kepnes. She made I believe four books on this series and it got changed into a show on Netflix as well! That’s where I got the idea to read it. I recently finished the book as well and I hope to find the second, called Hidden Bodies. This book is about a guy named Joe Goldberg, Joe is a psychopath and he stalks and woman he is into.

You are dead.

I dig. I have never been and will never be as alone as I am while I dig… I, alone, sweat and shiver and prepare to put you into the dirt… I am breathing normally now and the revelers are doing the Electric Slide and would we have had a wedding like this? (p. 415-416)

In this quotation (or his thoughts), he is obsessing over a woman named Guinevere Beck, his first love obsession. Earlier on, Beck found out that Joe had been stalking her, and killing people around her (friends, ex’s, etc), and even found out that some of her “lost” possessions were taken by him. Joe put her in a cage not knowing what to do with her because she would most likely go to the police if she got out. At one point she manipulated Joe into thinking she loved him, and she tried to escape but Joe stopped her. Not wanting to risk anything, he killed her. Then in the quotation you can find how his emotions of his words are describing his actions as if he was forced to kill her, not by choice.

PW#1 Horne Lake!

Yes Blake, I’m writing about this, I loved it. I’ve been wanting to write a personal writing for a bit because I can say whatever I’d like no instructions. Now, I get to talk about my trip to Horne Lake, along with my date, Blake. I don’t get the chance to travel too much because of you know, money. So when I went to Horne Lake, it. Was. Beautiful. The views that we went to see, the things that we did, amazing. I thought I would be somewhat bored there, nope. It was full of activity and it was amazing. Sometimes me and Blake would sit in our trailer (We shared it!) and I would pull out some mini sour cream donuts and some drinks, and we would just sit and chat haha. My favorite part was Blake taking me to high mountain places pretty far away using his Wolverine (the vehicle not the hero)! I love drives like that I don’t know why. Going somewhere random on bumpy rides are fun for me (apart from when I got brutally impaled by dry branches, BLAKE haha). We went to such cool places, with amazing views of the entire lake. I would kill to go back there just me and Blake. we even went out on the water and visited a cave nearby, a giant spider lurked in there, I wanted out, fast. We went to some islands, and man it was amazing, who knew a cabin in the woods would be the best thing ever. I won’t reveal the secrets of everything there, but that was the best time I’ve had in a long while. Now Blake all I ask, is please let me go back in winter, I wanna walk or drive across the lake!

WWI Readings, Personal Response

After reading through the World War One books, All Quiet On The Western Side And the readings part 1 and part 2 with Barthas, Chevallier, and some others, it has been brought to my attention how insanely brutal war is.

I have been wanting to read the famous All Quiet On The Western Front for quite some time now because I was always curious to learn about the war, what it was like, and its effects. One thing I didn’t expect to find though, was the mental effect on the soldiers as it’s somewhat described in the book. It describes how Paul’s mental state adapts to the war and becomes very different from what we would see now. As like when multiple soldiers got killed, Paul and his group focused on the fact they would have more rations. It also explains the effects of the fighting, like as when Paul killed the Frenchman and went through his things to find out that he had a family, it made him feel guilty and scared.

The World War One readings were good to read as they described with more visuals, mental side effects, and the looks of war. The readings, gave me a visual of how it was having dead bodies around every corner, rotting and smelling like hell. It also explained common side effect of trauma, known as shell shock, caused from artillery, and what happened as soldiers watched their friends get pummeled by dropping shells or gunned down in front of them. it also explained more in depth with tactics of crawling around at night and little hidden details that most things might not teach you.

Overall I liked reading and learning about the first world war. especially how at near the end of part 2 of the prose, it explained how the soldiers didn’t pay enough attention to the small things they had like warmth in their house, comfy couches, a bed, so that once they were transferred to the front lines, they finally found out what absolute hell was and missed their home greatly. Although, I apologize but I must say, I enjoyed the book a lot more than the prose, not even because I was already wanting to read it, but because it had a plot, where the prose didn’t follow much of one. Reading these expanded my knowledge which will most likely help in I & S, and it made the soldiers have a certain significance to me after learning the terror they had to go through.

Ryan’s World!

Welcome to Ryan’s World of wonders and imagination. I am from here, Victoria, and I am a returning student from Brookes and this is my 4th year, going on 5th. To get to know me, some things I really enjoy are TV, watching shows more on the side of murder, like Dexter which portrays the main character as a serial killer that is a part of Miami Metro Homicide, I highly recommend watching this. I also enjoy going on walks out in the sun or just walk in general. Night walks are good too but I’m usually quite tired. Up at my mom’s though there is a dirt pile/construction site and I love to go up there, get drenched in sand and climb some construction vehicles. I also enjoy doing Tennis with my parents late at night around 8:00pm. My all time favorite thing to do though is video games, yes I’m one of those people haha. I have both a VR (Quest 3) and a PC, my preferred genre of game is fighting, action and adventure. Sadness and deep cuts are also a must for the games.  Now onto the writing tasks on here, here’s my stunning opinion, ‘Personal Writing’ on the blog is the best because I can talk about whatever I’d like, and someone has the chance of coming across it and reading it, same as you are! I also love to listen to music, if you hadn’t noticed haha. I do everything with my headphones or background music, my music taste I admit, is very limited since I’m weird and I loop songs. A lot. My favorite bands that I consistently listen to multiple music from, would be Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers!! I’m gonna bring this up because I love it but I have really high hopes for the Tofino trip in April (my birth month!) and I hope everyone, or most of our class goes because me personally that trip was the BEST. My patience is running very thin with the long wait. And to Blake and Sydney, let’s recreate the breakfast hazard… I hope to learn some random facts about you all and I hope new students here enjoy their time and maybe come back next year.