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Personal response to “Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

After reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I found the exploration of human/ghost  nature both interesting and unsettling. The story made me think about how everyone has different sides to their personality. Dr. Jekyll’s transformation into Mr. Hyde represents our “normal” selves and the darker, more impulsive aspects we try to hide. What I found the most interesting was how Dr. Jekyll, despite being a favored doctor, is still tempted to switch into his darker desires through Mr. Hyde.

I like the way the book presents Mr. Hyde as mean and violent person, this also made me think about the consequences of ignoring our bad sides. This idea of the danger of control and the consequences of living in denial was something that really stood out to me, while reading.

I also liked the other characters in the story, like Mr. Utterson and Poole, I found they helped make the book way more interesting. I didn’t really like all the extra things that were hiding in the pages, I wished the book could have just jumped to the murders, because in my opinion the murders and the plot twist of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, being the same person was one of the best parts of the book. When I figured out that they were the same person It really made me want to keep reading

Overall, I did enjoy the book; It wasn’t to long or to short for me. It was also a bit confusing, considering that it was written in the 1800s. I did learn some interesting new words though I thought that it had a good creepy element and a really well put together plot ending. If I could I might read it again, and when I do I will understand it better and I won’t be as confused. I would give it a solid 8.5/10.

IRJE#5

The Alchemyst The secrets of The Immortal                            Author Michael Scott

This book is series of six other ones this being the first one. The main plot is about fifth teen year old all American twins named Sophie and Josh who had regular life’s until they met a man called Dr. John Dee who flipped there life upside down By stealing a ancient book which causes trouble. A quote that i loved was

“I’m not a magician. I’am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.”
? Michael Scott, the alchemyst.

This quote means so much about the book because it talks about how the hole story is so mysterious and about adventure and fantasy also about mystery.

 

IRJE #5 – Plague

I am reading a book called Plague right now. It is the fourth book in the Gone series. In the book, a kid named Albert has become the ‘boss’ of the FAYZ because he has brought back currency. However, people don’t like him because he has a reputation for working people a lot, yet he is one of the only people who is able to control himself.

“There is no wind in the FAYZ, you…” He stopped himself from saying ‘moron’. Albert had a certain reputation for being in control of himself. (p. 49)”

When we read this it makes us believe that even in the worst scenarios people will still do anything to keep their reputation.

Laila- PW # 5 Christmas time is coming!!!

Christmas / December are probably one of my favorite times of the year, here are the pros and cons. Cons; you get to send time with your family, get a Christmas tree, then decorate it, Christmas baking , even though it can be stressful. I love when it snows and I get to go sledding with my parents. My dog also loves the snow. We live in Metchosen and it usually snows around 3-4 feet!!! I cant wait for it to snow! I really enjoy listening to Christmas music, this year I started listening in November. On Christmas Eve me and my family have a tradition where we all get matching pajamas and we each get to pick one present under the tree and watch a few Christmas movies and drink hot chocolate. I’m so exited to wake up on the 25th and open presents with my family! A couple days after Christmas we go to my grandmas house and have a Christmas party with food, drinks, stories, laughter, and most important of al my family.

IRJE#5

This book is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban this book is by J.K Rowling. Hagrids bird Beaky went on trial because he kept hurting people. When he went to trial it was at the risk of Beaky being executed. In the trial they lost. When he went back he was really sad because Beaky meant so much to him. Draco Malfoy saw this and called Hagrid pathetic.

Don’t you dare call Hagrid pathetic you fool – you evil_’ ‘Hermione!’ said Ron weakly he tried to grab her hand as she swung it back. ‘Get off Ron!’ Hermione pulled out her want. Malfoy stepped backwards. Crabbe and Goyle looked at him for instruction (p.312).

I like this quotation because it shows how caring Hermione is when her friend is hurt and someone makes fun of them. It also has how protective she. I like this quotation because it makes me laugh when it says that Crabbe and Goyle don’t know what to do so they go to Malfoy for help.

PW#4-New York

I went to New York in the summer of 2023. It was by far one of the best experiences I have ever had. There was just so much going on. We went to so many shops and it was so cool. We took the underground subway from the hotel to the Times Square. On our first day day we did a bus tour of the city’s most important places. We were able to hop on and off because my parents bought a day trip pass. We ate in Chinatown , we had the biggest slice of pizza I’ve ever seen and we watched a lot of street performers. They would gather a large crowd and then have people pay money to see their tricks. We also watched a live action play on Broadway, The Lion King. We weren’t allowed to take any pictures until the very end of the play before the curtain closed.  But my favorite part of the entire trip was when we went on a boat to see the Statue of Liberty. It was really cool to see it up close and to see all the tiny details on it. We were also shown the Brooklyn Street Bridge and got to see some of the rent controlled housing in New York on the boat.

IRJE#4 My Fault

The book My fault is about how a teenage girl and her mom move to another place to live for her mother to marry the love of his life, the guy she is marrying is rich and lives in a mansion and is very exited welcoming the mother and her daughter Noah, Noah does not like the idea of moving from Toronto to LA and living her volleyball team, best friend and boyfriend behind, Once Noah arrived she met the guy her mother was marrying and his son, her soon to be stepbrother, at first they hate each other, but little by little they start to have feeling for each other even though they say they cant stand each other., but they see imposible for them to be together because of the fact that they are step brothers.

seeing him hit me like a ton of bricks after those four days when id manage to more or less forget what had happend at the races and had tried to avoid thinking about him, and when i did think of him, i felt a strange, unpleasant sensation in my stomach.

This quotation’s meaning is that Noah is wanting to forget a mistake she made, she is trying to get past that, but at the very bottom she knows she did something wrong, she has the awareness of her mistake.

 

PW #3 Ballet

I have a love hate relationship with Ballet, i have been doing ballet since i was 4 years old. I have always loved the music, the beautiful costumes, everything. I have always seen ballet as a beautiful classic and elegant dance style, when i was little i always admire the big girls in my dance academy, for the recitals they used big tutus and point shoes, the point shoes where the thing that i was exited the most. Everything is easier at the beginning and keeps getting harder throughout you go forward to it, learning the dances, every move , the names of the song and exercises its very difficult,  and its worse when you see the teacher as your biggest enemy, always pushing you harder to make more difficult things every time, compare you to other classmates, always making you feel less. Every time class got hard i wanted to quit but i remembered how beautiful  the big girls dance with their point shoes and tutus, so i kept going, i pushed my self very hard, put in extra effort until i finally was at a level to get them, my first impression of them wasn’t that good because the first thing i had to do was sew every single ribbon onto the point shoe, it was very hard learning to sew, i pinched my self with the needle in various occasions, my fisrt time using them was horrible, so painful but the teacher said it was because it was the first time i was using them, and as time goes by ill shape them. i kept using them for 2 years and those where the worst years in ballet of my life, i went two classes a week 2 hours, it was so painful, having blisters every time, always  being so tired, with muscular pain everywhere. so this June after after the recital i choose it was going to be my last ballet recital for a while.