This Week's Reading and Other Random Stuff

So this week in the Odyssey has been my favorite week so far, for three reasons.
REASON #1: All the suitors died
REASON #2: Athena got kinda mad at Odysseus :D
REASON #3: The Odyssey is OVER!!! ^^,

I liked the thing about the bow contest. It was also kinda funny that even Telemachus couldn't do it. And Antonius and all those other suitors look so stupid trying to be all that. Kind of like one of the girls at my school....
It was kinda awkward having Telemachus, Penelope, and Odysseus reunited like a hapy family, expecially with knowing that there's like 20 dead guys that are laying right there. And that you and your son or dad/your son and husband just killed them.
That's just plain old creepy, kind of like the short stories that we have to read.

The time of The Odyssey is over; the time of The Lord of the Rings and Wicked will go on (just like my heart).
If any of you caught those huge puns in that paragraph, you're like me and can quote LOTR by heart.

As for "The Deadliest Game", in the atmosphere of the short stories we've been reading recently, when Whitney told Rainsford about an island nearby that had cannibals, I had a sinking feeling that Rainsford was going to end up on the island that had a lot to do with some sort of the killing of people. I mean, how obvious can you be? It's almost exactly the same story as A Good Man is Hard To Find- main character mentions bad thing in beginning, goes on a small journey, everything is great, something knocks main character off course, bad thing mentioned earlier comes and threatens main character, typically trying to take life away. This time it was a little better. I think this has been my favorite one that we've read so far, probably because it was like a super mini version of The Hunger Games. Just that this story is too short to let anyone really bond with the characters. These stories make me wonder it our teacher enjoys reading Stephen King....

So this week brought MEAP (curse its foul test material that ruined some of TeenInk for me) and I was looking in one of my LOTR books, and I flipped to a random page and looked at a random paragraph and it was a quote from Aragorn and it was like "I have wished thee joy ever since first I saw thee. It heals my heart to see thee now in bliss." and I started laughing so hard I started crying. I think I saw some kids look at me funny like "What does she do in her spare time??"
Oh well.

And, by the way, if you ever get the chance to see a professional orchestra play along with a movie, TAKE IT!!

"The women of this country learned long ago; those without swords can still die by them."
Yes, this is a quote from one of the strongest female characters of all time (physically, emotionally, and morally), Eowyn (yes, from LOTR). All the lead women in LOTR are strong in these senses, not to mention awesome. That's why my friends and I belong there [in Middle Earth]!! ^^,

-Jenni