Reader's Journal#2 28 Days Later

Dear Mrs.Zrihen
I have just started to read the book 28 Days Later by Alex Garland. A passage that hooked me in was ''War.War never changes. What we are going through is a prologue to this horrid chapter of world history.This virus is just like war.People killing people.''  I like this quote because  it symbolizes that the world has changed in that book but at the same time, it hasn't because people are killing people just like the wars that are going in the real world like USA and Afghanistan. The strategies I used before I read the book were reading the Synopsis to comprehend what I was going to read ahead of time. The genre is Realistic fiction/Horror. It is horror because it involve a  plague that has spread across the world  and has infested rage in to people brains. The characterization in this book took it's toll on all of the four of the main characters. In my opinion, They were all dynamic.Their motive is to survive and to find a cure to the rage virus and to find people that were not struck by the virus.The protagonist were Jim, Selena, Frank, And the youngest Hanna. There was only one foil named Mark. The setting is in Great Britain which was evacuated and has only 1 tenth of the regular English population.The time was around modern time like 2007.The weather conditions were Sunny but when they go to Manchester it starts to rain.The social conditions are very low due to the fact that there is a low chance in this book to meet a survivor that is willing to assist you let alone any survivor! It starts off with Jim who is a bicycle courier. he delivers a package and gets hit by a car. He wakes up in a hospital and it is deserted. He is walking when he finds infected chasing him when he gets saved my 2 people later confirmed as Selena and Mark. They go into an underground safe spot and sleep there. They go to Jim's house and find Jim's parents dead. They get chased and a zombie bites Mark.
Sincerely Alan Alvarez 801

Readers Journal # 1 Vlad The Impaler

I finished Vlad The Impaler By Enid A. Goldberg & Norman Itzkowitz. This was about Vlad Dracula who was born in 1431, In Sighhisora, Transylvania. His father's name was Vlad Dracul. Dracul Promised to protect the Holy Roman Empire and was a member of a secret organization called '' Order Of The Dragon''. However, Vlad Dracul was in trouble because, he was in a war with the Ottoman Empire. In a political deal, for his own freedom Vlad sacrificed two of his sons one of them being Vlad Dracula when he was 12 years old and his brother, Radu. Even though the two were imprisoned they were educated by Turkish tutors. Vlad and his brother found out that their father  and older brother had been slayed by Basarab Laiota . Vlad was looking for revenge and fought on the side of the Turkish and their army. he and his guards went on a killing spree that lasted for many years and killing many people in the process of this event. A king named Mathias Corvineus(an ally of his)was no a target on Vlad's palm of toture. He kept him as a prisoner for over 12 years! Not much is know about Vlad Dracula during this period of time but Vlad forced Mathias to join him on a mission to take back the Wallachian throne. A month later Vlad was killed in battle near a city called Bucharest in Turkey. Vlad got his nick name by killing his victims and drinking their blood.

From you'r student Alan Alvarez in 801