The book Small Steps has alot of themes in it but i will only focus on 3.
Friendship-In the book Theodore and Ginny are very close friends even though they are very different from each other. Ginny is a young disabled white girl who is 10 years old and Theodore is a big buff black 16 year old. The book shows that every body can be friends.
Betrayal- In the book people only want to be Kairas friend just beacuse she is rich. When Theodore meets her at the concert they beacome very good friends. Later at a coffie shop in San Francisco Theodore asks Kaira if she can give him something he can sell to some body to help his friend. Kaira doen't under stand it is for a good cause and thinks Theodore is like any body else. (wanting money from her)
Anger- When Theodore sees X-ray the day after X-ray gives him the fake tickets he is very mad. He can't believe that X-ray could give his friend fake tickets and know about it. He gets so mad he grabs X-ray be the shirt and pins him to the wall.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Small Steps Book Review
Small Steps
Louis Sachar
Mauro
O O O O 4 out of 5
Have you ever wondered how you could change your life with one idea? In the book Small Steps a 16 year old boy named Theodore has just been realized from a prison camp called camp green lake. He wants to change the way people think of him by taking small steps. To him small steps means he has a number of goals that he will try to complete. He gets a job digging holes for a yard work company and is slowly making money when his friend x-ray comes up to him asking him if he would like to double his money. Theodore doesn't trust x-ray, but after x-ray fully explains the plan Theodore he hands over the money. Their plan is to buy tickets to an upcoming concert and sell them for more than what they are worth later. The business moves slowly and they don't sell any of the tickets until later in the book when they quickly sell all the tickets except 2. With the two tickets there is a very odd mix up and Theodore is handed 2 fake tickets that he unknowing uses to get into the concert. Theodore and Ginny (the person he takes to the show) get in trouble with security and ends up back stage and becoming friends with a famous pop star named Kaira De Leon.
I like this book because it is about music and I listen to music every day. This book has easy to like characters. One of the characters is a fast thinking teen named x-ray who always wants to make a quick buck. I think you already know Theodore, he is 16 and he is slowly changing his life. His nick name is armpit (from holes) because when he was at camp green lake he got hurt and the pain stayed in his armpit. Ginny is a young girl who is a good friend of Theodore and she has cerebral palsy. She has a collection of stuffed animals that all are disabled like her. She stutters whenever she talks. And last but not least Kaira De Leon, she is a pop star who does not a lot of friends. She is the singer of the band that Theodore and Ginny see in chapter 16. The story has many situations that will make you think of what you would do if you were that character like when Theodore has to decide between going to San Francisco to see Kaira or staying in town to help X-ray. In one part of the book a character has to decide to either tell the truth to a police officer or just make something up. This book would have been a 4 and 1/2 except the ending messed it all up. I think the story just ends. I would have given this a book a higher rating if it would have talked about what happened in the rest of Kaira's and Theodore's life.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read books, because after you start to care about the characters, you can never set the book down. Anyone who likes pop music or realistic fiction will be hooked when they get to chapter four. Anyone who hates stories with barley any action pact events will set the book down before chapter five. I would mainly recommend this book to anyone who is older than 10 years old, because this book has subjects that may be hard to understand if you are younger than 10.
Louis Sachar
Mauro
O O O O 4 out of 5
Have you ever wondered how you could change your life with one idea? In the book Small Steps a 16 year old boy named Theodore has just been realized from a prison camp called camp green lake. He wants to change the way people think of him by taking small steps. To him small steps means he has a number of goals that he will try to complete. He gets a job digging holes for a yard work company and is slowly making money when his friend x-ray comes up to him asking him if he would like to double his money. Theodore doesn't trust x-ray, but after x-ray fully explains the plan Theodore he hands over the money. Their plan is to buy tickets to an upcoming concert and sell them for more than what they are worth later. The business moves slowly and they don't sell any of the tickets until later in the book when they quickly sell all the tickets except 2. With the two tickets there is a very odd mix up and Theodore is handed 2 fake tickets that he unknowing uses to get into the concert. Theodore and Ginny (the person he takes to the show) get in trouble with security and ends up back stage and becoming friends with a famous pop star named Kaira De Leon.
I like this book because it is about music and I listen to music every day. This book has easy to like characters. One of the characters is a fast thinking teen named x-ray who always wants to make a quick buck. I think you already know Theodore, he is 16 and he is slowly changing his life. His nick name is armpit (from holes) because when he was at camp green lake he got hurt and the pain stayed in his armpit. Ginny is a young girl who is a good friend of Theodore and she has cerebral palsy. She has a collection of stuffed animals that all are disabled like her. She stutters whenever she talks. And last but not least Kaira De Leon, she is a pop star who does not a lot of friends. She is the singer of the band that Theodore and Ginny see in chapter 16. The story has many situations that will make you think of what you would do if you were that character like when Theodore has to decide between going to San Francisco to see Kaira or staying in town to help X-ray. In one part of the book a character has to decide to either tell the truth to a police officer or just make something up. This book would have been a 4 and 1/2 except the ending messed it all up. I think the story just ends. I would have given this a book a higher rating if it would have talked about what happened in the rest of Kaira's and Theodore's life.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read books, because after you start to care about the characters, you can never set the book down. Anyone who likes pop music or realistic fiction will be hooked when they get to chapter four. Anyone who hates stories with barley any action pact events will set the book down before chapter five. I would mainly recommend this book to anyone who is older than 10 years old, because this book has subjects that may be hard to understand if you are younger than 10.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Would i like to be a rock star traveling the world?
Yes. I it would be awsome to do that. The reason kiara had no friends was beacuse she never invited anyone from the croud to go hang out with her. The first time she invited someone to hang out with her she met theodore. The way i would make sure i had friends and never get bord is i would go to party i could find. I would make sure i knew every body on the tour. I would like to be a rock star beacuse you get to do what ever you want, make the press want to know every thing about you, and have an army of die hard fans. If i was a rock star i would make at least 3 albums a year beacuse bands now a-days dont relese enough albums. (at least i dont think so)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Kairas lyrics with the story
One of kairas songs talks about needing help. One verse says
These shoes, these jewels, this dress,
A perfect picture of success.
Oh, you would never guess,,,,,,,
When theodore hears the song the rest goes
Armpit , a damsel in distress.
Save me Armpit
a damsel in distress.
This song relates to the story beacuse it talks about someone haveing everything (kaira)
and they are in troubble and Armpit needs to save them. Kairas step father is going to steal all of kairas money and divorce with her mother. If that happens kaira will end up with no money and no maneger. If that happens she will lose her karier so she needs Armpit to halp her so he doen't lose everything.
These shoes, these jewels, this dress,
A perfect picture of success.
Oh, you would never guess,,,,,,,
When theodore hears the song the rest goes
Armpit , a damsel in distress.
Save me Armpit
a damsel in distress.
This song relates to the story beacuse it talks about someone haveing everything (kaira)
and they are in troubble and Armpit needs to save them. Kairas step father is going to steal all of kairas money and divorce with her mother. If that happens kaira will end up with no money and no maneger. If that happens she will lose her karier so she needs Armpit to halp her so he doen't lose everything.
Questions for X-ray
1. Why dont you keep your money making ideas?
2.Do you think you are going to be sent to jail?
3. Why don't you try to fix your car door?
4. Do you think the poliece will find someone called Habib?
5. Do you consider your self cool?
2.Do you think you are going to be sent to jail?
3. Why don't you try to fix your car door?
4. Do you think the poliece will find someone called Habib?
5. Do you consider your self cool?
Smal Steps at police station
mauroc
At the police station x-ray helped the dectective under stand what there made up counterfit ticket seller looked like. Armpit was offered pizza but when listening to what x-ray had to say he didnt feel like eating.Armpit and x-ray think they are going to make it out of this with out troubble but the second armpit started to lie to the dectective they were heading for more troubble than they couls handel.
At the police station x-ray helped the dectective under stand what there made up counterfit ticket seller looked like. Armpit was offered pizza but when listening to what x-ray had to say he didnt feel like eating.Armpit and x-ray think they are going to make it out of this with out troubble but the second armpit started to lie to the dectective they were heading for more troubble than they couls handel.
I voted for x-ray
I voted for X-ray beacuse with out him the story wouldn't have been half as good. He makes a important impact that effcts the story. I don't under stand why he allways askes his friends if they want to doubble their money with his idea. he should keep his idea and doubble his own money.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Small Steps Comments
In this book a carecter from holes returns. he starts to work with a company that does yard work. he meets up with his friend X-ray who has an idea to make money. He givs x-ray alot of money to buy tickets to a concert and sell them for more. They sell all the tickets except 2. Theodore ends up wanting to go to the concert with his nabor ginny. He tells x-ray not to sell the tickets but the person who wants to buy them offers $200 per ticket. X-ray comes in his car and gives theodore the tickets. At the concert suckurety gards figure out their tickets are fake and start to arest Theodore. Wile this is happening Ginny starts to have a spaz attack. The mayor is sitting in the row infront of them and tells them to let Theodore go so he can help her. After Ginny calms down the singer of the band (thats doing the concert) goes to talk to Ginny and lets them go back stage.
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