Reading and Writing Assignment for 12/11

    I like the second picture and I hope it can be the book's cover.

    Maybe it doesn't have people and volcano. Maybe it looks too monotonous. But I like it.

    I like it because it is the only one is real picture. The ocean in the picture is very mystery and it just like an artwork. Maybe there is some people but they are behind the big wave because the wave is so big.

    I like this picture and I think this is the best cover for the book.

Very nice Mark. I think you did a good job explaining what you liked about the second picture. And you are right, it is very "mysterious."  And there might well be people hidden behind it. I am impressed as well with your use of the word "monotonous," which you used correctly.

I don't know if you did it on purpose, but this is a skilled writer's trick, using two sentences very close in style and syntax (word order) and then breaking the pattern with a very short sentence:"Maybe it doesn't have people and volcano. Maybe it looks too monotonous. But I like it."

Hello,Laraine,

     I like the third picture to be the cover.Because the wave in the picture is so big and the people in the picture are so small,that makes the reader to pity the people in the story and to scary with the big wave.They can understand the character in the story why they talk about "life is stronger than death"and know the wave sometimes is dangerous.Every things in the story does in the picture:the people, the volcano,the big wave.I like this picture so much.

I agree with you Enya. It's also my favorite for exactly the reasons you mention. It perfectly captures the scariness of the wave and the smallness of the people who face it.  I think, too, that the cover captures the theme of the story, that part of life is facing death. 

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