Marc+Colón

__"Some say The World"__ __ By: Susan Perabo __ Pages read : 187 - 202

//**1. Favorite Quote:**// "When i open my door, my mother is standing in my room, the empty bottle of Xanax in one hand, the other hand palm up, as if she were questioning someone even before i arrived." I like this quote specifically because we as readers can easily receive a lot of important information about the narrator's mother. We start to get the feeling that her mother has a problem, perhaps in trusting people? Even her own daughter.

This short story in the "Coming of Age" is simply about a teenage pyromaniac girl who seems to be troubled by the world. She find her own mother, who has separated from her father and now with another man, who became the young girl's step father, cheating on her step father with biological father. Through out the story we get some information on some of her adolescent stages.
 * 2. //Summary://**

I feel like the book has done a good job on getting the details across so that we can easily paint the image on our heads. Also touches on a topic that is easy to grow interest in. As many writers know, that is an important key. But i do believe the short story has some difficulty on getting the 'main' point across, at-least in my eyes.
 * 3. //How do you feel about the book?//**

One connection I can make, touches on the quote written previously. Simply because the narrator seems to come to the conclusion that her mother has some issues of her own, even if its just a trust issue, this is something pretty similar on how i feel towards my own mother, but perhaps in deferent ways.
 * 4. //Connections://**

I simply wonder about the outlook many other teenagers have on their parents, and parent's actions. How can you be diagnosed with pyromaniac? (How do you get it?) Can anything cure 100%? (pills?)
 * 5. //Questions://**

I'm not completely sure if definition pyromaniac follows my definition. To my understanding that a pyromaniac is a person who plays with fire and explosives. If it does follow my definition, then what I do understand is that fire is her life. Fire is one of the thinks that keeps us alive everyday, symbolically her being a pyro. She is the fire that keeps herself alive during tough times. Fire is one of the key components of keeping us alive and one of key components of death. The sun is a giant fire ball that gives life and if the sun was to disappear, we would all die eventually. Overall, what I am saying is that the girl being a pyromaniac is being the life source.

~Matt

In a way, i agree with matt, but there may be different meanings. Also i agree with Marc, when he states that the book has done a good job on getting the details across so that we can picture some images in our head. It also talks about things that we really don't know to much about in this world or we barely pay attention to in this world. Finally, i do think that this story was kind of hard to interpret as a group, but we managed to finish it.

~Anthony