What do you think will happen next in your book? I think that in my book Hazel and the guy she is talking too will go on more dates and go to more meeting together. I think that Hazel health will go down. I think her health will go down because she kinda talks in a way that things will not get better.

What do you like about your book? I like when Hazel is with Augustus because the writing is more fun to read. When there together the book moves along faster.

What are you disliking about the book? I do not like when they are narating because it isn’t fun there is not much going on during that part and there kind of just trying to get something in that isn’t really needed I guess.

This compares to Limetown because in both stories they aren’t sure what’s going to happen next. There unsure if someone will die or if someone will get sick

Belonging is something that people think differently about many people try their best to fit in and belong in a group. They want to be liked and well known having someone they can always rely on, a partner during a project the person who make eye contact to hitting that they are the one you are going to work with, and having a place to sit at during lunch looking nice and acting like everyone afraid of not fitting in with them is always in the back of someones head. But on the other hand there are people who do not think you need to belong and that being different is a good thing. Having people around you and make you feel good about being even if that means sitting alone. They want to feel like they belong not pretend that they do. Belonging to some isn’t the most important thing its about having a place where you feel you are loved.

Number 3 I gave a 10 ” The n-word is more offensive than other racial slurs because of the history of hate behind it.” I agree with this because the African Americans that were being called n word they were being told what to and punished for being told to do it. The word back then meant they weren’t like white people they were less closer to a animal.

Number 8 I gave a 2 “Being rich is more important than having friends.” I disagreed with this because I think having people around you to show that they care and support you over all give affection is more important. Rather than being rich, although you have money doesn’t mean it will bring you hippieness.

I see hysteria in limetown threw Max, he showed it because he was at first hesitant about Deirdra getting the implant but then he wanted her to get it right away. “Max came home he was frantic something was really off.” “I told him I had to think about it and he… grabbed me by the shoulders hard. No you’re getting it.” This is showing that he was upset, maybe confused, and afraid of her not getting it. But i’m not sure what caused the hysteria, I think it could have been he knew that bad things were coming (people will it go to stay) and he didn’t want to lose her. The effects of hysteria is that it caused him to grab her in ways that he usually wouldn’t. This led to the panic because once people found out about her getting it things went down and it lead to people killing each other and people scanning for weather or not they had the implant.

The book is corny to an extent but over all its a good I had a smile on my face the whole time. The Poet X is mostly about Xiomara, she is a young girl who is lost in life. This book is about her and the challenges her mother brings her, though out the book she struggles with religion and wanting to be with a boy doing things she knows going out side her religion. I don’t really like her in the begging of the book but by the middle I get why she is how she is.

I think the author is trying to have the big idea be coming of age or finding self worth. I think this because at the begging of the book she is very down about herself but by the end of the book she is starting to like her body, her hair and more of her heritage.

One thing that bugs in mine the book is how her mother treats her but then at the end of the book her mother being to act like she was supportive of her all along when she really wasn’t.

I choice this picture because it shows Xiomara finding herself and is putting her pieces together. And I kinda see the flower pot at the bottom holding her up like her poetry because she loved to write and I think that is what lead her to where she is at the end of the book.

I do like the author style of writing, as a person who struggles with reading having a book in poetry is easier for me to understand and made it fun. Elizabeth Acevedo the Author had each section of the book short and in poetry form with kept the book going, unlike other books it was never a dull moment leading up to what was going to happen it was just fun and always had something going on. Another thing that I liked was how Acevedo had some of her pages going in different directions almost showing in a deeper way that Xiomara wasn’t perfect.