Black and White Pre Reading

         How do "mountains" grow between friends? This has happened to me before but thankfully that ended. This happened to two people in a novel called Black and White. A black named Marcus and a white named Eddie. They are star basketball players at their high school. But to make money to pay their student fund, they decided to steal Marcus's dad's gun and do some robberies. They never planned to shoot, just to scare people into giving up they’re money. Well Eddie ended up accidentally shooting someone then Eddie and Marcus made a run for it. During their next game the cops arrived during half time and arrested Marcus because they thought he shot the gun. Eddie got away with no arrest although; Eddie should have gotten arrested because he shot the gun. Both Eddie and Marcus are upset because 1. They have just been separated thanks to a stupid mistake and 2. Once their family finds out, what would happen?

         So this is one of the ways that a friendship can be split up. Crime can easily break up the strongest friendship. This reason is because if someone tricks a friend into crime then that friend might go to jail and then the friendship is done. Although a wall or “mountain” between the friendships doesn’t mean that the friendship is over. While Marcus is being arrested, that doesn’t mean that Eddie won’t try to clear stuff up. Although if Eddie does commit to shooting the man, he would most likely go to jail.

         My experience in a break between friends happened in 6th Grade. 2 of my friends liked each other and I joked around with the girl and the guy took it a bit to seriously and him and I stopped talking. But thank goodness he forgave me and we are still friends today.

         So, I have another source that something in a novel can happen in real life.

Mr Penumbras 24 Hour Bookstore Pre Reading

        How can a book effect a human being? How can it change someone who you know or even you yourself? Well there are many different ways your entire life can change because of one single book. It could be a little change or something that affected there entire future.
        There are many stories that a person can relate to, or someone feels as if they can be put in those shoes and would make the same exact choices which would tie into the whole relating to the people/books. What if someone is depressed or hurt. Then they find this book that looks good to them. Then they read it, once they are done with the book they feel inspired to go into the world confident and know that if anything is wrong with them, they can always rely on the book to boost up their spirit.
         I have a book that affected me greatly. It is The Fault In Our Stars. This taught me that you have to deal with the bad to get something good. One of the quotes in Augustus's house says, to get the rainbow, you must deal with the rain. I deal with a lot of bad things and this book told me that I will get something good out of the bad. Then I did get some good things. My closest friend came to me because I was getting bullied. Now she is my best friend. She and I came together thanks to one of the worse things.
        So yeah, A book can affect a person a lot. Books affected a guy named Clay. If he would have never went into Mr. Penumbra's Bookstore, he would have never met Mr. Penumbra, or find the secret of immortality. So books can and will affect you.