Ian The Amazing SUPAH MAN!

     Ian the hero in my story has many archetypal hero qualities. Ian in the book Shattered is innocent, willing, changes and grows, selfsacrifice and reluctant. He exihbits these characteristics as he goes on the journey of his life many times. One of the times he says " i'd tavelled no more than a dozen steps when I had second thoughts" (Eric Walters, Shattered, page 3). To me this shows Ian's reluctance. The black man on the picture below to me shows Ian as he works at the kitchen named the club serving food. To me this represents self sacrifice and willingness because he takes time off his fun life to help out and is willing to do it. This is why Ian is a hero.

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Ian The Woundorus Character Archetype

    In my book Shattered by Eric Walters my character Ian in my opinion exibits some characteristics of a hero. Some of these characteristics are fool, changing and growing, self sacifice, and, reluctant. Ian exibits all of these archetypal characteristics. Ian is a fool because he made the choice of almost failing english class. He is changing and growing because he sort of has a hidden love for home less people that grows and one he didn't have at the begining.Ian has self sacrifice because he sacrifices his time, effort, dignity to research on the computer, interview a soldier, and work at the homeless soup kitchen just to pass his civics class.Finally, Ian is reluctant because he didn't want to volunteer at the soup kitchen in the first place and wasn't sure about it.

     "I'd travelled no more than a dozen steps when I had second thoughts" (Eric Walters, Shattered, page3). I chose this quote because it proves that Ian is reluctant. Ian was reluctant to cut through the park because it was a dangerous neighborhood and the park is also dangerous at night.These are a few archetypal characteristics of Ian

IAN my Protagonist

  My book im still reading is Shattered by Eric Walters. Im still reading it because im a BUSY MAN! My protagonist is Ian a regular highschooler trying to pass civics class and doing community service hours to do so. A direct qoute to prove his attitude to the situation in civics class would be: " Im just trying to do my hours so I can pass" (page21, Shattered).

  What ive learned about Ian so far is that he is only doing the community service because he wants his car that his dad will by him if he passes. I also learned underneath all of that he is a caring guy who has a soft spot for homeless people.

  I think with his attitude he has a chance at achieveing his goal and ultimatly his car. So I predict that he will also help homeless people to.

  I chose the video at the top because it describes how a homeless person lives which I knows about. Also, the book pretains to homeless people.

Connections in the Text

  Wow on my third blog post already. Right now I am still reading Shattered by Eric Walters because unfortunatly I have not had much time to read because I have been busy. "The fire was big enough to throw out heat and light. The warmth felt good." (Eric Walters, Shattered pg.68)

  I made this connection because I have a text to self connection to it. It reminds me of the fires we had in our back yard. This reminds me of this because the characters are having a fire just like I did. This is my conection to the text.

Eric Walters Shattered

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Shattered by Eric walters

  The book I am reading im not quite done but im a good portion through it. My book is called Shattered  by Eric Walters and so far it is an alright book. The book is about a boy named Ian who will fail civics class if he doesn't do community service hours. The place he chose to work at for his hours is the club, which is a soup kitchen for the homeless. If he doesn't pass civics he doesn't get his car so the stakes are high. Ian meets a man named mac who owns the kitchen and they meet several homeless people along the way, inluding sarge a so called former soldier whom Ian's teacher wants Ian to interview for extra credit in civics class to ensure he doesn't fail. The park is also dangerous at the same time and Ian gets in some heat from thugs along the way but makes smart decisions to make sure it will never happen again.

  So, overall this book isn't that bad but I could easily put it down and do something else. If you are a major book lover I would definitly recomend this book for you and you probably wont put it down like I can. Also, this book is easy to read and is recommend for high school students as it is a White Pine book. So to sum is up if your a book lover in highschool find this book.

My Quote

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

- Abraham Lincoln

   I don't read books but I will try my best to post and read so here it goes. I chose this quote because I myself when I want more informaton on something will maybe read a book on it and to me if I have a friend to help me find that book makes it much easier for me. Also I find my day is much more reasonable if I have help from a friend even if it has nothing to do with books. This quote also stuck out to me when I read it to me it didn't scream I love to read. So overall I thought this quote was right for me because I can relate it to me and it doesn't make me look like a complete book worm. Good job Abrahham!