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Oh, man. I've been watching way too much Star Wars lately. Well, you can never watch too much Star Wars, but you know what I'm saying. I'd totally marry Anakin. I want to be a jedi.

On another note: I can't believe I'm graduating. This means that I need to get a job and be responsible and stuff. That's fucked up. Shit.

Well, I'm tired and going to bed now. I need sleep. Night.

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Well, today I finished reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. I watched the movie before I read the book as I didn't know it was a book until I saw it mentioned in the opening credits. Anyway, the film was brilliant. Absolutely fantastic. The book, on the other hand, was lovely, but it could have been much, much better. Here are some comments I made based on the book:

I just didn't think that the book did the characters any justice. You'd think that (SPOILER ALERT) the family's reaction to Bruno's death would be absolutely traumatizing, but the way Boyne described it, or failed to for that matter, made Bruno's death seem trivial and blasé. If it had ended on the second last chapter with just Shmuel and Bruno holding hands, it would've had a greater emotional impact without hitting too hard.

In addition to that, I found Boyne's lack of usage of the word "Jew" patronizing. I understand that he wanted to keep their location and their respective roles in the war a bit of a mystery for the first few chapters, but after it was revealed with Bruno's "Hail Hitler", I felt it to be somewhat insulting to continue to have even the word "Jew" hidden. However, to replace "Auschwitz" with "Out-With" was, in my opinion, appropriate as Bruno was a young boy working with second- and third-hand information.

In conclusion, I feel the novel certainly had phenomenal potential -- hence the brilliance of the film -- however, Boyne's choice of writing style and choice in the ending of the book (which was, in all honesty, more of an epilogue than a chapter) failed to convey the emotions of the characters and stunted the reader's ability to connect with neither the situation nor those involved.

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Whoo! 250 posts. I have no life. 

Anyway, today I had a mock in Lit. I think I did pretty well. For one of the paragraphs we had to write, I used an absurd number of quotes. Fuck yeah. I also had a quiz/test in history on the Middle East. I totally wasn't prepared so both John Le and I ended up copying off Walter. Too bad Walter didn't know what he was doing either. Oh well, I'll find out how it went tomorrow most likely. I hope I pass!