Chromosome 6 first blog

I started a new book and it's called Chromosome 6. I started this book a year or so ago and I didn't really understand it and so since i fiished 11/22/63 I needed a new book so I started again and it seems more interesting than it did the first time. I think a main reason I was able to understand it better than I could have a year ago is that it deals in the partial chemistry and genetics that we lightly touched on in the 8th grade. Basically the main idea of the story is that a pharmecuetical company is genetically altering a type of primate similar to chimpanzees and rich people can buy one to match them so they can have any transplant they need and don't need to take anti-rejection pills for the rest of their lives but the moral issue is that the guy who actually did this to the monkeys thinks that some of them were altered enough to become basically our caveman anscestors. He thinks that because he has seen smoke repeatedly coming from the same place on the island where the monkeys are kept and no person is allowed on the island. I think that the author, Robin Cook, has done a pretty good job of characterization because you actually are kind of inside each of the characters' heads and know where they stand to gain from everything that happens and also what they risk to lose. I thought that was pretty interesting and another weird thing that seems very disconnected from the main plotline is this side story about these people who live in New York and work in a morgue where a mobster just got killed and his body was taken from the morgue without anyone knowing. I think that the stories will probably entwine eventually, but right now it's kind of confusing to the reader.

I have finished my book week 1

As you could tell from the title above, I have finished 11/22/63. The ending of the book is impossible to talk about or it wrecks the book, because it has a very surprising last 10 or 15 pages, and it also wraps everything up very well. So I recommend that book to anyone looking for a book and chances are it'll last you most of the trimester unless you're a speed-reader so you'll have plenty to blog about. I will add a picture below. I think that the prevailing theme that became evident throughout the book is that whatever you do does have an impact on the world around you no matter how small that act is. I feel that this is a very applicable theme to anyone's life, including the life of a high school student. If you don't work hard at a class, even if it's easy, you will probably regret it later on in life. It also works in the positive sense. If you work really hard on some history project or do some blogging assignment that your teacher assigns, you'll A. get a good grade and B. be better at analyzing the world around you and thinking for yourself and not necessarily what others tell you to think.

11/22/63 Post #1

For this first post, I'm going to give a backround to the book in case some of you might read this book. Firstly, this book is pretty big (849) so don't read it if you need to finish a book really fast. On the other hand, this book is very good. The main character, Jake Epping, is an English teacher in 2011 and his friend Al Templeton owns a diner in that area but the back of the diner if you go in, takes you back to September 9th, 1958. Jake Epping, obviously is pretty skeptical of this until he went in and just walked around. The trick of the rabbit hole, as it's called in the book, is that no matter how long you stay in there, it is only 2 minutes later than when you went in. Then Al tells Jake his plan to stop Kennedy's assasination, and then Al dies and Jake has to go in and carry out the plan. First, he goes back to stop a man from murdering his entire family with a hammer. He then goes back up to 2011 to see if one of the guys is still around the same area and he wasn't, which showed Jake that whatever he does in the past can affect the future. I think that is the emerging theme of the book. Whatever you do, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, can drastically change your life for better or worse. Now, Jake, or George Amberson, as he's called in the fifty's and sixty's, has a girlfriend who was just attacked by her former husband and her face got all cut up and now she's gotten very depressed so Jake is trying to raise money for her surgeries and stay at the hospital. Jake also has a notebook from Al Templeton telling the outcome of every major sports competition until the mid-60's. That provides for some source of funds but Jake can't place any huge bets because he doesn't want to look to suspicious.