Kristi

//__The House of Dies Drear__// 4/16/10 Question # 1: I think the title of this book fits the book great but I’m sure that this book could have had a better title because this book is called //__The House of Dies Drear__// and I think some people would get why it’s called //__The House of Dies Drear__//. After I have read the book I got why it was called //__The House of Dies Drear__// and my thought was that in this house there are ghosts that have died in this house and many slaves. The title of this book has the word “Dies” and I thought right after I read it that the title was trying to tell me that there are ghosts in this book that have died in the house that the Smalls family lived in. there was one very popular ghost that the another mentioned and his name was Mr. Pluto he was the ghost who lived in the house and wanted the Smalls family to leave the house because that house was his home first. The title of this book didn’t catch my attention at first but after I have read a lot of it the title started catching my eye right when I saw the name or the book. In the book it mentioned that this house had ghosts and old slaves that have died in the house but of course that didn’t bother the Small’s family from buying the house. Also in this book it had a boy named Thomas and his father knew about the house of dies drear he knew what happened to it and that it has some mysteries in the house. If I were the author of this book I think I would have named it something very different like __The House of Ghosts__ because if the reader was into ghost they would pick up the book and start reading it and I think the name “The house of ghost” for a book sounds very mystery and spooky. And if I have had to make the picture of the cover I would have made something like having a ghost and the small’s family with the ghost over their heads. And  on the front I might make the triangle that was missing in the book, but then the triangle was found a little bit after. Comment from Shirley: Kristi, you thought over this question carefully and have made some good points. Please reread over all your written work before handing it in and look for complete sentences. You have repeated some thoughts in your first few sentences and remember not to begin sentences with //and// and //but//. Some of your sentences are very long. 

Question #3: I think Mr. Pluto handled the whole situation about the house not the best way but he was very upset that another family was living in his house. In the book he went into Thomas’s room and moved all of Thomas’s clothes in different places and in different ways and when Thomas went into his room he saw his clothes were moved but he wasn’t sure who did it. And right then that’s when Thomas knew something is strange about his new home. Mr. Pluto tried everything he could to get the smalls family out of his house and he didn’t handle it very well because Thomas got scared at times and didn’t know what was happening he was very confused. And in the book I think he made the black horse freak out and had the chair move and he made everything move so that the family would get scared and freak out and go back to their old home.But at times he handled the situation very well.  And when the smalls went to the church everyone wasn’t sure about them because they knew the were living in Mr. Pluto’s house and no one liked Mr. Pluto because they thought he was an evil nasty man who had no respect for anyone. But I think that the families didn’t really know Mr. Pluto enough for them to say that about him I think that if they go to know him better he might have changed and he might learn things like respect and manners from the people. Comment from Shirley: You have written an interesting response to this question and made some clear points. Your summary is also accurate and clear in content. Please go back and check for complete sentences...make any changes needed.

Week 5 Question - respond here
1. What did you think about the end of the book? Do you think it should have been different? Explain in details with examples.

I think the ending of the book was okay but i think the author rushed the ending a tiny bit but she did explain everything very well and it was an okay ending but also a good one. ii think if she put a little bit more details and didn't rush it a tiny bit and she kinda left me hanging off the edge........i really want to know what happens next.

2. What was most surprising to you about this book? Give details and examples.

what really surprised me was when everyone was in the church and everyone went against Mr.Pluto and i think if everyone got to know him he would be a lot nicer to them and would be a really sweet old man.

Week 6 Questions - Please write your response here