The ender's hotel a memoir Rj #12

Dear Mrs.Zrihen,

I just finished the book called The Ender's Hotel: a memoir by Brandon R. Scherand. I more or less admired this book because it didn't really hook me into the story nor take me in the story. It kind described the hotel in one of the passages in the book, at the beginning. I can declare to you that this was a vulgar book, because it included the awful word translation of a donkey's behind, and the word dam. A passage that I found pretty appealing to me, found on page 20-21 was:

"I tried to shake loose but my mother's nails dug deep into my wrist, puncturing my skin until small crescent blood-moons emerged. Then in one clamorous motion she and I spilled through the cafe and out the doorway onto the sidewalk, straight into the clearest kind of daylight. She secured her grip on my wrist and started dragging me toward the Ender's bar, one door down. I fought and cried, and for the first time in my life, I hit back. The bar was open and I stayed myself in the doorway..."

My interest of this passage was great because it really showed the rough childhood that Brandon had in his early ages.  It would significant for the reader because it gave them a taste of what his childhood was like.

I, of course, had to use some strategies or I wouldn't be able to do this reader's journal or even understand the book better. I made a prediction before I read this book, based on the title. I would have seen if this book was awarded by a publisher or a company to see its value. When I began the book I had some troubles during the journey, for example the mixture words that made it seem like something else was happening, so to solve the problem I reread it many times until I got it right. After sometime I used another strategy, which was to find any word that I couldn't understand, so I used context clues. At the moment that I realized that I was done with the book I began asking I questions about the book, the 5W. Then when I was done I started thinking what kind of book this is for anyone, so I could recommend it. 

I had to figure out the genre of this book and since at the cover page it said memoir, so it's nonfiction because it happened in real life and it's just one memory of his life. The topic of this book is life problems. The main idea of this book is that when Brandon's grandparents bought the ender's hotel they thought it was going to be a place to have newer lives, but it turned out wrong. This main idea is implied because it is not really giving it right at the beginning. I would give another title to this book which is "Where to fit in?" Some supporting details of this book were that Brandon's childhood was rough, this is sensory. He had to live with his grandparents, this detail is factual. His mother was divorced many times and she was an alcoholic person, factual.

 The essential message of this story is to try to find out who you are, so you know what you are. The was a cause and an effect in this story that interested me like that because Brandon's mother was divorced many times and she had problems with her husband, Brandon ended up with his grandparents. I found some text features like the italics to emphasize the word so the reader can notice. Also there are the spaces between paragraphs that represent that a few days were passed or a subject is changed. There's the chapter title which give a conclusion of the chapter. At the end there's other books selected by the award for this book. Finally there are places where readers know other books for this author.

The pattern of organization is time order because it was actually the time between the beginning of the memory and the end. The author wrote this book to share an experience with the reader. The author's perspective is biased because it is giving Brandon's point of view. The angle in which the story was told was in first person for its saying "I, me, and I" and it is talking about himself. I couldn't find any figurative language in this story. The resources I used to know that his information was true were:

http://redroom.com/member/brandon-r-schrand/bio

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/schrand-brandon-r

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Enders-Hotel/Brandon-R-Schrand/e/9780803217690

I really knew the entire vocab in this story so I can't find that out. This story could be compared to my everyday life because sometimes there are rough times that I go through in my life when I was a kid. I would compare this book to Isaac Newton because he started his life in a hard terrain without a father. This book could be compared to real life because many children don't have the privileges that I have and grow up rough and tough. I would rate this book 2 out of five because it was quite boring most of the time.

Hope this reader's journal fits your needs.

                                           Sincerely, JUAN 702