Continue of Elixir...

Clea is a photographer or trying to become a professional one. While, on her trip in Paris she took many many pictures including pictures of the fire that her "sister" was involved with.

After returning home from Paris, Clea goes through all her pictures she'd taken. Clea sits down and takes in every moment she had captured,  "Again and again I went through the process, giving myself a little more time on each picture with every round, pulling aside the ones my eyes couldn't stop drifting to, the ones that struck me in a place of pure instinct and emotion."  Her eye could not get away from the one she had taken at the fire. For a long period of time she describes what she sees and how she felt in that moment.

This book has very many emotions or moods. Clea is very relatable and understanding. I would suggest reading this.

Elixir ~ Hilary Duff

"But when things get tough and you forget, this necklace can remind you."

Elixir is a fictional novel written by a famous celebrity, Hilary Duff. There are two main characters so far, Clea Ramond, a renowned surgeon and politicians daughter, and Rayna, Clea's best friend. They are in Paris, France spending time together when they meet these two boys at a club. Rayna was all for having them there, Clea on the other hand wanted nothing to do with the boys. Clea felt very independent and wanted to be alone to think. As she told Pierre, her so called "date", that she wanted to be left alone. He knew something was wrong that is when he said the quote at the top. She didn't think much of it, she believed he was just being nice. Rayna on the other hand left with her "date" and she said to Clea, " I'll be fine you'll never lose me."

After a few hours of Rayna being gone, Clea was watching the news. A story of a burning house came on and Clea was hoping and praying it wasn't where Rayna was. Clea rushed to find where she had written the address down, and sure enough it was the exact same. She was so flustered when getting into the cab. Pierre happen to call her just as she was on her way. He was so good to her and tried to calm her down. Clea felt safe talking to him, that's when she realized that something might be special about them.

The second Clea arrived she sprinted out there yelling for Rayna. Turns out Rayna wasn't even home when it started. After finding each other, Clea and Rayna realized how special there relationship is. The word "You'll never lose me," came out of Rayna's mouth again.

This is where i have ended so far. I can already tell this is a book about lessons or ways of life. Elixir means the capability of prolonging life. I can't wait to finish this novel and figure out everything it can teach me. Also, what it can allow me to be thankful for.

Reflection Over All

The conflict

This post shows how I can prove that I can write about different elements.  I choose my conflict post because my story, Now you See Her,  is a suspenseful story and it relys on what she caused. A conflict is a prolonged armed struggle. Which means it's a drawn out problem. I believe this is the most important element is this book. Without a conflict the story would be very boring, there wouldn't be anything to back up a plot. Everything in life has a conflict, even if it's in your own life or in a novel. It's what makes the story come to life. For example, in, Now you See Her, I stated there was murder. If the murder wasn't stated nobody would care on why she moved away and changed her identity.

Over the past three month I have been blogging about a book I have read. I've had many people comment and stay in tune with what I had to say. Some struggles I had throughout this whole expeirence was staying caught up to when I had to post because sometimes I hadn't met my reading goal so I had nothing to write about. I was willing to get caught up though in one day, I finished my book and I had made about five different post just about my over all book. I believe that actually helped the readers understand what was happening the whole time. A strength I had is writing. I believe that I'm very presuesive and can get others drawn in easily. I liked this assignment but at the same time I didn't. It aloud me to become a better writer but it was very time consuming. I think it was only time consuming because im not a big reader so it took me a while to finish my book. That is what im going to work on next trimester, become a more efficient reader. Start reading earlier and more pages a night. But overall I believe I grew as a reader and a writer.  

 

Theme of Now you See Her

Theme

One should not allow others to take blame of something one has caused because one self will feel that guilt until they have done something to make up for it.

This theme relates to Now you See Her because Nina Bloom had lived with her self creating a crime since she was a little girl. She planned on just living a normal life, having a family and presuing her dreams. Until she finds out that someone else had taking blame for what she had done. When the police department had been looking at evidence they had some suspecion of Nina. Once she found out about them questioning her she left and changed everything about her as well as her child. After many years had past, her guilt had grew too big. Nina and her daughter move back to flordia and she took blame for what she had really caused. This theme creats an ideal prespective of the novel Now you see Her.

Spoiler Alert

I finished the book, Now you See Her.

After changing her identity and running away from or horrendous murder she caused in her childhood. She has had to live with this guilt for many years now. She let a man take the blame for everything she has caused. She wanted a family and got it and she was willing to do anything to protect her children. Even if that mean't change everything about her just to let others take blame. After her realizing what she has done she starts to question herself. Many people were already suspecious of her and the things she has done. Finally she comes to her seases, she decides to move back to Flordia and confess her crime. She let her childred go and finally took blame for what she had done.

How I have read Now you See her?

Now you see Her is a long, long book. Its about 362 pages long. I have mangaged my time by reading about 10 pages a night. The chapters are long as well, so you just have to bare with it and stay close to all the action going on.  I usually don't get home until really late, therefore i gave myself a small goal for one night. It has taken me longer then normal readers but I am willing to do that to finish this novel.

Taking notes is a big thing as well. I take small post-its and either put on where something was important or write a little summary of what happened in that chapter.

Also, finding a book you actually get attracted to is always good because you'll be willing to stay up and read it. Therefore, if your reading Now you See Her read it slowly and you'll understand what's going on.

Books I would like to read

Nicholas Sparks

I would love to read some of Nicholas Sparks novels. I have read:

• A Walk to Remember
• Dear John
• Save Haven

But because he is such a good writer I want to read more of his like:

• The Lucky One
• The Notebook
• The Best of Me
• The Longest Ride

I'm a sucker for a good romantic novel with some action. Nicholas Spark is one of the best writter's. Many of his books are hard to put down. I'm not a big reader but most books i read from nicholas sparks I finish. I would recommend a novel by Nicholas Sparks, you won't be dissappointed.