Journal Three By Gene Creighton

Part 1: So far for me the reading is going pretty well. I am slowly but surely enjoying the reading. I am not a big book reader, never have been, but the stories in Holding On interest me and make me want to read. Honestly i like the book and that's saying something seeing how the only books I have enjoyed were The Hobbit, and The Great Gatsby due to the fact that they had movies made that i could watch after reading them. To me there are several different strengths the book possesses, one being the length of the stories. I for one do not like to read a long story because everything gets dragged out and i end up getting bored. But with the stories in Holding On they are straight to the point and really grab my attention. Another strength that the book possesses is what the stories are on. For the most part the stories cover people who stray from normal behavior, not all of them but most of them do and we as human beings find that to be interesting, we are attracted to things that are different and out of the norm, which i feel the stories do well with. As for the weaknesses, i am not sure. Honestly I have not found a weakness as of yet besides me personally wanting to know more about the people and how they are doing today.

Part 2: The theme I Selected for my story is  fear as protection. When me and my family had first moved into our new home in fair park I was about 10 and i had one heck of an imagination as most 10 year olds do. One day me and my best friend at the time Levi, were at my house and my mother left to go to the store, while she was gone we decided to go to the park right down the road. We stayed and played for a good 20-30 mins and then we returned to my house. When we arrived we walked to my front door and i was quickly alarmed at the fact that i had shut the door before we left the house and the door was now cracked open. Thinking about it now i probably left the door open thinking i had closed it or something like that but at the time i was scared because i thought someone was in my house. Me and my friend Levi were both hungry so we really wanted to go inside and get some food. we decided the best thing to do would be to grab some sticks and walk throughout the house to check everyone room for intruders. So that's what we did, we talked to ourselves like a swat team only we were 10 years old so not as professional. After we checked every room in the house, including closets etc, we got some food and relaxed. It was a pretty scary feeling at the time but now I look back and laugh at the situation.