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=How Angel Peterson Got His Name= toc

Wiki Post 3:
Why do you think memoir is important for us to read? What does memoir offer us as readers and human beings?

Memoir gives us as readers the chance to learn from other peoples experiences. It is important to learn about other peoples experiences because if they make mistakes you can learn from them and not do them. It is also important to read memoirs because you can learn many things about the subject that the author is writing about, you can learn how they accomplished what they did and you can also learn what obstacles they came into during their experience. It is very import to learn about other people experiences by reading memoirs. -Eric C. 7A I think memoir is important to read because we can learn about the good and bad things from other people life. For example, if I had not read __How Angel Peterson Got His Name__, I would never have known how stupid some people could have been. Memoir teaches you a lesson that will be with you for the rest of your life. Memoirs have a lot to offer, and they are great books to read. - Josh E. 7A

Wiki Post 2:
//List your responses here...// The thing that suprised me most in this book is ow incredable dumb people can get. I don't think this book has a morel for every story but the whole book tells you to think about what you are about to do before you do it. What ultimatly told me this is just the plain fact that most of these stunts turned out bad. Barak Z. 7C

The thing that surprised me the most in this book is when Angel trys to break the speed record on skis and his thumb on the glove gets tied and it looks like he wants to go faster, but he really doesnt. This surprises me beacause when he landed he was really scared and i thought he would try to break the record no matter what the cost. -Eric C. 7A

The thing that surprised me is what Orvis Orvisen did. Orvis ran into a brick wall, because he thought Archie was going to hurt him. Orvis had a concussion, and had to go to the hospital. This made me laugh so much, because it reminded me of one of my friends. I can’t believe he did that. –Josh E. 7A

Wiki Post 1: Conflict
April 16, 2008 You are deffinatly right but I think another conflict is when Carl Peterson in being driven behind the car on skis and his thumb gets stuck in an upwards position which ment faster. I think this is a point in Carls life where he learns anything can hurt and it isn't smart to do things like that. Carl can't really solve this problem in the book but it is defiantly going to learn a thing or two from this experience. -Barak Z.7C

One of the conflicts is when Gary and Orvis cant seem to get the courage to talk to girls, and when Gary learns that a girl named Eileen seems to like him he doesnt know what to do. This is a big impact on Gary's life because he starts to need to be able to talk to girls and he cant. Gary solves this problem by asking one of his friends, to ask one of his friends who is a girl, who asks Eileen if she wants to go to the movies with Gary. When they go to the movies the date is terrible, but Gary is just happy that he sat next to and talked to a girl. -Eric C. 7A

Those are great conflicts, but I have a different one. Gary was explaining all the different kinds of names, cool and not cool. If your name was Nick people would think you were cool. But on the other hand, if your name was Orvis Orvisen you would be made fun of. Gary’s friend Orvis always got made fun of, and was sometimes beat up because of his name. That next year Orvis got very strong, and got revenge on all of the people that made fun of him. This was a very big conflict for Orvis. –Josh E. 7A

April 4, 2008

My general reaction towards this book is that it is a weird combination of extreme sports and a bunch of friends having many different adventures.-Josh and Eric