The book of “Killing Mr. Griffin” showed great potential for being a fantastic book! The first chapter showed great promise with very much description to start off the start of the book. “In the distance the rugged Sandia Mountains rose in faint outline, almost obscured by the pinkish haze.” The only problem for me was I was having trouble figuring out who the narrator of the story was at times. It started out as Sue narrating but all of sudden it seemed to switch narrators throwing me off the story line until I read it over. What I really liked about the first chapter, was how it almost seemed like Sue’s brain was actually telling the story because her problems seemed as real as they could get for a teenage girl. All these points really made a terrific beginning for the book to really make me want to keep reading. The second chapter followed the first chapter with excitement, adventure, and the thought of are they actually serious!? In the second chapter once again I found it difficult figuring out who the narrator was so once again I had to go back and read it again to figure it out. The best thing about this chapter was how it portrayed the actually plan they were going to pull on Mr. Griffin. It was very detailed.”Will what are we doing,” said Betsy. Then Mark say” We kidnap him. I have a cabin in the mountains will take him there and make him crawl. Show him what it’s like to be the underdog.” That really paints you a picture to imagine what’s going to happen later in the book. Plus the thought of kidnapping there teacher is pretty funny and not a bad idea. ;) The third chapter was nothing special. It seemed like the author was just trying to spread out the book to add some more pages to the book. The good thing it did this chapter was its description of the character and his difficult that was touching and could actually be happening in people’s life no. The last chapter to me was the best. The excitement of the underdog girl going on a date with one of the hot guys really is predictable in any book but is always a classic move in any book. It warms your heart seeing Sue having a good time finally catching her break as a teenager. Then all of sudden a twist is thrown in the book, they start to tell sue about their plan and how they want her to join them. That part almost made me feel like it was me not Sue having to make the decision to join them and maybe have a chance of staying popular or saying no and going back to her old life coming to school and trying fake smile through all of the class. The first four chapters have showed great promise for this book and I can’t wait to read the rest. So far this book is setting it up for an explosive ending! `
Well Cheetah Boy I think what you have done has been a very well rounded development of what you think is going to happen and that you think is foreshadowing that it is going to be an explosive ending.
Do you think that Sue being popular is more important to her than her morals and values? It always amazes me how the authors always take a characters troubled home or family life and make that a valid reason for them being the "villain" in a story.... What do you think?
Cheetah Boy, I also have problems figuring out who the narrator is. When it switches back and forth it's hard to keep up with who is talking. I also agree with your foreshadowing, I believe that the ending is going to be explosive and it is going to have a surprising ending.
I think that Sue being popular is more important to her than her morals and values because every teenage girl wants to be with the popular ones and wants to be with the good looking guy. I think that Sue is going to help out with their plan just so she can stay in the popular crowd.
I don't agree with you garfield because Sue' has always been at the bottom of the popularity pyramid and she couldn't do anything to make her popular until now. She finally has a chance to become one of the popular kids, and right now I'm thinking her moral and values can take a back seat for a while. Plus she also has a chance at love because the boy she likes asked her out in a way. So now i know for sure her moral and values can take a backseat for a while.
Well Cheetah Boy the only reason she got asked out was because they needed her to help out in the plan. I know she wants to be one of the popular kids now but will they except her enough to let her be apart of their crowd.
In these chapters you find out that Mr.Griffin has a circulatory problem. The muscles around his heart tighten up and Mr.Griffin has to take some pills. I think this is how he died. He couldn't get to his pills because he was died up. Mrs.Griffin reports to the police that her husband is missing. They tell her that he might have just runaway but she won't believe that. Sue gets called down to the office to talk to the police. She was the last one that they know of who would have seen him. She tells them that she last seen him in a car with another women. The kids that kidnapped Mr.Griffin then come up with a plan. They go to where they left Mr.Griffin and they bury him. They take his car and leave it at the airport to make it look like he actually did run away. I think that they will get away with this and no one will suspect what they did.
I do agree with you when you say that you think that he died because of his heart condition, but I don't agree with you when you said you think that they will get away with the kidnapping. I think that because I think that one of the members in the group, most likely Sue, will not be able to take the mental image of seeing their teacher lying there, dead. I believe that one of them is going to crack and will turn their group in.
I also agree with you Teagan. The reason he dies most have been because of the pills he couldn't get. What we must remember though is all the kids actually think they killed him and i know only maybe two of them are going to be able to cope with the thought of them killing him. So people like Sue and maybe David will end up telling someone and all of them will get busted. I also think that when they go back to bury Mr. griffin he will be gone but i don't know the reason why?
Do you think that if they get caught they should all get charged for Murder 1? I think that the guilt would eat all of them. I do not know how people can kill someone, not get caught, and live their life like nothing happened. You must be some kind of really psycho!!
I know exactly what you mean for people who kill and can actually live their life with the guilt of taking a person's life is truly crazy. You might have to think though did their teacher have it coming by being to strict? These kids are different though maybe they will hold out because maybe all the opportunities of their future aren't worth giving up over the deep dark secret of killing Mr. Griffin
NO human deserves to be killed!!! I mean minus other murderers, pedophiles, rapists, or abusers.... they deserve to have the death penalty. But, being to strict.... hmmmm not sure that deserves death!!
Will no he maybe doesn't deserve to die!! but in the real life if a teacher is so bad or unliked by a group of students they should get fired or at least warned... so if a teacher is so unliked that a group of students wants to pretend to kidnap you to teach you a lesson you should at least be fired so kids won't do this and put your life in danger!!
Interesting commentary! I think throughout life you will run into many people that you may personally not "click" with, but fired??? I do personally think that no one cares what you know, until they know that you care...but that said....I do think you will be faced with many people throughout your life that like or not, we do need to learn to be respectful, professional and willing to listen.
In these chapters they found Mr. Griffin and the Grandmother found the ring so she thought it was her son's ring. They said the only way that they would be able to do this like get out of trouble is to give Mr. Griffin's car and then hide it on a reserve. The chapter ends with foreshadowing that something is going to happen. With showing that the grandmother had seen someone. I thing I predict that the ending is going to be big so hold on tight and wait for the ending I still think that there is some evil left in this book to come out.
In the last four chapters of Killing Mr. Griffin, the plan was starting to unfold. The kids were trying to cover everything up by painting the car, cutting up the credit cards and trying to get rid of the collage ring. At the end, Susan is feeling guilty and decides that she wants to turn them all in for kidnapping Mr. Griffin. She thinks that turning them in would be for the best so Mrs. Griffin wouldn't have to worry anymore with a baby on the way. I agree with what she was doing. Sue was thinking about people other than herself and she was willing to take consequences for her actions. When Jeff and Betsy showed up to Sue's house, they wanted Sue to call David. So when she did she found out that David's Grandma had died. She also found out that one of their neighbors saw someone in the bedroom in the afternoon with David's Grandma. Instantly Sue remembered that Mark always wore a Brown sweater. Right after she came up with the solution that Mark had killed David's Grandma, Mark showed up at Sue's house. That is when she told them that she was going to turn them all in to the police. Mark was not impressed. Mark went to the window and tied Sue up. Marked opened the window and let the breeze in witch made the fire place flam higher and set the house on fire. Mark left Sue tied up and was about to leave. But right then, Mrs. Griffin showed up. She ran inside and grabbed Sue. When Kathy got to the house, she saw her husbands car. And she put the pieces together. Afterwords we found out that Mark is a psychopath. He was going to be put on a different stander at court then the others because he also Killed David's Grandma and tried to kill Sue. At the end, Sue read somethting that Mr. Griffin left for her. The author end by saying, "If she had been the Susan of two weeks before, she would have wept, but this new Susan had cried herself dry of tears." I think he said that because through the book we see Sue grow as a person. She became strong and she learned that she had to face her consequences and tell the truth. I feel that the Book, Killing Mr. Griffin, was written well. It had a great story line and the intensity was outstanding.
Bailey, I agree with your thought that there was foreshadowing in the end of your section. You could tell that something was going to happen that involves David's Grandmother. At the end of your section it was really intense. It kept leaving us hanging on what was going to happen next. The foreshadowing really makes us think and also leads up to an explosive ending.
I agree with you Bailey. The book is going to have a big surprising ending that no one sees coming. I change my mind about them getting away with it. Sue won't be able to live with herself knowing that they killed Mr.Griffin even if it was an accident. She is going to end up turning them in!
I agree with you Cowgirl. The book was well written and intense at times. I was suprised at the end how Mark tried to kill Sue and how we killed David's grandmother. I did not see that coming!
Well cowgirl I did not see this ending coming I didn't think that mark was going to be a phycopath and I really did not think that he was going to kill so many people.
The book of “Killing Mr. Griffin” showed great potential for being a fantastic book! The first chapter showed great promise with very much description to start off the start of the book. “In the distance the rugged Sandia Mountains rose in faint outline, almost obscured by the pinkish haze.” The only problem for me was I was having trouble figuring out who the narrator of the story was at times. It started out as Sue narrating but all of sudden it seemed to switch narrators throwing me off the story line until I read it over. What I really liked about the first chapter, was how it almost seemed like Sue’s brain was actually telling the story because her problems seemed as real as they could get for a teenage girl. All these points really made a terrific beginning for the book to really make me want to keep reading.
ReplyDeleteThe second chapter followed the first chapter with excitement, adventure, and the thought of are they actually serious!? In the second chapter once again I found it difficult figuring out who the narrator was so once again I had to go back and read it again to figure it out. The best thing about this chapter was how it portrayed the actually plan they were going to pull on Mr. Griffin. It was very detailed.”Will what are we doing,” said Betsy. Then Mark say” We kidnap him. I have a cabin in the mountains will take him there and make him crawl. Show him what it’s like to be the underdog.” That really paints you a picture to imagine what’s going to happen later in the book. Plus the thought of kidnapping there teacher is pretty funny and not a bad idea. ;)
The third chapter was nothing special. It seemed like the author was just trying to spread out the book to add some more pages to the book. The good thing it did this chapter was its description of the character and his difficult that was touching and could actually be happening in people’s life no.
The last chapter to me was the best. The excitement of the underdog girl going on a date with one of the hot guys really is predictable in any book but is always a classic move in any book. It warms your heart seeing Sue having a good time finally catching her break as a teenager. Then all of sudden a twist is thrown in the book, they start to tell sue about their plan and how they want her to join them. That part almost made me feel like it was me not Sue having to make the decision to join them and maybe have a chance of staying popular or saying no and going back to her old life coming to school and trying fake smile through all of the class.
The first four chapters have showed great promise for this book and I can’t wait to read the rest. So far this book is setting it up for an explosive ending! `
Well Cheetah Boy I think what you have done has been a very well rounded development of what you think is going to happen and that you think is foreshadowing that it is going to be an explosive ending.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that Sue being popular is more important to her than her morals and values? It always amazes me how the authors always take a characters troubled home or family life and make that a valid reason for them being the "villain" in a story.... What do you think?
ReplyDeleteCheetah Boy, I also have problems figuring out who the narrator is. When it switches back and forth it's hard to keep up with who is talking. I also agree with your foreshadowing, I believe that the ending is going to be explosive and it is going to have a surprising ending.
ReplyDeleteI think that Sue being popular is more important to her than her morals and values because every teenage girl wants to be with the popular ones and wants to be with the good looking guy. I think that Sue is going to help out with their plan just so she can stay in the popular crowd.
I think that once they are done with Mr.Griffin, Sue will go back to who she was before. She will no longer be apart of the "popular crowd".
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with you garfield because Sue' has always been at the bottom of the popularity pyramid and she couldn't do anything to make her popular until now. She finally has a chance to become one of the popular kids, and right now I'm thinking her moral and values can take a back seat for a while. Plus she also has a chance at love because the boy she likes asked her out in a way. So now i know for sure her moral and values can take a backseat for a while.
ReplyDeleteWell Cheetah Boy the only reason she got asked out was because they needed her to help out in the plan. I know she wants to be one of the popular kids now but will they except her enough to let her be apart of their crowd.
ReplyDeleteIn these chapters you find out that Mr.Griffin has a circulatory problem. The muscles around his heart tighten up and Mr.Griffin has to take some pills. I think this is how he died. He couldn't get to his pills because he was died up. Mrs.Griffin reports to the police that her husband is missing. They tell her that he might have just runaway but she won't believe that. Sue gets called down to the office to talk to the police. She was the last one that they know of who would have seen him. She tells them that she last seen him in a car with another women. The kids that kidnapped Mr.Griffin then come up with a plan. They go to where they left Mr.Griffin and they bury him. They take his car and leave it at the airport to make it look like he actually did run away. I think that they will get away with this and no one will suspect what they did.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you when you say that you think that he died because of his heart condition, but I don't agree with you when you said you think that they will get away with the kidnapping. I think that because I think that one of the members in the group, most likely Sue, will not be able to take the mental image of seeing their teacher lying there, dead. I believe that one of them is going to crack and will turn their group in.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you Teagan. The reason he dies most have been because of the pills he couldn't get. What we must remember though is all the kids actually think they killed him and i know only maybe two of them are going to be able to cope with the thought of them killing him. So people like Sue and maybe David will end up telling someone and all of them will get busted. I also think that when they go back to bury Mr. griffin he will be gone but i don't know the reason why?
ReplyDeleteDo you think that if they get caught they should all get charged for Murder 1? I think that the guilt would eat all of them. I do not know how people can kill someone, not get caught, and live their life like nothing happened. You must be some kind of really psycho!!
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean for people who kill and can actually live their life with the guilt of taking a person's life is truly crazy. You might have to think though did their teacher have it coming by being to strict? These kids are different though maybe they will hold out because maybe all the opportunities of their future aren't worth giving up over the deep dark secret of killing Mr. Griffin
ReplyDeleteNO human deserves to be killed!!! I mean minus other murderers, pedophiles, rapists, or abusers.... they deserve to have the death penalty. But, being to strict.... hmmmm not sure that deserves death!!
ReplyDeleteWill no he maybe doesn't deserve to die!! but in the real life if a teacher is so bad or unliked by a group of students they should get fired or at least warned... so if a teacher is so unliked that a group of students wants to pretend to kidnap you to teach you a lesson you should at least be fired so kids won't do this and put your life in danger!!
ReplyDeleteInteresting commentary! I think throughout life you will run into many people that you may personally not "click" with, but fired??? I do personally think that no one cares what you know, until they know that you care...but that said....I do think you will be faced with many people throughout your life that like or not, we do need to learn to be respectful, professional and willing to listen.
ReplyDeleteIn these chapters they found Mr. Griffin and the Grandmother found the ring so she thought it was her son's ring. They said the only way that they would be able to do this like get out of trouble is to give Mr. Griffin's car and then hide it on a reserve. The chapter ends with foreshadowing that something is going to happen. With showing that the grandmother had seen someone. I thing I predict that the ending is going to be big so hold on tight and wait for the ending I still think that there is some evil left in this book to come out.
ReplyDeleteIn the last four chapters of Killing Mr. Griffin, the plan was starting to unfold. The kids were trying to cover everything up by painting the car, cutting up the credit cards and trying to get rid of the collage ring. At the end, Susan is feeling guilty and decides that she wants to turn them all in for kidnapping Mr. Griffin. She thinks that turning them in would be for the best so Mrs. Griffin wouldn't have to worry anymore with a baby on the way. I agree with what she was doing. Sue was thinking about people other than herself and she was willing to take consequences for her actions. When Jeff and Betsy showed up to Sue's house, they wanted Sue to call David. So when she did she found out that David's Grandma had died. She also found out that one of their neighbors saw someone in the bedroom in the afternoon with David's Grandma. Instantly Sue remembered that Mark always wore a Brown sweater. Right after she came up with the solution that Mark had killed David's Grandma, Mark showed up at Sue's house. That is when she told them that she was going to turn them all in to the police. Mark was not impressed. Mark went to the window and tied Sue up. Marked opened the window and let the breeze in witch made the fire place flam higher and set the house on fire. Mark left Sue tied up and was about to leave. But right then, Mrs. Griffin showed up. She ran inside and grabbed Sue. When Kathy got to the house, she saw her husbands car. And she put the pieces together. Afterwords we found out that Mark is a psychopath. He was going to be put on a different stander at court then the others because he also Killed David's Grandma and tried to kill Sue. At the end, Sue read somethting that Mr. Griffin left for her. The author end by saying, "If she had been the Susan of two weeks before, she would have wept, but this new Susan had cried herself dry of tears." I think he said that because through the book we see Sue grow as a person. She became strong and she learned that she had to face her consequences and tell the truth.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the Book, Killing Mr. Griffin, was written well. It had a great story line and the intensity was outstanding.
Bailey, I agree with your thought that there was foreshadowing in the end of your section. You could tell that something was going to happen that involves David's Grandmother. At the end of your section it was really intense. It kept leaving us hanging on what was going to happen next. The foreshadowing really makes us think and also leads up to an explosive ending.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Bailey. The book is going to have a big surprising ending that no one sees coming. I change my mind about them getting away with it. Sue won't be able to live with herself knowing that they killed Mr.Griffin even if it was an accident. She is going to end up turning them in!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Cowgirl. The book was well written and intense at times. I was suprised at the end how Mark tried to kill Sue and how we killed David's grandmother. I did not see that coming!
ReplyDeleteWell cowgirl I did not see this ending coming I didn't think that mark was going to be a phycopath and I really did not think that he was going to kill so many people.
ReplyDeleteCowgirl I agree with you that we defenetly saw a changed Sue at the end of this chapter
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