https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr My understanding of A Monster Calls, looking through literary devices. en-us 2019-04-23 18:23:00 UTC 2019-05-06 14:23:42 UTC hello@padlet.com tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/353497940 I think the beginning of the story is going to be about a kid that is haunted by a nightmare of a monster that turns out to be real. I think the kid might eventually become friends with the monster or become one himself. I also think that the kid will go on a journey to investigate what has been haunting him.]]> 2019-04-23 18:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/353497940 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/353499589 Conor is a thirteen year old boy who has been having nightmares about a monster but hasn't told anyone about it yet. The monser turned out to be a yew tree that is near his house. Also, Conor's mom has cancer and is very sick so he just found out he has to live with his grandma who he doesn't like very much.]]> 2019-04-23 18:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/353499589 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/353955257 Conor had been having many nightmares lately about a monster when it turns out one night he sees him and talks to him. The monster is made out of a yew tree from his backyard and Conor keeps denying that it is truly or not. But this certain nightmare is different from other ones because he does not seem scared or afraid of it. Also, Conor's mom is really sick with cancer so his grandma came over to check up on them but Conor dislikes her very much. His grandma broke the news that he might have to go live with her permanently now.]]> 2019-04-25 00:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/353955257 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/354129430 Conor's life experiences impacted him because when  his mom got sick and got cancer, his best friend then was Lily and she found out. The next day, Lily told a couple of her friends at school and then her friends told their friends and it just continued on like that till the whole school found out. Even the teachers knew about it, so they try to help him out but he won't accept anyone's help not even Lily's. Also, since he dislikes his grandma so much, he thought the story that the monster had been telling him was about him needing to be nicer to his grandma but it wasn't]]> 2019-04-25 14:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/354129430 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/354225465 I think the monster is going to help him by telling him the second story and getting Conor away from the trouble he had started. I also believe that the story the monster will tell him, will help him with all of his anxiety and what his family has been through. I think this because Conor had been through so much and the monster was the only one that Conor told things to.]]> 2019-04-25 18:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/354225465 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/354474225 I think the grandma destroyed the last piece of furniture because she was just so angry and mad at what Conor had done that she decided to take it out on that instead of him. I also believe that on the inside she was shocked and that what Conor did had not registered with her yet. I think that Conor was also not expecting her to act that way so he was also in shock of what he did and what his grandma's reaction was.]]> 2019-04-26 14:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/354474225 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/355149817 The third tale is about an invisible man who no one sees and I think it compares to Conor and about what Harry had done to Conor, treating him like he's invisible. The monster told Conor that he made the peers of the invisiible man see him and that is what happened with Conor. The monster fought Harry so Harry and everyone else would notice Conor. But the monster was only seen by Conor, so Conor was the only one that would be responsible for beating Harry up. Now Conor was seen by everyone and everyone payed attention to him. Conor remembered that the monster had said there are worst things than being invisible and he was right, that was what this was.]]> 2019-04-29 18:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/355149817 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/355439870 Each tale embodies Conor's experience because in the first tale it talks about how the prince had fallen in love with the farmers daughter but at night when they were asleep, the prince killed the farmers daughter. He then blamed it on the Queen. This compares to Conor because the lesson of the story is to show how the Queen is not a bad guy, nor a good guy. This is what the grandma is. In the second tale, the parson was only nice to the apothecary when he actually needed help. This compares to Conor because Conor only depends on the monster when he needs help and the monster won't help him. The third tale is how Conor and the monster beat up Harry after he sees Conor as invisible. This is in Conor's real life.]]> 2019-04-30 14:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/355439870 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/355935894 One part of the movie that is not meeting my expectation was how the monster showed the tales through description and through representation. I pictured the first tale looking more realistic than cartoon like. I pictured the Queen looking different also. I imagined her in a white dress with gold crown like a usual queen but this queen was dressed in all black. The similar part to what I thought was how the prince had killed the farmers' daughter.]]> 2019-05-01 18:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/355935894 tothjul000 https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/356357296 I would revise the character Lily to have speaking parts and have an actual role to help out Conor instead of Lily just being a character to just be in the background of a scene. I would also change her to stand up to the Harry the bully. I want this because I feel like in the book she had an important role. Since she wasn't really involved in the movie, I wished she could've had a bigger part in Conor's life. I also wish she could've been by Conor's side through his difficulties.]]> 2019-05-02 18:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tothjul000/vnnprqovnzzr/wish/356357296