And the dictionary does it again!

If you don’t know why the image is of a spider, I’m going to tell you why. I’m doing a review of the movie and book called Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams. I read the book and watched the movie in my classroom and I thought the book was better (of course).

Book Review

I have to say the drawings were really detailed so make way for illustrator Garth Williams. There was this one picture where a farmer named Lurvy was trying to tackle a pig who got out of his pen and accidentally tacked his cocker spaniel and the pig goes through Lurvy’s legs.

One of the things I like about E. B. White is that he uses a lot of good vocabulary. My teacher had us write new and interesting words on a post-it in the front of the book. One day I went home and my brother was eating all of my food and I said, “Stop being a glutton.” And my mom was really surprised that I used that word. She said, “Where did you learn that word?” My response: “Charlotte’s Web.” These vocabulary words below were from Charlotte’s Web just so you know why perspiration is there.

glut·ton

1.  one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking
2. one that has a great capacity for accepting or enduring something <a glutton for punishment>

per·spi·ra·tion

1.  the action or process of perspiring
2. a saline fluid secreted by the sweat glands: sweat

SPOILER ALERT

If you want to read this book stop reading NOW!!

Charlotte has a really clever plan to save Wilbur, the pig. Chalotte is saving Wilbur from getting killed and eaten at Christmas time. One day in school my teacher asked us to write in our journal about if you could save Wilbur how? A lot of people wanted to get him out of his pen, including me. But Charlotte’s plan involved him not getting out of his pen and into the world because Wilbur doesn’t want to go out of his pen. I am going to tell Charlotte’s plan in steps.

1. Charlotte spins the following words in her web: SOME PIG, TERRIFIC, RADIANT, HUMBLE
2. Mr. Zuckerman, Wilbur’s owner, will think that Wilbur is some pig, terrific, etc.
3. Mr. Zuckerman will then take Wilbur to the county fair and win prize money and an award.
4. When it is Christmas time Wilbur will not get killed because he won prize money for Mr. Zuckerman.

I don’t want to tell you too much information in case you are reading the book. But I would recommend you reading this book.

Movie Review

Let me just tell you…I have a lot of differences from the movie and the book and I don’t want to have to list them all because parental controls are going to shut down my computer in ten minutes so I don’t have a lot of time. To make a long story short you can totally tell Charlotte the spider was animated. My mom just said I have to explain but I only have nine more minutes to explain.

On another note, they left out Chapter Three, Escape, in the movie. I only have eight more minutes left so I’m going to save my post now. This is Robo signing off.

Oh, I have one more thing, these are references from where I got the definitions and the picture:

Definitions come from Merriam-Webster dictionary: http://www.merriam-webster.com/

photo credit: Aleš Smrdel via photopin.com

 

Movie Review: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

 I’ve been reading a series called Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan. I’m really liking the books. The book I’m current reading is called The Battle of the Labyrinth.

I just saw the movie called Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief last night but it was horrible because they skipped so many good parts. There were too many bad parts on my list that I couldn’t fit all of them in this post so here are the basics:

1. We didn’t see Ares, God of War.
2. They don’t fight the hydra until book two but in the movie Grover beat the hydra with the Medusa head in Nashville. It created one heck of a statue!
3. Luke isn’t revealed as a bad person until book two but in the movie he revealed himself as a servant of Kronos the Titan Lord.
4. In the book, Percy, Annabeth and Grover don’t look for the pearls to help them get out of the underworld. Instead, Poseidon gives Percy the pearls.
5. They don’t see Hades, the God of the Dead, until they get to the underworld. That was a big mistake by the movie makers. In the movie he just popped out of the fire in Camp Half-Blood.
6. They don’t go to the Lotus Casino on purpose in the book.
7. We don’t get to see Cerberus, the three-headed dog, in the movie.
8. The Medusa head was supposed to be in a meat loaf surprise to turn Gabe Ugliano into a statue. Instead, they put it in a refrigerator with a lock and a note that said, “Do not open this refrigerator under any circumstances.

There were only two things that I like about the movie:

1. I liked the scene where Percy, Annabeth and Grover were traveling in the underworld to see Hades. I liked it because there was a bunch of garbage floating in the air beside them as they were riding in the boat to Hades’ castle.
2. I liked Grover’s actor. I like him because the actor really acted like I expected him in the book to.

As you can tell, the movie makers got the whole plot of the story all wrong. I’ll bet that the author of these books gets so mad when he watches the movie because they skipped a bunch of parts. So for future reference do not watch this movie. I give this movie 0 out of 5 stars.

Picture of Poseidon by http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/