Matthew's Blog

For my blog project, I read the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I did a fake book cover. I chose this fake book cover because I wanted to show what plane he was on and how it impacted his whole life. Later on in the book when he escaped the Japanese prison that he was held in. War completely changed the way he thought about war. Because he disobeyed the Japanese order, he was punished and had to be punched in the face from each prisoner in the camp. When he got back to America, he wanted to continue his passion for running but he knew that it would take a long time because he barely got fed in the camp. After a long time of recovery, he was able to run again

Star Wars Sonnet

Should Order 66 be the decree,
I think on thee, and soon have no regret.
Our passion turns the “thou” and “I” to “we,”
I could not gamble on a surer bet.
Love is a bounty we both hunt and pay,
Love, by the Force, doth work upon one’s heart,
Love is a bounty we both hunt and pay,
Love is the canvas, passion is the art.
On Tatooine we two shall soon be seen,
There meet the call of passion at our best.
Our ardor is uncommon—ne’er routine—
Me from thy side e’en Wookiees could not wrest.
Let rivals come, who chase me at the rear,
With thee, e’en space shall not too bleak appear.

-Matthew Chen

The book I chose is called Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. The conflict is man to man because from the text evidence page 54, “Ensei Tankado, it has to be him!” said the vice director. I used a fake newspaper report because the published date of the book is 1998. I assume that people would read newspaper rather than go online. We used the NSA as our suspect in our fake newspaper report because quoting from the text “Tankado, a talented cryptologist wanted the human rights act to be enforced so he threatened the NSA to expose the existence of the super computer. But the NSA didn’t like the idea so they framed him and he was disgraced and deported out of the country. The main character from the story is Susan Fletcher, David Becker, Ensei Tankado, and Commander Trevor Strathmore. Its hard to determine the protagonist of the story because Dan Brown used a second person perspective to tell the story and the setting changes every 2-3 paragraphs.