Little Brother Kist

There were a lot of things that I liked about Little Brother.  The entire time I was reading the book, I felt a strong connection to Marcus.  I never wanted him to give up because he was giving birth to a movement that he believed in.  It pained me when he kept all of his secrets about being tortured by the DHS.  I wanted him to tell his family and the government so he would no longer be seen as the enemy.  When he finally broke down to his mother, it was a very climactic moment.  At that point in the story, I finally started to see some light at the end of the tunnel.  He was taking the right steps to accomplish his ultimate goal of freedom.
Another particular part of the story I enjoyed was Marcus's relationship with Ange.  The beginning of Little Brother focuses primarily on tracing the source of the terrorist attacks and Marcus setting up the Xnet.  While this part is essential to the plot,  their relationship was a breath of fresh air.  It portrayed Marcus's ability to still trust people after what happened to him.  This helps support the theme of working with others and networking to accomplish goals.  By reaching out to the people of his community he is able to succeed and overcome the DHS. 

mulit genre autobiography (Kist)

I have really been enjoying putting together my multi-genre autobiography.  It's really quite interesting look at all of the types of media that have affected my life in one way or another.  At my house on Friday's we have "homework parties" during the day, and putting my autobiography has become somewhat of a group project.  All of my friends have wanted to help, or have wanted to come up with their own.  Then after we work on it for a little bit, we like to look over each others and see what we have in common.  It also triggers a lot of earlier memories of when we were little kids.  I believe we had a twenty minute conversation the one day just based on Disney and Nickelodeon shows that we grew up on. 
For my presentation, I think I am going to keep it fairly basic.  I have chosen to put mine together using power point.  For me it worked best because of its organizational structure. It easily allows me to rearrange slides into the particular order that I want them to be.  I also do not mind speaking in front of people so I decided to just narrate the slide show as it plays.  I am actually looking forward to seeing all of the presentations.  I am excited to see what everyone else was influenced by.