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The Hunt for the Seventh
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Prompt: If you were the author, how would this end?

          If I was the author, I would end this book with a big twist. The book is about a family that moves into a mansion because thier father gets a new job in that mansion. Jim, which is the son of the father that had the new job finds out about the 7 children that died there. He encounters with the 6 children that are now ghosts but they want him to find the 7th dead child that is missing. He gathers around clues in order to find this 7th dead child. Jim is  forced to find the 7th, or the 6 other dead children proposed to kill innocent people if the 7th child isn't found. Jim has a certain amount of time in order to find the 7th dead child before the other dead children start killing innocent people in the mansion.

          I haven't finished reading the book yet but I have a feeling that the book will end in good terms with everyone. If I was the author I would have a big twist at the end of the book to finish it off. I would have Jim go on a mission on his last attempt to find the 7th child or the other children will kill his entire family. As Jim goes on this mission to find the 7th child, he arrives in a huge maze in the middle of the night with only 2 hours left to find the dead child before the other dead children kill his family. Jim gets deeper and deeper into the maze without knowing a way out of the maze and he soon looses the way he entered the maze. He starts hearing a faded voice, and more footsteps as he walks deeper into the maze. He then sees a shadow hidden behind a bush and as he walks towards it, he is knocked out with a tree branch.

         When he wakes up, he sees that he is in the hospital laying down in a hospital bed surrounded
by his family. He is soon informed that he has been in a coma for the past 2 weeks for he has been terribly sick. He finds out that everything that had happened was all just a dream he has while he was in his coma but he has finally woken up from his coma. Jim is very surprised about all that happened and he doesn't even recall being sick or being taken to the hospital. Jim is also very relieved that it isn't his dream wasn't true because he was terrified of losing his family. After one week has passed of recovering in the hosipital, he is finally able to go home. After a couple weeks of settling down in his house and everything being normal, his dad gets a new job in an old mansion.

Life is Beautiful V. Night Blog

Some similarities that Life is Beautiful and the book Night have is that they are both based on the Holocuast. Another connection that can be made from both the movie and the reading is that they both had a scene in which their families were separated. In Night, when Elie and his family arrived at the concentration camp, his mother and sister were separated from him and his father. In Life is Beautiful, when Guido and his family arrived, he was with his son but he was separated from his beloved wife. Another similarity between the movie and the book would be how they both showed the hard work that the concentration camps made the Jewish prisoners do.  In Life is Beautiful, they showed the hard work that they had to do by showing Guido struggling with carrying a very heavy piece of metal. Guido kept complaining about how he was about to give up with all the work they had to do throughout the movie. Another example of this would be when they showed someone bleeding from his arm as if he had cut his arm. This also shows the hard and dangerous work that they had to do. In Night, they made Elie Wiesel and his father walk in dangerous conditions. This was the time that Elie's father felt like giving up and wanting to let himself die.

Some differences that Life is Beautiful and the book Night have would be thier begginings. In Life is Beautiful, the begging focuses on the romance between Dora and Guido. It then focuses on thier family and how they are living thier lives happily and peacefully. In the movie, there was this one scene in which Guido was taking his wife to work, and they took their bicycle along with Joshua and they looked very joyful and happy as they rode along the path to Dora's work place. Guido never stopped loving his family, as he was in the concentration camp, and he sacrificed himself to be able to save his wife and son. The beggining of the movie was very peaceful and happy, but then as they got to the concentration camp, the mood started to change a little. In the beggining of Night, they mostly focused on how much Elie Weisel was interested in his religion. It showed us how he wanted to take his religion seriously and learn a lot more about his religion. Then, as he arrived at the concentration camp, he started doubting God and didn't believe in him as much as he used to.

There is a big difference with the mood and tone in the movie Life is Beautiful and in the book Night. Night has more of a very serious, dark, and depressing mood, which is almost the opposite of the tone and mood of Life is Beuatiful. Throughout the movie, Life is Beautiful, you see a lot of moments and scenes of humor. Guido pretends to be happy and courageous in the concentration camp and puts on those little moments of humor for his son. There was only scenes of humor throughout the entire beggining of the movie. Night, on the other hand, gave you a very depressing mood throughout the entire book. Elie was always serious when he was in the concentration camps. He only talked about the horrible things that were happening to him and other people in the contraction camp. This of course would make the mood and tone through the book depressing. As we can see, there is a difference between the mood in the movie and the reading.

Life is shown as Beuatiful throughout the movie in many different scene of the movie. There are many elements in life that can make life beautiful, and most of these elements were shown throughout the move. The first element that shows Life is beautiful would be romance and love. Throughout the beggining, the movie focuses on how Guido was trying to get Dora to like him. There was many scenes in the beggining of the movie that showed the romance and chemistry between Guido and Dora. Another element that shows life is beautiful in the movie would be the humor and the joyfullness of life. Guido was always joyful and confident throughout the movie. He showed us how good life was to enjoy in the beggining of the movie with his family. A third emelement that shows how life is beautiful throughout the film would be family. In the movie, Guido shows how much he loves his family and how he would do anything to keep his family. In the concentration camp, Guido did anything possible to be able to keep his son and wife full or hope and happiness. The movie shows us how much Guido appreciates his life along with his wife and son.