City of Thieves More Future Predictions

It turns out that I was right on my previous prediction. The giant, bearded man did not have any eggs to sell to Lev and Kolya. Instead, he and his wife tried to kill them! This quote describes that these strange people were actually cannibals, "Maybe for half a second I thought it was pig, maybe my brain tried to convince my eyes that they weren't looking at what they were looking at: a flayed thigh that could only be a woman's thigh, a child's rib cage, a severed arm with the hand's ring finger missing." At this point Lev and Kolya find out that this man and his wife lure people into their apartment, only to be killed and later eaten. With Lev's knife and Kolya's extreme fighting skills, they manage to escape these cannibals and go after their next rumor, a farmer with a giant chicken coop that produces lots of eggs. When they finally reach this place, they find the farmer dead, rotting in a corner, and his grandson sitting in the middle with only one chicken left under his coat. The boy trades the chicken for money and small rations of food and Lev and Kolya go seek warm shelter to try to keep the chicken alive.

I predict that this chicken will die before it lays all the eggs that they need, as the odds are against them. Another possibility is, what if this chicken is really a rooster and doesn't lay any eggs? I guess this could be good and bad because they wouldn't get any closer to their goal of 12 eggs, but they could eat it to give them some more energy to keep them going on their quest.

Krista Ramsey Introduction Activity

For this activity, I read Krista Ramsey's column called, "Locking into the Magic of Legos." This column is about how Legos benefit kids in many different ways. Just from building a new Lego set, kids learn many different things such as trial-and-error, good work ethnic, and they just get the space and silence they need without even realizing it. 

My favorite line in this text was, "Legos are things a child can never have enough of. Wise parents not only understand this, but support their child's Lego habit, sometimes to the tune of hundreds or thousands of dollars over the course of a childhood." This helps the reader picture just how much money can be spent on Legos in one childhood. It also lets them know that the parents are supporting their child with their Legos so the money is well spent. There is also a connection between the two sentences. The first sentence says that a child can never have enough Legos and the second sentence talks about how much money the parents will spend buying their children Legos. They would spend a lot of money on Legos because their child can never have enough of them so they keep buying more.

Ramsey's writing style is journalistic. A line to support this is, ""The Lego Movie" may be a surprise blockbuster hit with adults, but children need no reminder why they've loved this Danish-made toy line for more than 65 years."

Three questions I would ask Ramsey are:

• How do you get your ideas on what to write for your columns?
• What made you want to start writing these columns?
• What type of education did you have that made you want to go into writing?