My reading inquiry was about how good role models are represented in books.  I read different books and one thing that I kept on seeing in the books was that good role models are not afraid to get their hands dirty.  there are also a lot of other things people can do to become good role modles.
       In the book Private Games the main character Knight is a police department agent in England.  There is a big scheme to kill all of the people that are running the Olympic games.  When some one is trying to kill a person that was right next to him, Knight jumped into the way of the car to save the other man.  Knight almost killed himself to save a person he doesn't even know.  In the book World War Z when the zombies are invading the city a few solders decided to help the citizens by fighting instead of fleeing.  Those are two completely different books.  One is a mystery book and one is a dystopian book but they both display the same theme.
       Many books have good role models over a variety of genres.  There are a lot of different ways can be good role models.  In Never Back Down the main character saves food and gives the food to other people while he is in the concentration camps.  He sacrificed his own food and gave it to other people.  He was being a very good person in his heart.  Also in the Mark of Athena Percy doesn't let go of Annebeth when she is falling into Tatarus, which will lead to almost certain death.  He is being a good person and decides that he will never let go of her.
        It doesnt matter what genre it is, it could be a dystopian, children, young adult, or a mystery book,  they all show that good role modles.  There are many ways to be a good role modles which are discribed in books.  All the books I read where differnt but they all had the same messages.

one thing that I noticed in the world was gun control.  on the news there is always things about some big shootings.  A movie theater shooting or a shot fired at a child.  many people are affected by shootings.  crazy people are allowed to have guns because somehow they pass the background check.

I saw on the news about a person in Brooklyn that said "me and my family count the days that we don't here a gun shot."  gun shots are so common in that area that when there isn't a gun shot people are surprised  to many gunshots are happening in one of the most important cities in the united states.  I also saw on the news about a crazy gun who was shooting at a navy base in DC.  In the city where the president is crazy people are running rampage with guns.

As you can see gun control is an issue in our nation and the world.  to many people have guns that are not mentally fit to wield them.  the United States should change the laws about gun control.  we should have more thorough background checks.

District 41 takes perks of being a wallflower out of school

      This article was about when district 41 took "perks of being a wallflower" out of schools.  this article was in the Chicago tribune.  A person in the article was Erica Nelson.  She thought that books like "Perks of Being a Wallflower" might be appropriate to some kids and not others.  She did not think it was right to ban the book because for only some of the people that have read the book, it might have been to inappropriate then when other people read it, it did not seem inappropriate.  The school is keeping books away from all children when only some the book is not appropriate for.  at the end of the article it said that because the students and parents did not want it banned the district is reevaluating the book and if it should be banned.

        One craft move that the author, Quan Trough made was that she used alot of quotes in her stories.  She usesd meanigful quotes that related to the problem at hand.  She used quote from members that banned the books and people that were agaist banned books.  The quotes helped the article by giving both sides of the argument.  The quotes also gave me a real idea of what the people were like with this ban.  There were thirteen quotes in the article and they were all meaningful.  

Kick by Walter Dean Myers

        One of the main themes in Kick by Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman is that you shouldn't always fight back.  Kevin, the main character is on a soccer team.  His soccer team is very good and is trying to become the best team in the state.  Kevin is an amazing soccer player with a hot head.  Kevin learns this theme first hand.  If someone does something mean to you or your friend(s), you should not always retaliate against them, because you might end up hurting yourself or your friends.
       
        When Kevin is playing a soccer match against a team in the state cup he gets really mad.  A kid on the opposing team is playing really dirty.  The player is tripping, punching and kicking Kevin's teammates and the referee is not calling any fouls.  Later in the game, Kevin gets fouled and is pushed to the muddy ground which puts him over the edge.  He is so furious that he acts out with rage and punches the other kid right in front of the referee.  Kevin gets ejected from the soccer game and suspended for the game after that.  His team gets very afraid because without Kevin they might lose the tournament.
       
      When Kevin fought back, all he did was hurt himself (got suspended) and his friends (might lose game without him).  The intent of his actions were on the right track but the result did not help.  He was sticking up for his teammates but he took it to far.  On the other hand, if you are getting beat up and no one is coming to your assistance, you should fight back in self-defense.  But if there is a teacher or referee, you should not retaliate against someone because you will get in trouble when they were the one that started it.

         In conclusion, when fighting back against someone that attacks you, you might just hurt yourself or your friends. The way to deal with this problem is to beat them on the field and not with your fists.

one of my favorite book of the summer is Ender's Game.  it is a sy-fy book and takes place in the future.  a little kid named Ender has been chosen to go to space to get trained to fight the buggers, which is another alien species.  The humans have already fought against the bugger two times before and the humans won both.  in the battle station, there is a game where there are two armies and and they fight each other with freeze guns.  Ender goes to the battle station and becomes one of the best soldiers in all of battle school.  He gets his own army at a very young age.   His army is made from a lot of the newbies in the school. You are supposed to fight your first battle nine months, he fight his in the first three months.  He absolutely destroy the people in the other army.  Your supposed to fight one battle a week but then he fight one battle a day. Then at the end of the week he fought two battles in one day.  they always win.  Ender finally graduates to command school, the highest ranked place in the army.  He starts playing the game there which is a game where you are a flight of ships and you fight against pretend buggers.  He becomes so good that he takes the final challenge.  Their are a billion ships waiting near a planet.  he blows up the plant which blows up all of the "buggers". Then he learned that it wasn't pretend and he actually killed millions of buggers. He becomes really sad at the end because he learned that the buggers were nice when every one in his childhood told him they were mean.