SSOJ Blogs

The manga series Death Note written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata attempts to answer the question: “What is justice?”. It features Light Yagami, a studious high school senior that stumbles upon the Death Note; a notebook that allows its user to kill anyone, provided they know their target’s name and face. The notebook comes from the supernatural Shinigami realm, which is where death gods, or Shinigami, reside. Each Shinigami has a copy of the Death Note, and the notebook that was dropped into the human realm belongs to the Shinigami named Ryuk. Ryuk is only visible to the wielder of the Death Note, which in this case is Light. The series starts with Ryuk bored of his dull life in the Shinigami realm where all everyone does all day is gamble. The same can be said about Light, who is depicted bored, staring out of his window at school, and thinking about how the world is a rotten mess. This scene is the first indication of Light’s sense of justice that he displays th...

 Review by: Jenna Purnell (Warning: this is a kind of complex plot in some ways, so I have to jump around a lot)             So B It is a book about a little girl named Heidi. Heidi is a sweet, curious, and smart 12 year old girl who lives in a small apartment in Nevada. All Heidi has in life is Mama, Bernadette, and amazing luck. Mama has a “bum brain”, she can’t care for Heidi and doesn’t know how to do much unless she’s been extensively taught over and over. Bernadette, her neighbor who basically raised her, has Agoraphobia or AP, which means she is too afraid to ever leave her house. As for her luck…When Heidi was very young, Bernadette realized that Heidi had the ability to do silly things like matching games and predicting which side a coin will land on with perfect accuracy. This is of use to them when they run low on money and Bernadette has to send Heidi down to the laundromat to play the slots for money for fo...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is pretty much what it sounds like, the author, Mark Twain, tells a story about a young boy who leaves home to adventure. The story starts when Huckleberry Finn is 13 years old and is living with a kind, religious widow because his father is a drunk and unfit to raise a child. When Huck obtains a significant amount of money, his father suddenly appears and demands the money. Although his father does not have much luck obtaining the money, he kidnaps Huck and brings him to a cabin near a river. Huck is trapped in the cabin and unable to leave, so he finds a way through a loose log in the cabin wall and sneaks out while his father is out drunk. Huck fakes his own death by leading a trail of animal blood to the river and finds a canoe to travel along the river.  The widow and other people Huckleberry Finn knew drove a ferryboat through the river looking for his body. Huck finds an island to hide on and builds a campfire. After a few days, Hu...