A Humbled Man.

Now for this chapter of Best in the World at What I Have No Idea by Chris Jericho (which is a froot book you can buy at a bookstore near you) I want told talk about the chapter "Humbled", it is about Chirs Jericho who had gotten drunk from drinking to much and was calling off everybody. Shawn Michaels (a veteran wrestler) was eating with his family and it was pretty late. Drunkicho (as said by himself) was swearing very loudly and was told be Hurricane Helms (that's like the third wrestler this blog) told him about his swearing, it says "'I'm not swearing that much! Besides, he shouldn't have his kids out this late anyway,' I bleated belligerently. Hurricane told me to keep my voice down and I said defensivly, 'I wasn't talking loudly.' But I was wrong, for Shawn and his family got up and left their table. I hoped I hadn't insulted them and yelled out, 'See you ou tomorrow, man!' He walked out the door without saying anything, but ten seconds later, he stormed back into the room, his eyes ablaze. 'You shut your damn mouth,' he warned me. 'Yeah, my family is up late and if you've got a problem with that, go to hell!'" He left as he glared at me and left the room." Now this quote had sent Jericho to a whole different level, he felt guilty for all he and kind of set him straight. He needed to apologize and fix his problems with Shawn Michaels. But when he was talking with Shawn, Shawn told him this, "'You need to start acting like a top guy if your ever going to be one. Staying up all night drinking and being an a**hole ... you're losing everyone's respect.' I expected him to tell me next that fat, drunk, and stupid was no way to go through life, and I was humbled because I knew he was right. There's a certain level of responsibility in being a top-level performer and certain line you can't cross if you want to be taken seriously as a locker room leader." I think it shows a lot of Jericho's humbleness (well now he was humbled). He wasn't acting like a locker room leader and was calling off guys and being disrespectful. And after chatting with Shawn Michaels, he realized it. He wasn't acting like a leader like he shoud have acting was acting like an a** in his Drunkicho stage. But Shawn showed him he was humbled from acting that way and that is why I like this chapter.

The Best Blogger in the World at What, Blogging of Course!

I have recently started reading the book The Best In The World At What I Have No Idea by Chris Jericho and I love it so much that I am almost done with it, I bought on the book on Friday (1/22)and started to read it, I checked the amount of pages there was and my eyes blew eye of my sockets and yanked back in. It was 400 pages! Now I am typically and slow reader, or so I though, as of today I am on page 335 which is a breakout for me, I guess I am really enjoying the book. Now I found it kind of hard to blog about it because it is Non-fiction and you are kind of limited to what you could write on it. I was thinking of talking about words of the wiser from a chapter, but I actually want to share my favorite chapter and what it means. My favorite chapter had to be "Santino Gump" this chapter had to be the top 5 funniest chapters of this book, in summary it is about a new wrestler who had joined the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) he had gotten a lot of heat (which isn't froot) and was kind of put down by the veterans of the company. I think the biggest part of the chapter is when he had a shoot with a fellow wrestler Bob Holly. What had happened is that Santino botched (messed up) one of the moves in his match. He had said he was the wrestler he ever faced which hurt Santino a lot. Santino had replied back to him, "Come on. Really? The worst? Are you sure? You must've worked with someone worse than me." It amused me that he wasn't trying to be rude and actually thought that he wasn't the worst possible opponent. He was confident enough to say he wasn't the worst It amused me ever more that Holly replied back, "'OK, you're not the worst ... but you are one of the worst!' Santino nodded his head, satisfied with the upgrade." Now even though this really amused me it shows that Santino was a very fortunate guy and sometimes wouldn't take no as a complete answer, but rather have it as a maybe. Jericho is able to describe how Santino acts and how he responds towards conflict which I like a lot.

The United Sta - I mean Kingdom

I would really love to visit the United States, I mean Kingdom so then I can know the difference between the two countries. But really I would love to visit the United Kingdom to see Big Ben, probably the biggest clock of all time. I don't really know if you can go inside but imagine being in there, sure all you'd see would be gears, who knows though. What if the clock is just made up of one thousand little clocks. That would be froot (I just made froot up like a champ)! If not the United Kingdom I would love to visit Denmark, not just because it is the number one rated place to visit, but because it has legoland! I wonder though if there is actually Lego built houses, you could like recontruct house anytime you want! Now that is froot!

The Comparison

I've found a lot of things different between Sorcerer of the North and Battle for Skandia in terms of the characters. In Battle for Skandia. In Battle for Skandia our main characters are Will and Evanlyn. Will, who is brave from his training as a ranger does unwise things in battle which can get him killed, he is saved by Horace a friend who learned a lot from him in terms of respect. Evanlyn who has to be the bravest of them all, risks her life as to being around the presence of Slagor who wants Princess Cassandra dead which is her true identity. Now we have new characters who help Will in his new assignment, the only character who remained is Halt who was Will's mentor for the first four books until his departure to be assigned the Araulen while Will takes over a village of the castles. The first is a dog, who I do not know what what her name will be, it is shown by, "Then, setting the bow aside, Will knelt beside the wounded dog lying in the grass" this is the first charcter that is introduced, the second is John Buttle who was the man who had injured the dog, he is greatly known for abusing animals as said here, "He's a herder by trade. But he does most things. Some say he does his real work at nights along the roads, looking for travelers who are about after dark. But no one's proved it. He's a might too handy with that spear of his for my liking. He's a good man to stay away from." and "If Buttle's the one who hurt that dog, he'll do well to stay away from me," both pieces of evidence showing his description and how he is more cold in terms of his liking and respect. He is brave like Horace and Evanlyn, but not in a good way.

Things That Are Confusing Me

In the fifth book of the series Ranger's Apprentice Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan I am pretty confused as to how it starts. It starts with, "In the north, he knew, the early winter gales, driving the rain before them, would send the crashing against the shore, causing white clouds of spray to burst high into the air." I have to say it starts off pleasantly, but one question, why is he in the north, you can't just change what the storyline is, this is a horrible attempt at showing us how his life is in the future. 'Cause in Battle for Skandia he is heading south, and where is Halt, or Evanlyn? Later it says, "Again, that was his training: to see without being seen; to notice without being noticed." "That was his training"? I thought he chose to be with Halt to train more. In the last book it showed Will saying, "'You do me great honor, your majesty. But my wish is to continue my training as an apprentice." What is Flanagan getting at, did he just not remind us that it's the possible future? I hate the fact that he couldn't explain that this is later in his life! Unexceptionable!

New Year, New Stuff I Guess

A lot of people have a "Resolution" for the New Year and end up failing at their goals by February, and to the people who end up fulfilling the goals, congratulations. Instead of making goals that I knew I can't complete by New Years' Eve 2016, then I will make areas where I should improve. Starting off with my grades, I know having a lot of 2's is okay to have now and really isn't bad, but I rather have more 3's in things that I am struggling with, so instead of saying I want to have 3's, I am going to say I am going to work harder to have more 3's and 4's. Also a lot of people choose a lot of goals to complete in one year, I don't want to overwhelm myself though, so I will just keep this my only goal right now.

The Character Development of Will and Evanlyn

After a long, nice and relaxed break I am ready to blog again. The blog will be the conclusion of "Ranger's Apprentice: The Battle for Skandia". Now what I've noticed with the character development is mainly Will and Evanlyn, also known as Princess Cassandra but I'll talk about that in a bit. Will and Evanlyn are a big storyline in this book since they have been captured by Skandians and later escape with their befriended Skandian, Erak. Though they made an escape there is still no support from Will since in the he was a victim of warm weed which had caused him to be ill and not be any help. Now though in the next book; Battle for Skandia, Will has gotten better and could actually help Evanlyn. Evanlyn fears as though he is still not recovered completely and should rest while she hunts for food. On one of her hunts she is captured by the Temujai invaders and is unable to return. Will not knowing where she is comes up with scenarios of what could have happened to her. The evidence to prove this is, "Deep down in the pit of his stomach, a vague uneasiness stirred as he wondered what could have become of his companion. He reviewed the possibilities." this show how he is thinking of many possibilities of what could have happened to her and how he has developed since the first book. In "The Ruins of Gorlan" Will is just a boy who has many questions and does not think much of what he could possibly do. Now he is more matured and understands how to handle situations thanks to the mentoring from Halt. Now Evanlyn's character development is astounding. From "Burning Bridge" she has developed to a brave princess fighting for her land, Araluen. Then in "Icebound Land" she becomes clever as well as brave having Will and herself escape from being slaves and nurse Will from his addiction. Now she has a huge role. Because the Skandians have realized that she is Princess Cassandra, the whole backstory behind this is that the Skandians have sworn to kill anyone of the Araluen kingdom family and Cassandra being the princess had to conceal her identity as Evanlyn, but after Skandians noticed her looks being familiar and a lady accidentally exposing by calling her "my lady" Cassandra realized that she might as well reveal her identity with all of their evidence to show it is her. An argument starts like this, "'I am King Duncan's daughter' she said with a slight emphasis on his title. 'Cassandra, Princess of Araluen.' 'Then you are my sworn enemy," Slagor said, spitting the words out. 'And I have that your should die.'" she is soon saved the Erak with these words, "Erak stepped forward. 'And I've sworn that she will be safe here, Oberjarl' he said. 'I gave my word when I ask the Ranger to help us.'" this shows how Cassandra was going to be killed by Erak saved here. This also shows how in front of a bunch of Skandians working for Slagor, she was still able to reveal her identity with ease and bravery. That is why I think Will and Evanlyn/Cassandra were the main developed people in this book.