Non-Fiction Reading Response

In the article "Obama Urges Speed on Immigration Plan, but Exposes Conflicts," the writer, Mark Landler, observes President Obama's actions and makes his own inferences. He shows what he thinks about Obama by using adjectives to describe his actions.

"President Obama challenged Congress on Tuesday to act swiftly to put 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States on a clear path to citizenship" (Landler 1). Here, Landler uses the word "challenged." Using that specific word in this context, the author is making Obama seem like he wants to give the immigrants of the US an easier way to become citizens of the US. Using that word in this context also makes congress seem like it doesn't want to give immigrants an easy time becoming citizens.

The author of the article also shows Obama's prudent, and caring side by stating that he also warned people about his plan: "Mr. Obama warned, however, that 'the closer we get, the more emotional this debate is going to become.' He said that if Congress did not move forward 'in a timely fashion' on its own legislation, he would send up a specific measure — something the White House has put off for now — and demand a vote." (Landler 1).

Reading Response

I’ve only read the first ten pages of Waiting For You, by Susane Colasanti, and I can sort of infer what's going to happen. Marisa is one of the main characters. She has just left camp and is going back to school. 

In the beginning the author talks about a love triangle that is going to happen. The situation the author is describing is that the girl falls in love with the popular guy and the geek falls in love with the girl. What the author is doing is that she adds problems and issues outside of the central problem to keep the reader from loosing interest. Marisa’s, the girl who falls in love with the popular guy, best friend wont stop falling for older guys and her family isn’t acting normal to her.

Nash is the geek of the story. The author describes a situation that most teenagers have been in. Nash asks Marisa for advice on love, but he wont tell her who is the girl he’s in love with, and then Marisa takes it as a hint and starts questioning his moves. 

Almost every teenager has been in that situation, either giving hints, taking hints, taking possible hints, or just thinking nothing and giving advice.