Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The Book of Ivy

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Book One: The Book of Ivy
Book Two: The Revolution of Ivy



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55 comments:

  1. Sammie Herr
    Mrs. Scheller HR04

    In The Book of Ivy, the setting of post apocalypse and Utopian society changed Ivy's perspective because she doesn't agree with most of the laws. The main law she doesn't agree with is the prisoners being sent out, and this affects the setting because the society is limited on supplies they need a way to get rid of people. Although not all of the prisoners are criminals, some only caring for the health of their families were completely innocent, which is exactly why Ivy does not agree with President Lattimer's rules. She's already knows how it feels to lose a major role in her family and it makes her angry how the prisoners are just sentenced to death when they get sent out of the civilization. Another big rule she doesn't agree with is the annual marriages. Ivy feels that it is taking away a person's choice and that women are just put out to increase the population, because of all these rules the President made, Ivy's actions are more rebellious. My reaction if I was in their society would be very similar to what Ivy and her family were thinking because I feel that it just isn't right as a human being to take orders like that.

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    1. Connor A.
      Mrs. Scheller 7th Hour
      The setting of this book is a small town called westfall, this book takes place sometime in the future. This sort of setting affects Ivy because she is isolated from the outside world (If there is one).

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  2. Melanie S.
    Mrs. Scheller HR5

    In The Book Of Ivy the setting that’s taken place is in an Utopian society during an apocalypse that happened after a war, in Ivy’s point of view she doesn’t approve most of the laws President Lattimer’s has and makes. She believes along with her father and sister that people should be able to make their own decisions, not having someone else make them for the people. Her actions are very rebellious during this time. My reaction to this this kind of society would be just like Ivy and her families thoughts, they want what’s best for the people in this society its nit fair that every decision gets taken away from them without a second thought about what they wanted.

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    1. Sammie H
      Scheller 4th Hour

      I don't agree with your reaction because her family wasn't trusted at certain parts of the book. She was lied to and betrayed and although her father and Callie apologized, they still lied about what happened to her mother. Living through all those years and making plans to kill the president is just wasting away, President Lattimer might be doing what's best when you think about it.

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    2. Connor Armstead
      Scheller 7th Hour
      As true as what you are saying is, she still agrees with her family. If she didn't, she wouldn't of had made the choice she did near the end. Even though they lied, and she doesn't trust them as much as she used to, she still agrees that things need to change.

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  3. The Setting affects Ivy because she does not want a forced marriage like everyone else and doesn’t want to marry someone she doesn’t get to know. She feels nervous inside because she is meeting a new person she is spending the rest of her life with and does not know what to think of him. She thinks to get out of all of this that she would have to kill her new husband so she does not have to have all those feelings of uncertainty. My reaction would be that I would be mad because I too would not want to marry a person I just met and I would stop the marriage completely.
    Rachel B 4thhr

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    1. Sammie H
      Scheller 4th Hour

      I agree with your reaction to getting married to someone that I don't know. I wouldn't have any bonding time to spend with the person I'm going to be with. I think in relationships they are based on trust, marrying someone I just met would take me a while to warm up to the idea, just like Ivy is dealing with Bishop.

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  4. Gato genial
    Loved this book. Showed that arranged marriages can be a set up for abuse but can also end in a loving relationship. The truth behind it all wonderful

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    1. Melanie S
      Scheller 4H

      I agree with you about this book, yes arranged marriages can lead to abuse or happiness but it’s all based on what type of person they are. But I totally agree arranged marriages can go either way.

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  5. Sammie H
    Scheller 3rd hour

    In The Book of Ivy, one of the main characters Bishop Lattimer is calm, dependent, and rebellious. Around his mother and father, he is usually quiet but he does have his opinions. In violent situations he is calm and collected. He regrets a lot of his past decisions and makes sure to look out for Ivy no matter what. Lately in what I've been reading, he has been more rebellious, for example something that in the end is for a good cause, but is also illegal. I think that he should just stand up for what he believes in and tell his mother and father what needs to change. After all, he's going to be the president someday.

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    1. Melanie S
      Scheller 4H

      I agree with you, Bishop should start standing up for what he believes in. Your right he needs to confront his parents about he believes, and how he feels about things. He should be able to make the decisions with his father since he will be president soon.

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    2. Connor A.
      Scheller 7th Hour

      Even though he could stand up more, the book has not said what it is he believes in, this whole time it's been very vague, who's to say he IS standing up for what he believes in? There is currently no way to know, at least not until he himself comes out and straight up says it.

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  6. Melanie S
    Scheller 4H
    Ivy keeps wondering what is right for her or for her family. She wants to make her father proud and get their family back into power, but in order to do this she would have to kill someone who listens and cares for her. Someone she’s falling in love with, Bishop. She keeps trying to tell her father that he is nothing like his father, President Lattimer, but her father doesn’t believe that and he is only filling her up with lies. I believe Ivy should just do what her heart wants and do what she believes is right, not what everyone else wants her to do. Then she might be able to do all the right things and bring it all together between the two families.

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    1. why would she want her family back to power?
      RachelB 4thhr

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    2. Connor A.
      Scheller

      She wants her family back in power because she wants her dad's affection.

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    3. Sammie Herr
      Mrs. Scheller 3rd Hour
      I also don’t agree with Ivy because she’s never doing what she wants. She’s having real feeling for Bishop and is actually making a connection with someone and just because her father had some issues with the president and Ivy’s mom he thinks he needs some sort of vengeance. It seems to me like her father actually doesn’t care about the good of the society at all. I honestly think she needs to speak for herself.

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    4. Kylah W.
      Mrs. Scheller
      HR 4
      I think Ivy is trying to do the best she can to keep everyone in her life happy. She wants her family’s approval but she also wants Bishop to be happy. The issue here is that to keep her family happy, she has to kill Bishop, someone she obviously cares deeply for.

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  7. Ivy wants to kill the president because he killed her mother and Bishop because she does not want to be his wife .I think she is thinking this way because she wants everything to go back to the way it once was with her sister and dad .I also think that Ivy wants to kill the president because he killed her mother and Bishop because she does not want to be his wife .I think she is thinking this way because she wants everything to go back to the way it once was with her sister and dad .I also think that she should get to know them before she kills them because you can’t judge a person by their cover and what they have done. I suggest that she should have a conversation with the president and bishop.
    Rachel Bira 4thhr

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    1. Connor A.
      Seventh hour
      Scheller

      In the first sentence of your comment, you clam she wants to kill president Lattimer because he killed her mom, and that she wants to kill Bishop because she does not want to marry him. Even though the part about president Lattimer is true, I disagree about the part about Bishop. I find, as you learn more about Ivy, that she did not want to kill Bishop because she did not want to marry him, but instead, because that is what her family has been pressuring her to do.

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    2. Kylah W.
      Mrs. Scheller
      HR 4
      In your first sentence, you say that Ivy wants to kill the President and Bishop. In reality, Ivy does want the President dead or out of power at the least, but she definitely does not want to kill Bishop. If anything, she wants to save Bishop because after getting to know him, she found out that she actually likes him as a person.

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    3. Sammie H
      Mrs. Scheller 3rd hour
      I agree with Kylah but I also that that at some point in the book she doesn’t want the president dead. I got a vibe from that whenever her family admitted that they had lied about what happened to her mother. I feel that she grew a small sliver of respect for him because he loved her mother, but a part of her still didn’t agree with his system.

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    4. Dylan B.
      Scheller 3rd hour

      How did he kill Ivy's mother? How does she know this is true? How did her life use to be with her family? Why does she want to kill Bishop? Its not her fault he had to marry her. I agree with you that she should get to know them first because they might be really good people.

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  8. Scheller 7th Hour
    Connor A.
    In this book, Ivy ended up taking the codes to the safe in the President's house. I REALLY do not agree with this action. One reason is because President Lattimer is letting her into his house, and what she is doing is practically stealing. Bishop really likes her, and what she is doing can really hurt him. Even though she didn't give the full code, she only changed 2 numbers, so it won't be long until they find out and fix it, and carry on with it without her.

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    1. Dylan B.
      Scheller 3rd hour

      Why is she doing this? What else could she have done instead? Why is she misusing President Lattimer and Bishops trust? Is she doing this because her family wants her to? Bishop really likes her and She shouldn't be doing what she is doing. I completely agree with you.

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    2. stealing...!... oh no...! the worst problemo in this book...!

      also no1 is going to go through those 100 different combinations and figure it out quickly :) may seem simple here but not irl

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  9. Connor A.
    Seventh Hour
    Mrs. Scheller

    In the book of ivy, the main characterr, ivy, goes through many conflicts, and makes many decisions and reacts in different ways. Of her many decisions, I disagree with her framing herself for poisoning bishop. I believe that that was the wrong approaching. There were many other things she could have done instead, be she chose an option that damaged herself and could possibly have long term effects. She could have ignored her family's wishes, after all, in the end, it didn't seem like they cared.That is just one of the many things she could have done that would not of had negatively impacted Ivy.

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    1. Gini W
      OK Literally Conner EVERYONE WOULD HAVE DIED is she hadn't, including like her (on he inside. That was actually a REALLY GOOD AND SMART PLAN
      She got to save the one she loved without becoming a traitor to her family. What "other things" could she have done? Killed the one person who cared about her? Killing him fo a family who didn't love her?(granted she didn't know her family didn't love he but still, think about it). THEY WOULD HAVE CARED, the only reason hey didn't react was because she was being removed, it's true they don't care about her but they definitely care about killing bishop. As if Conner, "other ways"

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    2. Melanie S.
      Mrs. Scheller 4H

      I agree with Gini W's comment. Her family has never shown her any kind of affection, they have lied to her, and they didn't even care that she put herself on the line for them, they wont even come to see her even though that all who she wants to see (which is kind of sickening in a way). Yes there could have been a different way but all she was trying to do was save the one's she cares about.

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    3. Kylah W.
      Mrs. Scheller
      HR 4
      I agree with parts of your comments. Yes there were other ways that Ivy could have handled the situation. As shown throughout the book, Bishop cares about her and listens to her. So she could have told him the truth about what's been going on and he would have believed her. Though I understand why she didn't do this. She was still under the illusion that her family cared about her and she didn't want to completely betray them.

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  10. Sammie H
    Mrs. Scheller 3rd Hour
    The most important conflict in The Book of Ivy is the conflict between Ivy and people. She doesn’t get along with most people. The first person she ever actually got along with and called a friend was Bishop. Reading further into the book Ivy and Bishop’s relationship grows a little more every minute they spend together. She doesn’t necessarily get along with his parents or their neighbors. I think Ivy is just too caught up in what she has to do and conflicted with what she wants. I think that her conflict with herself and people is important because I feel that it affects with the outcome of the book. I would act the same way in the society they live in because I would be confused, just like Ivy, on what to do in her situation. My people skills would be down the drain in a society like that.

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    1. Melanie S.
      Mrs. Scheller 4H

      I disagree with your comment, yes she's not very good at people skills but that's because her father never let her talk to anyone or anything, no matter what it was. I honestly think that there are way more important conflicts in this book that her people skills.

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  11. Sammie H
    Mrs. Scheller 3rd Hour
    I agree with Connor A. because Ivy and Bishop end up getting very close at one point and she contemplates whether she wants to kill him or not. She does believe that President Lattimer was behind her mother’s death until she finds out from him that her mother actually killed herself. In that situation it was not the President’s fault.

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  12. Melanie S.
    Mrs. Scheller 4H
    The most important conflict in this book so far is that Ivy is framing herself up for the poison she was going to give Bishop. Her sister Callie meet up with Ivy and handed her a sickening poison and told her to put enough in it to kill Bishop, but not all of it cause they have to put a little bit of it in the market food so people wouldn’t get suspicious. Ivy couldn’t do it so she sent an anonymous note to the president’s house and framed herself to save Bishop. I absolutely do not agree with what Ivy did, she could have found a better way than to frame herself. Why not come straight forward with Bishop and tell him everything and what her family was planning? If I was in Ivy’s position I would have told Bishop the truth about everything that her family has been planning for years, and then set up her family because in all honesty it doesn’t even seem like they care about her or what would be best for the society.

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    1. Kylah W.
      Mrs.Scheller
      HR 4
      I completely agree that there were much better ways that Ivy could have handled things. I honestly think she just went with the first thing she thought of and didn't think twice that what she was doing would not only hurt her but hurt Bishop too. She was basically only thinking about her being the hero and saving Bishop - which she did- but in the end even though he is alive how can he live with himself knowing that the one he loves is outside the fence?

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  13. The main conflict in The Book of Ivy is Ivy against people because she does not trust anybody else but her family because that’s where she has been for her whole life and she does not want the people to pick the person she is going to marry. It is important to the plot because she needs to keep a low profile to do the killings. My reaction to the conflict is that I would get to know people first before I judge them because you do not know what their like and you can’t judge someone from their cover.
    Rachel B 4thhr

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  14. I think it was the right thing to frame herself because she can protect Bishop who she kind of loves. I also agree with you for Ivy to tell Bishop the truth because she needs to tell him everything to relieve herself from everything that is going on. Why would you want her to set up her family if she cares about them?
    Rachel B 4th hr

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  15. Kylah W.
    Mrs. Scheller
    HR 4
    In The Book of Ivy the most important conflict is an internal battle that Ivy is having over what to do about Bishop. She knows that she doesn’t want to kill him, but she also knows that if she just destroys the poison, her family will find some way to kill him anyways. Which makes Ivy framing herself the most important conflict in the book. After she framed herself it caused several other conflicts to arise like Bishop’s internal battle over who to believe is telling the truth. I don’t completely disagree with Ivy’s choice but I think there were other ways she could have handled the situation that would have saved herself and Bishop.

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  16. I completely disagree with the actions that Ivy’s family has taken to turn Ivy into some sort of robot to do all their dirty work. They make her think that the President killed her mother to fuel her anger when really, her mother killed herself. Everything is wrong with how they go about their values and goals. It’s perfectly fine for them to disagree with the government, but it’s not okay to lie to your daughter her whole life just so you can get what you want. What’s even worse is, Callie knows that her sister is being lied to, which isolates Ivy because she’s the only one in the family that is being lied to. It’s like a sick inside joke between Callie and Ivy’s father that Ivy has no idea about

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  17. In The Book of ivy, the setting is post-war Utopian town called Westfall. The way the society is run effects how Ivy was raised and how she acts. Ivy’s father is President Lattimer’s “rival” so to speak. He believes in democracy. So naturally, Ivy was raised to believe the same thing. She believes that the law that puts criminals outside the wall is wrong. She also doesn’t agree with the arranged marriages. Ivy thinks that who you want to marry should be a choice of the person, not the government. I wouldn’t be okay with that situation either. However, the justice system in our society isn’t the fairest either. Besides the rules themselves, I wouldn’t be okay with having limited electricity.

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  18. Dylan B.
    Scheller 3rd hour

    The main message in the book, The Book of Ivy, is that you don't have to blindly do what others want you to do. I think this is the main theme because Ivy is told that she has to marry the presidents son, Bishop Lattimer, and kill him to restore her families power. After living with him and getting to know him, she starts to see that he's a good guy and she decide that his life is worth more than her families power. She is however loyal to her family and blames the whole plot on herself. Bishop wants her to tell him the truth but she refuses. This is an example of her choosing her own fate and not doing what others want her to do.

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    1. Sammie H
      Mrs. Scheller 3rd hour
      I agree with you because Ivy did disobey her father more than once and eventually lets the plan fall. Most of the time, throughout the book, her thoughts only provided the correct answers and actions on what to do. In my opinion I am very proud of what she did to save Bishop.

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    2. Kylah W.
      Mrs. Scheller
      HR 4

      I agree with what you're saying because as the book progressed and Ivy got closer to Bishop she realized that she needs to start making her own decisions and not just following what he family tells her. I think she had a big realization when the President told her what actually happened to her mother.

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  19. Sammie H
    Mrs. Scheller 3rd hour
    The theme in The Book of Ivy is that sacrificing yourself for love and self-assurance is sometimes needed. An example in this book would be when Ivy Westfall sacrificed herself to save Bishop from her own actions. She didn’t want to be the one to kill the one that actually understood her so she let the plan fall apart and basically threw herself in jail. Another time that she sacrificed herself was when she gave her father the wrong codes. She did it because she was falling for Bishop and she, in all honestly, didn’t want him to die.

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    1. Kylah W.
      Mrs. Scheller
      HR 4
      I agree with your theme but the thing with the codes wasn't really sacrificing herself. I mean she only switched 2 numbers. I feel like not giving her family any numbers would have been sacrificing herself more. It would sacrifice her mental stability because she would have to live with the fact that she basically 'betrayed' her family.

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    2. Melanie S.
      Mrs. Scheller 4H

      I agree with your theme Sammie H. that sacrificing yourself for love and self-assurance is sometimes needed, but the codes like Kylah W. mentioned is not really sacrificing her self. I feel like she should have lied about how she couldn’t even find the codes now that would be a truly big sacrifice.

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  20. Kylah W.
    Mrs.Scheller
    HR 4
    I think the main message in The Book of Ivy is that blood is not always thicker than water. Her family or her ‘blood’ wasn’t actually there for her when she turned herself in. In fact, they basically made sure that she got put outside the wall by saying that she’s always been ‘a little off’. On the other hand, Bishop or her ‘water’ so to speak was one of the only ones who believed strongly that Ivy didn’t try to kill him. Unlike her family, Bishop actually attempted to find out what was actually going on. Which proves that blood isn’t always thicker than water.

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    1. Melanie S.
      Mrs. Scheller 4H

      I agree with you Kylah W. that her family or ‘blood’ didn’t care about her, even though they pretended that they did. And she didn’t realize this until it was too late. Bishop knew that Ivy was lying, he kept trying to pry the truth out of Ivy but he failed at doing so. So yes I agree blood isn’t always thicker than water.

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  21. Melanie S.
    Mrs. Scheller 4H

    The theme for The Book of Ivy is that blood is not always family. Ivy has realized that her family hasn’t been there for her when she’s needed them. When Ivy framed herself, they called her crazy like her mother, and that she’s always been a strange child from the beginning. Bishop has been there for Ivy every step of the way and has never faltered into doing so. Bishop was there for her even when she didn’t want him to be, kept trying to go and see her when she framed herself.

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    1. I agree with you because her family is never supporting her of her actions and I also agree with Bishop always being there because he was there for here at hard and good times she had and Bishop supported her more than her family ever did.
      Rachel B 4th hr

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  22. The main theme of The Book Of Ivy is don’t let other people decide what your going to do. An example is her being forced to be married to Bishop which she did not want to do in the first place. Then she got to Know Bishop and figured out he is a good guy. Another example is her family telling her to kill the president and Bishop to get their family back into power. Which she also does not want to do so she made her own decision to frame herself and not kill Bishop because she loves him.
    Rachel B 4th hr

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  23. Connor Armstead
    Scheller
    7th hour.
    The theme is to not let what others say bind you and stop you, you should do what you think is right.

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    1. Hey conner something tells me that's not 100 words :)

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  24. This is how you make a comment :-)

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  25. This is how you do it anonymously.

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  26. Ms. Davis
    Ms. Scheller 1
    Fabulous comment with really good insights about my book.

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