Not only is Macy's sister trying to fix up her father's old lake house but all the change seems to be take all of her dad out of everything he was part of, everything left of him. She explains to Wes she quit running to work on being perfect after her father died of a heart attack while on a run that she was supposed to be part of. She finds out he has a dark past, been to juvie, criminal kind of a past. This all change when his mother died and he had to start caring for his little brother. He also began to express himself with art. He started welding beautiful piece, pieces Macy's sister was a fan of. Wes and Macy also have in common a relationship on hold. Wes has a girl in rehab and Macy has a guy in brain camp. Soon they will have more in common then they tought.

Reading log

As continues with the catering job she finds it is the best way to forget about her worries or a couple hours and just let go and have fun. As Macy continues t stick to her schedule, she never goes out with the other workers after for  night of fun, however, one night she decides to go out. As her and the girls get ready, Macy finds herself in an uncomfortable position, just as she is ready to leave, she stops and lets the other girls take control and for the first time ever, trust somebody. As she let her hair down she relaxes at a party with the rest of the catering crew. Over a couple beers she spills her whole love life out to the girls and they instantly bond. She also bonds with Wes over a simple game of truth, slowly finding bits of info about him as she shares hings with him she has never told anybody before, like he reason she quit running.

Reading Log

With Macy's new job she has broken out of her old routine and created a new one, still completing all of her tasks but with less time to worry or stress out at home alone. Her mother has little time of rest either, realestate is losing its business due to the low economy and with a new town house project she is busier then ever. Like things couldn't get worse her sister has come to town and wants to add something even bigger to both of their plates, she wants to finish up the old lake house that their father loved so dearly. The change isn't the best for Macy, that was her dad, it still smelled like him and his old running shoes were still by the door, like he had never died at all.

Note #4

End of Summer

An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.

I stood in the disenchanted field
Amid the stubble and the stones
Amaded, while a small worm lisped to me
The song of my marrow-bones.

Blue poured into summer blue,
A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,
The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew
That part of my life was forever over.

Already the iron door of the North
Clangs open: birds,leaves,snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows.

In Stanley Kunitz's poem, End of Summer, the author speaks harshly of the end of summer by using melancholy diction along with a lyrical tone that creates the scene for the reader and gives a feeling of first hand experience.  Stanley is clearly devastated at the fact that summer is over and describes the coming of a new season as "a cruel wind". It seems that summer is everything and the thought of it coming to an end also makes him feel as if his life is too over "that part of my life was forever over." As the author explain more of his situation it seems as if the whole thing is one big room, as if the seasonal comings and going were just door ways you had to pass through, like it or not. As "the iron door of the North clangs open: birds, leaves, snows order their populations forth, and a cruel wind blows", Stanley explains the room's door clanging open, a dreary way of saying the approaching winter is here. The seasonal birds are ordered forth along with leaves and snows, almost against their will, if they had one.  

Reading Log

After Macy spontaneously joins the Wish catering team she seems to break away from reality for the short time her mind is on the job rather than her relationship with Jason, her mother's distance from her, or the dreaded job at the library. This small break in the routine is fixable however, and after catering she simply goes home to practice SAT words instead of going out with the rest of the crew. The new job has also allowed Macy to make some new friends. Monica is quiet, clumsy, and slow but is more in depth then she looks on the outside. Bert, Delia's nephew, is a chubbier kid with a big heart and a new drivers license. Kristy is Monica's younger sister, a blond peppy girl with fabulous fashion as well as scars she can't cover up. Wes is a handsome guy, all girls go crazy for him, except Macy. Wes is Bert's older brother and after their mother died Wes gave up his bad boy streak to become a real man to be looked up to. With Macy becoming closer with all her friends her routine is about to change.

Note #3

The grasses in the field have toppled,
and in places it seems that a large, now
absent, animal must have passed the night.
The hay will right itself if the day

turns dry. I miss you steadily, painfully.
None of your blustering entrances
or exits, doors, swinging wildly
on their hinges, or your huge unconscious
sighs when you read something sad,
like Henry Adams's letters from Japan,
where he travelled after Clover died.

Everything blooming bows down in the rain:
white Irises, red Peonies; and the Poppies
with their black and secret centers
lie shattered on the lawn.

The poet, Jane Kenyon, gives a praise to the summer rains through refrences to other literature but also through clever diction and comparisons of personal experience. She does this with first hand feelings like "I miss you steadily, painfully"as if she had seen it with her own eyes, she describes the rain as a majestic unconscious, something "everything blooming bows down too" as they should because with out it they would all wither and die. She is almost speaking for the plants and the summer season around her like the Lorax. Although her opening statement is rather disheartning toward rain as it causes "grasses to topple" her mood brightens as if the sounds of the rain had given her joy and now that it is gone has left a painful emptiness.

Note #2 - Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M526tFIaWcw

The first summer scene of the Notebook when Noah first sets his sights on Allie at the carnivel is when summer itsself is portrayed through the characters. The actors are typical highschoolers, living it up in the summer with friends, free spirited and care free. Fin, Noah's right hand man, sees the way Noah looks at Allie for the first time, saying she is here for the summer with her family. This almost explains Allie as the season, saying she has come but nothing is perminent and however only temporary. Later in the movie we find she is only temporary, she comes with the season and leaves with it. The way the actors act towards eachother at first shows a chilling harsh reality of rejection, as if the season is conveyed through Allie not only in a temporary come and go kind of way but also describes her as a tease toward Noah, just like the first months of summer and last months of spring play with the minds of many students giving us just a taste of the nice weather we want but then taking it away just like that. Just like that Allie is gone and Noah had only those short months, just like summer is only two short months.