Elsewhere Summary

          The book of Elsewhere is a mystery story by: Jacqueline West. In this story Olive along with her family move into an abounded house that is said to be haunted. At first she has no interest in the house and wishes to go back to where she lived. After a few days she starts discovering unique things around the house. She found a pair of spectacles that allowed her to see the painting around the house come to life. The first time she used them she went into a painting and found a boy named Morton. Morton told her that he had been trapped here by the bad man and talking cat. Olive felt intrigued, after Morton told her that she started to look for clues, and as she did she found her self betrayed by the only person she thought was on her side. As the story develops she becomes good friends with the three cats that used to belong to the person of the house and Morton. She has yet a lot of mysteries to discover and won't give up until she finds a solution on how to get Morton out of the painting for good.

     In the book the main character (Olive) asks her self over and over who the bad man is. During the story the paintings always told her to go away for the bad man with get angry. Everyone seemed afraid of him. She discover the the "bad man" is actually Aldous McMartin the person that lived here before her family moved in. This question makes me wonder why was everyone so afraid of him?where the people in the paintings close to him or where they just paintings? As the story goes on she discovers that the only painting that was close to him was his granddaughter that was supposed to take him out a painting to live again once he died.

The Book of Elsewhere

           So far in my book Elsewhere by: Jacqueline West takes place in an old abandoned house. In this house a lady died and it is said that it is haunted. Olive and her parents, move into the house and at first she thinks it is very antique and doesn't like it.  Olive decides to give the house a chance and starts to look around. In one room she finds a drawer with spectacles and gloves. At first she doesn't know what they're for put ends up finding out they are magical. With the spectacles she learns that the antique paintings have life inside them and she can actually go inside them. The first time she tried it out she met a boy inside. The boy said that he had been trapped by the bad man and talking cat. Intrigued she starts to look around the house to find clues about this "bad man".

            The plot is still unraveled and so far my predictions towards the book are that maybe there are many secrets as to why their are moving paintings. Olive might find the reason as to why the boy was trapped in the painting, and why the spectacles allow her to go in the paintings. My second prediction is that the boy trapped in the painting might be able to get out and become human again. My strongest prediction is that Olive will find the secrets of the house and the magic behind them

Workers Rights Articles and Poems

       The argument in the article "Bangladesh rescuer operation near end" is that the workers in a factory got trapped inside a building when the building collapsed.  The workers were trapped under the building with no water and food, they had injuries and some died. Reshma Begum a 19 years old Bangladeshi woman spent 17 days trapped under the factory. She describes what happened while being trapped "After ... much time I regained my senses and heard several voices (of other victims) around me who cried out and said please give me water ... I replied where shall I get water? I could not see anything as it was dark everywhere,".  I think that this issue is breaking the Human Right number #3 (You have the right to a free and safe life). It breaks it because employees should be able to go to work without worrying about major accidents. What I found very upsetting is that the government didn't do it's job to check this building and because of it innocent workers had to die/suffer.

       The argument in the poem The Sweatshop argues of  a person who  is lost in a world where she is not a person but a machine. She kept chanting how she was lost and didn't know who she was. How she called herself a machine and that is all she is.  Reading a poem is different than reading an article because in the poem you can almost feel the emotions that the person is feeling rather than an article. This affected the meaning of my understanding because in the article it paints a picture in your mind and in a poem you feel the emotions of the person writing it.