Response to 'How to Run 100 Miles'

Jason had blisters on his feet. Brendon and Jason were helping each other to run 100 miles. They had to go to the toilet in the bush. They finished the 100-mile race and they were happy and crying. They had to eat potato chips and tortillas and lollies. Their blood sugar was probably low because of the running. 


The writer's purpose was to show everybody else how much is 100 miles. It’s quite hard to run 100 miles. You have to train a lot by running.  


I learned that you eat certain food if you’re doing those runs. They became good friends because they didn’t know each other so they found each other in a bar and had a couple of drinks. Jason became a fighter in high school, but he wasn’t very good at it. Their friendship was important to help each other. Brendan was doing the run because Jason was doing it. If you stay up all night and try to run, you get tired. 

Another message is about friendship. Brendon and Jason showed us that friendship gets you places.  They could not do the 100 miles alone, they had to help each other. 



The movie made me feel jealous because I’d never seen a running trophy before and I couldn’t run that far. The fighting affected me, because I used to do it a lot.I used to fight at school because I was angry because I wasn’t in a good mood.The kids used to bully me because they thought it was funny. I stopped fighting because it’s bad. I think the toilet bit was funny because they didn’t have any toilet paper and he had to use a pinecone. I was surprised when they finished because they had run 100 miles.



I remember Jason most because he got into a fight. I remember that he got hurt, he got punched in the face.  It was serious because it was sad. He was no good at fighting, he got hit and so he gave up.  After that he went to university to learn about stuff. He signed up to a job a lawyer, this was good for him because he had to stand up on the stage and talk.  This would make me nervous because being on stage and talking on the microphone because the other people would stare and it would make me anxious.
He also went drinking and met Brendon and they had a conversation and became best friends. Brendon and Jason started running and had to do a couple of miles and then had to help each other to get to the running station of 80 miles in the 100 miles race.
(Riliey dictated and Ms Swann prompted and typed!)



In the film, they worked together. I work together with Dianne in maths. She helps us. Brendan and Jason found the race really hard, I find times tables hard. 

Of Course I Yell A Lot

Pizza is a circle

BBQ sauce is a sauce 

Pizza base is at the bottom of the pizza 

I have salami on my pizza 

Beef and onions with mayonnaise

From Domino’s 

I like playing Video games

I play video games in solitude

I play Red Dead Redemption 2

But my character got tuberculosis

He’s overweight at the moment

I’ll get a new character soon

A basketball is a sphere

You move a lot playing basketball 

Running around a lot

Your pulse goes faster

I drink a lot of water

So I don’t get dehydrated

I want to be a better person

I want to have self-acceptance

I should just be nicer

At home I have to yell a lot

Because of Myles

He’s annoying

tomorrow whem the war began

We read Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden for English class. In the book, the characters take trip into Hell, but it's not really Hell, it's a forest. They camp in Hell. When they come back to town, the town was overtaken by invaders. The characters had to hide and make sure to stay out of sight, but then they fought back. They set a lawnmower on fire to explode the soldiers, and took their guns. At the end of the book, they blew the bridge up so the invaders couldn't get across. Corrie got shot in the back, so Kevin took her to hospital. The other characters went back to hell and got their guns.

How did Homer change in Tomorrow When the War Began?
At the start of the movie he got a police car and took off the brake and took a ladder. He seems like a bad person and a troublemaker. In the book he was silly at the start with jokes.
After the war began, they were fighting for their country so Homer changed and became a nice person and used guns to fight the invaders. He became a brave person and I thought he was a good character.



I liked the book better.

In the movie, they left out one of the most important characters, the Hermit. They left out finding his hut, and the box in the hut. In the box there were his treasures, and we learned about how he had to kill his wife and his child.

In the movie, they also left out talking about UFOs. Why would they even leave them out? I bet they don't even want you to see it in the movie. The movie wasn't very long, quite quick.

The music in the movie was good, in the book you can't have music. The music was loud and fast at the showground.

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