M.S Dhoni the untold story

M.S Dhoni the untold story

Title: M.S Dhoni the untold story

Director: Neeraj Pandey,

Released: 30/9/16

Text type: biographical sports film

Watched: 3/10/16

                                  

The movie “M.S Dhoni the untold story” directed by Neeraj Pandey is a true story about Mahindra Singh Dhoni who lived in a poor town with a poor family and was trying to become a professional cricketer. The movie shows throughout his journey to become a professional cricketer all the difficulties he faced and how he never gave up and solved his difficulties with the support of his 4 best friends who were willing to give anything to help.

I like how Dhoni was very confident and did not regret whatever he did and took whatever he did wrong and made it into a learning lesson for him for next time, for example when Dhoni failed to get to be chosen for trials in the India team he was not disappointed instead he said “today I’m going to celebrate that I found out that I need to work much harder if I want to play for India”. After he learnt he need to work harder he started training 2 hours more than he usually does. After he kept on repeating and repeating his training everyday he finally made it into the trails. This is a very big lesson and also one that I never forget, work hard play hard and also that life is very hard but if you work hard nothing will be hard.

Another thing I liked is he never took the easy way out he always did thing the right and faithful way, when he asked his coach to bat his coach said “in the next match because it’s a weak team you will make more runs. Dhoni did not agree and he replied “sir what will I get from making runs against the weak team, I will only get better and improve if I make runs against the harder teams. This is what I really inspired me to work harder and harder in my trainings. This is telling you that in life there is never an easy way there is only the hard way but also the right way. Life will give you challenges but you have to face them properly if you want to be successful in life.

There is a saying that I follow and this saying helps me in my life “the only way to succeed is to fail”.  

By siyan

 

  

Wiley weird-reading log

Wildly weird

Author-Kaye Umansky
Date when the text was published-2006
Text-novel
The date when I read the text-18 May 2016

Wildly weird is about a boy named Pinchtion prim and his neighbours the weirds, and how Pinchtion makes friend with one of the Weirds her name is otterly Weird. In this book the Otterly has a plant, this plant is also weird it is sort of like it is alive, has a mind of its own and is very different to a normal plant. There are no leaves just lots of tangled stalks and long thin twisted tendrils. In this book they go to a plant show and enter the plant in it when they reach there are many nice beautiful, colourful and full of petals looking plants. This plant may be in a plot,but it's out of control and it doesn't like loosing! At the plant show there was a big suprise for pinchtion and it was that his mother was the judge.the plant was placed next to a very good looking plant, it looked like Pinchtions mom was going to pick that plant but in a sec of a camera flash the plant was ruined and something was telling pinchtion that otterlys plant was the cause of it.

The thing I like about this book is that it's very funny and also that it is showing that plants also are living things and that we should pay it with respect.in the book otterly is always talking care of the plant and the only reason otterly was taking the plant to the show is so it can fell happy and proud of being different.

by siyan

HOLES- reading log

                                                           Holes
 Author-Louis sachar
Text type-novel
Date when the text was published-1998
The date when I read the text-31 April 2015

Holes is a book about a boy named Stanley Yelnats and how a pair of baseball shoes change his life.
Stanley is a normal and very nice boy. One day while he was walking home from school a pair of shoes had fallen out of the sky and hit him on the head. Stanley took the shoes and while he was walking home from school the police had caught him, the shoes had been a famouse baseball players shoes and they had had been stolen, this cost Stanley 12 months in camp greenlake.

greenlake is not like any other ordinary camp in this camp you had to get up every morning at 4 and start digging a hole as wide and as deep as your shovel. Camp green lake has no water any where but  the camp and the water is given by the warden " mr sir".the only way of surviving on camp greenlake is doing the right thing if you try run a way there is no water for mile and miles away.At camp green lake Stanley meets some kids who introduce them to the camp and become friends with them. These friends have some very unusual nicknames like armpit, squid, Brad Barfbag and the leader of the group X-ray, after sometime Stanley's new nick name is caveman.





by siyan






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