HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It's been a while since I posted something here in my blog. I have been very busy studying and attending programs last month so I was not able to write. Anyway, happy new year to all my readers. This year, I will post more tips and guides to help you earn money using the internet.

This year, as part of my new year's resolution, i'll try to post an article every week. Add more contents that will surely help you out. Since I cannot thing of anything yet to write I will share a story I read last night. It was a newberry award runner up entitled Mocassin Trail. Newberry award is an award given to outstanding children's book, it may sound odd that its a children book but its better than any new books around today.

The story is about a white American farmer boy way back during the pioneer days in America. His family lived in Missourri, he hates farming so when he was 11 years old he ran away from home to follow his uncle. His uncle, his mother's brother, is a hunter, one day a bear attacked their camp. This boy named Jim Keath was separated from the group because he was the only one who ran uphill. Luckily for the older men and woe to the young one, the bear followed Jim and caught up with him. The bear gave Jim three scars before he was able to shot the bear with his rifle, one light scar to his forehead and big nasty scars to his arm and from his chest to his belly. After three days, he walk up in a tepee where crow Indians live. At first, he was very homesick to American life that he even talk alound to animals in English to hear the English language, that is why they called him Talks Alone. He lived there and was trained to be a real Indian for six years. An event occured that made him ran away from his crow family, an event which he reminded him that he was a white man after all. He met Tom, a white American who traps beavers to sell, and he joined him in his trappings. For two years, he was sad inside for he does not know where he really belongs. One day, a letter reached him. It was sent by his brother, Jonathan. The mention of his brother name triggered a strong emotion inside him. The problem is he does not know how to read so he went to a journeying settlers to ask them to read it for him. He learned that his father died three years ago and his dear mother died two months ago. That left his seventeen years old brother, fifteen years old sister, and his eleven years old brother alone in their travel to a new home. They journeyed from Missouri heading to Oregon, the so called promise land. A good heart from a man lead Jim to his "family". Despite the fact that Jonathan and JIm knew each other by heart when they were little, the big eight or nine years made a wall between them. They cannot accept their Indian ways and he cannot adapt to their bourgeways (middle class) way of life. Despite this, Jim realized how much his siblings need him not only to acquire a land but to protect them as well. During his stay with his family, he felt as if he is unwanted that he does not belong there. However interesting events occured that made him realize where he should belong.

What I love about this is it is very full of stories and love. I wonder why no movie was made out of this. So, if you want to read a good book, buy Mocassin Trail.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.