The Wesnaclama Blog

Hello, Clara here. This past month, I read Five Feet Apart, written by Rachael Lippincott. Five Feet Apart follows the relationship of two cystic fibrosis patients who fall in love but have to remain separated. Due to cystic fibrosis leaving their lungs severely compromised, all patients must stay at least 6 feet away from each other to prevent contracting each other's bacterial infections and dying . The two of them approach their condition and how it affects their life in very different ways. Stella Grant follows every rule put in place for her in order to maximize her chance of her survival, and she even designs a phone app to keep her schedule and medications organized. Will Newman, on the other hand, views his death as inevitable, and wants to live his life like a normal teenager. Despite their contrasting personalities and initial hostility towards each other, they slowly fall in love. As they get closer, the rule of staying 6 feet apart becomes harder and harder to follow....

Sup! It’s Nate here with the final post of the year! It’s strange to think that school has gone by so fast. While in quarantine, I’ve been going back through the Harry Potter series that I first read as a kid. And it’s been great. But why is it so great? Spoilers throughout, if you’re one of the 5 people who haven’t read Harry Potter I’m not gonna do a detailed summary for this one since the series is so popular, but here’s the gist: Harry lives with his aunt, uncle, and cousin (who aren’t so nice) because his parents are dead. Then, he finds out he’s a wizard and his parents were murdered by Vold--I mean You-Know-Who--, the most powerful Dark wizard, but who was defeated (not killed; sort of taken out of his body i guess) when he tried to kill Harry. Harry goes to Hogwarts (a magical school) and makes friends with Ron and Hermione. Hogwarts’ headmaster is Dumbledore, who will be important later. With the power of plot armor, he foils a few of Voldemort’s attempts to come back to ...

~Emma Murawski           Recently I finished reading Anthem by Ayn Rand. Anthem was written in 1937 and touches upon a somewhat touchy subject especially during the time the book was written: society and its flaws. Anthem is a fictional book told from the perspective of a man by the name Equality 7-2521 who talks about the flaws in his society where everyone is part of the whole. You can’t look different, be smarter than your peers, or even think a thought other than what you are taught. You can’t have or give someone a name other than what they are given and you refer to yourself as we and others as they. In a world where there are no lightbulbs or cars and basically no chance to fall in love other than one night in the town designated for mating, if you break any of these laws, you will be punished. However, Equality 7-2521 is different. They grew up hating school because it was too easy and grew very tall and slim. Ever since a young age, teachers would mock ...

Hello all! It's me, Wes, writing to you from the friendly confines of my bedroom, again. I would first like to say that recently I've been diving into some Sherlock Holmes, specifically A Study In Scarlett . See, I could write a blog post about it (it is an absolute classic), but that would be a bit boring in my opinion. Rather, I want to write a post about 2020 (that was inspired by Emily's recent blog post). Every month in 2020 so far has seen the occurrence of bad event/s. Normally, bad events happen and we move on, however, 2020 has seen a string of might I say horrible events happen back to back. This, unsurprisingly, has been made into a meme by people which has added to the aura of sucky-ness, so I want to take a look into every month so far and point out some notable sucky things that have happened. Grab some popcorn cause this is going to be a long post. January Jan. 3rd - The world sees tensions between two nuclear-capable countries (the US and Iran) reach ...