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An in depth interview featuring McLean Sweet McLean Sweet’s best describes songs An outsider’s view on Gus’ life Should What Happened to Goodbye stay or go? www.lunablu.com
I bent down over the neighborhood, taking in the people there. At first, they’d just seemed arranged the same way they were everywhere else: in random formations, some in groups, some alone. Then, though, I saw the single figure at the back of my house, walking away from the back door. And another person, a girl, running through the side yard, where the hedge would of been. while some one else, with a badge and a flashlight followed. There were three people under the basketball goal, one lying prone on the ground. I took a breath, and then moved in closer. Two people seated on the curb between Dave’s and my house: a few inches away, two more walked up the narrow alley to Luna Blu’s back door. A couple stood in a driveway, facing each other. And in that empty building, the old hotel, a tiny set of cellar doors had been added, flung open, a figure standing before them. -‐McLean Sweet
This Luna Blu Issue Contains.. Interview with McLean Sweet
Page 4 - 5
McLean’s best described Songs
Page 6 - 7
Gus Sweet - Where I’m from
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Should it say or should it go?
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McLean was happy, and there was no need for change. But once her mother left her father for one of her favorite basketball coaches, McLean was lost in a see of DB basketball news, new siblings and an unfortunate ending to the family restaurant. Moving around the U.S, McLean learned not to keep anyone close. Her ever lasting list of friends on her multiple UMe accounts are just myths. No one knows who she really is, including herself. While she finds herself, McLean took a little bit of her old, 14 year old self with her.
In depth McLean Sweet
A few picture that McLean took on her first day in Florida!
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Luna Blu -‐ Hello McLean. McLean -‐ My Thanks for doing this interview! dad was always a huge McLean -‐ No problem Taylor. It’s basketball fan, nice to meet you. and my mom hadn’t ever Luna Blu -‐ My first question for been to a game until she you is what was the hardest part met my dad. The went to about your parent’s divorcee? the DB season opener on their first date. There my McLean -‐ After the divorcee, mom fell in love with everything just started going down basketball, and my dad. hill. My father was really upset, and it was hard to talk about Luna Blu -‐ That seams anything. But the hardest part was really sweet. I have to ask, what is when I went to my mom and the best memory that you have of Peter's house, because I wasn’t able you mom before the divorcee? to share the ultimate DB house with my dad. McLean -‐ Well, even though my dad owned a restaurant, he Luna Blu -‐ Why were you such a wouldn’t cook anything. Most DB fan? Is there something from nights, my mom and I would make you child hood that changed your ‘Cream Of’ soup for supper. We perspective on basketball? would make Cream Of Broccoli soup, and pour it over mashed McLean -‐ Well, I was raised on the potato’s, or Cream Of Chicken couch, channel surfing all of the soup and pour it over chicken basketball channels that my breast. I loved cooking with my parents had. Once my dad found a mom because we could goof channel where a DB’s game was around and have a great time playing, you couldn’t get any of my cooking! She also made quilts. family off of the couch. So, I guess We would sit together on the that I love DB’s so much because I beach, in front of our summer was raised with it. house. We would spend house sitting there, her making quilt Luna Blu -‐ Were both your squares, and me stitching them parents basketball fans when they together. were children? 4
Luna Blu -‐ How about your dad. Did you have any good memories with your dad? McLean -‐ My father wasn’t involved in my life as much as my mom was. On trips, he would have to stay behind, watching and working at the restaurant. But I remember him always telling me lot’s and lot’s of jokes, and he was also really sarcastic about a lot of things, and that’s what made it funny! Luna Blu -‐ Would you consider yourself as a sarcastic person, like your dad is? McLean -‐ Are you kidding? Me and my father are totally sarcastic.
Luna Blu -‐ All right. What do you think on Dave Wade? Do you like him?
McLean -‐ He’s really nice. I like how his first instinct was to grab me and save me from a possible 20 hours of community service. Luna Blu -‐ Do you see anything happening in the future with you and Dave?
McLean-‐ I don’t think so. I don’t think of him in any way other then as a friend. If anything serious happened, I would be mortified if he told everyone that I first saw him relaxing on my back deck! But I don’t know, McLean Elizabeth Wade dose sound kind of cute. Luna Blu -‐ Instead of changing your last name, would you ever consider going by Elizabeth again?
McLean -‐ I don’t know. It depends on where we go, and who I want to be. If I change my name, it’s not because I’m not happy with McLean, it’s because I need a new start, and I think that a new name comes with a new start.
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McLean already had a story here. She was the girl who’s discovered Dave on the back porch, and had taken refuge in his hideout. The girl at the party, the girl that Deb welcomed in her own spazzy freak style.
- McLean Sweet
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Luna Blu -‐ Now we have asked the readers to email us your questions. Our first reader, Anna from Toronto asks ‘What was your intention on changing your name the first time?’
McLean -‐ I wanted a change. I felt that I had to get away, and leaving McLean behind was part of changing. Luna Blu -‐ Then next question comes from Alex from Edmonton. He asks ‘would you ever consider I wanted to travel the world, but now, I want to stay in one place long enough to learn everyone’s names. living with your mother again?’
McLean -‐ No. There is no way I could live with Luna Blu -‐ The final question comes from a little girl my mother again. She hasn’t been in my life for so names Lindsay from Nova Scotia. She asks ‘What were long. We are almost like strangers. I couldn’t ever your intentions on running from the police?’ live with her. McLean -‐ I guess that I didn’t want to get caught. Even though I didn’t drink very much I was still scared Luna Blu -‐ The third question comes from a reader in Winnipeg. Jolene asks ‘Why did you that I would be doing community service, or I would go to jail. want to live with your dad in the first place?’ McLean -‐ I think I wanted to live with my dad Luna Blu -‐ Those were all great questions. Thanks to because we had more fun. I think that at the time, everyone who emailed in. I also want to thank McLean for doing this interview. 5
A Place in this world I don't know what I want, so don't ask me Cause I'm still trying to figure it out Don't know what's down this road, I'm just walking Trying to see through the rain coming down Even though I'm not the only one Who feels the way I do I'm alone, on my own, and that's all I know I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in This world Got the radio on, my old blue jeans And I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve Feeling lucky today, got the sunshine Could you tell me what more do I need And tomorrow's just a mystery, oh yeah But that's ok I'm alone, on my own, and that's all I know I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in This world Maybe I'm just a girl on a mission But I'm ready to fly I'm alone, on my own, and that's all I know I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in This world -‐ Taylor Swift
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McLean’s Best Described Song
I’m Just Walking Through out all of the social dilemma’s in this story, the song A Place In This World best describes McLean’s path choice while living in Florida. With this in mind, the song is about proceeding behind your heart as you find a path that you want to follow. For instance, Taylor sings ‘Don't know what's down this road, I'm just walking.‘ Here we can see that McLean thinks the same thing after she’s moved because of how hard it was for her to try and start over each time. In the song A place in this world, there is a lot of descriptive language such as hyperboles, alliterations and assonance. -‐ ‘I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve’ is an example of an hyperbole because it’s obvious that you can’t take you heart out of your body and place it on the sleeve of you shirt. -‐ An example of both a alliteration and a assonance is the lyrics ‘I'll be strong, I'll be wrong’ because strong and wrong both rime, and both of the phrase start with ‘I’ll be’, which is just repeating it’s self. It can be both because both alliterations and assonances have to do with sounds, and the two of them sounding the same. The book and the song are connected because the words in the song are relate to how McLean felt about moving. Artist -‐ Taylor Swift Album -‐ Taylor Swift Date Released -‐ October, 2006
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Where I’m F rom ~ Gus Sweet
I am from small houses, with little winding roads from the boiling hot summers, and the snug, winters snow I am from hours of sitting in the nosebleed seats smelling sweat, buttered popcorn and nauseating beer From the horror of my wife on the lap of someone else it was my worst nightmare I am from the divorce that made me stronger I was then from my daughter’s happiness the thing that now pleases me the most I am from slaving over the restraint's stove and from my bad eye sight
that makes me squint at the tiny font that covers the menu pages
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I am from tasting the stuffing that dances on my tung I am from angry managers who like the roll’s and not the pickles and from the resistance that makes the restraints succeed I am from telephone calls but no home phone from the hatred of text messages and no call display From no outside contact, like a bird who’s never left it’s nest I am from lonesome, and I am from sorrow I am from the place that makes me, me
Should It Stay Or Should It Go?
An essay on if the book What Happened to Goodbye should be considered being in the grade 8 curriculum - from the prospect of the reader.
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f your choice was between living with your incompetent mother in dreary old Tyler, or traveling to the breathtaking, sun-‐ bleached state of
Hawaii with your father, what would you pick? Because of this question, and many others in the book What Happened to Goodbye, I believe that no grade 8 student should read this book in school. Though character’s were relatable, the troubles and issues the character’s faced within this tedious plot were relatable, I believe are not necessarily as compelling as some may think; therefore my opinion on this book is that it shouldn’t be within the grade 8 curriculum. In addition, the book drags on for a lengthy amount of time, which doesn’t sustain the readers attention. For that reason, I would not recommend this book to be in the grade 8 curriculum.
In a good book, relatable characters
are a must have. Knowing this, not everyone would be able to relate to the slightly inadequate plot and complicated characters. However, I was able to relate to the main character because some of the things she was going through, I had gone through myself. I think that the story must be relatable because there is no point in reading a book where you aren’t able to feel the same way the characters do. 9
Knowing that everyone has their own personal preference and point of view, keeping them from reading a book of their own choice would be unreasonable. With this in mind, not everyone would enjoy this book contained with an uneventful plot and impartial characters. I think this because everyone is different, and reading a book that you don’t want to read is unfair. Your preferences are important because it makes you who you are. Restating the above, you should be able to pick any book that you want to read for a school project because not everyone would enjoy the some books. Any good story has to have a great beginning to draw the reader in. They should also have a ending that makes you want to keep reading when there is no book left. However, the book What Happened to Goodbye had a great beginning that made me want to do nothing but read. The ending wasn’t as good because the story dragged on for too long. I was eager to stop reading the book because it was too boring. Furthermore, the book was too long, and started to no longer be enjoyable for the readers. For all of the reasons above, I believe that What Happened to Goodbye should NOT be a book that all grade 8 students read. However, on the side, if you have time to read, I would recommend this book.
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Taylor Fraser
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