Readers Journal #5 “The Days Of The Week"

Readers Journal #5:

The Days Of The Week

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

         I have just finished reading the book “The days Of The Week”. The author of this book is Paul Hughes. From what I am guessing is that the author is atheist where he studied every single religion. For sure all of these stories interested me. From just flipping through this book I noticed one thing. It was about every day of the week and how different religions think of it. Many early people worshipped the sun therefore that is why they call it Sunday. On Monday it would be the moons day’s where this is why it is called Monday. The Roman Empire once had a g-d called Tiw who turned into the day of Tuesday. Wednesday was mercury’s day where the first hour of Wednesday is ruled by mercury. The Saxons would choose a very powerful g-d named Thor where he was named after as Thursday. Friday would be Venus’s day where the first hour of Friday was ruled by Venus. Saturday was named after Saturn which people say that in the  first hour Saturn ruled on Saturday. The reason I picked this book was because when I first looked at the cover of this book I thought that it would be about the religions. There were 2 things I did before reading this book. First I look at the cover and examined what would probably happen. The second thing that I did before reading this book was I skim scanned through the whole book just to get a peek at what would happen. There were 2 things that I did while reading this book. First I thought about everything and related it to my everyday life like when it brought up Thor on Thursday I thought about the movie that I saw which was about Thor. The second thing that I did while reading this book was after every page I read, I would look at the picture and get a better idea of what the page was talking about. There were 2 things that I did after reading this book. The first thing that I did after reading this book was I thought about all of the things I read about. The second thing I did after reading this book was I noticed what everyday of the week really meant. The genre of this book is fiction folktale. There are a bunch of characters with no antagonist except for the enemies of the g-ds like Thor. Foils were N/A. Settings were to N/A. There were no plot structures/stories in this book because the book was to inform. The tone of the author is very smart and happy with what he knows and how he knows the way different religions think of the days of the week. The mood would be very curious as to how every religion even thought of the days of the week.  The theme of this book is the days of the week and how they were made. There wouldn’t be a moral for this book because it wouldn’t be considered as a story with plot structures. The point of view of this book is first person. The author’s purpose of this book is to inform people on how the days of the week are made.        

         This book gave me so much interest into how the days of the week were made. The days of the week are very important but so are the months and years. There fore there is a riddle that helps people remember everything.

It has 12 boughs,

4 nests in each bough,

7 eggs in each nest,

and the 7^th egg is of gold.

 The tree is the year. The 12 boughs are the months in a year. The 4 nests is the 4 weeks in each month. The seven eggs are the seven days in each week. And the golden one is Sunday.

If I were to rate this book out of 10 I would give it a 10 out of 10. The reason that I would give it a 10 out of 10 is because it gives accurate information of every day of the week and where it came from etc. this book was very interesting and I would recommend it to anyone especially to people who want to learn about the days of the week.

                                    Sincerely,

                                             Ofek Peer