Chris at his party

Chris´s expectations

Chris is very self-confident and he wants to fuck Sara, whatever will happen! He has hidden all his porn away because he thinks he will never need a porn movie again. He thinks he´s cool, and good-looking, because of that his opinion is that he will get Sara instead of her boyfriend Sean. He guess that Sara wants to fuck with him, too.
He doesn´t want to have too many guests at his party! He only wants to be with Sara!

My personal comment about "working with our weblog"

I want to say something about my weblog:

• I wrote my weblog in the past because I wrote it from White Mike´s point of view, so I had to use the past
• I really enjoyed it to work with a weblog it´s something new, we never did something like it before ;)
• we learnt a lot of New York, Manhattan and the districts in Manhattan
  

Setting of the book

• 90^th street / Madison Avenue -> Chris´s house
• Central Park -> zoo / Warren´s nanny walks with Warren, Charlie and White Mike
• Canal Street / China town -> Claude and Tobias bought their weapons
• 117^th street / 3^rd Avenue -> Nana´s home, Charlie and Nana killed by Lionel
• 96^th street / 3^rd Avenue -> bad restaurant
• 79^th street / Park Avenue -> Hunter walks and listens to James Taylor
• 76^th street / Park Avenue -> Mike gets out of a cab
• 50^th street / 9^th Avenue -> shop where Charlie bought his gun
• Canal Street / Bowery Street -> prison
• Bleeker Street -> Claude bought his fake ID
• 96^th Street / Park Avenue -> rec
• 86^th Street / Lexington Avenue -> place where Hunter finds White Mike during his experiment
• 91^st Street / Lexington Avenue -> deal between White Mike, Lionel and Jessica
• Wollman Rink in Central Park -> Jessica met her girlfriends to go ice-skating
• 84^th -90^th / East End Avenue Carl Schurz Park -> Andrew and Sven are playing chess

Connection between Mainhattan and Manhattan

I think there are a lot of similarities between Mainhattan and Manhattan. Manhattan is America´s Financial District and Mainhattan is of course Germany´s Financial District perhaps Europe´s, because of the European Central Bank.
Manhattan has a skyline and Mainhattan is the only city in Europe, which has also a skyline. Frankfurt has a stock market, too but Mainhattan is not as big as Manhattan.
Mainhattan has also a sculpture nearby the stock exchange, but it´s a bear and a bull together. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DBAG=Deutsche Börsen Aktien Gesellschaft) is not as old as the NYSE is, it was founded in 1992.

Financial District

The Financial District of New York, which is also called FiDi, includes the headquarters of many financial institutions, for example the World Financial Center or the Stock Exchange. It´s the area between south of City Hall Park and Battery Park and the heart of the district is the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street (look at the picture).





The Wall Street was the first home of the New York Stock Exchange and later on the surrounding area got the name of it, it´s also a metonymy for "influential financial interests".

The "Big Board" which is the nickname of the New York Stock Exchange is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world and it has 2,764 listed securities. The NYSE is very important for the economy in the USA.









The "Wall Street Bull","Charging Bull" or "Bowling Green Bull" is a 3,200kg bronze sculpture, which is in the Bowling Green Park. It stands for America´s aggressive financial optimism and prosperity.

Mind map about New York

My first impression about New York

I think it´s a very big city with millions of people. The fantastic skyline with all its skyscrapers is impressive. The buildings are amazing. But I think it´s hard to live there, because of all the trouble at the rush hour and New York is a city, which never sleeps! The Central Park in the middle of Manhattan, a place for relaxing is great! But I think the difference between rich and poor is very big when you see Manhattan and Harlem, the two contrasts. New York has also a very high crime rate, which makes New York dangerous. New York is a great, amazing and impressive city on one hand and a dangerous, with crime crowded city on the other hand.

Dialogue between Claude & Chris

At breakfast

Chris: Good morning!
Claude: Morning Chris!
Chris: What do you want to eat? Mom bought new jam!
Claude: I don´t want to eat jam! I want to eat cheese!
Chris: Ah ok. What did you do last night? You came back home very late I remember!
Claude: Yes of course! I was hanging around with Tobi! We were in Chinatown!
Chris: What did you do there?
Claude: What´s that to you?It´s not interesting!
Chris: Come on tell me! I will keep it secret!
Claude: No! Fuck off! I´ll don´t tell you!
Chris: Oh man! We are brothers! You can trust in me!
Claude: No!
Chris: Ahhh then eat your cheese and shut up!
Do you want to know how the party was?
Claude: ........mmmhhhh
Chris: Okay! You know Jessica? She took some drugs I don´t know the name of the drug
but it was something special! A new drug!
After taken that drug she was so down! She was lying down in the bathroom. I called
a cab to bring her home!
Claude: Ah...! Is she on drugs now?
Chris: I don´t know, but I hope she isn´t on drugs now!
Claude: I think she is! When you have taken one time drugs then you´ll be on them.
Chris: Oh no! I´m afraid of that! I hope it will be not as you said!
Claude: Think what you want! I´m right! You will see it!
I´ve to go know!
See you later!
Chris: See you! Bye!

Chapter fourty-one

Alice told me some things

I and Alice were walking down the beach in East Hampton. She told me something about her parents and about her bad boarding school. Everything was bad. Then it was getting dark and she took off her clothes and she ran into the ocean. She came out laughing, crying and freezing at the same time.

Chapter fourty

Dreaming

I felt asleep while I was reading “The Plague”. I was dreaming that I was standing on a skyscraper and there was a thunderstorm. I wanted to look up the beautiful skyline and then suddenly I felt down. I saw me flying and then I landed on a car.

Chapter thirty-nine

The Uzi

After the cocktail party Claude wanted to go out and he called Tobias to come along whith him.
They went to Chinatown and Tobias ran away suddenly, then Claude went into the shop where he bought his other weapons. He was looking for something special. The man closed the door and showed him an Uzi.

Chapter thirty-eight

Remembering Alice

When I wanted to pay for the pizza the handsome kid reminded me when I was working at the summer camp of Long Island. There was a girl named Alice and we were always behind the boathouse. She was smoking, but I didn’t smoke I just want to be with her. She told me that she is able to remember all her firsts like her first boyfriend, her first sex and so on. She told me also to read “The ‘Plague” and when I was at Barnes & Noble I bought the book and later I read it while I was lying in my bed.

Chapter thirty-seven

Jessica is down

Jessica has taken all the “Twelve” by midnight, which she saved for New Year’s Eve. When she woke up her sheets were damp with sweat.

Chapter thirty-six

At the cocktail party

Before Chris and Claude went to the party they smoked a joint together. When they were there their aunt wanted to introduce them to someone. Claude took tequila shots and Chris was thinking about what the older women would look like when they are naked.
Then they met Macelle and she asked Chris to what kind of music he’s listing to and when she said that she’s a Beatles fan he answered fuck off Beatles.

Chapter thirty-five

I’m a thinker

My teacher said to me that I’m a thinker and I was thinking about what could happen when I die. While I was thinking I was starring at my mother’s coffin.

Chapter thirty-four

The bells

Chris was watching TV when the delivery guys came. Chris said them to bring the boxes in the wrapping room and when they were gone he opened the boxes with the bells. Names were engraved on them and there were bigger and smaller ones. After testing the belly he went upstairs again to the TV and then he was waiting for the beginning of his aunt’s cocktail party.

Chapter thirty-three

On my mother’s funeral

On my mother’s funeral, she had a wig on her corpse and I was really angry about that, because I wanted to see her real, not with a wig. I wanted to see her without a wig.

Chapter thirty-two

Trying to find an alibi

The blood on Hunters clothes was identified by the forensic tests and of course it was Nana’s.
He tried to find an alibi the whole night and he remembered the old con man, who asked him for two dollars. Hunter asked him for what he needs the money then the old con man started crying.

Chapter thirty-one

Piranhas

Tobias and Molly were talking about what the models life is like and they’re talking about animals and Tobias wanted to show her his piranhas.
They walked to Chris’s house in the guest bedroom with the aquarium. Tobias went down and got a rotisserie-cooked chicken and put in the aquarium and the piranhas’ shredder it in a few seconds. Molly had to leave and Tobias asked her to come on New Year’s Eve again and she answered that she would come.

Chapter thirty

Molly

The girl’s name, who was sitting in the waiting room, is Molly. She is sixteen years old. She has brown hair and thin eyebrows. But Molly was not interested in Tobias.
Molly had a crush on me in our younger age.

Chapter twenty-nine

Meeting at the model agency

Tobias had a meeting with his model-agency. He was discovered, when he was eleven and now he wanted to become a full-time model after finishing the high school.
He loved the photo-shoots. He was thinking about a tattoo above his ass. Then he went out of the shooting here was a beautiful girl, a model too and he thought about how much he would like to sleep with her.

Chapter twenty-eight

Remembering Charlie

I was thinking about Charlie and I remembered what he did when he wanted to fly to Florida. He had not enough money for paying the tickets for the flight, so he took his mom’s expensive jewellery. He pawned the jewellery for 12,000 Dollar. The shop were he pawned the jewellery had also guns and he was proud of the gun, which he bought there.
When his mother came back form Europe and she realized the missing of her jewellery she called the insurance, but Charlie told his mother and so it was an insurance fraud. Then he had to go to an boot camp in Montana.

Chapter twenty-seven

Why I don’t take drugs

Hunter asked me why I don´t take drugs and my answer was that I never had the urge to take them.

Chapter twenty-six

After the deal

After Jessica bought the five tiny Baggies she walked down Fifth Avenue hearing some music.

Chapter twenty-five

My cousin Charlie

After the deal with Jessica, Lionel and I were talking about my cousin Charlie. I said to Lionel to tell Charlie, when he’d see him that I’m looking for him.
Charlie had a lot of nannies in his younger age and he’s the same age as me. But Charlie was a very bad student and then he had to go to another school in grade eight. When he came back, he was different and we had a distant between us.

Chapter twenty-four

My mom’s favourite drink

In one night I woke up and I went into the kitchen. I poured myself a champagne flute of undiluted cranberry juice, my mother’s favourite drink. She always said to me to live the best life I could.