Reading Log

Extensive Reading meeting 3 Assignment

READING LOG

PRE-READING

No	Day	Title	Why am I interesting to read	Questions before I read	Finished/Unfinished
1	Tuesday	Death Note	Because this comic is my nostalgic thing back then in vocational high school.	Will it be easy for me to read Death Note comic in English version since in Bahasa Indonesia version, every balloons are full of sentences?	Unfinished
2	Thursday	Death Note	I should continue reading the next chapter, when L is finally appeared.	Can I finish it tonight?	Unfinished
3	Friday	Death Note	The next chapter will be getting more thrilling since the last time L challenged Kira.		Unfinished
5	Sunday	Death Note	I skipped a day for reading the comic because another assignment came. So, today I need to read it until the due time. Besides The story get more and more interesting.	I do not have any question in my mind before reading the comic because I already know the story.	Unfinished

vol. 1 cover

Reading Activities

Day 1 Tuesday Date :28 February 2017
Time	19.15 – 19.45
Title of Comic & Page	Death Note p.1-51
Sources	http://www.mangatown.com/manga/death_note/v00/c001/
Characters	Raito Yagami, The God of Death: Ryuuku
Main points of the story	The God of Death, Ryuuku, dropped the Death Note book into the human world, and Raito Yagami who picked it, used the Death Note to cleanse the dirty world. The reason of Ryuuku dropped the Death Note is no other than his boredom.
New Vocabularies found	Infant, outrun, rotten
Comments	Even though I already know the story, I found it funny at how Ryuuku dropped the Death Note into human world just because he was boredom in Shinigami world. And, even Raito Yagami will be an antagonist one, I still love him for his smartness and of course his cool appearance.

Day 2 Thursday Date : 2 March 2017
Time	21.05 – 21.19
Title of Comic & Page	Death Note Chapter 2 p.1-30
Sources	http://www.mangatown.com/manga/death_note/
Characters	Raito Yagami, The God of Death: Ryuuku, L
Main points of the story	ICPO tried to find out about the mystery of mass murderer of criminals. They asked help from L, the mysterious investigator who can solve the difficult case all over the world.  The doing of Raito on killing criminal got support from the online community. He even gained the nickname Kira. Raito felt proud and called himself as human’s justice. L tricked Kira to find out his whereabouts. He even challenged Kira to kill him, but Kira could never Kill him since he did not show his face and neither his real name.
New Vocabularies found	Diminish, cram, deprivation, atrocious,
Comments	Raito is a real psycho! I need to take him back to the right path, but I cannot do anything of course.

Day 3 Friday Date : 3 March 2017
Time	17.40 – 18.16
Title of Comic & Page	Death Note Chapter 3-6 (90 pages)
Sources	http://www.mangatown.com/manga/death_note/v00/c001/
Characters	Raito Yagami, The God of Death: Ryuuku, L
Main points of the story	Raito was told that if another human touch the Death Note, they can see Ryuuku as well. Then, he tried to hide the Death Note from his family member and even made a secret drawer in his room. On the other side, L suspected that Kira had relation with one of police in Japan. He made his own investigation with the help of FBI. Ryuuku told Raito that he could trade his eyes with Shinigami to make him easy in finding out people’s name just by seeing their eyes. However, Raito did not think it is needed for him since he is only a god in human world. So, he will do with his own power.
New Vocabularies found	Barren, fictitious, ploy, patch, inquiry, preclude, homicide, attain, conjective, taunt, swamp, scrutinize, convict.
Comments	I think Raito is just too awesome even he is an evil. Why I said he is awesome because he is only a third year senior high school student with an extraordinary brain. Unfortunately, he uses his cleverness with the wrong belief.

Day 4 Sunday Date : 5 March 2017
Time	05.56 – 08.43
Title of Comic & Page	Death Note Chapter 7-20
Sources	http://www.mangatown.com/manga/death_note/v00/c001/
Characters	Raito Yagami, The God of Death: Ryuuku, L, Soichiro Yagami
Main points of the story	The FBI agent, Raye Panber, who was following Raito died. Also, all FBI agents in Japan died because of heart attack. He’s fiancée would to take revenge on Kira, unfortunately she also got attacked by Raito. Regardless of what happened on FBI agents, some of Japanese police resigned and gave up on investigating Kira’s case. Then, only six people are survived in fighting against Kira. The six people include Raito’s dad met L in secret. Thus, they do the investigation in L’s place. While doing investigation on Raye’s death, L asked the special investigation force to install CCTV in Yagami’s and Kitamura’s houses because his suspicions on these two families has grown larger. Raito knew that his house was installed CCTV, he acted so natural and even did not talk to Ryuuku at home. But, he still could manage to kill more criminals through Death Note. A week later, the CCTV was removed due to nothing’s odd happen. But, it did not make L give up on finding the suspect. He then show himself to Raito by entered the same college as Raito. He told Raito that he was L, and tried to get along well with Raito. In order to prove his guts that Raito is Kira, he needed to stay close with Raito.
New Vocabularies found	Hijack, pinpoint, realm, reaper, leeway, mourn, purify, demotion, precaution, dwindle, enrage, retaliate, prevail, outsmarted, farfetched, concealment, devastated, decoy, berserk, morsel, parch.
Comments	And finally, L’s face has shown. He is so cute yet handsome. I do not know what to say on these chapter I have read. It really is thrilling every time I read this comic and sometimes give goose bump on how genius Raito and L are.
Unfinished I cannot finish reading this comic for a week. Besides it has so many chapters, I have another assignments to do and another journals to read. So, I should prioritize reading the journals then the comic. But, I will read it until the end of the story and re-watch Death Note movie to get more visualisation.

Remarkable Scenes

        

chapter 19

chapter 20

These two scene are the most remarkable one for me because the first one when I or all the readers can see how evil and scary Raito can be, and the next, it givse me a nerve-wrecking because the actual battle of Raito and L has begun.

Grade

Grade for this comic is A (Good) because this is one of my favourite comics. The story is uncommon and the main character (Raito and L) is so awesome! Even though, when I read the comic I got a bit flustered because I need to think hard on the case. It is a good thing that this comic never stops me from thinking, so besides my brain get entertain it also trained my brain.