A Yellow Raft In Blue Water: Past Events Impacting Past Generations

History is something that molds and shapes a person into who they are today. Thomas King shows this in his novel Truth and Bright Water through many of the characters. He not only lets you see how the aboriginal people’s history has affected their lives today, but also how the personal history of some characters has affected their lives. A person’s past can help one understand why they live their life the way they do; it is the answer to any question you had about them. All the minor events that go on throughout the novel explain how history affects an individual’s identity and Franklin, aunt Cassie and Monroe are excellent examples.

In Anthony’s story, he clears lays out his perception of being at one level of social class and then forced into lesser social class because of his parent’s divorce. It was a real-life style adjustment and change for Anthony (Thomas & Schwarzbaum, 2006).

Jeannette and her siblings adapt to self- sufficiency from a young age, from being emotionally and physically neglected by their parents. The children don’t expect anything so they learn to work with what they have and what opportunities come their way. Jeannette saw the suffering of the family and took this leadership for the family guiding her sibling in the correct path.

That was illegal, so from time to time she would get in trouble with the government authorities and, as a result, I would go live with my grandparents. Things changed when I turned 14, 15 years old. My mother finally accepted partial help from my grandparents. She officially opened her business with my grandparents’ investments. From that time on we became a solid representation of the middle class. Thus, answering the question about how the information in this book relates to me and my life, I can certainly state that I have crossed the bridges from Upper Class to Poverty and from Poverty to Middle Class, where, I believe, I presently belong.

Beginning with the complexities of Ida’s family–including her nuclear family with the addition of her aunt Clara–and her social life and later relationships, the eldest-most narrator recalled her perspective of the significant events of the early-to-mid chapter of her lifetime and the outcomes of her relationships within. Almost directly after being introduced to Ida’s point of view, it is revealed that her aunt and best friend, Clara had, through the duration of her sister’s–Ida’s mother–illness, been impregnated with the child of her brother-in-law–Ida’s father. The impending child was to be Rayona’s mother, Christine. Subsequent to the news of

Because of the life that Christine leads, the role of mother and daughter are switched and Rayona often finds herself watching out for her mom. When Ray comes home from school, she would often learn that her mother had gone out to party. Times like

Marie developed an independent personality early on and rarely relied on her family for help. She was accustomed to collecting her school records from one school and enrolling her-self in the next school. A particular principle stands out in her memory, by looking at her records, which were from Texas, he told her that he was going to hold her back a year as the Texas school system was behind the Pennsylvania school system. This made Marie very angry because she sure didn’t want anyone to think she had failed. So she bargained with the principle, asking him to let her be in the grade she should be in and if she couldn’t do the work

Today, thousands of kids grow up with hardships, but have potential to be successful. One example of this is in The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. The book is a memoir that tells stories about Jeanette and her family. For the most part Jeannette’s child hood was filled with hardships, but did this make her as successful as she is today? Jeannette Walls is successful because of her hardships she experienced as a child, which shaped her into who she is today.

In the book A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Slava shows us courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. This essay discusses that It’s good to have memories of the past but don't let them control you. “Where are we going? Where is my family?

I found it very eye opening that this was just one piece of the larger picture which included more than the initial problem with Claudia and the relation to it was multigenerational.

Rayona and her mother Christine grew up in different worlds but they are very similar in many ways. Christine faced various problems as a young child that are now being passed down to Rayona and she is now seeing how they are being affected by them. The novel “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water” walks us through Rayona’s coming of age story and the three perspectives that it is being told in, Rayona’s, Christine’s, and Ida’s. Although Rayona and Christine are very different, they both seem to be facing similar problems; they end up helping one another find their self identity and both are finally able to appreciate and understand one another.

Many Children in the world face challenges that most people don’t have to. For example, two of his people face very hard challenges, Abdul, and Kundila. Two people who have it harder in life then us.In these stories, Doris Pilkington, and Katherine Boo amazingly show the challenges these two people face. In Katherine Boo’s story, Abdul has to work for his family to raise money to move to a better neighborhood. In Doris Pilkington’s story, Kundila has to protect his family from the white raiders.

She also has to deal with not having a father and how that has affected her school life. “I think I had it worst. My mother was born here so as far as Italians we weren’t one of them. Yet because my grandparents were born in Italy we weren’t completely Australian.” P 7 This

Relationships in the past with their mothers have molded how An Mei and Lindo’s live their lives. All people’s futures are affected continuously by their past actions. All events whether happy or sad have tremendous affects over how a person will live their lives or the actions they will make. People cannot predict the future but they can make a guess out of past

In The Bad Seed, by William March, Rhoda Penmark is an eight year old girl, who is charming, polite, and intelligent beyond her years. Yet, by the way she portrays herself, making her come a crossed as a sociopath who harms anyone that disturbs her the wrong way. On the other hand, Christine Penmark is quite the opposite she is a beautiful, young, empathetic, well-groomed mother of Rhoda. Throughout William March’s book the relationship between Rhoda Penmark and her mother Christine Penmark is a complicated one. At the beginning, Christine loved her daughter unconditionally as any mother would love their own. Rhoda is seen to be from outsiders looking in, every mother’s dream daughter. She was well-groomed, obedient, compliant, and did well in school. Even her own mother feels this way at first, in this section of the book Christine states “I never deserved