I made a really strong connection in the cultural part because she is a Jew, and I am Jewish and all the festive that she celebrates for example Hanukkah, and I also celebrate Hanukkah, In my life I have a smaller version if the theme in the book because I was used to having 2 horses for me 2 horses for my mom and the same for my sister, I was used to going to some fancy horse shows, recently we have not had money, we had to give up 3 of our finest horses, because for me this is facing reality, because horses are my dreams, horses are my only and best friends, because giving a horse up is giving part of my life, so as they say no fear, no limits, no excuse, because I don't have to see myself in the past, I don't live their anymore. Well in
At the beginning, the book made me sad because of the time of when this took place. It was very hard times for the people
This book connects with me in a way that only one other book has (that book being Fahrenheit 451). It digs deep into my mind and takes things out that I have buried away and hoped to never think of again. Most of the people in my family suffer from depression, including me. The author and I are very much alike. I don’t tell anyone about it because not a lot of people understand what it means to suffer from depression. A deep part of my mind doesn’t want to tell anyone in my family because they all think I’m a happy and joyful person with a bright future and I don’t want to smash their hopes in thinking that at least one of my parents’ kids doesn’t suffer from depression. But the truth is, is that I
I enjoyed the way the author wrote the book because it felt although you were right in that hospital room with Noreen. I couldn’t stop reading the book. There was something about it that made you have the urge to keep reading. I think that I mostly connect with Noreen. Like her, I am sort of a tomboy but still care about fashion. As she did in the book, I also fall into peer pressure sometimes. One of my favourite quotes in the book is Noreen’s father always saying ‘Olive’ instead of “ I’ll have”. Whenever her father said that it made her mother laugh. Even in the hardest times when Noreen got the disease, that made her laugh. Noreen was glad to see her mother laugh. Another favourite quote from the book was, “She thanks God every day.” That made me think that I don’t thank God enough for everything I
Different readers of the book have different views as to personal connections, from not having any connection to the
Throughout this book, the struggle to come to terms with who she is in relation to these two different families. She never feels complete, fit in, or fully part pf the family after recapture and she has been separated from her Native American family. But there are moment when she remembers her life before the capture, and the memories help understand memories of her white family.
This book doesn't just make you think about your life in a different way, it makes you think about writing in a different way. There's so many little things in the book that were symbolically important, Art on the first day of school and how she would be working on making a tree different, not just a tree. You began to realize the more Melinda learned and the more Melinda went through, the more she began to understand the tree, the roots, and the dying leaves. There's many things in this book that are symbolically that you might not notice unless you analyze it in your own way.
Its pretty hard to find a relation between me and the book, but I guess one of the relations is the people I hang around with. Before I moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, there were kids that were in my neighborhood who were generally nice people, but most of the time they would act in a really bad way and get into trouble. I knew how to stay away from them in situations like that and keep away from anything bad they were trying to do when it came to picking on others. I was able to become friends with one of the guys they were picking on, even though he was a few years younger than me we had a lot in common and were able to hang out most of the time. Now that I'm in PA, I don't really have that many friends because of the neighborhood and school
One of the protagonists and main characters in the story Hamadi, by Naomi Shihab Nye, is a girl named Susan. She is a 14-year-old freshman in high school, who lives in U.S, Texas. She is reaching the point in her life where she starts to question her surroundings and the world, which leads her to an interest in a family friend, Saleh Hamadi, who’s an old-fashioned man and very wise. She is a complex character in this story because she has many different relatable traits, has many thoughts and relationships in the story and changes throughout the story.
In today’s current political climate, the roles of women are more examined than at any point in history. In “In Broad Daylight” by Ha Jin and “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, there is a similar parallel, despite each story taking place decades ago. Like the battles women are currently facing, the characters struggle with not only the identities of women but the stereotypes and hardships they face. While “In Broad Daylight” minimizes the role of women and enforces negative connotations regarding them, “Recitatif” focuses more on the conventional idea of a mother. Regardless, each story focuses on the viewpoints of the mother being taken on by their child and how it affects the child’s attitude, particularly on women.
Although I do not remember the exact year I stopped believing in Santa, I do remember how it all went down. I began to catch on that all of the “Santa” presents had printed labels, and I began to doubt the Santa wouldn't take the shortly prolonged time to hand-write the presents. That night, as my parents were tucking me in, I pondered over the lethargic manner of Santa, and bit the bullet. “Dad”, I questioned, “are you Santa”? It was all over.
Throughout the book Sookan changed to be more and more independent, and a better leader which can be seen in the beginning when she stays optimistic for Inchun, when she does everything she can to help with the socks, and last of all when she stands in for her Mother when they lose her on the way to the South. In the beginning when the Japanese cut down Grandfather's tree Sookan starlets to feel real loss but has to stay positive for Inchun. "He looked so bewildered, I was suddenly ashamed. He looked tired, scared, and lost. I was his nuna, his big sister, and I had to do something." (Choi 30). This shows Sookan stepping up and being strong for her brother even though she felt a lot like he did. When Mother becomes sick after Grandfather's
Many authors relate their own lives into the stories that they write as a way to express their feelings. Edwidge Danticat's life in Haiti affected much of her writing and she likes to relate her life into her books. A few ways she did relate her life into the book ‘Untwine’ is by writing about the death that she experienced, using her Haitian descent in the character's life, by making the character love art just as much as she does, and having the characters parents immigrate from Haiti just like her and so many of her family members did.
Furthermore, Haemon is essential because of his words of wisdom to Creon. He tells Creon of his own sort of treason saying “you trample down the honors of the gods” showing how he is willing to deny the gods their laws and procedures just to show his own power and strength. He doesn’t see how his own acts are an act of defiance to the gods and without Haemon interjecting, he never would have been able to realize his follies. Haemon realizes that his father has gone mad with the power he holds and knows with the company that surround him, his evil ways will never correct themselves. He tries to use his sway as Creon’s son to alter his fathers mind. He calls Haemon and brings him down from his high of feeling like the all powerful god and treats
“I have found you a suitor”, Hiashi continued. Hinata panicked and immediately mustered all her remaining courage and once she regained some of her lost composure, she began to reply. “Father, I-I-I can’t”. Hiashi stared back at his daughter and saw the determination in her eyes.
Connecting to this story was a bit hard but then I started thinking about what the story was about and then I concluded what my connection was to the book. I connect to this story because our society today is always worrying about the way we look and how we can look better. People are way too preoccupied with how we look when we should be worrying about others and the way we act. Self confidence is way different. I connected also to this book with a movie called “The Hunger Games” because both show a possible future to the human race because if we keep acting poorly to others or toward our world. What we are doing now can affect the world or others later. I also connected to this book because I have a friend that is very rebellious and I thought