Jacqueline Woodson

Although written decades apart, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye both explore the trials and tribulations that young black girls must endure as they begin to step into womanhood. While the burdens that the protagonists in each of these texts differ in some key ways, one of the most interesting things that both Woodson and Morrison depicted was a sense of difficulty in coping with these changes, and rather than having any semblance of mastery over their circumstances

One of the most influential quotes in my life is by an astounding Arthur and poet Jacqueline Woodson. In the year of 2014, Jacqueline Woodson published her book brown girl dreaming. Throughout the book, she takes you through the mind of a young black girl growing up in the south during the 1960s. One of the poems that caught my attention in brown girl dreaming, was second daughter second day on earth. In the poem the quote “I don’t know if these hands will become Malcolm's−raised and fisted or Martins’s−open

Summer Book Report Title: Miracle's Boys Author: Jacqueline Woodson Copyright Date: 2000 Number of Pages: 133 Setting: Manhatten ,New York Main Characters: Lafayette -12, Charlie -15, and Ty'ree -22 Summary: The story is about Lafayette who's relationship with his older brother had changed ever since he came out of a detention home. Charlie blames Lafayette for the death of his mother, Milagro. Thier father, Lafayette had also died before Lafayette was born. Ever since Charlie

think that's plain wrong.In the book The Rough Faced Girl it talks about how important not judging others is. A lot of authors talk about how it’s on the inside that matters.This theme appears in many books. In the book The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson she talks about how it’s in the inside that matters.For example Annie a white girl became friends with Clover an African American. Annie may have looked different but she was always kind to Clover.Then later in the story to meet Annie half

Throughout their lifetimes, individuals encounter a variety of challenges that test their resilience. Sometimes it targets a person’s personality, beliefs, race or culture. It can follow an individual throughout their life or stay in it for a period of time. However, with a strong personality and a determined goal, these obstacles can be conquered. An example of an obstacle that can be a battle in everyday life is prejudice, mostly against the different types of race. Racism is the false conviction

“Someday somebody’s going to come along and knock this old fence down.” In class we read, The Other Side, by Jacqueline Woodson. This is a story about a black girl and a white girl who grew up during segregation. In The Other Side, there are a couple of different tones. One tone is ambivalent. The reason one tone is ambivalent is because they are kids so they most likely have mixed feelings about segregation. They were raised racist, but do not truly want to be racist. Another tone is kind. Both

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson is a story that takes place in the 1970s. It begins with a new boy showing up at Frannie’ 6th grade class in her school who is quite different from the other kids. The boy was very pale with long hair that almost reached to his back, and he was white. Although it is the 1970s and segregation was over, Frannie’ school was full of black kids. White people lived and went to school on “that” side of the highway, while blacks have their community on “this” side of the highway

What do you do when one of the few people you can rely on turns on you? Well, after reading, the intelligently wrought classic realistic fiction novel, “Miracle Boys”, by Jacqueline Woodson. I learned that through various hardships and obstacles you face, always have determination. To begin, three brothers, Lafayette, Charlie, and Ty’ree were orphaned due to the tragic death of their parents. Over the course of two days, Lafayette (the narrator) includes flashbacks to earlier events. After spending

In the texts, “My America” by Barbara Posey and Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, the central idea is that black people wanted equality and fought to achieve it during the 1950s and 1960s. During this time, segregation and discrimination were still a problem for black people. In Barbara Posey’s “My America,” she states, “As you travel in America, you notice a cancer, a very old cancer, the cancer of segregation and discrimination as it works to destroy the things that we love best” (Posey

outside characteristics. In the realistic fiction books If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, and Miracle’s boys also by Jacqueline Woodson the authors demonstrate that social injustice can occur when individuals are viewed by only their outward characteristics and beliefs. First Social injustice occurs many times in the book If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson.