Book Club Critiques
For first round of book club I read A Long Way Gone is a memoir written by Isameal Bach. This book is about him and how tough it was for him to grow up in Sierra Leone specially during the Civil War. At only the age of twelve Isameal was forced to leave the village that he grew up in because the word that was going around saying that the rebels were going to come an destroying the only thing he new and everyone he new. By the time he turned 13 he had already involuntary used guns, drugs and a great deal of violence. Then finally at the age of 16 he was rescued by the UNICEF. There were able to remove him from that horrid situation and put him in rehabilitation.
For the second round of book club I read Sold written by Patricia McCormick. This book is about a young girl named Lakshmi. Who lived in Nepal and was pleased with the small things in life. With her mother, baby brother and mean step father she knew the money was always running low since her step father would always spend most of the money. She convinced her mother to let her go work in the city so that she could help support her family. Her step father introduce her to a woman and said that she was going to work as a maid for a wealthy woman. She went on her long journal to India an arrived at what they call a "Happy House". Then is when is when she realized that she had been sold into prostitution. The Woman in charge Mumtaz was a cruel, brothel woman that said that all the girls here including her would work until she had paid off her debt. Which Mumtaz made sure to increase ad cheat the girls out of their money so that they could never leave. One day a American man arrives disguises as a client to give evidence. Since he got more then he need he arrested Mumtaz freeing Lakshmi and the other girls.
This book we read as a class it is written by Sandra Cisneros. This book was create in parts of small vignettes of the narrator Esperanze Cordero remembering parts of her childhood. Esperanze grow up in a ruff part of Chicago, Mango St. to be exact. A place were not many people would like to get lost in. She determined to one day say goodbye to Mango St. and better her life. The vignettes chart her growing not only physically but also emotionally. Through out the book Esperanze learns many life lesson one "The home is where the heart is". Which causes a effect were she learn she can never really fully leave Mango St. and by the end of the book she vows to come back for the ones she left behind.
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Antigone is the follow up of Oedipus also known as the sequel. Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus the last emperor of thebes. Antigone wanted to bury her father but a law was set by king Creon that if anyone were to touch the body of Oedipus they would be in public shame. Antigone was upset by the by the new law and came up with a secret plan to bury her father. She asked her sister for her help but Ismene but no because o fear to Creon. In the end Ismene ended up helping her sister both being imprisoned before they killed themselves. Creon end up lose everyone he love and also ended his life.
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Books I Want To Read
I want to read paper towns because one I have heard it is a really good book. Also because I have read some summary's and it seem like a book I would enjoy. I feel thought because I have read other John Green books and love the way he writes and make such great connections I will enjoy this book like his others.
I would also like to read the book wild because I watched the movie. If I would have know that it was a book I would have enjoyed to read the book before but I think I like that I watched the movie first cause then I wouldn't have enjoy it as much as I did which is one of the reasons I want to read it, Also I want to know more about what the character was thinking and what she was feeling. Since some times that doesn't translate thorough the movie.