I have read alot of books during my days. Remember mostly the titles...for some reason...cant remember the authors =< i'm sorry if my summaries are bad -.-
Homecoming by Cythia Voigt
This book is about 2 boys and 2 girls whose mother ran away from them. They head out in search for her only to travel much of the eastern coast. They experience alot of things on this trip in search for family. They make tons of friends. They meet their grandmother, aunts, uncles and cousins. But they never really find a place to stay. However, as a family they stick together (the two guys/girls).
This book moved me when i read it. I have read it about 3 times so far. Always crying and wondering how I would do things compared to the characters.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This book is about a women who is outcasted in society. She has been marked by the letter "A" representing adultery though it can mean multiple other things. She also has a daughter who was of another man. The townsfolk try to figure out who the father is. The ex-husband comes back in search for the truth. Each character begins to evolve and show traces of the Scarlet Letter, A.
I read this book when I was in high school. Mainly an appointed book. However, this book was resoureful when i was taking the SATs since it could be used for nearly everything. I didnt read this book multiple times. But compared to all the other books that I read in this english class, I felt this one had more effect on me in trying to read between the lines.
Night by Elie Wiesel
Night is a novel based on the Holocaust. Many events happen in the novel as it would to the Jewish.
This book made me think and wonder alot about WW2. It was like why did Hitler, A JEWISH PERSON, want to anniliate his own people? I had talked to my boyfriend about this. He had stated something about Hitler "being left out of the crowd" when he was younger, thus making him do such actions.
This book, like many other books made me think about multiple things in life.
Chinese Cinderella
This book is about a girl who came from China to America with her father. The father had married a woman in the states and this woman would usually pick on her. She was not born of the mother's and the youngest, making her outcasted in the family. She loved writing, and submitted a story to a contest and won. Though not alot of recognition was felt by her parents. She managed...
I'm Chinese/Vietnamese. upon reading this book, I felt that I understood how this child felt. She was the middle child of the family, so am i. She was outcasted, looked down upon, and so forth...just like me. The culture from this novel showed me similarities with mine. I tried to ponder what the girl would do compared to me. Most of the time, she would do the same things, at other times, she would go against all that I would think.
>END< UNTIL NEXT TIME.....HOPEFULLY I'LL HAVE MORE BOOKS
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There is no evidence that Hitler was a Jew, only speculation. Besides, we KNOW his mother wasn't a Jew, it's the speculation that his father was. Which doesn't make him a Jew. Furthermore, he certainly wasn't raised as a Jew. Hitler was indoctrinated with lies from a young age about Jews (ever hear of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? He read it at a fairly young age and was convinced it was true). He went to Germany at a fairly young age, and Germany had a long history of Anti-Semitism. Still, I've heard Night is an amazing story. I've heard Day is equally good.
~C
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well its wat i remember i guess....but i dunno....thats wat i was thinking when reading this novel
but this book was def good
I've only read Scarlet Letter and Night.
Both were great. Night made me cry and I still have vivid images of scenes in the story. Scarlet Letter was interesting. I can't imagine what she and the priest had to go through. Pearl was quite the character; I enjoyed Pearl.
I want to read Chinese Cinderella after reading this post.
I like the fact that Hester Prynne was able to change the meaning and significance of the letter, "A", which in the begining was her life time punishment of wearing the sweater with the letter, "A", embroided on it, meaning she was an adulterer. But, as the novel advances, she comes to give a new meaning and an alternate meaning to the letter, "A", which is able. Through her nursing and providing community service for the wretched poor, people began to grow fond of her involvement. The fact that she chose not to live Boston and remain in a society, which condemned her for her wrong doings and misapplications of her life, proves she never gave up to rise to her full potential. She truely grew out of being an outcast, and becoming a citizen of the Puritain Society, that held high expectations and strict conventions of living.
This is truely a novel that exposes the truth of an identity of the "Black Man," but it really focuses on the life of a poor women, who overcomes the obstacles and hinderances of a hypocritical society of people.
Hassan