Much of the book unfolds with sadness and disappointment, and the lack of redemption given to some characters makes it all that much more heartbreaking. He weaves together the stories and struggles of Indians and whites, traditional Indians and 20th century Indians, reservation Indians and urban Indians, drunk Indians and sober Indians, Indian men and Indian women, Indian children and Indian parents, and even Christian Indians and non-Christian Indians. Sherman Alexie writes poignantly about the adventures of an all-Indian rock band from the reservation, inserting his characteristic wry humor in unexpected places. They sort of felt like Indian children of Indian parents." "They sort of felt like baby turtles left to crawl from birth nest to ocean all by themselves, while predators of all varieties came to be part of the baby turtle beach buffet. I think the big idea of this book can be summarized by this excerpt (from page 217 of my copy): It is still fantastical, but less so, and that actually makes it more approachable, in my opinion. I was pleased to find that Reservation Blues delves deeper into the lives of some of my favorite characters from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
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Making Magic Windows is a procedural book (or how-to book) about how to create papel picado, which is the name for traditional Mexican cut-paper art. Writing in multiple languages and telling stories from the Mexican-American culture is also important for readers not from her culture because it teaches them about those languages and culture and helps them better understand all the differences in the world.Ĭarmen Lomas Garza also wrote nonfiction books about her art. She hopes that children who are bilingual and are from a similar culture will read her books and feel connected to the stories she tells. She also chose to write in both languages because she was thinking about who would read her books. She chose to write this way because she also speaks this way. In the video on the first page, she says that she writes exactly what she would say to people about her artwork.Īn important thing to notice about Carmen Lomas Garza's books is that they are all bilingual, which means they are written in two languages, English and Spanish. That means she is telling stories from her life, family, and culture mostly through her artwork and then she has also added writing to describe the stories to her readers. The books by Carmen Lomas Garza are mostly visual memoirs, including Family Pictures, In My Family, and Magic Windows. I find that some characters can just handle everything & I’m sitting there thinking I would be loosing my mind if this was me. Her reactions to the things she was going through made sense. I loved the main character, she was very relatable & read very realistic. So I knew something was yet to come but I honestly had no idea that it would turn out the way it did! Everything doesn’t usually wrap up smack in the middle of a book. Which was kind of obvious as it was the middle of the book. There was a ‘reveal’ in the middle’ish of the book but I knew everything wasn’t revealed yet. Right until a couple sentences before the reveal I had absolutely no damn clue who it was. It just picked up the pace a little bit for me which I needed. I was struggling a little around the 50 – 100 page mark but I decided to start listening to the audiobook as well & it was the best decision! I read the rest of the story in one sitting by listening to the audiobook & reading along with the physical book. They weren’t necessarily slow moving, like stuff happens fairly quickly but I just wasn’t quite hooked just yet. Last One to Die started off slow but I ended up absolutely hooked & loved the end of it! To be fair it was probably only the first 50 or so pages that were a tad slow for me. They just want to watch a good movie (and in this case, one that's scary and suspenseful). Man!" Audiences don't care if a movie is based on a true story. The only reason it's there is to try and provide some gravitas to the events on screen and hopefully elicit a reaction of, "Well, I would say this is pretty laughable, but if it actually happened. But an exorcism movie "based on the accounts of New York police officer Ralph Sarchie"? That means nothing! That's like a horror movie about Bigfoot saying at the beginning that it's based on the accounts of this guy who was totally attacked and kidnapped by Bigfoot this one time. Hell, some of the best films of all time are based on true stores. Like that means anything! Look, plenty of movies are based on true stories and are great. In Deliver Us from Evil, the latest horror film from director Scott Derrickson ( Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose), before anything gets started the film's creators want the audience to know that the film is based on the real-life accounts of New York police officer Ralph Sarchie. In the time between the publication of Book One in 2013 and Book Two in 2015, the latter had come to be used in middle schools, high schools and college classrooms across the country. If Book One introduced the March trilogy as a pioneering work that blends the memoir, historical nonfiction and graphic novel genres, Book Two firmly established it as essential reading for young adults who are learning the value of civic engagement. The bombing, which killed four Black girls, signals for readers that, despite the triumph at the march, the activists’ work is far from over. gives his famous speech at the March on Washington, it ends with the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham three weeks later on Sept. March: Book Two picks up after the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960, and though the narrative reaches its climax when Martin Luther King, Jr. As Lewis and his fellow Freedom Riders take road trips through the South to stress-test the Supreme Court decision that desegregated interstate buses, they endure harassment, beatings and imprisonment. In the second installment of the graphic novel trilogy about his life in the civil rights movement, the late Congressman John Lewis-along with his co-author Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell-doesn’t shy away from the violence that characterized that era. |