Independent Reading. Activity #3

Missy is  one of those few girls who really does care about finishing school without getting in trouble and when i say out of trouble i mean not getting pregnant, not getting involve too much with guys. From her teacher help she got a job at the hospital, she started to save money to buy herself an old Volkswagon bug.  Around five years after her high school she decides to leave Pittman County where she grew up destination to kentucky, for her good. On her way to kentucky her car runs out of gas in Taylorville she changed her name from Marietta to Taylor.  In Cherokee nation Oklahoma her car broke, now Taylor stops by  an old bar to get a cup of coffee and a hamburguer.  As she is eating at her car at the front seat a strange woman told her to take the baby that she was holding in her arms.  This woman told Taylor that she was the baby's aunt and that the baby was born in Plymouth car, the woman leaves without giving an explanation or not even a word.  Taylor decides to drive off with the child when she got to the hotel and took the baby to a bathing she discovers that the child was sexually abuse.  After all this happen i preddict Taylor is going to keep the baby.

The Bean Trees. Prompt #1

I had notice that the main protagonist who is Taylor Greer is an independent woman who since she was a young lady knew what she wanted and she did not want for her.  Staying away from trouble and trying her best to finish high school without getting pregnant being in trouble.   She was born and grew up in Kentucky, Taylor decides to leave kentucky leaving to Tucson, Arizona.  At some point she starts to learn about politics and how they were corrupted.  Mattie said that Taylor was a hero  for risking her own safety to succeed in getting her achieve about society.  She was totally different that her mind was not nothing about guys but her daughter Turtle and her mother.

Amir's Atonement

Amir got to the point where he seeks for an atonement that wants to amend and become good again without having his conscience telling him about how he didn't help his friend when he needed.   He envied Soraya for letting her secret come out, for her courage and all this because he'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between his Baba and Ali.  He had to live with this horrible feeling and having in mind the picture when he stopped and watched, turned away from the ally.  Knowing that he a change to make a decision the final opportunity to stood up for Hassan as he did many times for him in the past.  But at the end he ran. Ran because he was a coward, he was afraid of Assef and what he would do to him. Afraid of getting hurt.  That was Amir's price that he had to pay the lamb he had to slay, to win his Baba.  He knew it wasn't fair and it floated in his conscious mind before he could thwart it, he just thought about how Hassan was just a Hazara.  

Atonement...

ATONEMENT: Satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.

I think atonement could be possible for some sins or mistakes in the past, but for some cases won't help you because there is situations where you are not able to repair what you have done, and the only thing is left is to regretted.  But if you are lucky you can do something about it and atonement it.

Mistakes

Many times in our lives, we got to the point where we all commit many mistakes; and in many of those we just can not go back and repair it, there is mistakes that can affect you for the rest of you live and you must live along with it, because you can't make it disappear.  There is times when thanks to a mistake you got something that you never though that could happen to you and can benefit you.  There are mistakes that I had and i regretted a hundred times and there wasn't a solution to resolve but had to learn how to deal with it and let it go, learn from it.  By mistakes that can mark your life you are able to learn and do it again.  I know many of us would love to erase those dark times in our lives.  But all of life's experiences bad and good, make who you are. Erasing any of the life's mistakes would be a great mistake!!!.

Book Preview

PREVIEW TO A BOOk

The Front Cover

v Title: The Bean Trees

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

v Picture: An Idian Kid behind of the tree.

Words: none

v What do you think the book is about?

I think is about an Indian Kid who grew up poor in a rural kentucky with the

goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away.

Topic/Big Picture? It does not have a big picture.

v Jot down 2 questions you have.

Who does she grew up with?

Why does Taylor decides to take this Indian girl?

The Back Cover

v Synopsis or Plot Preview?

v Review/Praise/Acclaim? Overall what is your impression.

v Does the back cover reveal anything about the story (time period, characters, setting, etc.)? If so, jot down some notes.

Tucson Arizona

Taylor Greer

Indian Girl named Turtle

Inside the Book

v Copyright by Barbara Kingsolver

Publication date?

v Is there a dedication?

v Table of Contents? Chapter Titles? #’s?

v Other titles listed by the author? Jot a few down.

HOMELAND

ANIMAL DREAMS

v Open to a random page and read a few paragraphs. What is the author’s writing style?

1ST PERSON

OVERALL IMPRESSION

Based on your preview of the book, what do you think it may be about? What types of characters, issues, themes, etc… do you think you will encounter? What sort of background information (already known or researched) do you think you will need to understand the story? Write down 3 questions you hope to have answered by the end of the story.

WHY DID TAYL0R DECIDES TO LEAVE KENTTUCKY?

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CHILD?

DOES TYLOR REPOR THE CHILD TO THE POLICE OR WHAT DOES SHE DOES WITH HER?

My Story...

Every day in my life i dream that  i could live in a place where i can found peace, where i listen the birds sing instead of bombs and guns, where I don't have to fight for my life in order to survive I have to do things that I don't want to do but i have so I can be able to protect a place that i don't own but at least serving and protecting many lifes of my people.  Day by day I have to walk away from the people that I love, from the things that I love to do.  My heart is tearing with ever step i take.  Every day in my life Im sorry for what did to someone , sorry for the pain i have caused, i know my actions caused your heart to break like many of you have done with many of mine but you should know something my heart broke long before i broke yours.  The darkness consumes me every single night feeling my heart cold, my soul numb and my being became ice.  I am wishing that the next day there will be a light to guide my way.  Crying,  screaming, talking, repeating everything over and over again is driving me crazy.