Determine a Symbol : Safe Haven

The woman in Safe Haven that runs away has came off to me as keeping to herself. I think she's this way because of what has happened in her past. She doesn't want anyone to know about her messed up past life. She wants to move on and start over. She is very ancy because of this, gets worked up easily for example when she sees a cop she thinks their looking for her even though they aren't, she freaks out. She doesn't reallt want to make friends. This girl trys to make friends with her but she kinda comes off as not wanting a friendship. I think she does this so she doesn't get close to anyone, so she doesn't have to share her story.

Describe the setting

I actually ended up switching books to the book safe haven. Safe Haven's setting is on an island. The girl runs away from her home before to an island with not many people. Everybody knows everyone. She doesn't want people to know she has left and ended up where she has. She gets here by a bus. She had to plan this right away, she had no time to waste. She had her neighbors help. The island is very peaceful. Dirt roads, ocean, boats and sun. The name of the town is Southport in North Carolina.

describe the setting of the novel

My independent reading book  "the redemption of callie and kayden" has multiple settings. There isn't just one set setting. There are some where they end up a lot but there are tons. One of the main settings is Callie's apartment or friend's that she is staying in. After work the story will lead back to her house. Another setting is her work. A lot of action takes place, where most of it happens. I've only got so far into my book. In the beginning these are the main settings.

Fahrenheit 451

The begginng of Fahrenheit 451 ia already very strange to me. The author's writing style is very different from what I would chose to read. Ray was born on August 22, 1922 in Waukegan, Illinois. As a child, he was a huge fan of magicians, and a voracious reader of adventure and fantasy fiction. Bradbury decided to become a writer at about age 12 or 13.  To support himself he wrote, Bradbury sold newspapers. He published his first short story in a fan magazine in 1938, the same year he graduated from high school. He married Marguerite "Maggie" McClure, whom he met while she was working as a clerk at a bookstore. Bradbury's best-known work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, became an instant classic. Bradbury died in Los Angeles on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91.

predict

I predict the girl and her mom will not fit in at the very in. Something will go very wrong and ruin everything. I feel this because I feel like the story ending is to good to be true. I feel like there is some twist to it.

Ending

This book is winding down. The girl and her Mom are finally starting to adjust. They feel they can call this place their home. They feel more safe, relaxed and are just joyed to be fitting in.

Recommendation

This book got a little boring. I would recommend this book if you like a good ending. But if you dont like a book with really no suspense, action this book isn't for you, you might get bored. It's a great well thought out book, written very well in good detail. The author did a very nice job.

I would say this book is kinda a love story. Not in a boyfriend girlfriend way but by a  mom and daughter way. This girl and her Mom are struggling at first when they move but when they overcome the struggles they create this bond like no other.So if you like a good sappy story this might be for you.

theme

Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. The theme of this book is that it can be hard to adjust and move to another part of the world that's totally different. It can be very scary. Kimberly feels alone and is just lost doesnt know what to do. She has to overcome her struggles.

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The girl and her mom are forced to do all new different things that they did in Hong Kong. It's sort of a love story. Overcoming hardships and some people might be able to relate like the author or any who has moved far away.

society affects the individual

Society affects the little girl in my book because she has to face reality that she has moved. Her society in China might be way different than it is in the US. The people might be different, they might be nice while the other people in China are mean or the other way around. The clothing in the US is way different than in China. The food might be different in China than the US.

Describe how different characters deal with main conflict

The mom in the book who has just moved to the US has just kinda brushed off the fact she might not be used to the US and learned to live with the fact she had to move and there's nothing she can do. Her daughter on the other hand is handling it harder. She hasn't realized she just has to deal with it but I think in the end of the book she will adjust, learn english and make new friends.

Similar to my narrative

A moment in my book that epitomizes the personality of the main character is knowing she has to adjust to her surroundings because she just moved to the US from China. She has to adjust and deal with the language and the culture. She might now like it but she really has no choice because she has to stay here. This is like my character in my narrative because she has to deal with the way she plays softball. She gets nervous when she plays because of her coach but she just has to deal with it because she wants to stay and play on this team. Therefore, they both just kinda just have to deal with it and learn to like it. This is similar to each other.

How has my character changed

My character has changed from the beginning when she was first introduced. She couldn't really speak English and wasn't adapted to her surroundings. She was very uncomfortable. She is starting to adjust but sometimes it just goes back to the feeling of the beginning when she first came.

The main character in my book is similar to some tv shows and books I've read. She has moved and is adjusting to her new surroundings. She's nervous, doesn't know what to think. I've seen tv shows, movies with characters in the same situation. Most of those tv shows or movies I've seen, they end up adjusting or fitting in but it takes them almost the whole story to fit in. My summer reading book I read, the boy didn't move but never really went outside and wasn't aware of the surrondings of the outside world. He had to adjust and discover the outside and places he has never really been just like the girl in my book except she has moved.

A conversation I would like to have with the main character or questions I would like to ask her would be asking her how she has adjusted to America and ask how different it is for her. I would want to know her feelings, if she's feeling overwhelmed, excited, sad, etc. I would want to know how her Mom and family are adjusting as well. Maybe ask her how hard it is to understand the people around her since she can't really speak English. Ask her if she is learning how to speak English and if she is how it is going.

Girl in Translation: Why the author wrote this work

I haven't got very far in my book but far enough to understand the characters and what they're dealing with. This girl and her mom move from China over to America. She is struggling to speak good English and adjust. The house they have been proved is very gross, wasn't taken care of by the person who lived in it before, and is infested with bugs. I think the author wrote this book to show how much of a struggle it can be to move from one country to another, away from all your familiar surroundings, also friends and family, to learn another language and to make new friends.

Girl in Translation: real life issues

In the book "Girl in Translation", my character is chinese. So therefore she is from another country. She is from China and has just moved to America. She is adjusting to her surrondings which are probably totally new and way different then the way they are and do things back in her orginal home, China. Since she is from China and grew up there for the beginning part of her life, she speaks Chinese. Obviously coming over to America, that can be a big problem. Adjusting to another language and learing it is very hard and stressful. This is a real life issue for some people because when people get moved over to another country, they speak another language for the most part so they have to adjust to the county's launguage that they're not used too.  

Girl in Translation

I chose the book "Girl in Translation." I chose this book because I had orignally bought it on my Kindle to read for summer reading but ended up reading another book. So instead of it sitting on my Kindle unread, I should read it. I've honestly never really read a book like this. This isnt the type of book I would usually chose.




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