Families around the world slowly keep on falling apart. The families are still together but as generations go, they connect less. Families before would always be together and they would connect with things better because that was one of the many traditions in the past. The women and the daughters would cook and clean together and the men and their sons would hunt together. Now the children in the families are more apart. They have their own lives out of the house and they start to use that one more than the life in the house. Some families, according to how they were raised to be, don’t interact through out the day; the family members spend it doing their own things. By doing this, they families grow apart and when they need help from someone, they can’t trust their family to help. Other families are the opposite; they trust each other and spend most of their time together. These families are the ones that stick together and are the ones that are more alike to the ones that they had in the past. These families are all different and there are positive and negative things about bout of them. One type trusts each other and they can lean on each others shoulder for help, but the other is able to make mistakes on their own and learn from them.
In this article, the Castro family first doesn’t trust each other and later they do. When they do not trust each other, Fidel Castro orders a secretary for Raul Castro to help him do things right. They also do not talk to each other a lot. The family is so big that they don’t remember what job the other is in. Also in the news reports, they did not know exactly how many children and ex-wives he has had. I think this means that he didn’t tell anybody about them because he doesn’t care about them that much. In another part of the article, they say that Fidel Castro expected that, when he dies, his brother, Raul, would continue after him. Here it means that Fidel trusted his brother, along with other people, would be able to continue doing is job right. At the end of the article it talked about a baseball game in the end. At the baseball game a few of the family members were their. This shows me that they cared about Fidel that they went to the baseball game to watch. Also some of the family members had a job there.
In my family, I think that we would use both types of family’s. We all stick together and we trust each other. When we are stuck in a problem we always know that we have each other to go to for help, but we also know that we can try to resolve it alone. We feel as if we can try to be independent but we remember that we can trust the other person and be able to ask them for help. I think that this type of family is good because we all are able to make mistakes and learn from them but we are also able to ask each other for help. In our family we also know how to keep our own secrets. We each trust each other but still it is always good to have secrets and that is how we are.
lunes, 4 de agosto de 2008
domingo, 3 de agosto de 2008
Reflections for "Camp Justice" by Jeffrey Toobin
Discussions are what people use to change things and to get peoples ideas on how to change something. They discus about the situation and give their ideas to it so that the final solution is one that the greater amount of people agree on. Also it is a way for everybody to know that it was a fair decision. Changing things is always a hard thing to do and asking other peoples opinions to help them is what most people do. They talk with each other to finalize the situation and to come to an agreement. Getting to that agreement is also something that is hard. Obviously many people have their own ideas about something and they all want it to go their way so not many people let the other person win with the discussion. What people do is try to include everyone’s thought in the agreement but that is also very hard to do. This is why discussions can sometimes go on for a long period of time according to the importance of the situation.
In “Camp Justice”, Political parties are trying to get to an agreement about were they are going to put the prisoners of Guantanamo after they close it. In Guantanamo, they have many areas like Camp X-ray and Camp Delta. In these places they have different Camps were they keep different type of people. Some are the ones that carry useful information, others are “High Value” to them, and some are dangerous and so on. All these Camps have a very bad environment in which they do not treat the prisoners how it is expected in the US. They think that since the Camps are not in the US, they can treat them how they want. In the camps there are many prisoners that people thought it was at best to keep them their, they are many. This is why the question is: What will they do with all the prisoners once they decide to close Guantanamo? This question is a very hard one to answer and that is why the government is trying to make answers with discussions. I think that it is a very hard matter to discuss because many people have many different ideas about it. It is something that might be very important to discuss and very hard to include everyone’s ideas. One idea that was used was to use a national-security court. At the end they still do not have an answer to the question after all the discussions that they have. So one question I have is: When will they finally have the solution to this problem?
Discussion is something that also is present in my family a lot. Something that we do to try to keep the family more united (it works) is by resolving problems as a family. This involves discussions with all of us and finding a solution all together. This is something that we have been using in our family as long as I can remember so it is something that everyone is used to. If I could, I would even tell other people about our method and show them how useful it is to discuss all together. Not only does this keep us united, but it also help us remember that whenever we have a problem, we can talk to anybody from the family and be able to trust the family. This shows that discussions aren’t just useful to use in the government but also in families and everything else; it helps reach good solutions by listening to everyone’s ideas and in the end find the correct solution.
In “Camp Justice”, Political parties are trying to get to an agreement about were they are going to put the prisoners of Guantanamo after they close it. In Guantanamo, they have many areas like Camp X-ray and Camp Delta. In these places they have different Camps were they keep different type of people. Some are the ones that carry useful information, others are “High Value” to them, and some are dangerous and so on. All these Camps have a very bad environment in which they do not treat the prisoners how it is expected in the US. They think that since the Camps are not in the US, they can treat them how they want. In the camps there are many prisoners that people thought it was at best to keep them their, they are many. This is why the question is: What will they do with all the prisoners once they decide to close Guantanamo? This question is a very hard one to answer and that is why the government is trying to make answers with discussions. I think that it is a very hard matter to discuss because many people have many different ideas about it. It is something that might be very important to discuss and very hard to include everyone’s ideas. One idea that was used was to use a national-security court. At the end they still do not have an answer to the question after all the discussions that they have. So one question I have is: When will they finally have the solution to this problem?
Discussion is something that also is present in my family a lot. Something that we do to try to keep the family more united (it works) is by resolving problems as a family. This involves discussions with all of us and finding a solution all together. This is something that we have been using in our family as long as I can remember so it is something that everyone is used to. If I could, I would even tell other people about our method and show them how useful it is to discuss all together. Not only does this keep us united, but it also help us remember that whenever we have a problem, we can talk to anybody from the family and be able to trust the family. This shows that discussions aren’t just useful to use in the government but also in families and everything else; it helps reach good solutions by listening to everyone’s ideas and in the end find the correct solution.
miércoles, 30 de julio de 2008
Reflection for "Out of the darkness" by Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
Reading an interview of an author can tall you a lot about them and how they write. When I read about her life and learned about some of the violence in her life like her husband going to war, I thought that I new why she wrote suck a shocking story. When a writer writes, they some times, not intestinally, put some of their life in the story. Then when people read the stories that this author wrote, they can tell that he might have been hurt through out his/her life. A story can sometimes be read psychologically.
At the end of the interview she asks the questions. “What does war do to families? And what does war actually do to the common person, to the human being? I think that war hurts families very strongly. Anything that happens in a family that is strong, it will affect the family emotionally either in a negative or a positive way. And what war does to the human being is worse. The violence in the war is so strong that it can stay with you forever. It hurts you a lot emotionally to see that and it is something that is best for people not to see. It can stay with a human being for a life time and it is very hard to get through.
I, thankfully, never had to go through something that hurts someone that much. I have heard of a friend that had to go through something alike to war. It is something that separated her from her family and she will never be able to forget. I can not relate to this author because I am very different from her. I can though notice that she had a good life but with a few complications in it. Thoughts complications would always find their way out and made the best in her life.
Reflection for "The Night Bus" by Ada Udechukwu
Trust for me is something very powerful. It is hard to gain someone’s trust and to keep it might be harder for some people. Trust is being able to communicate with a person naturally; not having to be worried about what you do or say. Trust is being able to just talk to someone knowing that they will listen and not tell anybody else. It is hard to get the trust from somebody and keeping it is something that is nice to do. Some people even trust people with their lives. When you lose some ones trust, it hurts both people. It might be like losing a very close friend of yours because you will never be able to look or talk to the same. It is something that is strong and powerful in people and that it think it is great to have.
In the story “The Night Bus”, trust is shown. At first Uloma trusted Monye to tell her how to keep the money safe. The together were hiding the money and keeping each other safe from the robbers. Then finally when they sit together in the seats, they get close. In that part, Uloma trusted him with her body. Monye was the guy that she had decided that it was alright for to be close together. Then when he grabs the gun from her bag, she is thinking that everything would be alright because he is getting up to save her. He makes her believe this because he wanted to take advantage of her. Later on two robbers come in the bus and they rob Uloma. She is scared out of her mind but still does what the robbers tell her to do. Later they start to rape her. I think it was horrifying to find out that the man raping her was her boyfriend. She trusted him with her body and he took that trust away by taking advantage of her. She was stuck because she didn’t know if she should trust this person that she felt like she barley new. This was something disturbing to find out because he took the trust in the worst way possible.
In my family trust is also a very strong thing. Everyone knows already that we can trust each other and we always do. We can trust the other person with our life and we always did that. When trust is broken in our family, it is something horrible. It is like lying to your loved ones. Breaking the trust of someone to me is like breaking their heart. You will never be thought of or spoken of the same. Once trust is broken, you are a different person. Having trust in our family is one of the most important things that runs through it. This is why I was shocked in the story. It makes my think like that is the worst thing that could happen. I also have to remember that trust is broken a lot in life and that I have to be ready to take it.
In the story “The Night Bus”, trust is shown. At first Uloma trusted Monye to tell her how to keep the money safe. The together were hiding the money and keeping each other safe from the robbers. Then finally when they sit together in the seats, they get close. In that part, Uloma trusted him with her body. Monye was the guy that she had decided that it was alright for to be close together. Then when he grabs the gun from her bag, she is thinking that everything would be alright because he is getting up to save her. He makes her believe this because he wanted to take advantage of her. Later on two robbers come in the bus and they rob Uloma. She is scared out of her mind but still does what the robbers tell her to do. Later they start to rape her. I think it was horrifying to find out that the man raping her was her boyfriend. She trusted him with her body and he took that trust away by taking advantage of her. She was stuck because she didn’t know if she should trust this person that she felt like she barley new. This was something disturbing to find out because he took the trust in the worst way possible.
In my family trust is also a very strong thing. Everyone knows already that we can trust each other and we always do. We can trust the other person with our life and we always did that. When trust is broken in our family, it is something horrible. It is like lying to your loved ones. Breaking the trust of someone to me is like breaking their heart. You will never be thought of or spoken of the same. Once trust is broken, you are a different person. Having trust in our family is one of the most important things that runs through it. This is why I was shocked in the story. It makes my think like that is the worst thing that could happen. I also have to remember that trust is broken a lot in life and that I have to be ready to take it.
lunes, 28 de julio de 2008
Reflection2 for Peaches
The most important experiences in your life are the ones that you remember. Those experiences are the ones that taught you to be who you are and the ones that hold your mistakes. The ones that show you who you are are the experiences that came from the people you think as your role models. These people are usually your parents when you are little. When you learn from them, you start to use their way of living, ours. Because of them, you are who you are. As you go on in life, you start to meet people and you learn to change your self according to them. The more people you meet that are different to you, the more you learn and the more you can change who you are. This is what I think happened to Leeda, Birdie and Murphy. They came from different families that they learned to be like. Then when they met each other, the started to learn from each other and grow stronger.
Leeda grew up from a family in which every one had to be perfect. Her mother, grandmother and sister were always the top people in their neighborhood and she had to be just like them. She noticed that she was not like them and that she was unique to them. She was always pressured by her family to be the best. Her older sister was the one that got all the attention in her family so she grew up trying to follow by her steps. She found that whatever she did was not as good as her sister and that she would always be ignored. When she met Birdie and Murphy, she noticed that it was ok to be different. She was able to gain the strength to show her family that she was a good person even though she didn’t follow her sister’s steps. She learned that her mother always loved her even though she didn’t show it very well.
Birdie was from a family that fought a lot. Her parents were getting divorced when her favorite place, the orchard, was falling apart. She found her self caught in-between her parents. She was in the middle of something that she could not handle. She was supposed to take care of the orchard and fix her parents problems all by her self. Also, her parents started using her as a messenger. They started to take of all their steam on her just because she was there. When she was living with only her father, he was too sad about the divorce that he didn’t realize that her daughter was growing up. He was still treating her like a child until she gain the strength to tell him that she was growing up. Murphy and Leeda taught her to stand up for herself and show her father who she really was. Without her too friends, she wouldn’t have been able to stand up for herself when she was in problems.
Murphy came from a family with no father and an irresponsible mother. She learned from her mother that to get what you want; you have to fight and put your self on top of the other. Her mother was very young and was always dating other guys. She did not know how to raise her daughter. This is why her Murphy was always a trouble maker. She was a very good student but she was scared to show other people her strengths. She didn’t know how to show friendship to other people because then she would have to tell other people about her. She learned from her mother that she had to be secret. Leeda and Birdie taught Murphy to be nicer to people. They taught her that the violence was not the only way to get peoples attention. They showed her how to be more open to new things and new people. They were able to make her change and be able to become a better person.
These three girls came from very different families that were all missing something. They were all missing love. The three girls weren’t loved from anybody of their family. Birdie’s parents were too busy fighting. Murphy’s mother was too busy going out with guys. Leeda’s parents were too busy congratulating the older sister. None of them had love from their family so they gave it to each other. At the orchard they learned from each other and because they cared for each other, they were able to have love. Together they all felt like there was a reason to wake up the next morning.
Leeda grew up from a family in which every one had to be perfect. Her mother, grandmother and sister were always the top people in their neighborhood and she had to be just like them. She noticed that she was not like them and that she was unique to them. She was always pressured by her family to be the best. Her older sister was the one that got all the attention in her family so she grew up trying to follow by her steps. She found that whatever she did was not as good as her sister and that she would always be ignored. When she met Birdie and Murphy, she noticed that it was ok to be different. She was able to gain the strength to show her family that she was a good person even though she didn’t follow her sister’s steps. She learned that her mother always loved her even though she didn’t show it very well.
Birdie was from a family that fought a lot. Her parents were getting divorced when her favorite place, the orchard, was falling apart. She found her self caught in-between her parents. She was in the middle of something that she could not handle. She was supposed to take care of the orchard and fix her parents problems all by her self. Also, her parents started using her as a messenger. They started to take of all their steam on her just because she was there. When she was living with only her father, he was too sad about the divorce that he didn’t realize that her daughter was growing up. He was still treating her like a child until she gain the strength to tell him that she was growing up. Murphy and Leeda taught her to stand up for herself and show her father who she really was. Without her too friends, she wouldn’t have been able to stand up for herself when she was in problems.
Murphy came from a family with no father and an irresponsible mother. She learned from her mother that to get what you want; you have to fight and put your self on top of the other. Her mother was very young and was always dating other guys. She did not know how to raise her daughter. This is why her Murphy was always a trouble maker. She was a very good student but she was scared to show other people her strengths. She didn’t know how to show friendship to other people because then she would have to tell other people about her. She learned from her mother that she had to be secret. Leeda and Birdie taught Murphy to be nicer to people. They taught her that the violence was not the only way to get peoples attention. They showed her how to be more open to new things and new people. They were able to make her change and be able to become a better person.
These three girls came from very different families that were all missing something. They were all missing love. The three girls weren’t loved from anybody of their family. Birdie’s parents were too busy fighting. Murphy’s mother was too busy going out with guys. Leeda’s parents were too busy congratulating the older sister. None of them had love from their family so they gave it to each other. At the orchard they learned from each other and because they cared for each other, they were able to have love. Together they all felt like there was a reason to wake up the next morning.
sábado, 26 de julio de 2008
Reflection on Peaches
The way you are raised in your family is the way you learn how to act. When you are little, the people you follow and learn from is your family and mostly your parents. They are the people that are in control of your future because of how they raise you. They choose to raise you a certain way and that is the way you will live your life once you are old enough to go on without them. When you are with them, they are the people that tell you what to do and they are one of the only people that have the right to do that. They are the only people that are superior to you; with them you have to follow by their rules. Once you move on, you unintentionally keep on following those rules. They are the only rules that you’ve gone through so far so you unintentionally keep them. When this happens, it means that you are acting the way your family raised you. You later go out into the world using what you learned in your experience so far and by the rules that your parents taught you. The only way to change this is by meeting people that can teach you their way of living. With this you can learn other rules and then learn which ones are good for you.
In the book, Leeda, Murphy, and Birdie each have very different life styles. They each came from different families that taught their children different customs and they each have different characteristics that stand out. They are each very different and they have difficulties getting through some problems if they don’t have a certain characteristic. When they got together at the peach orchard, they noticed how different they were to each other. Once they started to get along, they realized that they could help each other get through problems. This was because each of the girls had something that they other didn’t. They could teach each other those things and then they would all be stronger. After they learned about each other, they noticed that Birdie was a lot stronger than before, Leeda was not as perfect as everyone thought, and that Murphy was not as strong as everyone thought.
When I meet new people, I easily notice if they are strong or weak. I notice how they are with people and alone. If I make friends with them, then I either take some of their characteristics or they take some of mine. Since I have met a lot of people, I have learned a lot about them and I can get stronger. I learn from them and as I do this I can get stronger as well as them. This can happen because I can learn how they react to new places. If I am not good at that, then I can learn from him and I can have this characteristic. This happens to everyone with out even realizing it.
In the book, Leeda, Murphy, and Birdie each have very different life styles. They each came from different families that taught their children different customs and they each have different characteristics that stand out. They are each very different and they have difficulties getting through some problems if they don’t have a certain characteristic. When they got together at the peach orchard, they noticed how different they were to each other. Once they started to get along, they realized that they could help each other get through problems. This was because each of the girls had something that they other didn’t. They could teach each other those things and then they would all be stronger. After they learned about each other, they noticed that Birdie was a lot stronger than before, Leeda was not as perfect as everyone thought, and that Murphy was not as strong as everyone thought.
When I meet new people, I easily notice if they are strong or weak. I notice how they are with people and alone. If I make friends with them, then I either take some of their characteristics or they take some of mine. Since I have met a lot of people, I have learned a lot about them and I can get stronger. I learn from them and as I do this I can get stronger as well as them. This can happen because I can learn how they react to new places. If I am not good at that, then I can learn from him and I can have this characteristic. This happens to everyone with out even realizing it.
jueves, 24 de julio de 2008
Annotations for Peaches by Jodi Lynnn Anderson
Peaches:
-Page 3. “Murphy was as a girl could be.” What does that mean?
-Page 11. “Sorry, Gavin said, then turned and sprinted leaving her behind.” Why did he leave her and not help her up?
-Page 15. “Every time Leeda’s sister, Danay, came home for the weekend, which was just about every other weekend, their mom spent most of her time gazing at her in awe.” Is she jealous?
-Page 18. “With her mother, Leeda acted a lot.” Her mother doesn’t understand her.
-Page 21. “At times like this, she wanted him more than ever.” She has someone to go to when she is hurt, that is good.
-Page 24. “You were my little bad lucky charm” This is something that she shouldn’t tell her daughter; it could hurt her.
-Page 27. “Horatio Balmeade was the Darlingtons’ only neighbor.” Does she have friends?
-Page 28. “They were so much family that Birdie couldn’t imagine life without them.” They are close to her.
-Page 31. “She fell backward into the grass. So much for luck.” She was nervous.
-Page 33. “Not if I die of boredom first” Murphy is not used to this type of stuff. She is more of a city girl I think.
-Page 37. “Birdie’s bottom lip quivered.” Birdie was just trying to help Murphy.
-Page 41. “Birdie didn’t chitchat.” Birdie doesn’t have a lot of friends so she gets nervous when she has to talk to someone her age.
-Page 49. “I’m in your bio class.” Murphy and Leeda are getting along.
-Page 53. “Birdie has always wanted Leeda to be her friends, and she still had no idea why.” I think it is because she doesn’t have a good social life so she is trying to ‘hang out’ with Leeda who she thinks is ‘cool’.
-Page 54. “Birdie, you’re just like your mother.” This was harsh on Birdie.
-Page 56. “Birdie why don’t you make friends like Leeda does?” Birdie is trying as hard as she can to make friends and her dad isn’t appreciating it.
-Page 57. “We could go to Smoaky Lake… how about we sit in the AC watching a movie?” Birdie is more of a nature girl and Leeda is more of an inside girl.
-Page 63. “The orchard was the world to them, that they’d never seen Taco Bell.” She’s noticing that she is not in a different world; she is in someone else’s world.
-Page 64. “Every few minutes someone made an effort to include her.” They are nice to her when she doesn’t even care about them.
-Page 71. “They both went tumbling down, laughing, sending glossy rings rippling across the lake.” They are getting along. This was surprising; I thought they wouldn’t get along.
-Page 74. “How can you not like trees? It’s like not liking water, or the sun, or breathing.” Now Murphy is getting used to the nature.
-Page 83. “Leeda, her cousin, whom she’d known her entire life, had snuck out with Murphy while she, Birdie, had gone to bed at ten o’clock.” She was left out. She wasn’t part of the group.
-Page 84. “Yeah, okay. Whatever. She scowled at the dogs, at Birdie, then trudged up the stairs.” Murphy isn’t even trying to be nice to Birdie. This probably hurts Birdie and she doesn’t defend herself.
-Page 88. “You could blame him for not wanting to flirt with a chubby girl with a mustache.” She thinks so badly of her self.
-Page 90. “Maybe it’s better for him to get out of farming.” You can’t give away something that has been your whole life that easy.
-Page 94. “Birdie said, I’ll see you.” Murphy and Birdie had a good conversation. Maybe Murphy noticed how lonely Birdie is.
-Page 100. “She wanted to help. She wanted to belong with people who helped one another.” She realized that the life she has to go back too is not a very good one and she want to be part of something.
-Page 102. “Birdie just couldn’t believe how good people could be. And also how disappointing.” Birdie didn’t do anything wrong to them and they let her down.
-Page 103. “Not everyone is as, um, strong… not everyone cares like you. That is it.” Enrico noticed how good of a girl Birdie is and he helped her see that. I like how much she helps people and how unselfish she is.
-Page 112. “Maybe it would be better if I got out of your hair.” Her parents don’t pay attention tow her. She needs someone that loves her.
-Page 117. “Birdie had thought maybe she was reconsidering the divorce. Now it seemed it was just becoming more concrete.” She’s not giving time to think about what is going on. This is too hard on Birdie.
-Page 119. “If her dad had given up and her mom had given up, then how could she hold things together on her own?” Birdie is going through a hard time.
-Page 122. “I don’t need an escort, Murphy said” She’s smart and she doesn’t care what other people think but she strands up for her self.
-Page 127. “When she saw Leeda, she lifted her head slightly and just said simply, you.” They are friends for a while then at school they are not. Does this help them?
-Page 131. “More exhausted then she’d ever been in her life, and also more drained.” She cares a lot about the peaches. This time she is stronger.
-Page 134. “During each commercial break Birdie tried to think of something to say.” She is strong enough to go talk to him this time. They are both very nervous.
-Page 137. “She’d never felt more desperate for someone to talk to. And there was no one.” She needs someone that loves her and that she can trust.
-Page 140. “She never would have imagined that Murphy could look so defeated or that she would want anyone to see her that way.” Just like Birdie, she needs someone to talk to.
-Page 141. “I was wondering if maybe you’d take me to sneak out.” She gained confidence in herself.
-Page 145. “Murphy was doing laps, and Leeda was sitting on the edge of the lake.” She is having fun for the first time in a long time.
-Page 148. “She had this uneasy feeling that she didn’t want to let Birdie down.” Now Murphy also noticed how good of a person Birdie is.
-Page 151. As if she was wondering if they were really friends yet or strangers again.” I think they are friends.
-Page 157. “She didn’t rally know Murphy or even her cousin, at all… it felt like Birdie and Murphy might turn out to be friends like that…Leeda was happy.” They don’t know each other but they are friends.
-Page 162. “It was like they had double lives, separated distinctly into night and day.” They all needed someone that loved them so now they have each other. Maybe they will help Birdie with Enrico.
-Page 166. “How had Murphy noticed when she hadn’t?” They learn about each other by observing.
-Page 170. “I just love crazy people like this.” They are having fun and helping Birdie.
-Page 175. “Next time we’ll call someone else.” They were having fun but Rex was trying to keep them safe.
-Page 179. “It felt weird to have Birdie and Leeda go off with ought her.” She was used to her being the boss and the center of attention.
-Page 182. “Murphy walked back to her garden and did some more work.” She has something to do when she is alone.
-Page 184. “Sometimes Leeda was stunned at how perfect her sister was.” When she is with her sister, she thinks little of herself.
-Page 187. “She really did love Danay better.” It hurts her to know that her family doesn’t love her.
-Page 188. “Will you guys come with me to the engagement party?” They are sticking together. They are all very different but they get along.
-Page 189. “She was not going to do what she’d done last time, with the Band-Aid.” Her friends helped her gain this courage.
-Page 191. “Then he pulled back, fanning the pages of the books against his fingers.” She had the courage but he isn’t helping her.
-Page 193. “Thanks for coming with me, you guys.” They help each other a lot.
-Page 196. “I wonder what those papers are.” I think they want to know because they don’t want it to hurt her.
-Page 198. “Trust me, you’ll feel much better.” They each have different ways of living and they are showing each other it.
-Page 201. “Lucretia, who wanted only one child and was more than satisfied with the one she had.” This is why she doesn’t love her daughter.
-Page 204. “As they started across the lawn, two faces loomed out at Leeda.” Her friends come to support her.
-Page 206. “In fact, she’d never managed to act this mannerly for this long in her entire life.” She is working hard to please Leeda.
-Page 210. “She needs me” They need each other. They all came from different families were they aren’t loved. Now they have each other.
-Page 215. “You okay, Tweety Bird?” They worry about each other.
-Page 217. “It was like it all didn’t work quite right without the three of them.” They are all different but they connect.
-Page 219. “She wanted to share her success with someone other than two Papillion’s.” Her two friends changed her; before the orchard she wouldn’t have wanted to show anybody her success.
-Page 222. “But Rex poked her ribs and, like a little kid, she laughed and felt stupid for being jealous.
-Page 224. “The last days of the harvest were passing by.” Birdie was finally making friends and she was happy. Her dad is taking that away from her.
-Page 227. “The lump in Murphy’s throat was so big that she couldn’t speak.” Just like they once needed her, she needs them now.
-Page 231. “Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.” But she was still loyal to them and she still loves them.
-Page 238. “She’d never done something this bad, ever, but she felt like an old pro at it.” She got this from Murphy. They all helped each other become better people.
-Page 240. “And maybe it was partly because this was the last of it, and it would never happen this way again.” This is their last night together. What will happen when they separate?
-Page 242. “The old Murphy would have pounded on the door anyway. But this one shuffled back into her room.” The ‘old’ Murphy wasn’t her anymore. Her friends changed her in a good way.
-Page 245. “Leeda’s my friend” I like that she did this. She cares about Leeda.
-Page 251. “Leeda took off down the stairs two at a time and slammed out onto the porch.” Their friendship is falling apart. They all had good things and together they were perfect. I don’t want them to separate.
-Page 255. “Okay, sweetie.” Leeda is mad at the wrong person.
-Page 257. “I guess what I’m saying is we’re lucky to be stuck.” She loved her sister the whole time but just realized it.
-Page 260. “Finally she turned toward the orchard.” She felt happy and safe in the orchard.
-Page 263. “My dear, duh. My car can make it al the way to Texas.” Murphy went back to Birdie and will help her get the boy she wanted.
-Page 265. “I need you guys to get along. I need Leeda to come too.” They all need each other.
-Page 274. “Enrico, standing in a cloud of dust, coughing and looking as love stuck as anyone she’d ever seen.” What will happen now?
-Page 279. “I’ll probably never see you guys again. I can’t stand either of you!” Birdie finally exploded with all her secrets and thoughts.
-Page 282. “Birdie, this is a bad storm. We’ve gotta get inside.” They care about her.
-Page 287. “It would take at least two years for their trees to bear fruit.” This is a miracle. This will keep the girls together.
-Page 289. “Murphy knew what she had, in fact, always known. That it was she who was the coward.” Without her friends, she wouldn’t have realized this.
-Page 293. “It’s funny; you said it was easy to be jealous of a sister like me. I’ve always felt the same about you.” Leeda is original, not a clone of her mother.
-Page 295. “The fact is, you’re the guy who broke up me and Murphy.” She realized that Murphy was better than Rex.
-Page 298. “I exist, dad. It’s my life too.” She wasn’t this strong before to face up to her dad.
-Page 303. “You’re gonna be my boyfriends right?... I’ve never had one.” She makes everyone feel like she is superior but now she is not.
-Page 306. “They were finally complete.” If one was missing then it wasn’t the same. There were made to stick together not to fight and stay apart.
-Page 311. “This time they would know.” With out each other they were nobody. They were best friends from the start. I like the ending.
-Page 3. “Murphy was as a girl could be.” What does that mean?
-Page 11. “Sorry, Gavin said, then turned and sprinted leaving her behind.” Why did he leave her and not help her up?
-Page 15. “Every time Leeda’s sister, Danay, came home for the weekend, which was just about every other weekend, their mom spent most of her time gazing at her in awe.” Is she jealous?
-Page 18. “With her mother, Leeda acted a lot.” Her mother doesn’t understand her.
-Page 21. “At times like this, she wanted him more than ever.” She has someone to go to when she is hurt, that is good.
-Page 24. “You were my little bad lucky charm” This is something that she shouldn’t tell her daughter; it could hurt her.
-Page 27. “Horatio Balmeade was the Darlingtons’ only neighbor.” Does she have friends?
-Page 28. “They were so much family that Birdie couldn’t imagine life without them.” They are close to her.
-Page 31. “She fell backward into the grass. So much for luck.” She was nervous.
-Page 33. “Not if I die of boredom first” Murphy is not used to this type of stuff. She is more of a city girl I think.
-Page 37. “Birdie’s bottom lip quivered.” Birdie was just trying to help Murphy.
-Page 41. “Birdie didn’t chitchat.” Birdie doesn’t have a lot of friends so she gets nervous when she has to talk to someone her age.
-Page 49. “I’m in your bio class.” Murphy and Leeda are getting along.
-Page 53. “Birdie has always wanted Leeda to be her friends, and she still had no idea why.” I think it is because she doesn’t have a good social life so she is trying to ‘hang out’ with Leeda who she thinks is ‘cool’.
-Page 54. “Birdie, you’re just like your mother.” This was harsh on Birdie.
-Page 56. “Birdie why don’t you make friends like Leeda does?” Birdie is trying as hard as she can to make friends and her dad isn’t appreciating it.
-Page 57. “We could go to Smoaky Lake… how about we sit in the AC watching a movie?” Birdie is more of a nature girl and Leeda is more of an inside girl.
-Page 63. “The orchard was the world to them, that they’d never seen Taco Bell.” She’s noticing that she is not in a different world; she is in someone else’s world.
-Page 64. “Every few minutes someone made an effort to include her.” They are nice to her when she doesn’t even care about them.
-Page 71. “They both went tumbling down, laughing, sending glossy rings rippling across the lake.” They are getting along. This was surprising; I thought they wouldn’t get along.
-Page 74. “How can you not like trees? It’s like not liking water, or the sun, or breathing.” Now Murphy is getting used to the nature.
-Page 83. “Leeda, her cousin, whom she’d known her entire life, had snuck out with Murphy while she, Birdie, had gone to bed at ten o’clock.” She was left out. She wasn’t part of the group.
-Page 84. “Yeah, okay. Whatever. She scowled at the dogs, at Birdie, then trudged up the stairs.” Murphy isn’t even trying to be nice to Birdie. This probably hurts Birdie and she doesn’t defend herself.
-Page 88. “You could blame him for not wanting to flirt with a chubby girl with a mustache.” She thinks so badly of her self.
-Page 90. “Maybe it’s better for him to get out of farming.” You can’t give away something that has been your whole life that easy.
-Page 94. “Birdie said, I’ll see you.” Murphy and Birdie had a good conversation. Maybe Murphy noticed how lonely Birdie is.
-Page 100. “She wanted to help. She wanted to belong with people who helped one another.” She realized that the life she has to go back too is not a very good one and she want to be part of something.
-Page 102. “Birdie just couldn’t believe how good people could be. And also how disappointing.” Birdie didn’t do anything wrong to them and they let her down.
-Page 103. “Not everyone is as, um, strong… not everyone cares like you. That is it.” Enrico noticed how good of a girl Birdie is and he helped her see that. I like how much she helps people and how unselfish she is.
-Page 112. “Maybe it would be better if I got out of your hair.” Her parents don’t pay attention tow her. She needs someone that loves her.
-Page 117. “Birdie had thought maybe she was reconsidering the divorce. Now it seemed it was just becoming more concrete.” She’s not giving time to think about what is going on. This is too hard on Birdie.
-Page 119. “If her dad had given up and her mom had given up, then how could she hold things together on her own?” Birdie is going through a hard time.
-Page 122. “I don’t need an escort, Murphy said” She’s smart and she doesn’t care what other people think but she strands up for her self.
-Page 127. “When she saw Leeda, she lifted her head slightly and just said simply, you.” They are friends for a while then at school they are not. Does this help them?
-Page 131. “More exhausted then she’d ever been in her life, and also more drained.” She cares a lot about the peaches. This time she is stronger.
-Page 134. “During each commercial break Birdie tried to think of something to say.” She is strong enough to go talk to him this time. They are both very nervous.
-Page 137. “She’d never felt more desperate for someone to talk to. And there was no one.” She needs someone that loves her and that she can trust.
-Page 140. “She never would have imagined that Murphy could look so defeated or that she would want anyone to see her that way.” Just like Birdie, she needs someone to talk to.
-Page 141. “I was wondering if maybe you’d take me to sneak out.” She gained confidence in herself.
-Page 145. “Murphy was doing laps, and Leeda was sitting on the edge of the lake.” She is having fun for the first time in a long time.
-Page 148. “She had this uneasy feeling that she didn’t want to let Birdie down.” Now Murphy also noticed how good of a person Birdie is.
-Page 151. As if she was wondering if they were really friends yet or strangers again.” I think they are friends.
-Page 157. “She didn’t rally know Murphy or even her cousin, at all… it felt like Birdie and Murphy might turn out to be friends like that…Leeda was happy.” They don’t know each other but they are friends.
-Page 162. “It was like they had double lives, separated distinctly into night and day.” They all needed someone that loved them so now they have each other. Maybe they will help Birdie with Enrico.
-Page 166. “How had Murphy noticed when she hadn’t?” They learn about each other by observing.
-Page 170. “I just love crazy people like this.” They are having fun and helping Birdie.
-Page 175. “Next time we’ll call someone else.” They were having fun but Rex was trying to keep them safe.
-Page 179. “It felt weird to have Birdie and Leeda go off with ought her.” She was used to her being the boss and the center of attention.
-Page 182. “Murphy walked back to her garden and did some more work.” She has something to do when she is alone.
-Page 184. “Sometimes Leeda was stunned at how perfect her sister was.” When she is with her sister, she thinks little of herself.
-Page 187. “She really did love Danay better.” It hurts her to know that her family doesn’t love her.
-Page 188. “Will you guys come with me to the engagement party?” They are sticking together. They are all very different but they get along.
-Page 189. “She was not going to do what she’d done last time, with the Band-Aid.” Her friends helped her gain this courage.
-Page 191. “Then he pulled back, fanning the pages of the books against his fingers.” She had the courage but he isn’t helping her.
-Page 193. “Thanks for coming with me, you guys.” They help each other a lot.
-Page 196. “I wonder what those papers are.” I think they want to know because they don’t want it to hurt her.
-Page 198. “Trust me, you’ll feel much better.” They each have different ways of living and they are showing each other it.
-Page 201. “Lucretia, who wanted only one child and was more than satisfied with the one she had.” This is why she doesn’t love her daughter.
-Page 204. “As they started across the lawn, two faces loomed out at Leeda.” Her friends come to support her.
-Page 206. “In fact, she’d never managed to act this mannerly for this long in her entire life.” She is working hard to please Leeda.
-Page 210. “She needs me” They need each other. They all came from different families were they aren’t loved. Now they have each other.
-Page 215. “You okay, Tweety Bird?” They worry about each other.
-Page 217. “It was like it all didn’t work quite right without the three of them.” They are all different but they connect.
-Page 219. “She wanted to share her success with someone other than two Papillion’s.” Her two friends changed her; before the orchard she wouldn’t have wanted to show anybody her success.
-Page 222. “But Rex poked her ribs and, like a little kid, she laughed and felt stupid for being jealous.
-Page 224. “The last days of the harvest were passing by.” Birdie was finally making friends and she was happy. Her dad is taking that away from her.
-Page 227. “The lump in Murphy’s throat was so big that she couldn’t speak.” Just like they once needed her, she needs them now.
-Page 231. “Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.” But she was still loyal to them and she still loves them.
-Page 238. “She’d never done something this bad, ever, but she felt like an old pro at it.” She got this from Murphy. They all helped each other become better people.
-Page 240. “And maybe it was partly because this was the last of it, and it would never happen this way again.” This is their last night together. What will happen when they separate?
-Page 242. “The old Murphy would have pounded on the door anyway. But this one shuffled back into her room.” The ‘old’ Murphy wasn’t her anymore. Her friends changed her in a good way.
-Page 245. “Leeda’s my friend” I like that she did this. She cares about Leeda.
-Page 251. “Leeda took off down the stairs two at a time and slammed out onto the porch.” Their friendship is falling apart. They all had good things and together they were perfect. I don’t want them to separate.
-Page 255. “Okay, sweetie.” Leeda is mad at the wrong person.
-Page 257. “I guess what I’m saying is we’re lucky to be stuck.” She loved her sister the whole time but just realized it.
-Page 260. “Finally she turned toward the orchard.” She felt happy and safe in the orchard.
-Page 263. “My dear, duh. My car can make it al the way to Texas.” Murphy went back to Birdie and will help her get the boy she wanted.
-Page 265. “I need you guys to get along. I need Leeda to come too.” They all need each other.
-Page 274. “Enrico, standing in a cloud of dust, coughing and looking as love stuck as anyone she’d ever seen.” What will happen now?
-Page 279. “I’ll probably never see you guys again. I can’t stand either of you!” Birdie finally exploded with all her secrets and thoughts.
-Page 282. “Birdie, this is a bad storm. We’ve gotta get inside.” They care about her.
-Page 287. “It would take at least two years for their trees to bear fruit.” This is a miracle. This will keep the girls together.
-Page 289. “Murphy knew what she had, in fact, always known. That it was she who was the coward.” Without her friends, she wouldn’t have realized this.
-Page 293. “It’s funny; you said it was easy to be jealous of a sister like me. I’ve always felt the same about you.” Leeda is original, not a clone of her mother.
-Page 295. “The fact is, you’re the guy who broke up me and Murphy.” She realized that Murphy was better than Rex.
-Page 298. “I exist, dad. It’s my life too.” She wasn’t this strong before to face up to her dad.
-Page 303. “You’re gonna be my boyfriends right?... I’ve never had one.” She makes everyone feel like she is superior but now she is not.
-Page 306. “They were finally complete.” If one was missing then it wasn’t the same. There were made to stick together not to fight and stay apart.
-Page 311. “This time they would know.” With out each other they were nobody. They were best friends from the start. I like the ending.
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