realistic fiction book I chose to read was Bloomability. This book was written by Sharon Creech and was published in 1998 by Harper Trophy of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. It was written on the reading level of ages 8 - 12‚ or grades 5 8. Bloomability has won the following awards: IRA/CBC Children ’s Choices 1999‚ Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Award 1998‚ and Chicago Public Library Best Books 1998. Sharon Creech uses her life as a basis for many of her books‚ and Bloomability is no exception
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Review on “bloomability” By Sharon Creech The title is a newly configured word created by the author‚ which combines the meaning of the words “bloom”‚ and “ability”. This also encapsulates the meaning of possibility. In this book the main character “Dominique” (Dinnie)‚ has many opportunities. She considers them as burdens rather than possibilities. Her father had rather unsteady and unstable professions. He could not hold a permanent job for long periods. The family
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Why do people spend time worrying about things in the past‚ when they have so much future ahead of them? In the award winning novel‚ Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech‚ a mysterious note is dropped off on the Winterbottom’s front porch: “In the course of a lifetime‚ what does is matter?” Through this metaphor‚ this message is trying to reveal to people that they should not fret the things in life that won’t matter in a few days‚ months‚ or the course of a lifetime. Even thinking about events that occurred
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Sharon Salzberg Sharon Salzberg is a remarkable lady who has spent her life devoted to insight meditation in order to find peace for the tragic loses of both her mother and father when she was young. She first encountered Buddhism in an Asian Philosophy class while she was at the State University in Buffalo‚ New York. This was in 1969 and it seemed to inspire her so much that the next year she decided to take an independent study trip to India. During her trip to India‚ she wanted to find‚ “
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In addition‚ Gram and Gramps also helped Sal accept her mother’s death. Within the book‚ on page 143 Gram says to Sal‚ “Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone‚ but you have to go away before your head can figure it out” (Creech 143). I can infer‚ that Gram was trying to explain to Sal that her mother didn’t leave because of her‚ but to clear her mind. Gram saying this to Sal was important for Sal’s knowing that her mother didn’t leave because of the baby that died before birth. Along with
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Don’t judge others because people and things may not be what they seem. This is the common theme of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and “The Guest” retold by Uma Krishnaswami. The theme in both stories was developed through the characterization. Walk Two Moons teaches the lesson of don’t judge others because people and things may not be what they seem through her thoughts. In the novel sal states “I started wondering if the birds of sadness nested in her hair.” This shows Sal is starting to understand
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suffering and change the lives of many. The poem sets up a true meaning of what reality really is and can be seen and interpreted through the different perspectives by the child‚ reader and audience. The child in the poem in “Still Life in Landscape” by Sharon Olds interprets the poem as being reality and see’s for herself the dangers that exist. The child’s description of what she sees send a strong image to the reader that reality does exist and these things happen everyday. The gruesome imagery in this
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Enc1102 Daughters‚ A Mother’s Replacement Sharon Olds explains “the oldest story we have on our planet (line 17)” in her poem 35/10‚ the story of replacement. Mother daughter replacement‚ when the daughter enters the stage of full bodily maturity as the mother’s days fade and she no longer has sharpened looks nor the ability to produce young. At this time‚ the mother is forced to hand over the women duties and believe in her heart that she has lead her daughter down the right path that
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Kenyana Savage Mrs. Love Hilliard Creative Writing 30 September 2016 Last Night Love is sacred. The goosebumps painted on the skin are worthless without it. “Last Night”‚ written by Sharon Olds‚ is a perfect reflection of how being in love has a profound effect when in relation to intimacy. Olds compares her experience while being in love‚ to her experience when her feelings for her partner are neutral. Throughout this piece Olds conveys her message with the use of similes‚ repetition‚ imagery
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of things such as accidents‚ pregnant women‚ and cancer. First‚ she was afraid of accidents because her uncle died when a tractor flipped over on him. From the book “I prayed that we would not be in an accident (I was terrified of cars and buses)”(Creech 7). In this sentence Sal is describes that her fear is from accidents. Sal was afraid of pregnant women because they remind her of the incident that happened to her mother. When her mother was eight months pregnant‚ Sal fell from the branches of a
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