March: a reflection

Dear John Lewis,

 

      The book “March” is very compelling. How it starts off with the Church and the intense set of events that occur right after. This book is about how you and many other civil rights leaders fought for the rights of everyone. How the communities were split up with one side fighting for equal rights and the other side is to keep segregation. This book also goes from the present 2009 to 1963 when you meet the new president of the United States.

        When I was reading the book, the imagery made it feel even more powerful because I was actually seeing how it happened. It wasn’t just my imagination but someone else’s memory put on to drawings. The part that had really shocked was when those four little girls were killed in the church and the only thing left to see was her shoe. It made me think about how much society has changed since the 1960s, but at the same time shows how much more we have to go. Because although we are “equal”, there are a lot of problems that  I was wondering why you decided to start the book off that way, what was the reason for starting in a severe way. 

            A solution that I would like to propose would be, to have gathered more national attention for the death of those little girls and the two young men and state what the cause of hate could do to communities so that the rest of the people and the citizens could see what was happening in the south. 

                            

                                                                                           Sincerely, 

                                                                                                      Carmen Guzman

 

little animals

When i was around 6 to 7 my mom would always read and teach me how to read this little book of stories of characters full of animals and what they would go through in where they lived. Specifically, there was a story about a little elephant who became upset at the fact that her trunk couldn’t wrap around the tree when reaching for the branches . She had become so upset about that fact and had thrown a fit.

image of the blogger at 6
Carmen Guzman,Kindergarten.

Later on however, as she walked away, she walked in to another tree, that was smaller than the other trees,but perfect for her. After that incident, she was very content. That short story always made me excited to read this book and would become happy when i would successfully read through it on my own with no help . This book was in spanish and would sometimes make it difficult for me to alternate in between English and Spanish . I do believe however, that it helped fuel my curiosity to read. 

 

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