Face to Face

I thought this way very sad and it is so tragic the way other people had to experience this. Some were scared and feared for their lives, sometimes the first time. One woman did not want to go out at night or even drive her car by herself. She was scared that she would get harassed, or told to go back to their country, or spit on or worst attacked. Another lady was out in the rain and she was waiting for the bus. And this woman opened her window and told her to get off the porch “dirty jap” She was scared she might have got hurt. She had night mare about her face for months after words. I don’t understand how people could be so crude in this time of tragic. I would never say anything like that to someone. Then again times have changed. Some people were harassed so bad that they later hung or killed themselves. Where are the people that tried to stop that type of harassment? Why did it go on for so long!! This just makes me angry to hear these stories of what happened to these millions of people.

Reading Response:2 Revolution

The more I read the book the more I love it. Andi writes songs one of her songs which she’s never let anyone hear except this one time, a boy she likes asks her to sing it to him. His name is Virgil, she likes him a lot but he lives in Paris and they won’t be able to see each other that much if she went back to Brooklyn. She made the song for her mother after her brother died and her mother went crazy. Since Andi and her father went to Paris, her father put her mother in a psycho ward. Andi does not want her there she thinks that her mother has made but slight progress and thinks it will only make her worst. I think this song is very good it shows how much she cares for her mother and how much she wishes to fix it all.

“If I had coal and fire

And metal fine and true

I’d make an iron band

An iron band for you

I’d pick up all the pieces

From where they fell that day

Fit them back together

And take the pain away

But I don’t have the iron

Andi don’t have the steel

To wrap around your broken heart

And teach it how to heal

Somewhere in the fire

Somewhere in the pain

I’d find the magic that I need

To make you whole again

I’d make the iron band so strong

I’d make it gleam so bright

I’d fix the things I’ve broken

I’d turn my wrongs to right

But I don’t have the iron

And I don’t have the steel

To wrap around your broken heart

Wish I could make it heal

Wish I could make it heal”

 

Reading Response 1: Revolution

Revolution is about a teenage, named Andi Alpers, who has been in a very depressing mood. She is hurt and depressed because of a big event in her life. The event that happened was her little brother died. Her father has been even more distant since that particular event, he is too busy working. Her mother has gone a little insane, and keeps painting her son over and over again. Andi does not know how to handle how her mother is acting. Andi’s grades are failing at her private school, except for her music class which she spends all her time practicing for. Music has now become her life and a good escape for her since the accident.
I found a lot of quotes in this book very interesting. One I really admired is “I want the key,” he said. “The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It’s there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can just find it. That’s what I want,” he finished, softly.” I want the key.” I like this quote because it’s true everyone wants the key. I would love that key but once I had it I wouldn’t know what to do anymore. I don’t really know if once I was to obtain it if I would truly still want it. I think it would be like I want what I can’t have but then once I have it; it has no more value to me. This quote is very amusing and brings up a lot of wonder and even more questions for myself. I hope you enjoyed my summary, quote, and that you might want to read this book soon.