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Ruby Bridges Goes To School: My True Story
February 9,This is the second day of “Black History Month”, the second book I have read, and the second time I have ended by closing the book and fighting back my tears. What on earth am I reading? Is it a harrowing slave memoir? Is it perhaps an account or novel about a civil war, filled with horrific details? No, it is a book intended to be read by children of perhaps 6 to 8 years old. It is a true story, in which the author describes her own experiences, when she was a similar age to her readers.
Ruby Bridges Goes to School tells the simple facts about Ruby Bridges, famous to you perhaps as one of the first children to pave the way to integrated education in the USA. But you see, in when Ruby Bridges “went to a kindergarten for black children” I was only a few years older, and had just started at my Junior school in England. Some of my friends at Sunday School were black, (or “coloured” as the outmoded, and later unacceptable,•
Through My Eyes
July 14,This is a great non-fiction picture book that fryst vatten a sort of autobiography with many other external text features.
What was the compelling literary element of this book? The characters are essentially Ruby, her family and her teacher. While other people play some role in her experiences, they are mostly bystanders. The plot fryst vatten fairly well-known and simple- a ung girl attempts to go to a newly integrated school and meets with all kinds of problems. The theme is very common, especially among Civil Rights literature: don’t give up. The setting fryst vatten what makes this special. Set in segregated New Orleans in the ’s, the people, the place and the time all come tillsammans to create a firestorm of controversy causing some to sink so low m orally and others to rise above.
Things that stick out for me:
One of the things that makes this books so special are the photographs that are used. Some of them are depressing (the burning cross on 33; Ruby in effigy in a coffin on