Thursday, March 30, 2017

The second half of I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister seems absolutely ethically immoral. In the U.S. there is freedom of religion, we have the right to express ourselves as we please, especially if it is included into the religion someone practices. While I'm not sure what the laws were in France for expressing of religion, Sophane gets expelled from school for wearing a jihab. This is completely discrimination based off of how someone looks. Even though Sophane is allowed back in school, she decided not to go, but who would blame her? 
Djelila has a successful basketball game and decided to go and celebrate after with her friends. Djelila is more of a partier so it's no surprise that she comes back home drunk to Sophane waiting for her. While she is drunk, she goes up to one of the neighborhood gang members, Majid, who slapped Djelila in the face, and slaps him across the face because of what he did to her. This event is what leads to the murder of Djelila done by Majid. The rest of the book talks about Sophane dealing with her sister's death where it finishes off at her sisters memorial, where Sophane wears a jihab.

Monday, March 27, 2017

I love I Hate I Miss My Sister comes out to be a relatively sad story. The story starts with a women's march for Djelila, who is one of the sisters that was murdered. Sohane the other sister, begins to think about all the events that led up to her sister being murdered. You can pick up on the sense that Djelila is a very good looking girl, a bit different from her sister. Djelila likes to go out with boys seems to care about the way she looks more than her sister, SohaneSohane and Djelila live in a poor Muslim neighborhood with their parents and brothers. Now being in a poor neighborhood there are some people that should not be confronted. There's a group of Muslim boys that seem to be a little sketchy and when they run into Sohane and Djelila there is a bit of conflict. This makes me think though, could these kids be the reason Djelila was murdered....
https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/1940925/Reviews

Monday, March 13, 2017

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of The Universe

This book is definitely much more different then what I though it would be. Just reading the title of the book I thought the story would almost be a fictional imaginary story line in the imagination of the characters, but that's why you never judge a book by its cover. What the story is really about is two polar opposite characters named Aristotle and Dante, they both appreciate each others company and grow as they continue through different experiences. Dante is a very open person who seems to really love life while Aristotle seems sad lonely and just doesn't know whats going on in his life. They both meet at there local swimming pool and love how they both have interesting names. Their friendship grows when Dante teaches Aristotle to swim. This is a refreshing read and really makes you feel good about life.
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/20/172495550/discovering-sexuality-through-teen-lit
https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/nov/13/review-aristotle-and-dante-discover-secrets-universe-benjamin-alire-saenz
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AristotleAndDanteDiscoverTheSecretsOfTheUniverse