Blog #1

I think the main character, Lala, is a very curious girl in everything she does. She seems to take note of absolutely everything that's happening around her. When Lala talks about crossing the border from the U.S. to Mexico she observes things with all five senses. In this, she's also very curious. However, I think she's also very innocent and at some times clueless, which is expected since she is a young girl. This is sometimes frustrating as a reader because I can't fully understand a situation from her description, like when her parents are fighting. I relate to her because I think I'm pretty observant of people around me. Also, she's the youngest in her family and has brothers. I too am the youngest and have an older brother. I think the things that Lala needs to learn to fix her mistakes are normal things that will come with age like learning appropriate behavior in different situations like when she refuses to eat her grandmother's mole. Lala is influenced by her family because those are basically the only people she's spending time with in the book. Also, I think her family entertains her since she's always talking about different details of her family's life. For example, she's intrigued by what her grandmother does doing her alone time.

Week One!

Welcome to Week 1 of our Discussion. This discussion will last from Monday, February 23rd to Sunday, March 1.

This week's discussion is on Character. Please POST a 10 sentence comment on character. Don't forget to comment on 5 other posts on this blog. You have all week to complete this assignment, but don't wait until the last minute!!!

ARE YOU GOING TO READ THIS BOOK?

ARE YOU GOING TO READ THIS BOOK?

If so, please comment on this post with your name and hr and answer the following 2 questions by Monday, February 2nd.

1. Why do you want to read this?
2. How are you going to acquire the book?

Welcome!

Welcome to 3rd quarter OR. Here we will be discussing the book Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros. Following this is a short summary of the book.

"With the ability to make listeners laugh out loud with her humor, get lumps in their throats with her poignancy and leave them thinking about her characters long after they've hit the stop button, Cisneros is a master storyteller and performer. Her sweeping tale of the Reyes family, with the charmingly innocent Lala Reyes at its center, moves from 1920s Mexico City and Acapulco to 1950s Chicago, all the while grounding the family's whimsical events with "notes" to help readers understand the greater significance of, say, a nightclub singer who snagged Lala's grandfather's heart or the Mexican government's initiative to build a network of highways throughout the country. Cisneros (The House on Mango Street) reads her flowing text in an often ebullient voice, recounting the sights and sounds of Mexico City's boisterous streets or performing one of the many grand-scale arguments Lala's parents have. Her voices are marvelous. She perfectly portrays the Awful Grandmother's bitterness (the old lady loved to remind her son, "Wives come and go, but mothers, you have only one!") and sweetly croons the birthday songs Lala and her brothers sing to their father. This is a treat of an audio, combining a fantastic narrative with an equally excellent reading."

Courtesy of:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Caramelo/Sandra-Cisneros/e/9780679742586/?itm=1