If Cheaper By the Dozen, by Frank Gilbraith Jr., and The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, ever somehow met and had an "I like you as a friend, not a lover" child, The Color of Water would be it - race and a ridiculous amount of kids. The concept is compelling, and I would recommend this book to an...
The author had a few different purposes in the book Miracle at St. Anna. One of the author's purposes was to show the great affect that World War II had on the country of Italy. World War II destroyed homes, families, land, and people all over Italy and Europe. They were already suffering from...
Anna (Movie Tie-in) 7 THE CHURCH The four soldiers had got about a hundred yards down the ridge toward the American side when a German patrol spotted them and chased them back up the ridge and down the other side of the mountain, toward the Serchio Valley, and now they were lost. They walked for ...
He would formalize his will and trust thirteen years later, but by then his life had unraveled. His second marriage, to Deidre (Dee Dee) Jenkins, had ended in divorce. His father, whom he’d held dear, had died. His third wife, Adrienne, was lifted into God’s kingdom tragically two years later, af...
Niggers couldn’t travel alone in them days without papers. I left her where she was and she trotted on ahead while I moved on foot, staying off the road. I was a mile from Dutch’s Tavern when I heard a wagon coming. I jumped into the thickets and waited. The trail curved a...
Graduation After my abortion I wrote to Tateh and said I didn’t want to come back to Suffolk. I enrolled in Girls Commercial High School on Bergen Street in 1936. It was just down the street from Bubeh’s, but the schoolwork was hard and I struggled my entire junior year, sleeping on Bubeh’s couch...
All the signs had been there. Two days ago there were two stars within the circle around the moon. That indicated two days before bad weather arrived. He burned the time hunting, fishing, gathering supplies to fight, and sharpening his knives on stones. On the morning of the second day he departe...