Book name :The secret life of bees book summary

By : Sue Monk Kidd

Summary : the story is about Lily Owens a girl who is fourteen years old lives with her father on a peach farm. One day she has argument with her father after an accident happened for her and her housekeeper Rosaleen, so her father's said your mother was going to leave her when she died. Therefore Lily decided to find out what the reason behind the death of her mother Deborah. She found a picture for her mother and in the back of the picture wrote Tiburon which is a city located in South Carolina. As a result she goes to Tiburon and knows everything about her mother. 

Reaction : some story give you many feeling about how people act with their problem. In this story we see how the action take this girl to find out how her mother died which take her for many action. In the end, she found out that she is the reason behind her mother death wile she tried to help her mother killed her. This kind of story tell us that we don't have to look behind everything in our live or the reason for everything happened for us or for any person we have relationship with. However, we didn't have explanation for these event, it still better than we know the reason behind these action. 

Book name : A History of US: Book 9: War, Peace, and All That Jazz 

by : Hakim, Joy

  Pages : 45

 

Summary : in 1918, the War World 1 was over with 9 million men died when they used the new killing weapons. In Washington D.C the America's 28th president Woodrow Wilson sat in his office and wrote" it is a time to established just democracy throughout the world". Before the war finished he came with the Fourteen Points for the peace but Germany didn't agree with all of it and he died before he got the peace.Another kind of war is spread the disease which call pandemic. Influenza flew across the world in 1918 and killed 20 million people and law was done to stop sneeze in public place to stop the disease. 

Reaction: History has some bad and god thing. When we look for that part related with US we find it participate in a a lot of this action in word. The War World 1 one of the very important event actually with these happened inside US. War, disease and economy are one of the important part of history for any country.     

 

 Book Title: The Underground Railroad  

By : Ann Heinrichs
Number of pages :  41

  

Summary: It wasn't the a real road so it didn’t have tricks or cars or train. It just was a journey for thousand of people looking for freedom. It was a secret network of people who  operated in the dark night to escape from slavery in the Southern state. The leader for the escape are called conductors who offered the safe ways, food,clothe and station houses.It was dangers work who ever caught could be bitten by dogs or faced time in jail. there are two way slaves took from the Southern states. By land or sea. This story began between 1830 and 1860 but the slaves in US began from the colonists time in 1500s. Southern state of US used to use slaves to plant the farm and product the crops.The Underground Railroad finished by President Abraham Lincoln after the Civil War in Jan 1,1863.

Reaction: It was very hard to listen for this kind of historical action or to imagine how the world was. We have some black point in our history we have to study it and take lessen from and avoid our mistake. Slaves was a bad memory for any one to think in but it  harder for slaves.There are a lot of strange story told us about the way slavers used to escape and what happened for them while they was escaping.

Book Title:  WHO WAS SITTING BULL
By :Judith Josephson
No of Pages :47

Summary :Sitting Bull he was a leader for the group of native American names Lakota Sioux. They lived in North America. Also, there are another large band of Native Americans names Oglala. There leader was Crazy Horse's. All these groups  lived in Montana, Wyoming,Dakota and Nebraska. This two  groups discover place named Black Hills have huge amount of gold. Therefor U.S government try to take that place by power but the Native Americans Band reviews to gave hem up their places. So U.S government decide to attacked them. The Great Sioux War began in June 25 1876 in Battle of Little Bighorn. 268 U.S soldiers died.

Reaction : After read that book which told us about part of Native American live and war, so I can see how our live is hard . The people who have power always want every thing for them. They want to occupy other people place, property and their live too. This our live rule the survival of the fittest. While Native American live in their land in peace life other people attacked them and take their place, property and their live too. 

Books name:The Adventures of Spider. 
Author: Joyce Cooper Arkhurst. 
Number of pages : 58 pages.

SUMMARY: The author began monition that the spider similar some people in their personality and began to describe it. Also he wrote about storyteller who tell all this story. The storyteller told us about the spider in the forest has wife and two son's. The spider has many situation in the story for every time the storyteller told a story he tried to describe some characteristic of spider. First story, about how the spider take this shape of his fat head and body while his waist is thin. second story, about the spider and how he smarter than Leopard. Third story, told us way the spider has bald head to this day and what happened with the his mother-in-law's rice farm. Finally, his story with fisherman and how he try to play a trick on the fisherman. 

  
REACTION: The author began his story by tell us a character of the storytelling and this is a very nice idea to make you more attention with the story. He said some character in spider it similar some people in many case or situation. Some people has pad or good thing in some animal or insect so we compare them with that thing. Every person has some thing god and some thing bad in his personality so that whine we want friends we have to be more patient with people.
   

The Sioux

Name of the book : The Sioux
Author : Alice Osinski

SUMMARY : This book tells us the history of a big old Indian family called Sioux. They lived in North America in the area between Minnesota and Montana. They were good horse riders and buffalo hunter. They grow up until they become seven groups. Every group live alone and have there own dialect, but all group can understand each other. They moved through this area following the grass and buffalo by riding horses. All Sioux needed came from buffalo clothes, food, tipis, tools, and building houses. They pray and believed in  Great Spirit to give hem power over all thing. Sioux are living these day as American people except  they have there own customs.   

REACTION :I asked my self for a long time about Indian american where they came from? how they were life? what they were believe on? and where are they now?. In this book I found some answered for my question but I think that I have to read more about Indian American in 1900s . The author told us about how this family of Indian Americana lived and growing up. What they were do with the White settlers and how they were fighting them. Also, how they began to integrate in the new America while they kept some of their old custom.I think they had a difficult life before but it more easy now. The most thing is startled me was how they Acclimatization with this kind of hard life. And how they used to use buffalo in all aspect of there life.