Colors

An Abundance of Katherines—John Green
Born Confused—Tanuja Desai Hidier
Copper Sun—Sharon Draper
Ender’s Game—Orson Card
Feed–M.T. Anderson
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence— Doris Pilkington
Into The Wild—Jon Krakauer
My Sister’s Keeper—Jodi Picoult
Never Let Me Go—Kazu Ishiguru
Obasan—Joy Kogawa
Riding the Bus with My Sister— Rachel Simon
Shattering Glass—Gail Giles
Slam—Walter Dean Myers
Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison
The Color of Water––James McBride
The Count of Monte Cristo— Alexandre Dumas
The Life of Pi—Yann Martel
The Namesake—Jhumpa Lahiri

Never let me go - AMAZING kazuo ishiguro blows my mind…
Life of Pi - equally really funny and also a very serious story. LOVE it.

jodie picoult is a terrible writer in my opinion she just churns out teen trash.

From the novel Obasan by Joy Kogawa, I found this paradox,
"We are both the enemy and not the enemy."

Background;
Basically Naomi is half Japanese/Canadian, though she was born and raised in Canada. She is suffering from all the racism going on, even though she considered herself Canadian [After Japan bombed Canada] now she is unsure. Her whole life she has dealt with the racism and doesnt know what to consider herself. She is very shy and unsure. She is seen as a traitor in her own land.

Anyway here is what I wrote about it, and I don’t know how to expand!
"Being both the enemy and not the enemy is a paradox. Because of Naomi’s mixed culture, her Japanese heritage and image makes her an enemy in her own land, even though she was born and raised in Canada."

I want to have one more sentence or improve this one. Is there anything else analytical I could add?

Please And Thank You<3

good question

I’m taking AP Literature next year and I have to read 4 books for summer reading. I have to choose one thematic unit from the list and read the books below it. Below is listed a few units with the four books to read under it also listed is the author. Which unit should I chose and why?

1. Diaspora and Alienation in Asian Literature
a. Obasan, Joy Kogawa
b. The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
c. Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
d. The Tiger’s Daughter, Bharati Mukherjee

2. Dissent, oppression, and detachment in the Middle East
a. Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salmon Rushdie
b. The Plague, Albert Camus
c. A Happy Death, Albert Camus
d. Children of the Alley: A Novel, Naguib Mahfouz

3. The Feminism Schism
a. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
b. A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
c. Fasting/Feasting, Anita Desai
d. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw

4. Metafiction
a. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
b. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
c. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
d. For Whom the Bells Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

5. Franz Kafka (the author of the 4 books listed)
a. The Trial
b. Metamorphosis
c. The Castle
d. Amerika

Either #3 or #4 simply because these contain the best books in my opinion. They are truly awesome and will be good reads for over the summer. Jane Eyre is amazing but so is A Farewell to Arms. Definitely one of those two will serve you best.