So far, this book is pretty interesting. Sisters in the Struggle is a non-fiction novel based on the Civil Rights movement and what blacks did to contribute to it; black women in particular. It exposes what many inspirational, black female leaders had to go through in order to overcome segregation against blacks.
Mary McLeod Bethune is the star in the first chapter, which highly focuses on her story “Closing Doors”. The story is about how many doors, or rights, have been shut to blacks and how it is vital that we must open those doors. She also states,
“There are very many doors...shut against the Negro, but all of these are not barred. They may be opened with tact, skill, and persistence (pg.16).”By this, Ms. Bethune is proposing that we must use nonviolence in order to get out rights. It just takes time and effort. I believe that because of this, she should be recognized in history just as much as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or Rosa Parks. Ms. Bethune made a lot of sacrifices and began the present-day Bethune-Cookman College as an elementary school for blacks.
This author of this novel gives us a pretty clear purpose, to inform on what important black women did to contribute to the Civil Rights Movement and what they went through. But I believe the purpose is also to expose us to what really isn’t explained thoroughly in our text books. This novel really goes into depth and gives us personal experiences from the people who lived through this horrible period of time and I this is the strength of the book.
This book does have some weaknesses too. Mainly because this is a college-level book, it has lots of notes at the end of the chapters which I believes clutters the book. There are many challenging phrases and vocabulary that makes it hard for me to follow along with the book. Something else that adds to the book’s clutter is all of the statistics. In chapter two alone, there are countless amounts of concrete details and statistics. I believe this book is a little complicated for my reading level, but this will only make me stronger as a reader.
This is a good prewrite of your book. I liked how you made the connections between rights and doors. In addition, the comparison between Ms. Bethune and MLK Jr. was interesting. To improve on this, you can say if you recommend this book or not.
ReplyDeleteThis pre write is very inspiring and makes me want to read the book. It also brings a larger insight on the movements going on in the time period.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this prewrite, i feel like i should read it. The connections You made between doors and civil liberties was an excellent analogy :D... This prewrite shows wht was happening during this period.
ReplyDeleteI think overall this is an AMAZING post in its self. And you really have great use of word choice, and you weave everything together. But some little advice fro me is the fact that as you state the back of the book has some confusing notes? I totally understand your reading a hard book( which is another positive thing :) ), the notes help with extra information or just more detail about the book. My book has that sort of too, more like questions and answers for younger readers but it really helps. I say you should really use this for your essay because it's ★★★★★ and the facts you back up are phenomenal!
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