Week 3: Books

As a child books are read to you, or sometimes when you had a chance you’d skim through them. Children’s books have big pictures with bright colors and fiction stories that sometimes expanded your imagination.  However, as the years passed and you start getting older books started to become uninteresting because they were boring; it wasn’t as enjoyable. Television did not help the situation, it pushed young children and teenagers away from books because watching television entertains the viewer while sitting around doing nothing. I experienced this myself, up until the end of middle school I wasn’t fascinated about reading books. Books started to look the same, and I was simply not interested. Yet, when I came across the books The memory keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards, The Pact by Dr.’s Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt, and lastly Are you my mother? by Philip D. Easrman. I couldn’t keep my hands off them.

Secrets, lies, and tragedy; a novel full of surprises is how I would describe The Memory Keepers Daughter. This is absolutely an outstanding book that I would highly recommend to others. This novel takes place in 1964. Noah and David are a married couple from Kentucky. Norah is pregnant and David is a doctor. She delivers a baby boy named Paul, and then she delivers a baby girl however something wasn’t right; she had down syndrome. David gives the girl to a nurse who keeps her and raises her as her own, until the truth eventually came out and Norah found out. With this short summary, as you can tell there is a lot of commotion in this book. This is why I couldn’t take my hands off the book. This also made me join the Best Buddies club at my high school, which was a great experience for me. The author Kim Edwards made a website  The Memory Daughters Keeper  if you would like more information about it.

The Pact was such an inspirational book to read. This book was about three boys named George, Rameck, and Sam who grew up on the streets of Newark, New Jersey. They all had their individual struggles growing up with poverty, drugs, and gangs surrounding them. However, they managed to survive that environment and became successful doctors. Originally this was required book I needed to read for an English 1A prerequisite class, which I dreaded at first. After reading it, their stories motivated me to follow me dreams and not letting anyone or anything get in the way and if you work hard for what you want, the outcome will be great. This book was not only touching and inspiring to me, but to others as well. So what they did was create a website called The three doctors for the fans and viewers to follow.  

Dr. Seuss books are well known, and have been around for a while. There are a great number of books that have been out too. However, one that stood out to me was called Are you my mother? This book starts off with a little bird hatching from its egg inside of a nest while its mother flies off to go grab food. However the curious little bird jumps off the nest to try and find her. The little bird doesn’t know what it’s mother looks like, so it asks everything it encounters and asks, “Are you my mother?” Eventually the little bird found its mother. The reason why this book stood out to me as a child was because during the process of the little bird finding its mother, it became sad. I wouldn’t have the feeling of not knowing who my mother is, since my mother and I are very close.