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CULTURE 1 : Multicultural & International Lit

on January 14, 2025

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Module 2: Book Access

BIBLIOGRAPHY Sones, Sonja. 2004. ONE OF THOSE HIDEOUS BOOKS WHERE THE MOTHER DIES. Simon&SchusterBooksForYoungReaders. ISBN 0689858205 2. PLOT SUMMARY In “One of those hideous books where the mother dies” we learn about Ruby and how she has gone through a huge loss by losing her mother. She then has to go and live with her dad with whom she has not had an actual relationship with. 3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS Sones is able to express the grief, self-discovery journey throughout the text while using verse. It was such an easy text to follow because the verses already gave us a snippet of what we would be reading. Sones is able to tell us the story of Ruby and her grief journey or as she says in the beginning she isn’t depressed but as the story continues we can see just how much she reminisces about her mother and how it is impacting her life. Sones is able to take us on this journey of Ruby trying to heal, while reconnecting with her estrange...

Module 3: Contemporary Realistic Fiction

BIBLIOGRAPHY Thomas, Angie. 2017.THE HATE U GIVE. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062498533 2. PLOT SUMMARY Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death made a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. 3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS In “The Hate U Give”, we can see the in depth journey that Thomas took with t...

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