Today, for my English Composition class, I had to read "The Secondhand Bookseller" by Marina Nemat. I really liked the short story. It gave me ideas for the narrative writing I have to dor for the class. The short stort tells how the girl got her love for books. It tells how she saved all her milk money for a week to buy a book from the second hand store. She told her mother she was not feeling well so she could go to the store to buy a book. The man at the book store did not think she could read English but when she took the book back to the secondhand store, the man knew she could read English. The bookseller lets her borrow the books only after she reads the previous one twice. Marina started off the short story with how she used to read all the time after school. She makes it seem like she does not have a good relationship with her mother. At the beginning she talks about how she wouls hide in her room to stay out of her mother's way. She then talked about how she would never ask her mother to buy her books. This gave me the vib that she was not suppose to be read because of a government regulatoin.
What I thought about the story was that Marina Nemat went through alot for a sixteen year old girl. She was arrested and sent to Evin Prison and almost tortured and nearly executed just because she wanted to express her opinion about something, this is very unjustified. To read about her earning the first Human Dignity Prize by the European Parliament and the Cultural Association was amazing.
Marina Nemat was a strong hearted little girl who loved to read. Most girls that is that age dont want to sit around and read books now days. But I did find I did have a sad feeling when I read that her parents didnt have the money to be able to buy her books. Im just glad that now days it isent like that,( or at least I dont think so), because their is plenty of help they can get and also librarys have free books and magazines which can help children read. I really do think that reading gave Nemat a way of escaping what happened to her and her family during Iran. I think that if she had books to read that she would of chose not to speak up in class while living under Ayatollah Khomeini's regime.
I thought Nemat done a wonderful impression to the characters in her story. She made them seem so real. You can vividly picture Sarahs house and the surroundings around it, you can almost smell the fragrance of the food that is in the air. You can vividly picture the bookstore and what it would look like with all the bookshelves piled high to the ceiling and picture it looking like a dark tunnel. I honestly think that the Bookseller was an angel someone looking out for her. Someone who also loved to read and I think this is why she so strongly could communicate with him. Yes, at first he wondered if she could read English. I think this was because he knew as soon as she walked into the bookstore she probally looked overwhelmed, but yet excited about all the books she saw and he could see this in her face expressions and body expressions. I bet that if she said no that he would of taken the time each day to sit with her and read her books.
Today, for my English Composition class, I had to read "The Secondhand Bookseller" by Marina Nemat. I really liked the short story. It gave me ideas for the narrative writing I have to dor for the class. The short stort tells how the girl got her love for books. It tells how she saved all her milk money for a week to buy a book from the second hand store. She told her mother she was not feeling well so she could go to the store to buy a book. The man at the book store did not think she could read English but when she took the book back to the secondhand store, the man knew she could read English. The bookseller lets her borrow the books only after she reads the previous one twice. Marina started off the short story with how she used to read all the time after school. She makes it seem like she does not have a good relationship with her mother. At the beginning she talks about how she wouls hide in her room to stay out of her mother's way. She then talked about how she would never ask her mother to buy her books. This gave me the vib that she was not suppose to be read because of a government regulatoin.
ReplyDeleteWhat I thought about the story was that Marina Nemat went through alot for a sixteen year old girl. She was arrested and sent to Evin Prison and almost tortured and nearly executed just because she wanted to express her opinion about something, this is very unjustified. To read about her earning the first Human Dignity Prize by the European Parliament and the Cultural Association was amazing.
DeleteMarina Nemat was a strong hearted little girl who loved to read. Most girls that is that age dont want to sit around and read books now days. But I did find I did have a sad feeling when I read that her parents didnt have the money to be able to buy her books. Im just glad that now days it isent like that,( or at least I dont think so), because their is plenty of help they can get and also librarys have free books and magazines which can help children read. I really do think that reading gave Nemat a way of escaping what happened to her and her family during Iran. I think that if she had books to read that she would of chose not to speak up in class while living under Ayatollah Khomeini's regime.
I thought Nemat done a wonderful impression to the characters in her story. She made them seem so real. You can vividly picture Sarahs house and the surroundings around it, you can almost smell the fragrance of the food that is in the air. You can vividly picture the bookstore and what it would look like with all the bookshelves piled high to the ceiling and picture it looking like a dark tunnel. I honestly think that the Bookseller was an angel someone looking out for her. Someone who also loved to read and I think this is why she so strongly could communicate with him. Yes, at first he wondered if she could read English. I think this was because he knew as soon as she walked into the bookstore she probally looked overwhelmed, but yet excited about all the books she saw and he could see this in her face expressions and body expressions. I bet that if she said no that he would of taken the time each day to sit with her and read her books.