The Girl In Translation

I have just started to read a novel called GIRL In Translation by Jean Kwok. This book is about a girl who had just moved to the united states with her mother, they previously lived in Hong Kong China. They have nothing much with them, they spend all there money just to come to the united states, so the daughter can get the future that she couldn't have in China. After they come to the united states they have to live in an apartment that is similar to living in the junkyard. The mother has no qualifications for a good job, but the mother soon receives a job at a clothing factory on Canal street China Town, where she has to works twenty -four hours seven days a week to get get paid so little that their lives just goes by thinking Am i going to eat tomorrow or starve . After 1-2 weeks they move in to their disgusting apartment kim starts school knowing very few English. Once she gets to school she gets judged in a bad way by not the students but by the teacher! The teacher scolds her for not knowing what is suppose to be done. And that made her stop going to school for a week. 
  This is one really difficult thing i found in this book, how people are being judged on a daily basis which are making them feel that they don't belong. It happens to everyone, and it happens everywhere. This is something where only we can stop. People are being judged on many things on how they dress, speak, attitude, personality, and more. i was judged too, and it is not a good feeling. It makes you feel like there is nobody in this world who likes me for who i am, but hates me for how i appear to people. Some people can't stand that and does things that affects them majorly in their life. This is one difficult thing i found in my reading book  

Dear Julia

      I just started reading a book called Dear Julia by Amy Bronwen Zemser. It is about a teenager who has an incredible talent to cook. Her name is Elaine Hamilton. Elaine has a dream to become like Julia Child a famous cook. Ever since Elaine knew what she wanted to be, a cook. Her mom always told her to look for a higher target, but Elaine never  budged. Elaine never had many friends because of what she showed herself as to the world, she wears really loose blouses with tight pants and always does her hair in a ponytail. Elaine never really cared about not having friends, because she has her cooking to keep her busy. Elaine does something since she was really little is that she writes letters to Julia Cook, buts doesn't send them, just stores them in her room. The reason she does not send them because she is too shy. She writes about her cooking experiences
 and what she thinks is wrong or right.
     I find it really weird that she writes letter to Julia Child but doesn't send it. then why would she write it in the first place? Wouldn't she want to get feedback to make her cooking even better?
     Over the summer Elaine turned sixteen she met a girl named Isadora Wilhelminetta Fischburger. Isadora never liked her name, so she changed it to Lucida Sans. Lucida always wanted to become famous. She doesn't car why she would become famous, she just wanted to become famous. Which i think makes no sense because people becomes famous for specific reasons, for acting, singing, dancing, awards, etc. She has no reason. One thing i like about Lucida is that she tries her best at everything.  
     In the blurb of the book it is kind of like a problem, a math problem, Elaine Hamilton like to cook, she never wants to attract attention, she is a shy girl then why is there cameras surrounding her? How did this happen. then when i started to read the book within the first chapter  the author introduces a character { Lucida } who loves to be in the center of attention. Then i started to think did Lucida do this? Did Lucida do this to get attention? If she did do this to get attention then she is a very self-centered person. 
  
     

This World

I just read matched by Ally Condie and it was a very good book. around the beginning of the book i was think such a perfect world, it kept your life in good way, no poverty, keeps you in good shape, good education, and mainly it chooses who you are going to marry+love! there is a ceremony where they show you and introduce you to your future life partner. As i was thinking that this world is soo perfect, i started to think that maybe it is too perfect, it goes overboard, to get to know you personally they look at your dreams while you are sleeping, they give many tests. i don't think to know someone personally you have to do all this  and  then i started to notice that this world is letting you live your life instead it is living the life for you. you can't eat what you want . then i started to think that can i live her life, cassia's life?

          At first i thought it would be pretty good, you won't have to worry about a lot of stuff like illness, in this world it is very rare to get sick, you can live up to 80 90 years old. you don't have to think about cancer, or other deadly diseases. the main part is that the government just wants you to be healthy, they just want to keep the people controlled so, nothing ever goes wrong. Nothing is perfect, there has to be a flaw or it is just not real.  Then i thought about what about my life, would i want a government controlling my life and i still don't know.

         Another issue in this book is that the government gives out pills green, blue and yellow. Only the government can tell you who is eating what pills. many people eat blue pills and the green and red pills re only eaten at specific times. The people themselves don't know why are they eating the pills. in the book when they introduced the pills, i thought the pills were used to control the people, so they the people have no opinion so they can't fight against the government. also i thought that people should know what they are eating, it is not right eating stuff without not knowing what it is, to me it is like eating poison without no knowing.  Later on in the book we found out that the red pill is the pill you take when you die!- people has no choice of that either,, the government controlles that.

       In conclusion this world is meant for people who likes to be controlled and not meant for the people who likes living their own life!