Blog 121214 - My signature passage

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky page 58

This passage when Rachel describes the first black Miss America is one of my favorite passages. Rachel is saying how white-looking the woman is, and how non-white-looking black women are happy about her being Miss America because she's black even though they look nothing like her. Rachel and the first black Miss America both have blue eyes, and Rachel feels like she could look pretty like her. Rachel cuts off her hair so that she doesn't have nappy hair to feel beautiful. Rachel tries to change herself to "look less black" to be pretty.

Blog 120314 - Freewriting on The Road

I do like the book. I loved it because it was very different and kind of scary. I loved the imagery. It was amazing. I think the book was good, but I am not sure what the meaning of the work is. I liked that it was dark though. I like dark stuff. The darkness was very appropriate and effective because the story has to do with cannibalism and loneliness and isolation and desperation and not knowing if you'll survive. The motifs I noticed were darkness, loneliness, fire, light, gloominess, barren lands. I think the author might have wrote this book to explore how life would be like after an apocalypse, and the book has to do with hope. I think the boy was the man's hope. I think possible main topics and themes are protection, innocence, hope, and survival. I wonder what could cause a world like the setting in the book. I really enjoyed the imagery.