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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-01-12 13:46:47 Boxid IA40137506 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled Foldoutcount 0 Identifier oneforsorrowghos0000hahn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9d628c02 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0544818091 What Annie didn't know is that her new friend is mean, bossy, highly umbareble and would get her in a lot of trouble. None of the other girls liked Elsie, so, they didn't like Annie either. The fact that a book starring a robin, an owl and a bunny rabbit manages to be both sexist and classist almost makes me think Mr Woodall deserves some sort of prize.
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Annie Browne has just moved to a new town with her mother and father. She's a bit timid and she's nervous about making friends at her new school, the Pearce Academy for Girls. The first girl she meets is Elsie, and Elsie doesn't waste any time filling her in on how horrible the girls at Pearce are. None of the girls like Elsie and she convinces Annie that they won't like her either. Every day, Annie can't seem to get away from Elsie as she's consistently holding her hand and inviting herself over to her house. She tells everyone that Annie is her best friend and because of this, nobody else wants anything to do with Annie. They begin making fun of her too and Annie becomes miserable. Elsie is bossy, pushy, and just not fun to be around. Annie can't even seem to convince her parents that there's something not right about Elsie. She has to find away to get away from her. It's absolutely NOT for kids but it's so damn fun and addictive. For me, I felt like enjoying some epic bloodshed-war fiction in the form of birds. The thing I found most interesting about this book was that it was inspired by a story from the author's mothers own experience of living during the Spanish influenza and surviving it. The part in the book when the girls go to the different homes to pay their respects to and view the dead, mainly so they can get free cake, candy, and punch was something her mother and her mother's friends actually did, and they really did end up at a house that belonged to one of their classmates that they had no idea had died until they saw her in the coffin. Now onto the terrible death that had me laughing (Speaking of death, Slyekin's death was also very unsatisfying and sudden, especially since we barely knew him from the constant basic summarizing prose...).Repetition: occurs when the poet repeats a specific element of a poem. This could be a word, image, structure, or more. In this case, the poet repeats the same structure as the note how many magpies there are and what they mean. Despite the fact that these three lines, and those which follow, do not all rhyme, they still maintain a very song-like quality. This is due to their very similar lengths and structures. In the first three lines of this nursery rhyme, the speaker mentions what one, two, and three magpies mean. If a person sees one magpie, they should interpret that as meaning that sorrow is on the horizon. Something bad is soon to happen to them. Two mean that something joyful is about to happen to them. Then, three means that if someone in their life is about to give birth, it’s going to be a girl. One For Sorrow is a middle grade, chilling ghost story. It takes place around 1918 during the deadliest influenza pandemic that killed millions of people.
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These behaviors are extremely sociopathic. The main character is a young girl who doesn't have any experience in dealing with people like her. Annie and the other girl don't owe her friendship or kindness or anything else. They ostracized her for a reason, and that reason is to protect themselves. But Annie isn't given a choice by Elsie, who the minute she saw the new comer, decided they were going to be best friends. The setting was vivid allowing you to feel like you’re living in 1918. The hearses were horse-drawn and it was a luxury for people to have cars. There’s a strong sense of the political climate, especially when the characters talk about the war and government action. Wakes were common, complete with coffins in the living room. I could feel the ambiance as the guests paid their respects. As this book stands, there are basically zero female characters which don't fit a stereotypical mould. Damsel in distress, pure and innocent victim, etc. I was expecting that, so I didn't let it bother me. ButBullying is a recurring theme of the story. This is going to be very unpopular, but Elsie is the bully here (not the other girls who ganged together to ostracize her). She is both the bully, and the victim of her own actions. And I don't believe the latter is reason for forgiving the former. Marie-Claire Amuah’s bittersweet novel, set in London and Ghana, follows the rites of passage of an ambitious young woman whose damaged childhood threatens to derail her career. Elsie is dead, and only Annie can see and hear her.. It's just the begining of her worst nightmare.
One for Sorrow by Helen Fields | Waterstones One for Sorrow by Helen Fields | Waterstones
If you like reading books about mean girls or vengeful ghosts you might like this book, but for me it was just ok. Our main character, Annie, was also very annoying. She can’t stand up for herself, always complaining to her parents instead of solving her problems and can’t say no to her friends. She’s definitely a spoiled brat. Wow, I love this style of writing that Clive Woodall delivers. I am looking forward to read another one of his books. he is wrought with guilt at his failure to save his kin, which weighs heavily on his shoulders. It gives him some depth and a greater reason for him to make these three journeys. What if he doesn't want to join the fight, once the plan of the magpies finally becomes known (and it doesn't unfold until much later on, with it being mostly kept a mystery)? He has to find his courage, and right his wrongs through those journeys. I dont know...There are better ways to handle this setup and the author did it poorly.
Again, I don't have an issue with going dark places in animal stories, but you need to have an audience in mind, and it seems the author didn’t know either. The prose is too simplistic for adults and yet there is a lot of graphic violence and that gratuitous rape scene. It's all a confusing mess. You have two options. If you are targeting this book to children (but not the same audience for Warriors cats), tone down on the violence (of course Warriors spits in the face of that, so whatever), omit the r*pe and keep the simple style but patch it up some more. If you have adults in mind on the other hand, make the story bigger and use a more detailed complex style and make the book longer. Out of all the Mary Downing Hahn books I've read, this one was the most unsettling. This story is about a young girl named Annie who moves to a new town where she doesn’t know anyone. Her first day of school she's claimed as best friend from Elsie, a troubled girl who's deemed tattle tail, liar, and thief by her fellow classmates. Elsie makes the class hate Annie because they're friends even though Annie really doesn't like Elsie because she's mean to her. When one day Elsie dies suddenly of the flu, Annie and her new friends think they're rid of Elsie forever, but Elsie has other plans.
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