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Sto caricando le informazioni... Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoirdi Margarita Engle
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Having two different identities always makes you question your place in life. What is the right answer to a lifestyle that you think is okay but then get judged at by all the people around you? A memoir in verse about the author's childhood, growing up between two countries and two cultures: her American life in California, and her island life in Cuba - until the Missile Crisis and American travel to Cuba is sharply curtailed, if not impossible. Quotes Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydreams? (37) If only I could just be myself, instead of half puzzle and half riddle. (49) Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe. (54) It really is possible to feel like two people at the same time, when your parents grandparents memories words come from two different worlds. (58) Some of the sights that Mami describes as dire poverty look like such luxurious wealth to a city girl who loves farms. (93) There's something about knowing the names and faces of nature's creations that helps me feel almost at home in my sharply divided shrinking world. (128) I feel like the last survivor of an ancient tribe, the only girl in the world who understands her language. (Solitary, 138) Right wing or left wing, tyrants always try to control communication. They always fail. (Secret Languages, 179) I feel like every creature on earth just might be mysteriously linked, as we wander from one place to another, constantly learning about one another's ways. (180) Speaking almost feels like having wings. (181) This is a beautiful memoir written by Margarita Engle about her life growing up half Cuban and half American. She shares stories of her childhood and growing up during the Cold War. Her poem-like writing style is easy to read and follow. She uses beautiful descriptive words to enhance the reader's view of what she went through. This would be a great read aloud for 5th graders, and a great read for intermediate and advanced students. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lived in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupted at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Engle's worlds collided in the worst way possible. Would she ever get to visit her beautiful island again? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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