Blog Review

http://chiara803.blogspot.com/2014/11/reading-response-absolutely-true-diary.html

     I read Chiara's response on The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and I felt that it was very detailed and interesting response I have read. She/he mainly focuses on two of the main characters and how their friendship have been developing and chsnging throughout the story because of the conflict that was going on. I have read this book before and I made a blog post, but what I did is focus on the social issue within this book. Looking at how Chiara did his/her blog post makes me compare the two and see what differences this book made think and feel.b
     Some of the highlights in this Chiara's blog posts were the amount of quotes to support and orove the sprAay she felt about Arnold's and Rowdy's friendship. This part stood out to me; " 'He wiped his eyes, stared at his wet hand, and screamed. I'm sure that everybody on the rez heard that scream. It was the worst thing I'd ever heard. It was pain, pure pain.' This text shows that Rowdy really loved his best friend. He was in pain. His best friend who he relied on and cared for was leaving him to the school that he hated, and there was nothing that he could do about it." Although I would have used a different quote, when she quotes when Rowdy starts crying was very powerful along with stating how that exact quote supported her claim of the two relationships were strong and how it "drastically over the course of the book." G
     Another important highlight in Chiara's post was on the third paragraph when she/he explains the a moment when Rowdy was infuriated with Arnold because of when Arnold leaves to another school. The sort of twist in this paragraph exceeded of what I thought it was going to be. She/he states "I believe that Rowdy is extremely angered by Arnold at this point, since he feels as if ArnOld betrayed him by joining the opposing basketball team. Their relationship does take a turn for the better though, when they suddenly mutually decide that all this rivalry needs to stop, and Rowdy visits Arnold's house by surprise." That "twist" of how she/he describes the angry Rowdy was to how then Rowdy understands that Arnold wants to move on was amzingly done. K
     All in all, I think Chiara did an excellent job choosing an issue in this book, describing her claim, and supporting it with powerful quotes from the book along with elaborating why these quotes support her claim. I do believe that Chiara's conclusion can be more sophisticated by explaining of what she would of done in this situation and how she could of dealt with it just to "interact" with ideas and possible solutions.

Non-Fiction Critical Analysis

    In the article, "Post-Racial Teens Struggle with a World that isn't" by Greg Toppo describes society as "racially diverse" along with details illustrating how people of color, and races such as Chinese, Hispanic, etc. are being discriminated without much thought. Mr.Toppo pays close attention to      African Americans who have been discriminated for their entire lives and express on what they want to say and how they feel about being treated unfairly. He gathers information from past surveys Laing with quoting African Americans that have either been discriminated or been witnessing discrimination. Mr.Toppo then also quotes several white American people who attempt to make racism less of a situation. Mr.Toppo mostly focuses on what African Americans want, and how they think and feel, Mr.Toppo  may be trying to lead readers to be thinking more about racism and what African Americans have to go through everyday.
      One of the ways Mr.Toppo wants readers to think more about the way Africa Americans are being treated is by giving statistics on from past surveys from racially situations. First, he quotes a survey  of a debate on interracially marriages. It comes to a conclusion that "5% say interracial marriages are 'bad thing for society'...And 93% say it's OK for African American and white people to interracially date." What stands out within this quote is "OK", this shows that Mr.Toppo is more on the African American side of this particular survey/debate because of the way he quoted that it is "OK" for interracial dating/marriages. As mentioned before, Mr.Toppo quotes African Americans who have been discriminated before. Many of them say things such as, "I do wonder if the skin color that I am is going to determine my future and what I'm doing to do" along with saying things that people don't pay attention to racism in depth, rather than just ignore it. Thus, Mr.Toppo wants the world to know that this is a big issue that needs to be observed more because it isn't fair to treat somebody unfairly only because of their skin color.
       In my opinion, I feel that racism will always be an issue no matter how much people want to stop it by making organizations to lessen the issue. Racism is a part of history that is always going to be repeated and it frustrates me that people think that they are more superior than others just because of their skin color. We are all human, what difference is their just because of skin color, and that is what I feel about racism. A misleading course of action that was  caused by white Americans to think that they are above all people of color for what reason, none.