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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
English Review Below.
تحذير، هذا الكتاب نهايته حزينة كما نعرف من الفصل الأول. هذه قصة حب بين فتى أسود وبنت يهودية يلتقيان في مدرسة خاصة. يقعان في الحب ويبدآن في التفكير في علاقتهما من منظورهما الخاص وكذلك من منظور المجتمع الذي لا يتقبل رؤيتهما معا لأسباب كثيرة، ويطرح ذلك الكثير من التساؤلات عن مدى تعمق العنصرية في وعي المجتمع. هي رواية لليافعين، وعلى عكس أغلب روايات اليافعين حيث تكون قصة الأهل سطحية أو لا نرى الأهل على الإطلاق، في هذه الرواية قصة الأهل تنبض بالحياة ولها دور مهم في الأحداث. كل فصة من وجهة نظر الفتاة "إيلي" أو الفتى "جيريمايا"، وأسلوب الكتابة رائع وحالم، ورغم أنها قصة عن الحب من أول نظرة، فلم تكن مبتذلة على الإطلاق.
تناقش الرواية قضايا مثل العرق والعنصرية والتنمر ومشاكل العائلة والمعايير المزدوجة وعنف الشرطة. هنا لا يكون التركيز على فعل الشرطة العنيف، بل على عواقبه وكيف بدا كأنه أمر محتوم الحدوث. كُتبت هذه الرواية منذ أكثر من 20 عاما، لكنها ما زالت تنطبق على واقعنا. الرواية لها جزء ثاني، وأعتقد أني هقرأه قريبا.
Warning, this bad has a sad ending. There's a hint of Romeo and Juliet in this love story between a black boy and a Jewish girl meeting in a posh private school. They fall in love and start to biew their relationship from their point of view, but also from the society's point of view, as a lot of people seem to have a problem seeing them together for so many reasons, and it makes them both aware of how deep the racism goes. But One of the things I liked here that unlike many YA novels where the parents' lives are so shallow or fading into the background or the parents don't even exist at all, Ellie and Miah's parents' stories are vibrant and are as important to the story line.
The story alternates POVs between Ellie and Miah, each chapter shows us inside the head of the other. The writing is gorgeous, and though it's all "love at first sight" type of story, it's not cliched and somehow fits the characters. It discuses race, bullying, family issues, double standards and hypocrisy, and police brutality. The focus isn't on the act of the police brutality itself, but on the consequences and how "inevitable" it seemed. It's sad that a book written 20 years ago would still be so relevant today.
The first chapter shows that this story ends sadly, but that didn't lessen the pain or the fact that I cried reading the last few chapters. I'm also definitely reading the second book very soon.
تحذير، هذا الكتاب نهايته حزينة كما نعرف من الفصل الأول. هذه قصة حب بين فتى أسود وبنت يهودية يلتقيان في مدرسة خاصة. يقعان في الحب ويبدآن في التفكير في علاقتهما من منظورهما الخاص وكذلك من منظور المجتمع الذي لا يتقبل رؤيتهما معا لأسباب كثيرة، ويطرح ذلك الكثير من التساؤلات عن مدى تعمق العنصرية في وعي المجتمع. هي رواية لليافعين، وعلى عكس أغلب روايات اليافعين حيث تكون قصة الأهل سطحية أو لا نرى الأهل على الإطلاق، في هذه الرواية قصة الأهل تنبض بالحياة ولها دور مهم في الأحداث. كل فصة من وجهة نظر الفتاة "إيلي" أو الفتى "جيريمايا"، وأسلوب الكتابة رائع وحالم، ورغم أنها قصة عن الحب من أول نظرة، فلم تكن مبتذلة على الإطلاق.
تناقش الرواية قضايا مثل العرق والعنصرية والتنمر ومشاكل العائلة والمعايير المزدوجة وعنف الشرطة. هنا لا يكون التركيز على فعل الشرطة العنيف، بل على عواقبه وكيف بدا كأنه أمر محتوم الحدوث. كُتبت هذه الرواية منذ أكثر من 20 عاما، لكنها ما زالت تنطبق على واقعنا. الرواية لها جزء ثاني، وأعتقد أني هقرأه قريبا.
Warning, this bad has a sad ending. There's a hint of Romeo and Juliet in this love story between a black boy and a Jewish girl meeting in a posh private school. They fall in love and start to biew their relationship from their point of view, but also from the society's point of view, as a lot of people seem to have a problem seeing them together for so many reasons, and it makes them both aware of how deep the racism goes. But One of the things I liked here that unlike many YA novels where the parents' lives are so shallow or fading into the background or the parents don't even exist at all, Ellie and Miah's parents' stories are vibrant and are as important to the story line.
The story alternates POVs between Ellie and Miah, each chapter shows us inside the head of the other. The writing is gorgeous, and though it's all "love at first sight" type of story, it's not cliched and somehow fits the characters. It discuses race, bullying, family issues, double standards and hypocrisy, and police brutality. The focus isn't on the act of the police brutality itself, but on the consequences and how "inevitable" it seemed. It's sad that a book written 20 years ago would still be so relevant today.
The first chapter shows that this story ends sadly, but that didn't lessen the pain or the fact that I cried reading the last few chapters. I'm also definitely reading the second book very soon.
awesome for my students! they loved reading it on their own for homework!
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
No matter how many times I read this book, I will always cry.
I am not quite sure what to think.
I am left feeling unfulfilled and cut off. But I also think that may have been the point.
I am left feeling unfulfilled and cut off. But I also think that may have been the point.
Even while anticipating the resolution, it was a gut-punch.
I almost gave this one 4 stars. I think it’s more of a 3.5 for me.
For the majority of the book, I was waiting for a bit of something more. Something beyond youthful infatuation. Something more awkward, silly, and meaningful.
And THEN, all of a sudden, the book switches pacing at the end and becomes poetic; it becomes tragically beautiful. The ending of the book really sold me. I wanted more of that piece. I wanted the characters to go deeper, like they did in the end, throughout the entire book.
I think it’s worth a read if you’re really being intentional and looking for meaning. But it doesn’t throw meaning right at you. And the love story aspect was…a little boring this time around.
But I read it. And I will continue to read Woodson.
For the majority of the book, I was waiting for a bit of something more. Something beyond youthful infatuation. Something more awkward, silly, and meaningful.
And THEN, all of a sudden, the book switches pacing at the end and becomes poetic; it becomes tragically beautiful. The ending of the book really sold me. I wanted more of that piece. I wanted the characters to go deeper, like they did in the end, throughout the entire book.
I think it’s worth a read if you’re really being intentional and looking for meaning. But it doesn’t throw meaning right at you. And the love story aspect was…a little boring this time around.
But I read it. And I will continue to read Woodson.
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
read this in like 3 hours. It’s delightful until the end where it’s wrecks you. Jacqueline Woodson is such a beautiful writer
Probably more of a 4.5 but it deserves to be rounded up. I want to immediately reread it and annotate because there is a lot to unpack. The foreshadowing/weaving of important plot points throughout the book....*chef's kiss*
It's a lovely, if brief, book. Well written, but, perhaps due to being based on Romeo and Juliet, the romance is contingent on love lorn glances and fleeting time together. The moments when the author explores race are well done, and I think it would be exellent reading for those in high school, or later middle school grades.