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Title: Finding My Voice by Marie G. Lee ISBN: 0-06-447245-0 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (19 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Finding My Voice...
Comment: The story is about a Korean girl whose name is Ellen and lives in America with her family. Ellen is a senior high school student. She is under a pressure from her parents who really care about her future and want her to get all A's to be qualified for Harvard, just like her sister Michelle. Ellen was also under a pressure from some popular senior students who tease her about her Korean or Asian appearance. All in all, the book mentions almost everything that comes to Ellen's mind during the conversations and events, and thatÕs what makes the book more realistic. It is interesting specificly for high school students. Besides, it is easy and quite short.
Rating: 4
Summary: Finding My Voice
Comment: This book describes the life of the senior student Ellen who has two strict parents. Her sister Michelle studies at Harvard and her parents want Ellen to study there too. For this reason, they are too strict sometimes and they don't let her do things that she really likes. Because she is Korean, her classmates call her names and that makes Ellen feel very uncomfortable. Always being compared with her sister, Ellen feels very upset and sad. Her best friend Jessie tries to make Ellen see life differently but because of the pressure she has from her parents, Ellen cares only about her grades.
When Tomper, the most popular boy in the school, starts to care about Ellen, Marcia, who also likes Tomper, tries to change the opinion that Tomper has about Ellen. When Tomper and Ellen are together, Marcia tries to create problems for the couple.
It is a very interesting book in my opinion and I recommend reading it. Even though, I am an E.S.L. student, it was very easy for me to read it without using a dictionary. You can guess most of the unknown words. It is an interesting and funny book. When I read it I didn't want to stop reading. I liked it very much and I believe you are going to like it too.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Voice To Find
Comment: A Voice to Find
Finding My Voice is about Myong- Ok (Ellen) who is the only Korean girl in the school. She goes through racism because she is a Korean girl. Ellen has the usual evil enemy, the cute crush and her best friends that help her through high school. Inside Arkin High Ellen gets A's and B's and has the highest classes with a couple of her friends that she knows.
But at home she is different, more perfect. The only reason that Ellen is perfect is because her father. He puts pressure on her to be the best like her older sister, Michelle. Ellen's father often says something like, 'Why can't you be more like your older sister Michelle?' Or 'Michelle got straight A+'s why can't you get them too?'
Ellen's favorite subject is English because she can really express her self in it. But her real passion is Gymnastics. She tries so hard to achieve a star on her jacket which means that she can compete in the regional. Ellen has a hard time trying to do what she likes (Gymnastics) because her father comes in again and says 'If you get lower than an A, you are going to quit the gymnastics team.'
Then in the middle of the story her crush, Tomper, starts noticing her and asks her out. Ellen says, 'Yes'. Since she agreed to go out with Tomper she has to lie to her parents. Will her parents find out about Tomper?
This book really made me think twice about how people might feel if they are made fun of because of their race or culture. I was never really bored but it kind of went slow in the beginning but it soon got fast paced. Like in the beginning it gave a little too much information so I was a little bored. The vocabulary of this book doesn't have large words that you may need to look up in the dictionary. But in the end I would give it five stars! Another book that relates to this book is called Promised Land by Isabelle Holland. It too deals with racism but in the olden days like after the Civil War.
By: Harini
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