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Title: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Dear America) by Joyce Hansen ISBN: 0-590-84913-1 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (50 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A very educational and intertaining book!
Comment: I really thought this was a great book. I liked the way that it portrayed the life of Patsy in a diary type way. The story is about a slave girl named Patsy who knows how to read. She learned by listening to the children in the house during thier lessons. When the slaves where freed, they were promised that a teacher would come to the plantation to teach the children as well as the adults to read and write. When there was trouble with getting a teacher, Patsy decided to teach the childern and who ever else wanted to be taught their abc's and how to write them. She discovered that she was a good teacher and when she finally left the plantation she went to school and became a teacher herself. I think this is a very good book to have children read so they can get a feel of what it was like in the times of slavery and right after they were freed.
Rating: 5
Summary: A peek into the life of a just-freed girl.
Comment: Now that the Civil War is over, twelve-year-old Patsy, a slave girl, is finally free. But her life has changed little. She still lives and works on her former owners' plantation in South Carolina. She is still considered inferior to white people. And she still hasn't gotten a chance to see the world beyond where she grew up. But Patsy has one thing that nearly all former slaves don't have: the ability to read and write. And so she writes in her diary, which makes up this book, of her experiences in the months following the end of the war as she teaches others and struggles with the injustices the former slaves must face. An excellant addition to the Dear America series, and a good companion to one of the other books in the series, A Picture of Freedom, which is about a slave girl right before the Civil War. You can compare the two to see what changed in six years.
Rating: 5
Summary: I Thought My soul Will Rise and Fly
Comment: How would you feel if you were a slave, doing always orders that you can't chose to say if you want to do it or not? In this story called I Thought My Soul Will Fly and Rise written by the author Joyce Hansen that was Patsy's case. She could+n't say, 'Yes I'll do this or no I don't want to do that.' She had to do it if she wanted to or not. The genre of this book is historical fiction. That means this story could have happened in the past and all of the things the little girl passed through happened to a lot of people her age a long time ago.
Patsy and all the slaves didn't get a lot of opportunities we now have and that some of us don't care about. For example they didn't get to go to school, learn how to read or write. Today we go to school and learn how to read and write. A lot of us don't care about school but I know if the slaves had the same opportunities as we do they wouldn't waste them. Thanks to this book I learned not to waste all my opportunities that I have now because a lot of people 100 years ago didn't have them but I know they would have loved to have them. Now whenever I have an opportunity I'm going to take the chance and never let it go because probably this opportunity will come once in a lifetime, we never know.
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