Blog Review

Shameea's Blog Post

The blog post I think was very well written was about “Sold” by Shameea Mahbub. She retells the story from the books main character, Lakshmi, precisely and answers the social action questions. I have also read “Sold” by Patricia McCormick and I agree with the response she answered to the social action questions.

One of the main topic she takes about is how sexism plays a big part in the entire book. I agree with her point, because in India all of the married women have to stay at home to tend to her chores, child and husband. They have to wear hijabs at a very young as to show modesty. It is not a choice they have to make, it is required. Shameea also brings up really strong quotes and connections from the book to back up her response. For example, “A boy who had been born into the sex-trafficking industry, Harish, had such a different life than the other girls at the "Happiness House" Lakshmi had been increasingly jealous of him, calling him the David Beckham boy because he had played soccer. Harish had simple privileges that Lakshmi was deprived of. He was able to go to school, able to roam around freely, able to have the privileges of a boy.” She brings up a male character that wasn’t a big part of the story, and connects it with her point.

The question, “Who's perspective is missing?” Shameea answered in her blog was perfectly responded with her opinion. She thought no one’s perspective was missing. She explained how Lakshmi’s point of view was very critical for the book. It help make the story really dark and accurate.

In conclusion, the blog post was written very beautifully with thought. The blog post was also separated with paragraphs that were planned out to different questions and topics. The blog post was also supported with very well picked examples throughout.

Non-Fiction Critical Analysis

In the non-fiction book Same-Sex Marriage, by Tricia Andryszewski, tells you about gay rights history. The bias novel, for gays, tells you information for both the views of same sex marriage (For or against). It also displays some pictures of same sex couples that can make you feel either disgusted or content.

The author wants to show the reader what same sex marriage is, the rumors about it, and how the big commotion about it started. Tricia knows that most of her audience would be at a younger age, so she gives the readers information mainly from the nineteen hundreds to 2012, rather than telling a story or a story of her own experience. One of the rumors she discusses about is, in 1982 was AIDS was called the “gay disease” because the highest percentage of the people who got it were either lesbians or gays. Because many gays and lesbians has this disease, most hospitals wouldn’t take them in since a great amount of people were anti-gay. The reason she mentioned this is to scary or shock the audience. She goes on to list the gay or lesbian politicians and mayors, to show that even other homosexual people get involved with the government, that most likely there are who people are anti-gay.

This book showed me various information that I didn’t know from my many articles that I read about online. She shows that readers that it is normal to be a homosexual, and many other people are with them. Instead of avoiding the fact that they’re gay or lesbian, she showed how there were many people who came out of the closet in the nineteen hundreds, and then had to go through the hatred the heterosexual and anti-gay gave them.