The story The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa is about a girl named Ehwa and her journey from a young girl to a young adult. When Ehwa is facing puberty as she grows up she is confused by the changes of her body and the false information she gets from friends about these changes confuses her even more. Throughout the book Ehwa discovers the different physical changes between boys and girls as she becomes a young woman. She also experiences confusing interactions with attraction and romance. Ehwa and her mother don’t talk about her changes before they happen, but she does go to her mother for help with the questions she has.
In the story Yummy by G. Neri Robert “Yummy” Sandifer is an eleven year old boy who is caught in between understanding senseless gang violence while struggling to do age appropriate things. The comic story is told from Roger’s point of view. Roger is a boy who knew Yummy. When Yummy joined a gang in his neighborhood he was involved with their violence and he fired a gun towards rival gang members and accidentally killed a bystander girl. The gang he was in executed him for this. Yummy was a young child facing the issues of gang violence, urban poverty and child neglect. By him not …show more content…
Neri Robert. I think that boy and girl readers can relate to some of these themes with past experiences and future conflicts. For example, Yummy's exploration of youth gang life can show readers how to question their own understandings of right and wrong with some of their experiences. Readers can experience the story just like Roger did and through his point of view as he was left with some questions about Yummy. But, through Robert readers can understand the moral in the end. That children can choose to do things to prevent the same events from happening to them and that no one shares Yummy’s
In the story Yummy by G. Neri Robert “Yummy” Sandifer is an eleven year old boy who is caught in between understanding senseless gang violence while struggling to do age appropriate things. The comic story is told from Roger’s point of view. Roger is a boy who knew Yummy. When Yummy joined a gang in his neighborhood he was involved with their violence and he fired a gun towards rival gang members and accidentally killed a bystander girl. The gang he was in executed him for this. Yummy was a young child facing the issues of gang violence, urban poverty and child neglect. By him not …show more content…
Neri Robert. I think that boy and girl readers can relate to some of these themes with past experiences and future conflicts. For example, Yummy's exploration of youth gang life can show readers how to question their own understandings of right and wrong with some of their experiences. Readers can experience the story just like Roger did and through his point of view as he was left with some questions about Yummy. But, through Robert readers can understand the moral in the end. That children can choose to do things to prevent the same events from happening to them and that no one shares Yummy’s