One Day Book Report

No books, no friends, no playing outside the walls, no talking about what you love, this is how Maya, the protagonist, had to live until one day when everything changed. A theme you can learn from this novel is that when one door closes another one will open. The reason I think this is because Maya started off with a rough start, which was living at her grandma’s in California. Maya wasn’t a fan of living with her grandma, she felt like her had no life. Maya couldn’t even talk about her mother and father without getting in trouble. Long story short, Maya’s parents died in a car crash, so she ended up with her grandma. Along with not talking about her mother, Maya could never talk about horses, the thing she absolutely loved. Maya’s mother, …show more content…
So, Maya flew off to Wyoming where her grandpa would pick her up and take her to her Aunt Vi’s ranch where her they would all be living together, which included her Grandpa Moose, Uncle Fig, Aunt Vi, and her cousin Payton. Maya wasn’t sure if they would lover her or if they would want her there. Then Maya looked out the Salt Lake City airport window and saw a tall man with brown hair. He wore sunglasses and a blue work shirt along with a cowboy hat. This was the time when a new door opened for the better. Maya soon got settled in and she had more freedom, she was able to talk about her mom and what she loves, and she got to do things she would have never got to do at her …show more content…
Throughout her journey there’s been dealing with her grandma, moving to Wyoming with her grandpa, the small paint horse model horse, and a huge part of her life leaving at the end.
To start with, Maya had a very strict grandma. She never got to leave the house unless it was to go to school, she had to follow all of her grandmother's rules. Meanwhile the most important rule was that she could never talk about her mother mainly because her grandmother blamed the death of her son on her, her mother and father dies in a car crash when she was four. Along with that, she could never talk about horses or have anything to do with them because well, that was her mother’s love. These all symbolize that her grandma is very strict. The number one rule was that he obeys everything her grandma says.
Secondly, I can also symbolize that Maya is nervous about moving from California to Wyoming. The book states “She sat up straight and expectant in the hard plastic chair next to the airline counter in Salt Lake City, but her stomach wobbled.” “...stared at each man