Journal #1: Three Active Reading Strategies
How many people in the world can say that they have been dismissed by their own families? This quarter, I have been reading Pam Jenoff’s novel The Orphan’s Tale, and I am on page 160. In the novel, Noa is a teenage girl who has suddenly discovered she was pregnant. She was a German girl living a normal life during Hitler’s time, and life was great until one fateful day. The day she found out she was pregnant was inarguably one of the scariest days of her life, or so she thought. She figured she could hide it from her parents for a while, granted she wasn’t showing yet. However, when her mother walked in on her changing, she was unaware that her fate was about to be altered forever. Asterid, a near-forty year old Jewish woman, had moved to Germany to live with her new SS soldier husband. Life was good for her as well, until her husband kicked her out and she was forced to go back home. When she returned home, she found that Nazi Soldiers had overtaken her family’s old house. She was later offered a job at the circus by her old neighbor, which she took and used as an opportunity to begin a new life. Later in the story, Asterid and Noa meet and Noa is taken in by the circus and forced to put her life in jeopardy to perform on the trapeze as an act in the circus. To Asterid’s disliking, …show more content…
I was wondering why Pam Jenoff would make Noa lose her own baby, but place a new baby in her arms? She could have wanted Noa to experience the ups and downs of motherhood, and for Noa to understand the hardships mothers have to endure. Another question I have is how does Asterid’s husband Erich just kick her out of their home? It seems bizarre that someone that loves you enough to get a home with you, and even marries you, would just decide one day that you needed to leave. “’Ingrid,” he said, using my full name and not the pet name he’d given me, “we need to divorce.” (Jenoff
How many people in the world can say that they have been dismissed by their own families? This quarter, I have been reading Pam Jenoff’s novel The Orphan’s Tale, and I am on page 160. In the novel, Noa is a teenage girl who has suddenly discovered she was pregnant. She was a German girl living a normal life during Hitler’s time, and life was great until one fateful day. The day she found out she was pregnant was inarguably one of the scariest days of her life, or so she thought. She figured she could hide it from her parents for a while, granted she wasn’t showing yet. However, when her mother walked in on her changing, she was unaware that her fate was about to be altered forever. Asterid, a near-forty year old Jewish woman, had moved to Germany to live with her new SS soldier husband. Life was good for her as well, until her husband kicked her out and she was forced to go back home. When she returned home, she found that Nazi Soldiers had overtaken her family’s old house. She was later offered a job at the circus by her old neighbor, which she took and used as an opportunity to begin a new life. Later in the story, Asterid and Noa meet and Noa is taken in by the circus and forced to put her life in jeopardy to perform on the trapeze as an act in the circus. To Asterid’s disliking, …show more content…
I was wondering why Pam Jenoff would make Noa lose her own baby, but place a new baby in her arms? She could have wanted Noa to experience the ups and downs of motherhood, and for Noa to understand the hardships mothers have to endure. Another question I have is how does Asterid’s husband Erich just kick her out of their home? It seems bizarre that someone that loves you enough to get a home with you, and even marries you, would just decide one day that you needed to leave. “’Ingrid,” he said, using my full name and not the pet name he’d given me, “we need to divorce.” (Jenoff