Jacqueline Woodson

In the book, The Other Side, the main character, a young girl named Clover, who lives in a yellow house on the other side of the fence from another young girl named Annie. The difference between them Clover is a black girl and Annie is a white girl. The tone is that all people are created equal no matter the color on the outside. The symbolism in the book is the fence between Clover and Annie, and the audience is children. Firstly, throughout the book the author uses the tone that all…

“Brown girl dreaming”. The author of the book, Jacqueline Woodson was born on February twelfth nineteen sixty thirteen in Columbus, Ohio. She has three siblings. The book I read was about her childhood. She is an author of more than thirty seven books , She has won nine book awards and has two children. The book was about Jacquelines life, mostly her childhood under the age of ten. She told her story through poems. The book begins with Jacqueline being born in Columbus, Ohio. Her father at…

Jacqueline Woodson in her novel The House You Pass on the Way tells the tale of a young girl named Staggerlee. Throughout the read we stand by Staggerlee as she struggles to discover and understand her identity.“ She didn’t know what she was” explained Woodson, “Seemed all the girls at school knew who they were somehow. The way they dressed. The way they moved in clusters- laughing and holding their books tight to them. The way they sloe-eyed the boys.” (13 Woodson) However, Staggerlee knew she…

Since that person has glasses, they’re such a nerd! Since that person wears ragged clothes, they’re worthless and don’t mean a thing! These are mean and are judging people by how they look. Like in the story “The Other Side” by Jacqueline Woodson one of the main characters was judged by how they looked on the outside. The theme of the story is don’t judge a book by it’s cover. This story is a message to everyone. In the beginning everyone except Clover judged Annie. The middle and end of…

Social Injustice has been going on for several years and some say it is only getting worse. It can make a big impact on one’s feelings and can cause them to feel humiliated for who they are. In the book If You Come Softly, a character named Jeremiah continuously felt pessimistic because of how people were treating him due to his skin color. People constantly treated him differently than everyone else because he did not look the same as the rest. In the books, Sarah’s Key and Chains social…

Book Review - After TuPac and D Foster A large variety of different themes take place in the book “After Tupac and D Foster” by Jacqueline Woodson, a 2008 published literature fiction novel that experience the point of view from the lives of 3 pre-teen females from Brooklyn, and their obsession over rapping sensation, Tupac. Overall, the book has a very fast tempo. The Novel allows the readers to focus well and become easily engaged by the plot. My observation on the text is a positive…

Another Brooklyn (2016) is a novel by American author Jacqueline Woodson. The 2018-2019 Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature frequently writes about issue-oriented themes, such as interracial relationships and homosexuality, often challenging the literary taboos that existed at the time her various works were released. Gender, social, and racial issues are frequent topics as Woodson creates realistic characters searching for self. As the book opens, August…

this story don’t like the fence because it gets in the way of friendship. It is easy now to make friends with anyone, but back then the parents didn’t want there kids to be friends with different color kids. In the story, The Other Side, by Jacqueline Woodson a loving and caring girl named, Clover, the protagonist learns that you need to be accepting of people no matter the difference. She realises that she wants to be friends with whom she want to be friends with, and once a person accepts…

On my trip to the university, I was astounded by the level of diversity within the student body. I appreciate the level of diverseness of the university campus which offers the opportunity to learn new cultures. In the words of Jacqueline Woodson “diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together”. I have multiple friends from different backgrounds and they all have taught me valuable lessons regarding cultural appreciation. Therefore…

will never achieve happiness in your life. Social injustice can cause people to be ashamed of who they are. It takes a lot of courage and strength to not let social injustice define you. In the young adult fiction novel, If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson and in the historic drama, Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, characters show that social injustice does not define who they are and their true self is still able to shine through. In the beginning of If You Come Softly, Miah first…