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    relationships, demands, or implications. In the "Other Side" by Jacqueline Woodson there is plenty of tension between racism and segregation, she shows this through the characters and the setting. While as in "We Beat the Streets" by Sharon Draper the excerpt takes a place where most people do not come up or become great things and it is also shown through characters and the setting. To begin, Jacqueline Woodson created tension in "The Other Side" by using the characters along with the…

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    The Other Side No one want’s to be treated differently just because their race, it’s just not right! In the book, The Other Side by:Jacqueline Woodson, Clover learns to be accepting of others no matter the differences. One reason is, don’t let others get in your way of accepting others. Also once one person starts accepting others, then others will too. Clover learns to be accepting of others. She didn’t let others get in her way. For example, Clover wants to be friends with the girl…

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    about the story “The Other Side” and it’s about a little girl named Clover and Annie. When they first met, Clover had a group of friends she always hung around. She didn’t like them because of the way they treated Annie. Well, one day Clover saw the way they treated Annie and she didn’t like it at all. When Clover saw the way, they treated her, she decided to say something about it and she lost her friends because of Annie, but when they first met they were okay with each other. When they…

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    Life is a journey to the other side, but the road to being an adult to short. It was as if I actually walked into a bathroom a child and came out and adult? This is how fast I remember the summer before high school. I didn’t gradually transition like most kids, it all just happened in the blink of an eye. It was hard enough changing schools let alone being a teenager, all while I watching my mom be sick. I recall this summer as one of the hardest I would ever face. I never would have guessed…

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    Title of Book: “The Other Side of Silence” Author: Urvashi Butalia Publisher: Penguin house India Year of Publication: originally published 1998 “Urvashi Butalia” is an Indian publisher and feminist. Along with Ritu Menon she co-founded kali for women. The book is the product of seventy or more interviews that butalia conducted with sufferers of the partition and emphasises particularly the role of violence against women in the collective experience of the tragedy. In “The Other Side of…

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    Something that Ahmedi, Ben, and Aengus share is the want to succeed whether it is about finding love or just trying to survive in their situation. Ahmedi , from the excerpt “Other Side of The Sky” ,was a girl who wanted to escape Afghanistan before the conditions worsen and illnesses and death occur. Ben ,from the book Spy School was the new kid at Spy School who became a target of the mole on the first day. Aengus was an elderly man whose despair to find love drove him to live. Ahmedi was a…

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    like For example in The Other Side Of The Sky, Farah got her leg blown off yet she still ran and climbed mountains to get the help her and her mother need or The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins had to choose between his "Took" side or his "Baggins" side. He eventually chose his Took side and wound up saving the vikings life. Or Aengus will never stop looking for his "glimmering girl". Its just so interesting what challenges Bilbo, Farah, and Aengus faced. In the story The Other Side Of The Sky Farah…

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    The Other Side In life there is a silent rule that most people by human nature know to follow. Humans are born with this rule embed in their brain, but no one ever really says it out loud. There is a time in life that some people go near this barrier in life and walk along its edge. Just for a while though, they eventually back away from this barrier and go where they are supposed to be in life. People are supposed to know where to draw the line. There are some people in life that when they…

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    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…

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    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…

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