Lost - Book reflection

I have finished ‘A Rose for the ANZAC Boys’ and I have started reading the book Lost by Michael Robotham. This book is about Detective Inspector Vincent Ruiz who is shot and found clinging to a buoy in the River Thames with no memory of the case he was working on or where he was that nice. The part I am up to is when he is hospital and the doctor is explaining why there is a gauze bandage wrapped around his calf and his finger. He lost he finger before the found him. It was the fourth finger on his right hand. I will keep reading to find out who shot him.

To Kill a Mocking Bird - letter 2

Dear Madison
I am happy to hear that the boycott isn’t affecting you as well. It is so silly I don’t see why blacks cannot sit at the front of the bus I see no problem. I am in year 10 at a little school near our neighborhood. I have 3 friends and their names are; Cathy, Margaret and Ella-Sue, we play in the park a lot and were all neighbors. We are also all in the same classes at school. Is this the same for you? At school we learn English and home economics. We also learn how to read and write. We have morning tea at 10:30 and lunch at 1, we also learned how to tell time. All of my teachers are nice except Mrs. Smith who is an old hag. Do you dislike any teachers? During morning tea, lunch and after-school we play in the park and we also like to dress up. What is your favorite activity? We don't really know much about the world around us as we are only 15 but I do know it is not social to talk to black people, I also know that the latest fashion is high-waisted skirts. We don't own a radio so we don't usually listen to music what we usually sing is hymn. How about you? How is your life?
Yours sincerely,
Courtney

To Kill a Mocking Bird - letter 1

Dear Madison

My name is Courtney and I am writing to you from April 12^th 1934. I see you asked me questions in your last letter and I will do my best to answer them. I have grown-up and I live in a ‘white neighbourhood’ (of course!) we have a white park behind us and our black maid Gracie always takes us. Our roads are smooth and everything is ‘white’. Every Sunday night we go to church and sing hymns. Our house is the average size with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, my older sister and I share a bedroom and our parents share the other bedroom. Two of the other rooms are studies and the last room is a laundry. Both of my parents are grocer owners and they try to make a living for us. In my neighbour hood there is also a market at the end of the street but they are only open every second day. Behind our neighbourhood is a ‘black’ street and Gracie’s family lives there, this is good as she can walk to work everyday and this silly bus boycott doesn’t effect us. So how are you going at the moment?

Yours sincerly,

Courtney

A Rose for the ANZAC Boys - warning spolier alert

I am still currently reading ‘A Rose for the ANZAC Boys’ and I am around the part where she has become and ambulance driver and she was a chauffeur for a general. She didn’t want to stay the night at a hotel with him when men were dying so she drove to a make-shift hospital made out of tents. She starts to help the wounded by cutting and stripping their clothes for the surgeon. She has the help of a man, whose name I do not know. While trying to sedate a soldier with chloroform he accidently kills him. I will continue reading to find out more.

A Rose of the ANZAC Boys

I have only just started to read this book; I am really enjoying it though. It is about a young girl whose twin brother (14) and older brother (18) goes to war. Even though her twin, Tim is under-age everyone still supports him going to the war. They all send letters to each other and in the first chapter (which is what I’m reading) she receives one from her twin Tim and one from her sister who is a nurse. They are describing how horrible the war is but most of what they say has been censored. I will continue reading to find out how she replies.