So I just started a new fiction book called Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell and it's definitely a new concept and I have to say I'm not bored with it yet so it seems like I'll really like it hopefully. I have only read the first few chapters and I have a hunch that something big is gonna happen and its gonna come at me like I'd never expect it. And because I don't like surprises I have myself prepared for the plot. So far this book talks about a young girl that experiences a typical day in her village and what she has been doing during the summer. She's like your normal teenage girl in the west, a person who has chores to do, loves hanging around with her friends, and of course... has a crush on another boy. Yep... authors can just never forget the romance.
So at the part where I left of, is where the girl named Bright Morning has seen a couple of Spaniards- people she had been taught to stay away from at a very young age. When she sees them, she describes them like, "I saw their shadows before I saw the men..... they were dressed in deerskin, with tall hats and silver spurs,riding horses that had heavy silver bits. They were the Spaniards,"(O'Dell 25). From previous sentences in the book the reader were able to tell that the Spaniards were not the people to trust because they would always take advantage of people living in the villages and exploit them. And at this part in the novel Bright Morning was alone in the field quite far from her home so I have a feeling that the Spaniards are going to kidnap her and take her away. I think this because she was alone far away from her home, with nothing to defend herself with, and the Spaniards have always hated her village and her people from the start. So my predication is that she will be kidnapped and taken away and to get her back, the people will have to pay up something as ransom.
This seems like an interesting book, although I usually don't find historical stories all that entertaining. It's funny how even though Bright Morning is years apart and a culture away from us, we can still have a strong connection to her. Great post, Aneesha!
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