Miriam Bat-Ami
Auteur de Two Suns in the Sky
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Miriam Bat-Ami
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Bat-Ami, Miriam Beatrice
- Date de naissance
- 1950
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
- Études
- California State University (MA|1980)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (AB|1974) - Professions
- professor (English|Western Michigan University|Kalamazoo)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 223
- Popularité
- #100,550
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 14
Author: Miriam Bat-Ami
Characters: Chris Cook and Adam Bornstein
Setting: New York, 1930’s WWII
Theme: Coming of Age, race, relationships and war
Genre: Middle School Historical fiction
Audience: ages 12 - 15 (+)
Curriculum: I can see this being used to introduce students to the concepts of religion, time periods of history and the influences of war on the general people.
Summary: Chris Cook, a young rebellious girl curious about the refugee campus being set up by the US in NY ventures on her own to see what the fuss is about. In the chaos of these camps she meets Adam, a refugee and Jewish Yugoslavian. They have frequent encounters and find they have a connection and chemistry but are also divided. It is through the lens of division the reader connects with these characters to find their similarities and love in times of war.
Personal Response:
There is a strong parallelism between Two Suns in the Sky and the Greek tragety of Pyramus and Thisbe . The girl who wants to get a way from the house to be a woman and the young man coming of age and defining himself in a time of war. There is also the symbolic fence that physically represented the separation between the two characters and the figurative separation of language, religion, and family. This tale has a great story line of two characters who have their own individual trials to defining who they want to become and find themselves attracted to each other but have so many differences, the “forbidden fruit” that encourages the read to hope that it works out.… (plus d'informations)