I'm still reading the book called "The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants".
I read 20 pages in this week.
The chapter that I read focus on Carmen. She lives apart from her father because her mother and father get divorced. In summer holiday, she goes to her father's house in South Carolina. She was excited to see her father. When she arrived her father's house, there are her father and his new family in the house. He is getting remarried with new wife and gets two kids and her father tells Carmen that they will celebrate a wedding next day. A new wife talks to Carmen very friendly but Carmen was shocked that her father is getting remarried with other woman. She knows that it is not her father's fault but she doesn't like a new wife and her children. At night, Carmen calls to her mother and tells about her father's remarriage. Next day, she doesn't want to go to the wedding but she has to.
While I was reading this chapter, I used the reading strategies called 'I try to picture in my mind what I have just read to help me remember what I read' in page 77. I imagined that her father was happily holding the hand of his new wife in front of Carmen. And also I used the reading strategies called 'I use words in boldface type and italics to identify key information' in this chapter. When Carmen saw her father's new wife and family, she thought that "Aren't we supposed to be a family too??" (P 78)in her mind. When I read it, I felt sorry to her and I could understand her feeling because if I am Carmen, I would feel sad about father's remarriage and I don't want to let him marry with a new wife. And I also used the strategies called 'I used a dictionary to help me understand what I read' because I sometimes couldn't understand the words and I used the dictionary to make sure them.
I read this chapter, I imagined about the situation of the remarriage of Carmen's father. If my father and mother get divorced and I know that my father will get marry with new wife, I would shock and I would feel shock about it. Even though a new wife is kind and good person, I can not be a daughter of new wife. I thought that I'm happy that I have real father and mother. I absolutely don't want them to get divorce.
I will continue to reading this book.
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I think your summary is easy to understand. i agree with you to use that stratagy because if i use it, i can image the situation of story during reading. if i was that character, i will not go to their marrege.
From what both of you have written, you agree that it is very hard to witness a divorced parent's marriage to someone else. The character Carmen is having a very hard time accepting her father's new wife and her children. But the fact remains that her father has a new family and there is nothing she can do to change that. Should Carmen stop seeing her father? What should she do?
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