The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

I am still reading the book called 'The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' written by Ann Brashares. I read 20 pages in this week.

The chapter that I read focus on Carmen. I already read before about she goes to South Carolina to meet her father but her father tries to remarry with a new wife. In this chapter, Carmen talks with her father and she asks him about a new wife. She asks her father that why they celebrate the wedding now. Her father answers that his new wife never had celebrate the wedding before because she was planning the wedding with her mother but her mother died suddenly six weeks before the wedding. Her father thinks that now is her chance and he wants her to enjoy the wedding. Also Carmen is told by her father that his new wife divorced her old husband because he had a serious drinking problem and he has been in and out of treatment. While Carmen is listening about her father's new wife, she feels so sad and sorry to her. Carmen promises herself that she would smile at a new wife.

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'. There was many conversation with Carmen and her father in this chapter, so I could imagine the situation easily. I also used 'I ask myself question I like to have answered in the text'. After I read the chapter, I asked the question myself that what does Carmen think about a new wife now? I answered that she felt sorry to her and she sympathized with her past. Although Carmen didn't like a new wife first, she approved that her father remarried with her. I could understand her feeling that she felt shock at first about her father tried to remarry with a new wife, but I thought that she had to wish her father's happiness if she loves him. So I felt happy that Carmen finally approved the remarriage of them.

I will continue reading this book.