Wednesday, February 10, 2010
When I first began to read this short story I really was lost and confused. Since it was mandatory that I read I had to keep reading, otherwise I would have tossed this one to the side. I tried to relate this story to the things that we listed in class that children literature should posses base on the Sanchez Eppler readings. One thing that we said that children literature has is the good prevails over evil theme. When the old woman is telling her story of how she was captured, blind folded and held at gun point, she tells us about the birth of twins. One of the twins died and the other lived. The mother of the littel girl wanted the old woman to take her so that she could live and have a better life, but once they left that house she was taken to another place were she became enslaved. After reading that I was like something good has to come out of this horrible situation, and of course it did. The young baby Capitola went through so may bad things in her life but she still came out on top. She was rescued by Major Warfield and he gave her a room, clothes, food , and every thing that her heart desierd that she thought she would never recive.
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I think we you read these stories, you can't predict that everything is going to happen the way Sanchez-Eppler says it should. These stories are becoming more advanced and more interesting as we can tell just by the description of the scenery. I think you'll enjoy the stories more if when you read them you just let your mind be a blank slate and let the story unfold.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you looked at how good overcame evil in this story. It seemed more hopeless at the beginning, I thought, but you're right, it does prevail in the end. I wasn't an especially huge fan of this story either, but it's surprising how it still pulls you in by the end.
ReplyDeleteI am right there with you when you said you were sort of lost toward the beginning of the story but as it went on it became much more clear what was going on as you continued reading. It never really came to me that the good vs evil theme played out here with the old nurse and Capitola as a baby situation or Capitola going from rags to riches. You really did a great job in showing how that theme played out in the Hidden Hand.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is good to be lost in a story because it forces you to read more into the story and in turn will help in understanding it more. There were times when I had to reread some parts of the story but in the end it helped me better understand the story.
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