Precise, highly accessible language evokes a wide range of emotions and simultaneously tells an initiation story. Kek endures a mixture of failures (he uses the clothes washer to clean dishes) and victories (he lands his first paying job), but one thing remains constant: his ardent desire to learn his mother's fate. Prefaced by an African proverb, each section of the book marks a stage in the narrator's assimilation, eloquently conveying how his initial confusion fades as survival skills improve and friendships take root. An onslaught of new sensations greets Kek (“This cold is like claws on my skin,” he laments), and ordinary sights unexpectedly fill him with longing (a lone cow in a field reminds him of his father's herd when he looks in his aunt's face, “I see my mother's eyes/ looking back at me”). The boy has traveled by “flying boat” to Minnesota in winter to live with relatives who fled earlier. After witnessing the murders of his father and brother, then getting separated from his mother in an African camp, Kek alone believes that his mother has somehow survived.
NO LONGER HOME OF THE BRAVE FREE
Happy Fourth of July everyone.In her first stand-alone book, Applegate (the Animorphs series) effectively uses free verse to capture a Sudanese refugee's impressions of America and his slow adjustment.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, Between their lov’d homes and the war’s desolation Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
NO LONGER HOME OF THE BRAVE FULL
On the shore dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: ‘Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollution. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there. The Star Spangled Banner (National Anthem) – by Francis Scott Key We’re no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave we’re the land of the kind-of-free and the home of the scared silly. I am so grateful to be part of a country that was formed under God, with liberty and Justice FOR ALL! I feel so blessed for the rights and freedoms we enjoy in this great country. There is something so special about the feeling of patriotism we celebrate on that day. The Fourth of July is truly one of my very favorite hoildays. God bless all of those who continue to sacrifice so that we may continue to enjoy that same freedom. To all of them I say “Thank You!”: With all of our fun Fourth of July Celebrations this weekend, we need to remember the great cost at which our freedom came.
I can see that the end is more than worth all the means.” Yet, through all the gloom, I can see rays of ravishing light and glory. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. “You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. In 1776, after the Second Continental Congress adopted the Lee Resolution that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent,” John Adams wrote the following to his wife:
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