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As a child she was facing confusing situations. Do people know as a child that there sex choice is right verses wrong? It seems like her father knew and was doing things to test his theory. Is it safe to say that if she was shown love and affection she wouldn’t be gay at all. I don’t think it will ever be known how it is determined. Being gay now a days is being accepted and I think it was good for her parents to accept her. The parents both gave tough love to me and it seem as if they were so caught in themselves that they forgot about there children. Her and her mothers relationship wasn’t really spoken of. It was more like they lived there life but when they needed each other they were there for one another and understood each others feelings. Her and her dad seemed close. That goes along with what is said about daughters relationship with there father. It seem like the confided in each other and they had similar likes as well as opposite ones. In the book near the end the father decide to come clean with his daughter it was like finally getting the courage to say what she already knew and vise versa. There isn’t a defined right way to raise your children, nor is there a law. So to say that they were un fit parents would be wrong , the only thing that can be said is they raised them as best they could . By what was shown to them as a child and what the thought was right.
Reading this book it was confusing and it wasn’t a book I would honestly choose to read. But as I read I got some sense of understanding it and visualizing in my mind the life she lived as if it was my own .

fun home contined

The title of the book is called fun home. This book may have begin with there house being like a fun home but we all say through that rather quickly. In my eyes it was more like the kids were miserable and all individually searched for a way out. I’m not sure why the father treated his kids this way but I don’t think tuff love is the answer. Everyone deserves to feel loved and express it however they choose.
Is it ok to make your family miserable on order to keep the family together.
Unhappy marriages are common in this world . To a child it is an unfair thing . No matter what you go through letting your kidds witness that is like setting them up for failure.

Fun Home

This book is different from all the books we have read so far. It was made into a comic. When you think of a comic you think of something that is suppose to be a funny, action, and unreal story. When I first brought the book I thought it would be another book to get lost in. like me feeling what they felt. Instead it kind of confused me I didn't know what feeling to get. I’m confused to what truly happen vs. what they individually believe. Does anyone know the truth at least one. How do you determine what’s suicide and what isn't. the way this book puts things its like they should question a lot me deaths than they usually do. Is being attracted to the same sex inherited? or is it something that just comes about. Is it the result of a child receiving tough love.

Closing thoughts

I never heard anything about the Mirabel sisters until know. Reading this book it gave me mixed feelings. There was a point when I was like go for it be daring make a difference and then at the same I wanted them not to do anything at all but live their lives as normal people and stay safe. Then a question came to mind. What is being normal? Is there just one definition or are there many. It seems like from the beginning they knew they had a purpose. They had a calling you can say. Even though one sister might have held it off it caught up with them all eventually. These sisters were brave women, women that should be looked up to; Women that everyone should know about. Women deserve to make a stand; they deserve to have a voice. Why aren’t enough women heard? Why can’t we be what they teach about in school more.  Is it better to face death knowing you didn’t do everything you wanted out of fear or is it better to face death knowing you yourself made a difference. I look at these sisters as women of power. I know they didn’t officially have power by law but they made their own sense of power.I believe the author wanted this to been a story heard all over the world.  They author felt that these women story is too unknown . That the world needs to know what people go through and not only who or what the government wants us to know. We need to know what the people from other countries go through. We need to know what dangers lifestyles women face so when we question why would they want to come to the U.S and live like us we know the real answer.

In the time of the butterflies

Patria's Timeline

• 1938 she goes to convent
• 1940 decided to be a nun
• 1941decides convent isn't for her, she meets Pedinto
• falls in love with him nd gets married
• has two kids
• losesed her third child,faith and marriage all at once
• Goes on pilgrimmage
• Virgin Mary speaks to her
• Regains her faith,strengthens relationship with family
• Her children are grown, she has been married for eightteen years and her marriage is going down little by little
• new years reunied with sisters
• findsout she is pregnant
• takes in minervas son
• goes on retreat while pregnant an is a victim in bombing. this is where she decides right then and there that  she need to be apart of the movement (stopping the killings of children) . at this point her relationship with god strenthens
• her two sisters husband and son get taken into custody
• she is the one he takes charge of holding the incomplete  families together
• find answers on her relatives well being,
• sacrifices her life for her sons to god
• gets her son back

The Sisters

With me having dominican friends and a dominican boyfriend I still never heard of so much violence in the Dominican Republic.This comes to a great shock to me. I always think of D.R as a beautiful place I would love to visit.Reading this book it has me wonder how many womend have we lost because they stood up for their right.If women speak up is the automatic response death. if so why, how come who decides this. Why is this world so threated by women empowerment.I admire women who don't take no for an answer and are willing to speak their mind.This book shows how women can come together for a cause just because they believe.These four different lives came together to make a difference. With them being sisters and with the same background theses girls are all different and have the the ability to live as they choose.


The Power of a Woman
The empowerment of a women begins within herself,
if that women loves herself;
she has that authority to love anyone she chooses.
The power of a women becomes even stronger
when she finds herself and knows who she is;
and doesn't let anyone tell her otherwise.

The power of a women can make her strong enough
to stand on her own two feet; and finally that women is independent .
She will not be afraid to ask for help or help herself.

The power of a women is stronger then the grip of a
lions teeth when his prey is in his mouth.

The power of a women is a power no man could live without ,
because without a women there can be no man.

The power of a women is endless;
so stand tall, and represent for all the women in the world.

The would you rather game was very interesting. To me it seem like the girls played the game often. It started of with reasonable questions and as it gradually went on the question went to the extreme meaning even death . The questions could be out of curious, or even situations she has been in and don’t know how to respond to. If it is out of curiosity then it is safe to say girls minds are wide ranged and can be anywhere. It is not what people expect it to be. At the end of one of the games both girls ended up crying and it made me wonder what kind of life they live and is all the really feel that they have is each other. In fact my question is how well are girls really known . Girls are all unique. You can’t read a book on girls and expect to have them down pack. Unless you take the time out and get to know her you will never truly know her.

   If you look inside a girl
You would see how much she really cries
You would find so many secrets &lots of lies
But what you’ll see the most is how hard it is to stay
Strong when nothing is right and everything is wrong…
                   Strong girl 

lives Girls Today

    Nothing Girl
Maybe I wear baggies
and white socks with flip-flops,
maybe I don't like listening to rave
and I'm not on the social mountaintops,
maybe I don't care about the things
that make your worlds twirl,
maybe you look at me and think:
Gee, what a nothing girl.

Maybe I like giving smiles
which seems to be a sin today,
and maybe I allow my imagination
to sometimes run away,
maybe you don't understand this
and that's why you cannot see,
if this make me a nothing girl,
hey, that's ok with me!

The world makes you believe
your personality mustn't be detected,
your face must be picture perfect
and wear cloths just the best, to be accepted.
Maybe I look at you
and feel sorry that you're blind,
robots you have became,
yourself you'll never find.

God made you, as well as me,
this means I am something,
the world is a liar
and if I must be a nothing
for you to see it,
then so be it!

I found this poem and to me it relates to a few different voices in this book rather than one person.It has points about life that a few have touched on but not fully grasped in some stories they recognize the world for what it is. Then you have those girls who choose to follow everything the world wants them to become.I reveal that girls lives today are very confusing,unanswered dreams or nightmares. They can shift at any minute on a rocky path uncertain of what is right fore them or  what is right for them because of society. What they need verses what they want. What they can have v.s what they can't.

I am an Emotional Creature

This book made me realize that I am not alone in all the obstacles I have faced in life. At the same time it also made me wonder is this all because I am a female. If I were a male would it be the same or are women only considered to be emotional creatures. In this world why is so much pressure pushed on women than men? We are looked at as very emotional and unable to handle things but is it that or is it that we are way stronger than men because there is so much we hold in and deal with that men can't? We deal with pressures from life can they? There is always people saying women can't do anything a man can do, but is it safe to say that the truth is a man can’t compare nor handle as much as a women can? Why are girls throughout childhood given all these rules and set ways and boys given freedom? Who made these rules?
In the passage “Tell Me How to be a Girl in 2010,” it touched me and I feel for all girls. Where did all these ideas of what being a girl is come from. I know with me growing up it's like even when you do what is right or what you feel is best for you it is still some how wrong. If you take the words like I'm lonely, I'm scared, etc, it shows how confused society makes things. You can be taught things at home about go outside or to school and it is like you have to live in a whole new tradition it is an all new trend. Is this going to go on the same forever or is it getting worse and worst.