How I became an American; a historical fiction project
We have been studying historical fiction books in my class. We were allowed to choose from a few fiction (the fiction part is a bit obvious. Remind me to make it better next time) books about people who emigrated from another country. I chose a book called How I became an American. It is about a boy that emigrated from Rumania and came to Youngstown, Ohio. By the end of the book, his mother had had nine children, and only five of them had survived past being a baby. This is what the cover looks like:
Of course, the real book doesn’t have the words “search inside” on it. The book starts with the boy (named Johnny) being born in 1892. He is born in Austria-Hungary, and when he is two, he moves to Rumania, where he lives for eight years. He is the sixth child, the third to survive. During his life, his brother Emil is born. In 1902, his family works out a plan for them all to go to America when they have enough money. First Johnny’s father goes. He works his hardest and sends money for Peter, Johnny’s brother, to immigrate. Then they work as hard as they can and they send money for the rest of the family to come to America. By the time the plan goes into action, Johnny has another sibling, named Eliss (English translation Alice). I won’t tell you more because of the same reason as last time-you might take my word for it and not read it yourself.
So now I’m ending this post. But I’m not giving you a sneak peak this time. Remember what you did last time? You kept asking for more. Oh, now you’re begging for a sneak peak? I knew I shouldn’t have said that. Next time I won’t even mention a sneak peak. But that won’t stop you from begging for it? Oh dear…
January 27th, 2008 at 7:13 am
And how exactly do you think it is a good work of historical fiction? Can you give us some examples from your investigation of good quotes showing how the author uses figurative language well as well as her research?
January 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I think it has a lot of details in it, and also it has some interesting parts of history, like the fact that a lot of babies die.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Dear c16tk I love how you told about the history of Johnny’s life. I never could have remembered all those dates. I don’t remember Johnny living in Austria-Hungary. But that was in the begning of the book. I love the ending and I think the post tells all about the book.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Hi c16tk:
It is interesting the sacrifices families make to improve their situation; for example, how the father left the family and moved to America to try to make enough money to bring them all over. Do you think this was a good idea? The mother was left alone with all those children and a new baby on the way…
Would you make sacrifices like this one day to help your family or others?
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