Choice Book Report

Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Mildred Taylor

Part 1


I read the book Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor. The main character of the book is Cassie Logan. In the beginning she is 10 years old, but in the end she's 11. She lives with her mom, Mary Logan, dad, David Logan, brothers, Stacey, Christopher-John, and Little Man Logan. Her grandma, who they call Big Ma, and Mr.Morrison. Mr.Morrison isn't related to them, but he lives in a cottage on their land and considers them family.




I think Cassie can be very nosy. She wants to know what's going on and what people are doing. Cassie follows Stacey around when he's with his friends, and butts into their conversations. Once in the book Stacey was with Moe talking about girls and Cassie decides to follow along without them knowing. After awhile she just starts talking to them thinking she's part of the conversation. Another time Cassie asked her dad what was wrong with Wordell. Wordell doesn't talk very much and is friends with a guy named Joe. The author doesn't exactly tell you that there's something wrong with Joe, but you can guess that he has some sort of mental disability. Her dad tells her that there is nothing wrong with him and he is just perfectly fine the way he is.


Besides being nosy, Cassie is very brave and courageous. When people are in trouble or need help she's there. Stacey decides to go to T.J.'s trial, which is dangerous because he'd get a whipping from his dad and there are a lot of white people. Racism was really bad during the Depression. Cassie said if he was going she was going. White people almost spot them on the white part of town. They used a white bathroom and drinking fountain. Once they yelled and thought the people in the courtroom could hear them. Even after all that happened she stay wanted to stay.


Another part in the story when Cassie was being courageous was when a white man threw a bottle at a black man. Cassie's friend was running towards the white man and she knew what was going to happen, so she ran after him to stop him. While she's running there's chaos all around her. Mr.Morrison stops her and goes after her friend instead.


Cassie and her brothers find a man beaten very badly. They wanted to take him somewhere to get him help, but if they brought him then they might think it was them who had beaten the man because they were black. Instead, they thought of different ways to get him help and one of them was to get their white friend who lived nearby. They had to sneak up and try to find him quickly before the man died and before they got caught. If you want to look up to someone who is brave and courageous, you should look up to Cassie.



 Part 2


I think the point of view in the story is very important. The story is told from Cassie's point of view. She describes what she thinks things look like, what she thinks things will look like, what she wants, what she thinks about people and other things, and what's going on. If it was told from any other point of view it would be a totally different story. When Cassie, Uncle Hammer, and Papa first meet Jake Willis this is what she thought, "The grin was still on his face, but there was something in his tone which made me uncomfortable." That was her first impression and it stayed that way thought the whole book. It could've been a lot different for Uncle Hammer, who was talking to Jake Willis. Uncle Hammer could have thought that Jake was just curious or was trying to get him angry or annoyed.


In other parts when Cassie saw Stacey after months she described how he looked and how happy she was to see him. If it were in Stacey's point of view we would've know what it was like for him and Moe and how he felt when he saw his family. Instead which just know what he told us.


I think Cassie's point of view was chosen because if it was any one older they would know why things are happening like they are in the book and if it was any one younger they wouldn't understand. David needs to go back to the railroad to make more money to pay the taxes. Stacey, Mama, Big Ma, and Uncle Hammer understand this, but Cassie wants to know why he can't just stay this one year. Well this one year the government decides that farmers and plantation owners need to plow and percentage of their cotton to try to bring the depression back up. Christopher-John and Little Man don't understand taxes or government at all, and that's mostly what the book is about besides the racism!


One touching part of the book where you really felt what Cassie was feeling was when the government was coming around telling land owners to plow up another part of their cotton because they supposedly made a mistake. Cassie, Big Ma, and her two younger brothers were at the Turner's when the government came and told them they had to plow it up. This was the first year in a very long time that the Turner's had a very good crop and they had to plow it up. They wanted so badly to get off that land. Moe started freaking out and crying. His dad was very disappointed too. All Cassie thought was that she wanted to cry too.

That is why I think Cassie's point of view is important.

                             

Memoir 2

   Two summers ago my family, aunt, uncle, and cousins from California came back to Minnesota for a week. We all went up to Nisswa, a small tourist town near Brainerd and Baxter. There's a resort on Gull Lake that we stay at every other year with them. We stay in a condo near the indoor and outdoor pool. My grandparents who live in Baxter bring their boat and we go fishing and tubing.
  
   One of the days we were there we decided to go to the turtle races. My cousin Sarah and I decided we wanted to race together. I was standing in the middle getting ready to set the turtle on the ground to race. The turtle was a big dark green monster. It had sharp claws that kept scratching at my hands, and it's head kept sticking out like it was trying to eat something. After I set it down to race, it zipped across the pavement and right before the finish line it walked sideways. Stupid turtle. Sarah's didn't win either. We all went go-carting instead.

   My other uncle, Rob, and cousin, Kyle come from the cities and stay with my grandparents. Usually we go around the Fourth of July, so we do fireworks and stuff. It's really exciting. Two years ago we went to this hill by some building, and we watched the fireworks. They were huge. Bright. Loud. And right up in your face. We were really close to them because they were doing them at the bottom of the hill, across the forest, and in the lake on the barge. It looked like there were a hundred different colors, shapes, and designs.  When we were done we did sparklers and went swimming in the pool before midnight.

   That was one of the best vacations I've had there.

Memoir 1

  Two years ago for my twelve birthday I had four people come over. Carly, Karly, Tori, and Allison. We had a lot of fun, but I forgot about a lot of stuff except for...something. First I opened my presents. Carly gave me a gift card to Barnes and Noble. Tori and Allison got me the exact same stuffed animal. I forgot what Karly gave me, but I know she got me gum.

  Then we ate. It was pizza or sandwiches or something you usually eat at parties. After we ate we decided to go for a walk to the park. As we were walking around Carly wanted to prank call Sara and tell her she ordered ten gallons of mustard. Obviously she knew it was us 'cause we were laughing in the back. Sara came and met us the park.
 
  While we sat in the grass, Carly and I started yelling "I love you!" at random cars that drove by. Everyone just sat and laughed. After a couple of cars passed by there was one that wasn't to happy about us screaming at them. They rolled down their window and told us they were calling the cops for sexual harassment. At first we didn't believe them, but they pulled over to the side of the road and we saw them take out their phone. We got kinda scared, so we walked down the block, across the street and into the other alley running because we heard sirens. All of us were a little spazzy, so we actually thought the cops were coming after us. The only scary part was that when we got to the other end of the alley we saw the car driving around by the block.

   Of course we ran back to my house screaming and laughing. We stayed outside really late just playing and talking. Then we went inside. Allison brought A LOT of make up, so we decided to get "make-overs". Obviously they weren't pretty. Allison had make up all over my face and in my hair. Carly got red lip gloss in my carpet. I wasn't to happy, so I washed my hair in the sink, which wasn't to comfortable by the way. We decided to play truth or dare instead. It got a little crazy 'cause Tori dared Carly to lick my foot. She said it tasted like beef jerkey, which was weird 'cause it smelled like pommegrantes.

   We weren't sure if Tori was going to be able to sleep over or not, but her parents came, brought her stuff, and told us she could stay. We "watched" a movie. The movie was on, but we were actually talking about getting chased by the cops.
 

Introduction

   I'm Anna. I have 2 brothers. I'm fourteen and I like the color orange. I love swimming. 
   I like to watch TV and listen to music. I don't have any pets except for a few fish that are my brother's.
   I like being organized, and some of my friends think I have OCD.