Journals

Date: 30 July 2008

Entry #8

Page #38

Reflection:

For this portion of the "Feast of the New Yam", you have the feast. In this culture, you invite all your family included any family anywhere that you have. All the extended family. I can really compare some of these cultures to my own family. Yet, for any feast, we invite any of our family, far and wide to come and join with us. This is just the way we do things. I love this book a lot just because I can really compare parts of my life to it.

Page #42

Reflection:

"The Feast of the New Yam" is starting to be a very cool tradition to me. During this part of the novel, the village has wrestling matches in the park. The whole village can hers the drums beating and it just sparks the whole village. I feel that this is cool for the community and everyone that shows up for it. This is sort of like when a town or city has like a little carnival or city festival for a special occasion. You can compare this to the "Apricot Festival" in Patterson.