Sidonie Gruenberg
Period 6
#2 Independent Reading Analysis and Response
"One Crazy Summer" By Rita Willaims-Garcia teaches the importance of racial pride, and love. Seven years after Cecile abandoned her three daughters, Delphine, Vonetta, and fern, they move, and stay with her over summer break. It now being, 1968, Cecile, wanting nothing to do with her children, sends them to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group. Cecile shows no respect for her daughter's and won't even let them set foot into her kitchen, as it is her "thinking place". Her daughters noticed that they are not welcome nor wanted because of the fact that they are compelled to leave the house in the morning and to come back at dawn, with only $10.00.
The central idea of the story is how the three children had to adapt to the new position they were put in. The mother on the other hand had to accommodate a way of raising 3 children while keeping a colossal grudge on the father. Throughout the book, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, evolve and mature into cultured young ladies. As Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, attend the summer camp they discover new things about there race and there mother. When they first started to visit the summer camp, Fern with her white patty cake doll, was told that she should not own a white doll and that she should be proud of who she is. Later that night, Delphine scribbled on Fern's patty cake doll with permanent marker because she was embarrassed that her little sister was carrying around a white doll. Going to the summer camp, made all three of Cecile's children look at the world at a different perspective. A perspective somewhat like a black panthers.
I think that the author chose to write in the format that she did, because she wanted to show how the events that the children went through changed there perception of things. The author displays how the children change and why. When the story was coming to an end, the Cecile and her three daughter's became more then unfriendly roommates but they became family. When Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern first arrived in California, they barely got a hello, when the were about to leave for departure, they got a loving goodbye from the person they now called mom, not Cecile.
I think that the author chose to write in the format that she did, because she wanted to show how the events that the children went through changed there perception of things. The author displays how the children change and why. When the story was coming to an end, the Cecile and her three daughter's became more then unfriendly roommates but they became family. When Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern first arrived in California, they barely got a hello, when the were about to leave for departure, they got a loving goodbye from the person they now called mom, not Cecile.
