Morning girl by michael dorris ebook

This technique might be found in other books such as Alice Childress' Rainbow Jordon. Ann Turner's picture book The Christmas House uses many different speakers and viewpoints and makes this technique even more obvious. Readers of Morning Girl might like to talk about the reasons why Dorris might have written the book this way. Just listing his possible choices can put the readers in the chair of the writer for a change: could have started with the arrival of the Europeans; could have shown the island life to be idyllic; could have continued the book beyond the arrival of the Europeans.

Larger themes such as that of the destruction of innocence might interest some readers and they might find parallels in such books as Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice.

This book goes very well with Jane Yolen's Encounter , a very sensitive picture book in which the European arrival is viewed through the eyes of a Taino boy on one of the islands. Don't miss a thing!

Sign up for our Free Newsletter. Sign Up! He mistakenly thought the people were peaceful, but uncivilized, and poor. Instead, it is more accurate that they were very rich in culture and in their lifestyle. As portrayed by Dorris, they were happy, well-adjusted, and did not lack for food or comfort. Without Western amenities, they had existed very well for countless years. Dorris did, perhaps, give an exaggerated floweriness to the story, but he added realism in the small arguments between the siblings, and by including mention of an argumentative couple.

Also, within the main family, a baby was lost in miscarriage, a reality easily imagined even today. The only illustration is on the cover of the book, of Morning Girl in the ocean, near a tropical island.

The depiction of her is nondescript; she is a dark-haired girl who could be from any number of cultures. Morning Girl is a beautifully flowing story of a brief time in history between what was and what was to come. Review Excerpts. This book would be excellent for inclusion in a social studies unit on Christopher Columbus, and how exploration altered the lives of various groups of indigenous peoples, such as the Arawak Indians.

Bruchac, Joseph. Children of the Longhouse Dorris, Michael. Guests Dorris, Michael. Sees Behind Trees Yolen, Jane. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. OverDrive Listen audiobook MP3 audiobook. Juvenile Fiction Juvenile Literature. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged. Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget.

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