Francesco Argentina

Casie Cobos

ELA

2/22/18

        Take the in-class writing we did last week on Wednesday/Thursday (the prompts that were sitting around the table). Expand and revise that writing to create one coherent, well thought-out blog entry.

       

For this prompt I will be covering the role Thi plays in the book The Best We Could Do. This is a very interesting topic I feel, as she is obviously the narrator of our story, however she may not exactly be the main character.  I believe she uses herself in the stories about her family's past to illustrate that it was authentic and to provide insight about her thoughts when telling these stories. I think the artistic choice to do this was very creative. One of the best things about the author, is her ability to transition. Especially from page 306 to 307, that was one of the ones that stuck out to me. The timeline can be confusing sometimes when attempting this concept, but I think the timeline was also difficult to her in the way that she was receiving these stories from her parents. This was a brilliant attempt to try and replicate that. Her overall role in the story partially reminds me of Nick Carraway’s role in The Great Gatsby, although he was not the protagonist, we are seeing the stories told through his eyes and how he interprets them.