This week we finished the excerpt Props for Faith by Ursula Hegi. A girl name Hanna which is the narrator has a best friend named Renate. Unfortunately, Renate has polio which is when one leg is taller and skinnier than the other leg. For Renate her left leg is taller and skinnier. They were very good friends until Renate invited Hanna’s enemy over to her house. Hanna called her a gimp and Renate’s face turned red. Renate’s mom told Hanna never to come back to their house. Hanna felt immediately bad after what she had done. She kept on saying sorry to Renate, but Renate just said she wasn’t allowed to play with her. Hanna thought of things she could give Renate. Then after thinking of many things, she remembered that the thing that Renate might want is her left leg to be healed. Hanna went to the cellar and grabbed an empty vinegar. On Wednesday morning before school, Hanna went to St. Martin’s Church. The church was empty because mass was held in the chapel. Hanna quickly got the vinegar bottle and filled it with holy water. That afternoon Hanna asked Renate to come to her house. After persuading her a lot, she agreed. Hanna told Renate to take off her shoe and sock from her left leg. Renate wasn’t so sure. Hanna spread holy water on her leg. Hanna told Renate to just believe it will work. Then Renate suggested they drink the rest of the holy water. During the next weeks, Hanna watched Renate’s leg for signs of change. Weeks went by and Renate started to hang out with Hanna. Hey went to the blessing of the vehicles. Then in July, they went to the fair. Their friendship started coming back together again. Hanna realized that they holy water hadn’t healed Renate’s leg, but their friendship. When you want a plan to go a certain way and it fails, that doesn’t mean it’s the end. That means God might have a different plan and it is even better.
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Ursula Hegi was born on May 26, 1946 in West Germany. She is now 69, living in the United States. She moved to the U.S. when she was 18, and she's been writing books from then on. She has written many fictions about Germany and she has written several of reviews for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Not only has she written those, but she has written many other fiction stories with plenty of awards. A perfect example of what she has written is names, Props For Faith. Ursula lived in Germany, and that's where the characters in the book live. She also lived in the exact same place in Germany, Düsseldorf. Ursula has also had 'friend' problems when she was at a younger age. She's learned to fix them as well as the friends in this well-written short story, Props For Faith. Hegi's first books were set in the United States. She set her third, Floating in My Mother's Palm, in the fictional German town of "Burgdorf," using her writing to explore her conflicted feelings about her German heritage. She used the setting for three more books, including her best selling novel Stones from the River, which was chosen for Oprah's Book Club in 1997. Hegi appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 8, and her publisher reprinted 1.5 million hardcover copies and 500,000 paperbacks. She then moved from Spokane to New York. Hegi's many awards include an NEA Fellowship and five PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards. She won a book award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association in 1991 for Floating in My Mother's Palm. She has also had two New York Times Notable Book mentions. She has written many book reviews for the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. This week our class and I have been working on our poetry projects. It was really fun to research about different poets. I got Sylvia Plath as my poet. Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sylvia Plath was a gifted and troubled poet, known for the confessional style of her work. Her interest in writing emerged at an early age, and she started out by keeping a journal. After publishing a number of works, Plath won a scholarship to Smith College in 1950. While she was a student, Sylvia Plath spent time in New York City during the summer of 1953 working for Mademoiselle magazine as a guest editor. Soon after, Plath tried to kill herself by taking sleeping pills. She eventually recovered, having received treatment during a stay in a mental health facility. Plath returned to Smith and finished her degree in 1955. A Fulbright Fellowship brought Sylvia Plath to Cambridge University in England. While studying at the university's Newnham College, she met the poet Ted Hughes. The two married in 1956 and had a stormy relationship. In 1957, Plath spent time in Massachusetts to study with poet Robert Lowell and met fellow poet and student Ann Sexton. She also taught English at Smith College around that same time. Plath returned to England in 1959. A poet on the rise, Sylvia Plath had her first collection of poetry, The Colossus, published in England in 1960. That same year, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Freida. Two years later, Plath and Hughes welcomed a second child, a son named Nicholas. Unfortunately, the couple's marriage was failing apart. |
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