book report, due in a week!!!?

Question

it has to be mulitcultural (set in another culture, not in america) and i want to be able to read it in two days. any ideas for a book?

fiction, non fiction, doesnt matter...

Answer 1

I would suggest any of the following:

The Girl With The White Flag by Tomika Higa (nonfiction). Short, easily read in two days. Very moving. Set in Japan during World War II.

Diary of Ma Yan by Ma Yan. (nonfiction) Set in modern day China in a rural village. True story of one girl's struggles to get an education and escape poverty.

Night of the Burning by Linda Press Wulf. Set in Poland and South Africa just following World War I. Fiction book based on a true story.

Also the novel Real Time by Pnina Moel Kass would certainly fit the description. Told by multiple narrators, it is set in modern day Israel.

Answer 2

Fiction or non ?

If you can read a fictional book try The Joy Luck Club or The Bone Setters' Daughters both by Amy Tan or Memoirs of a Geisha (sorry can't remember the author's name. It's early here). All three are good books and quick reads.

Answer 3

Tell the teacher that America is the leading multicultural nation in the world followed only by the Vatican City!
Otherwise, read Ewidge Danticat's short stories in "Krik? Krak?" or her fascinating novel, "Breadth, Eyes, Memory."
She sets her works in Haiti but left there while still quite young. I wonder what the teacher makes of multicultural!! Edwidge lives in New York.

Here's the young girl's brief Bio:
http://www.ailf.org/notable/iaa/ny2000/danticat.htm

The teacher will love this episode from Breath, eyes memory:

"According to Tante Atie, each finger had a purpose. It was the way she had been taught to prepare herself to become a woman. Mothering. Boiling. Loving. Baking. Nursing. Frying. Healing. Washing. Ironing. Scrubbing. It wasn't her fault, she said. Her ten fingers had been named for her even before she was born. Sometimes, she even wished she had six fingers on each hand so she could have two left for herself." (p. 151).

Answer 4

Sorry, can not help you with a precis. yet i trust all of us can study a e book in 5 days. i have study MANY books in a evening for instructions in severe college or maybe in college. and that i'm a very sluggish reader. I fell asleep halfway with the help of 1984 one evening and nonetheless managed a C on a try. basically skim chapters if some thing. Or use sparknotes. yet actually, for those those who're out of highschool, we've taken off operating and do not plan on searching decrease back. In otherwords, homework is off of our to do record.

Answer 5

Vivian Vande Velde's "A Coming Evil":
During the German occupation of France in 1940, 13-year-old Lisette meets a ghost while living with her aunt who harbors Jewish and Gypsy children in the French countryside.

Answer 6

Life of pi, Yann martel, who won booker for this book

Pi is the nickname of Piscine Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores the issues of religion and spirituality from an early age and survives 227 days shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean.

The first section is an adult Pi's rumination over his childhood. Pi talks about his life living as the son of a zoo keeper, and speaks at length about animal behavior, while also speaking about his religion(s): Pi practices Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam, having seen merits in all three religions. The second part is a blend of a detailed and realistic survival memoir and a fantastic allegory in a medieval style. Pi’s father decides to sell the zoo and relocate the family.to Canada due to politics within in India. In the midst of the journey across the ocean, the cargo ship on which the family has found passage sinks. Pi manages to find refuge on a lifeboat, though not alone. He shares the limited space with a female orangutan named Orange Juice, a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, and a Royal Bengal Tiger by the name of Richard Parker. At first Pi believes that Richard Parker has abandoned the boat, and focuses on surviving the hyena. It is not long before the hyena begins to feed on the zebra. After the zebra's death, the hyena kills the orangutan, prompting Pi to approach it, lest he be next. It is then that he notices that Richard Parker has been resting under a tarpaulin and has been aboard the lifeboat the entire time. The tiger kills and eats the hyena, but does not immediately attack Pi. Pi manages to construct a raft using supplies aboard the boat, and avoids direct confrontation with Richard Parker by keeping out of the tiger's territory on the deck of the boat. Pi eventually marks his own territory by using his knowledge of zoology thus taming Richard Parker. Pi reasons that while Richard Parker is healthy, he poses less of a threat - an injured beast being more dangerous. Therefore keeping the tiger alive becomes his primary focus. Pi's focus day to day is redirected towards day to day survival. He catches fish and turtles, and uses solar stills to obtain drinkable water. At one point, due to poor diet, nutrition, and weakness, Pi goes temporarily blind, and during this state meets another castaway on a boat travelling parallel with his own. The other man has a French language accent, and after a period of amicable conversation he boards Pi's boat with a view to murdering him. As soon as he boards, however, he is killed and devoured by Richard Parker. Soon after the duo wash ashore upon a strange wooded island, populated by meerkats, and containing pools of fresh water. After some time, Pi finds a strange tree on the island, and upon examining the fruit, finds human teeth. He realizes that the island is carnivorous, and he and Richard Parker must leave the island immediately. The lifeboat finally washes up on the beach in Mexico at which point Richard Parker bounds off into the jungle never to be seen again. When Pi is rescued and taken to a hospital two men representing the Japanese Ministry of Transport quiz him on his remarkable story. They are dissatisfied with his story, so Pi offers an alternative explanation. He was on board the lifeboat with three other people: the ship's French chef, Pi's mother, and a wounded sailor. The barbaric chef first kills and eats the sailor, then brutally kills his mother. Upon seeing this, Pi kills and eats the chef. Pi asks the men from the shipping company which story they prefer. The novel ends with the report to the Japanese government, in which the two men have told the first story. The last part also offers the reader a choice to actually choose the story version they prefer. Martel shows two ways of looking at the same reality and requires a leap of faith to choose the "better" story.

Answer 7

I agree with the Diary of Anne Frank, the full version. It will not only make a great report, it will make you a better person to have read it and understand the full extent of what she and so many others went through.

Answer 8

An easy book that you can read in 2 days... I would suggest the Diary of Anne Frank.

Answer 9

The story of "Frida Kahlo"--it is in the Latin culture, she was an artist who had a very hard life (but extremely interesting). It's worth checking it out, even if it "sounds" boring. I loved learning about her.

Answer 10

Fiddler on the Roof.