Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Rikers Island Visitor Calendar



"The Adventures Oliver Twist "

This book by Charles Dickens tells the story of an orphan, her mother died after given birth and never having heard nothing of his father, was raised in an orphanage where he has to work. But the hunger and punishment affected him to escape coming to London where he met a young man who leads him by an old man, "Fagin" ingenuity that taking advantage of the newcomer, teaches him to steal and then will be unjustly accused of stealing Mr. Brownlaw. Despite the accusation
Oliver, Mr. Brownlow is aware of its poor condition and you take care of him. But
order of Fagin, Sikes another thug, shooting the boy, bringing it back into the lair of the gang of thieves. Oliver
fail to return from the good Mr. Brownlaw only after the accidental death of Sikes and the arrest of Fagin. Adopted
be educated so that Brownlaw with the affection of a father.

The book, in my opinion, runs well in reading involves the reader, but some scenes are much too cold to be moving. But I think this is a reason why you are not tired of reading it.


"The God of Small Things"

Arundhati Roy This book tells the story of a family of Kerala (India), but above that of the twins Rahel and Estha, "a rare type of conjoined twins, separate identity in the body but merged together, "and mother Ammu, who fled with them from the abusive husband and returns to Ayemenen with the parents.
The brothers, along with Sophie Moll, their cousin, decide to flee and sought to feel more loved by their parents, but during the crossing of the river Minachal, Sophie Moll died drowned. Velutha is unjustly accused by the police, the lover of Ammu.
The story begins when all this has already happened, and the twins return to Ayemenem as adults, after other events.
The narrative also moves on the Indian people on earth, times, locations, reconstructed culture, art, language, traditions and events, is driven by the seamless transition from present to past and from there to the future.


"The daughter of a blue robe"

The book, by Simon Baldanzi, is a novel about the miners' working away from home, workers came south to work in Mugello, in the mountains to build the train passing by at high speed.
Simon is about to graduate from college and decides to write his thesis on these miners, and so he starts handing out questionnaires, and visiting construction sites every day to build a relationship with them, the "orange overalls, becoming for them" Girl of the questionnaires.
She sees them working hard in the galleries, swallow dust, and their being combative and makes you rethink its painful past, to his country, to his childhood. His mother was a worker in the factory rifle: "I could tell you that I did a thesis on high-speed rail workers, which was how to do it on my parents' workers ... "The
orange overalls like the blue robes: simple and hard lives.
This was the book that I liked more for the particular content, a topic rarely addressed but which would be interesting to investigate: the conditions of the workers.

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