Choice Book Report Part 2!!!!!

Conflicts and resolved

Maria faced many conflicts during the book.  Many of them were external, like working to get rights for the gypsies, and trying to stay away from her uncle.  The two are connected.  She deals with them by listing to Zolton.  He has here get back her father’s violin case, which had documents that were crucial to the cause.  By doing this the other people helping the cause kept her safe from her uncle.  I would have done the same, but I wouldn’t have been as stupid as to get locked in the cellar.  This matched her personality that I named before. 

                She also faced many more internal conflicts.  Some of them are dealing with her father’s death, falling in love when he doesn’t love her back (at first), and her little brother (Toby) who gets swept up into the whole thing.  She deals with her father’s death by trying to find out why he died.  I wouldn’t have.  I would stay home, cry until my eyes run dry, and then get on with life.  Maria deals with her love predicament by still hoping and thinking about the possible future, but not making any hints to her feelings to Zolton.  I would have acted the same as her.  I would be too scared to tell anyone that I was in love.  The resolved part of the conflict didn’t fit with the type of person that she is; it was just the politeness of the time period.  People didn’t just tell others that they were in love; it was only said by the married and to be married.  Maria deals with her brother getting in the thick of things.  When her uncle found out that a voter against the rights was abducted, he took Toby into his home, and put him in the cellar along with other boys that he had caught before the book started.  She deals with this by talking to the people on the rights side and they break into the house and capture Toby back.  She came on the mission, but I would not have.  I would have been scared out of my wits.  Maria wasn’t.  This does show again that she is brave.  A reason she is strong is that she saw the poor treatment he was receiving from his own uncle, and she only cared about Toby.   She had spent countless hours with the man who had been doing the horrible things.   Maria and I are alike, but we are yet different.  In the end, all of the conflicts that were brought about her were resolved, (and this may sound kind of cheesy) but they all lived happily ever after.

Choice book report, part 1!!!!!!!!!!

The Musician’s Daughter

By Susan Dunlap

                Theresa is the main character in my book.  She has to deal with her father being murdered, being in love with a co-musician of his, her perverted uncle, and her mother trying to marry her off.  She is a strong person, even in the face of death.  When her dead father was brought home, she didn’t faint when she saw the body.  She wanted to find out the cause of his death, a decision that would fuel the rest of the book. 

                Theresa was determined.   In the beginning of the book, her father’s co-musicians would only tell her bits and pieces of the story of his death.  She kept asking them, and when they entrusted her with a secret about her father’s stand for the gypsies (nomadic people who didn’t have any rights).   She still wanted to know more.  Another example is that when she was younger and her father was teaching her the viola, her mother said that it wasn’t proper.  Yet she kept playing despite her mother’s warnings.

                Theresa was also brave.   When wandering into a camp full of gypsies, she wasn’t scared at all.  She was with Zolton (the one who she loves) though.  The second time, she was all by herself.     The third time was when her uncle traps her in his cellar; she sits in a boat full of rats and garbage to float out on a river of human waste.  This tunnel leads back to the gypsie camp.  Where she finds that her father was murdered in that same cellar, and traveled in the same boat that she was in.  When finding her younger brother, starving, beaten, and standing face to face with her uncle, she still finds words to comfort him. 

Theresa is also an idealist.  She hopes for Zolton to fall in love with her, for her father to be alive, proper rights and fairness to the gypsies, and to be able to play in a real orchestra.  The first one does come true, though not at first.  The second one could never come true, despite her constant worrying.  The proper rights are given to the gypsies.  She was not allowed to play in an full orchestra or in front of other people, it just wouldn’t be right for a woman at that time in history.  These are some of the characteristics for Theresa.