Summer entry assignment 2

The main character in my book im reading “The Freedom Maze” is Sophie like I said before in my previous entry. While Sophie was staying at her Grandmother’s house she became very bored and when Sophie gets bored she grows to be very curious. I would say Sophie’s main desire is to discover new things and to keep her self-occupied at her Grandmother’s. I have noticed a couple of themes that have started to appear. One of the obvious themes is slavery. Other themes im starting to notice are womanhood, courage and family ties.

Summer assignment entry 1

The main character in The Freedom Maze is a 13-year old girl named Sophie. While staying with her grandmother for the summer, Sophie discovers a maze that transports her back in time to a sugar plantation where she is mistaken for a slave.  Sophie in the 1960s in Louisiana as she spends the summer with her aunt and grandmother at the Oak Cottage, the old family home of the grand Fairchild family from back in the “good old days”. Sophie has been left behind by her mother who is now pursuing a new career after divorcing Sophie’s father. She barely hears from her father now living in NY with a new wife  and her relationship with her mother is fraught with tension. She constantly bemoans Sophie’s behavior as unladylike, complains about the state of her unruly hair, about her clothes, about her time spent reading books. It’s been like this forever and Sophie has developed strategies available to her in dealing with her mother they involve a lot of shutting up and a lot of appeasing.