Task 10

Well, this task is to write the theme of the book.

As I told before, The main character Susannah's sister Magdalena has been catched of their father while she was having sex with a local boy in Mexico, and then, the father punished her sooo hard and Magdalena used to leave from the family. This made Susannah to become a gay because of she understand it like it will not be allowed to have a boyfriend then she got a girlfriend. Ok, this used to be kind of funny right?

So actually, i think Alice wanted to tell about the discrimination against women at time period 1970s. Both to daughters and the mother was suppressed of their father and the social, only because they are women. So this book is telling about the female equality between man and woman. Especially those black women people in America who was suppressed and discriminated  by both their ethnicity and female. And we can either say that Alice Walker(the author) wanted also to tell us the confidence side of human. We can see that from Magdalena and Manuelito's romantic life in the rest of the story.

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Task 8

Point of view

Today i'm gonna talk about the point of view in By the life of my father's smile, i would firstly say that this is an amazing book!!! Although there is no vampires or were-wolfs that i loved for many years, but still, i learned a lot from this book.

"my daughter's dark eyes were wide open. Frank. She allowed them to be mirrors for Pauline. Behind them, of course, she was deep in though."

"I was so astonished by this breach of propriety, especially as I noticed her parents looking on."

"My wife did not see this as a problem. Leave the child alone, she advised as we prepared for bed at night, children are curious!"

By these sentences we can find out that this book is written by the first person point of view. and it seems like the first person is the father of this family. But from the tittle of the book "by the light of my father's smile". you would maybe get a impression like the first person is maybe the daughter, and she will maybe talk like“my father blablabla...”. Or actually that's what i thought!! And that's why i didn't understand the book in the beginning.

By the way i really like this sentence: when life descends into the pit, I must become my own candle, willingly burning myself, to light up the darkness around me.