Michael Deprince Sparknotes Taking Flight
Taking Flight
This book is about Michaela DePrince and her journey from a war orphan to professional ballerina. The book starts out with michaelas childhood with her parents in sierra leone.when she was young her father was killed by men called debels who terrorized her town during the year. After her father died she went to live with her uncle who was abusive and tried to marry her mother but her mother refused. About a year after her father died her mother died from fever and starvation. Her uncle no longer wanted to take care of michaela and sold her to an orphanage when she met another little girl named mabinty (that was Michaelas birth name) they soon became friends. At the orphanage michaela was treated horribly because she had vitiligo …show more content…
During a windstorm she went out because she thought she heard her father she went to the gate where she found a magazine and the cover was a picture of a ballerina. Soon the war reached the orphanage and the debils kicked them out of the house they were living in after killing their school teacher. They also learned that there were american families that wanted to adopt the children everyone in the orphanage got a family book except michaela so mabinty shared her book with michaela. When the american families mabintis family decided to adopt both of them. So they changed their names to michaela and mia DePrince and their dream of becoming sisters finally became true. When they first came to america they didn't speak english and had to learn english and what it was like in america. Michaelas mom realized that she wanted to do ballet and told her once she learned english she would sign her up for classes. As they grew older they went to school and michaela and mia continued to take ballet classes. They had a brother teddy who was older then them but they loved him but when they were 14 he got really sick and passed away after being sick for years. Michaela was devastated because he was really important to her she closed herself off and kept working on
This book is about Michaela DePrince and her journey from a war orphan to professional ballerina. The book starts out with michaelas childhood with her parents in sierra leone.when she was young her father was killed by men called debels who terrorized her town during the year. After her father died she went to live with her uncle who was abusive and tried to marry her mother but her mother refused. About a year after her father died her mother died from fever and starvation. Her uncle no longer wanted to take care of michaela and sold her to an orphanage when she met another little girl named mabinty (that was Michaelas birth name) they soon became friends. At the orphanage michaela was treated horribly because she had vitiligo …show more content…
During a windstorm she went out because she thought she heard her father she went to the gate where she found a magazine and the cover was a picture of a ballerina. Soon the war reached the orphanage and the debils kicked them out of the house they were living in after killing their school teacher. They also learned that there were american families that wanted to adopt the children everyone in the orphanage got a family book except michaela so mabinty shared her book with michaela. When the american families mabintis family decided to adopt both of them. So they changed their names to michaela and mia DePrince and their dream of becoming sisters finally became true. When they first came to america they didn't speak english and had to learn english and what it was like in america. Michaelas mom realized that she wanted to do ballet and told her once she learned english she would sign her up for classes. As they grew older they went to school and michaela and mia continued to take ballet classes. They had a brother teddy who was older then them but they loved him but when they were 14 he got really sick and passed away after being sick for years. Michaela was devastated because he was really important to her she closed herself off and kept working on