Seedfolks
Re’Von Jackson September 14, 2013
Rudyard Kipling Rm.117
Book Report SeedFolks
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman is a 1997 children's book about the impromptu creation of a community garden in an inner-city Cleveland. As it comes alive, it breathes new life into an erstwhile sterile neighborhood. This book is not told from the perspective of a single character, but in a series of vignettes written from a first-person perspective of a very diverse group of characters. Some of the characters are young, some are old; some are new to America, some were born there. They all have their own reasons for coming to the garden and the significance it takes on for each of them is very different. They represent a variety of colors and cultures but come together to form a real community.
Kim is a nine-year-old girl from Vietnam. On the anniversary of her father’s death she felt sad because her father died eight months before her birth, so he would never remember her. The only recollection of him that she had were the stories that her sister and mother told her. Since he was a farmer she wanted to show him that she could do what he did. So one day on the way to school she planted six lima beans in the vacant lot next to her house.
Ana moved to Gibb Street in 1919 when she was only four years old, and has watched it change over her lifetime. As she watched out her window, hundreds of people came and went. One day she saw a girl burying something but could not see what it was because of the garbage piled up in the vacant lot. She noticed that the girl came back every day and became curious. She went to dig up whatever the girl had buried. Upon discovery of the seeds, she felt really sorry and buried them again.
Wendell used to be a farmer in Kentucky but now he lives on the bottom floor of Ana’s apartment building. He works as a school janitor and lives by himself because his
Rudyard Kipling Rm.117
Book Report SeedFolks
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman is a 1997 children's book about the impromptu creation of a community garden in an inner-city Cleveland. As it comes alive, it breathes new life into an erstwhile sterile neighborhood. This book is not told from the perspective of a single character, but in a series of vignettes written from a first-person perspective of a very diverse group of characters. Some of the characters are young, some are old; some are new to America, some were born there. They all have their own reasons for coming to the garden and the significance it takes on for each of them is very different. They represent a variety of colors and cultures but come together to form a real community.
Kim is a nine-year-old girl from Vietnam. On the anniversary of her father’s death she felt sad because her father died eight months before her birth, so he would never remember her. The only recollection of him that she had were the stories that her sister and mother told her. Since he was a farmer she wanted to show him that she could do what he did. So one day on the way to school she planted six lima beans in the vacant lot next to her house.
Ana moved to Gibb Street in 1919 when she was only four years old, and has watched it change over her lifetime. As she watched out her window, hundreds of people came and went. One day she saw a girl burying something but could not see what it was because of the garbage piled up in the vacant lot. She noticed that the girl came back every day and became curious. She went to dig up whatever the girl had buried. Upon discovery of the seeds, she felt really sorry and buried them again.
Wendell used to be a farmer in Kentucky but now he lives on the bottom floor of Ana’s apartment building. He works as a school janitor and lives by himself because his