“Aya: Life in Yop City” I did think it was kind of a difficult of a read. I think it was kind of difficult because the author just kept jumping around between characters and it was hard to follow sometimes but it was not terrible. It was about just one story but you had to understand the other side-line stories that came with it. I found this story to be enjoyable after I figured out what was happening. I thought it was fun piecing together the other individual storied to put together the big story. This story is meant to show how these characters just live their lives I do not think it id meant to be optimistic or pessimistic. I say this because we read and understand how it ends and how it comes to its ending but we do not get closure to all of the problems that were happening.
In little communities the family concept is amazing. I personally know this because in my little community family is very important and everyone puts family first. The author really harps on the whole concept about little communities families and how much they care and help each other out and to look out for one another. Examples for this are when the mothers came to stop Bintou’s dad from taking another wife. Moral values came into play here and their community tried to help him.
The author does a great job of expressing emotion through a scene and through the characters. When there are dark the character is usually sad or upset and when the font changes it shows how the story progresses. I really enjoyed and it is actually my favorite how the author was able to just think and be even more creative and express feelings and emotions through colors and font! I thought that was really neat!
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