Posts by Kyra A

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is about the relationship between a daughter and a mother. Their relationship is quite strained and complicated. Vivi, the mother, decides to stop talking to Sidda, her daughter, after she reads a newspaper article about Sidda that cliams that Vivi was a horrible mother which Sidda did not say. Sidda does convince her mother to send her the scrapbook made by her mother and her three best friends for a play she is working on. Sidda learns a lot about her mother through the scrapbook.

This week I continued to read Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. In the section I read this week, Codi begins to adapt to living in Grace, her hometown. She gets use to living in her friend's guest house with all the kids. She is not quite use to to the town. She still feels out of place just like she did when she was still living at home. People keep talking to her but they don't know what to say. Codi finds the conversations awkward and uncomfortable. When her friend throws a party for labor day, Codi feels even more out of place and doesn't engage in many conversations.

Loss of privacy is when the information a person enters into a website is leaked to outside sources. For example if you post a picture onto a photo sharing site with the intention of it being viewable to only a small group of people. They do not expect the photo to be seen by the rest of the world but unfornately this has become the norm unless the user sets specfic privacy regulations.

This week I read Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. In the section I read this week, Codi moves back to her hometown after her sister Halli moves to Nicaragua to help the people there. Codi and her sister Halli are like siamese twins. They dd everything together and are miserable without the other one. Codi moves back to her hometown because there is nothing left for in Tuscon where she, her sister and her boyfriend where living and she got a job at the school as a sicence teahcer. When she moves back to her hometown, she moves into her old friend's guest house.