Zullay O.

In Take the Cannoli, Sarah to me, seems like a very quiet girl, a girl that keeps to things to herself most of the time. The fact that her father makes guns is another let down to her. Her father made her and her twin sister shoot a gun for the first time when they were six years old and ever since then Sarah realized it was not for her, on the other hand, her twin sister loved it, which made Sarah feel left out. I think Sarah could have been a little more straightforward with her dad and maybe ask him if they could do something else, or maybe she could've told him that it made her feel uncomfortable. I like Sarah, but then I don't. It seems to me that she is afraid of what her father would think of her so she pretends to be okay with guns. Sarah and her father are very into politics. Sarah doesn't say which party she's on, but it sounds to me like she is a republican and her father is a democrat. I think if I would ever meet Sarah's dad I would probably tell him off if he just lost interest in talking to me just because I didn’t like guns. And I would probably tell Sarah to speak up.

The first thing I look at in a book is the title. When I read the title of the book Take the Cannoli, I couldn’t think of what the book could possibly be about. I like to read books that don’t give a synopsis of the whole book in one title. I like to be surprised about what the book is about, and I definitely couldn’t figure out what this book was going to be about. I also read a few sentences of the first chapter when the books were being passed around and I wanted to keep going. That’s when I know if I am going to like a book or not. Also, the chapter titles appealed to me too. They were quite odd. This book so far is actually quite similar to books I usually read. I like to read books that go through a characters lifetime of events and that also puts a little story behind it too.  Some of this story takes place in Chicago too which I thought was also very interesting because whenever  I read that section in the story, I’ll be able to identify with the character and her surroundings and know exactly what places she is talking about.