Hey God Its Me Again Pt Test
I starting time read this book in kindergarten. Later on getting into an argument with the PTA lady running the school book fair about whether or not I could buy the book (I thought she was trying to imply that I couldn't read it, which I plant insulting) - an argument that was ultimately settled by a call home to my mom - I brought the volume home and read it all on a Friday nighttime. Up past my bedtime, I snuck downstairs, where my parents were entertaining friends, and announced that I had a question about what a period was. Without missing a beat, my mother said "The dot at the cease of the sentence." Patronized again, I cried, "I know what that kind is. I'm talking about the kind Margaret doesn't go until the end of the book!" This is the stuff family legends are fabricated of. Across that, it's a great book, simply I certain am glad I don't have to use the contraptions Blume describes within every bit my feminine hygiene products of choice. Belts? Garters? Yikes.
Isn't it pathetic that as a girl, one time you learn about periods, y'all but can't wait to get 1, and then for the rest of your life, y'all just wish the effers would get away? Except of class, the periods that prove up JUST when you need them to- like when one is perhaps a few days late and non super confident in her decision-making skills during the last month. Those periods are probably fifty-fifty meliorate than the satisfaction of that very first one.
What a powerful piddling volume. Sure, information technology is a coming of age story about a pre-teen girl in the tardily 1960s, early on 1970s, but it feels like a story with lessons and ideas that are important to everyone in whatsoever era. I can see why this is on many must read lists. Simply written – it can exist read in i or two sittings. This is a peachy matter for those looking for a quick and entertaining read in the midst of a busy schedule. No cracking delivery is required to become through this i. And, yous may find more content in 150 pages than you sometimes go far 400 to 500 pages! Another important element of this book that is very applicable to everyone today is the pressures Margaret goes through – social, religious, relationships, etc. She only wants to live, but people are filling her caput with lies and arguments that get in difficult for her to make decisions for herself. All it does is make her miserable. This reminds me of how some people seem to be willing to treat others today (especially with the anonymity of the internet). While it isn't everyone, information technology seems like many people similar to force their opinions down people's throats and make them experience bad near their own feelings. Those people don't consider – or don't care - how this makes others feel. It makes me very sad! And, it fabricated me very frustrated for Margaret! Side annotation related to the annotate above: The key plot of the story is Margaret trying to decide which religion she wants to be – if any. I was reading online that this book has been censored and banned in some places because of its accept on Christianity. As a Christian myself, this is ridiculous – and the beliefs of the Christians in the book is ridiculous. No i should be fabricated to feel bad about exploring what feels comfortable to them and, if they make up one's mind one thing over another, that is their choice and no one else's business organisation. The way she is treated in this book I am not surprised she responds the way she does! I recommend this book to everyone. I think it will teach us all a lot about how we should treat each other, and information technology is a good reminder that we are all human, no thing what our differences are.
I was a little scrap of a white daughter, growing upwards, and the daughter of Midwestern parents as well. Mom and Dad were sheltered, pocket-size town people who had been relocated to the subtropics of South Florida and raised their children there. Our family was an island of conservatism and traditionalism amid an extremely multicultural sea. Our quiet, casserole-eating crew had very adept manners, and spoke quietly, but we spoke not of feelings, and we deferred always to Dad's opinions. In contrast, our Hispanic, Italian and Jewish neighbors spoke with their easily, and spoke over each other, often giving kisses and concentrated hugs as they did so. I was attracted to the wildness of these neighbor's homes, and I always felt I'd take developed more of a phonation there, among those more than bouncy dinner tables. I knew I had an innate sassiness, merely I didn't know how to go far emerge, or how to exist more authentic to my self. When I was faced with early puberty, things became even more challenging. How do you tell a silent mother the changes that are occurring within your torso, when you've never fifty-fifty met her parents or heard a single story from her childhood and she is as common cold and remote to you every bit the Statue of Liberty?? Well, hither is where the school librarian (once once more) saved the day by placing Are You There God? It'southward Me, Margaret in my easily. That woman always seemed to sense my dearest of books, my silence, and my needs. And there she was. . . Margaret. Right when I needed her. Margaret, the Every Girl, the nondescript, skinny white daughter with brown hair who struggles with fears of inadequacy and invisibility amongst her peers. So much about Margaret is tangible. You do not doubt her existence for a moment, and her struggles with organized religion, family and her fluctuating figure fill her every day with hopes and fears. Margaret is the only child of a Jewish father and a Christian mother who have denounced their religions as the only acceptable solution to raising a child inside this dynamic. Yet, Margaret'southward behavior get lost in the shuffle. She loves God and wants to connect more deeply to the Source, but in searching for a deeper spiritual feel, she finds only people who want to manipulate her, to add together to the head count at their places of worship. I loved Margaret every bit an eleven-year-former, and when I introduced her to my 10-year-former this week, I found my daughter felt exactly the same way. Information technology was weird; goose egg had actually changed. It was still life, adolescence, social politics, dearest and fear. It turns out, angst has no expiration date. My daughter, toward the very stop of the read, wrapped her body around a pillow and said, "Mommy, I honey this book so much, it makes me feel nigh embarrassed." Ah, dang information technology. And I thought I was going to get through this re-read without tears.
During the final round in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, Miss Philippines Shamcey Supsup was asked this question: Just that beauty pageant question and the main disharmonize in this book are basically the aforementioned. They both put on the table In the end, Supsup was crowned as third runner upwardly in the contest. In the finish, *spoiler alert* Margaret gets her starting time mens-troo-ation and she is so happy that she resumes talking to her god (whoever it may be) past uttering her innocent thoughts with this opening Are you there God? It's me, Margaret… blah blah.*spoiler ends* I just stole this book from my 16-y/o girl'due south bookshelves. Well, it is Time 100 and that was my main motivation. The secondary reason was that some of my GR Filipino friends volition bring together me in my visit to my island hometown this weekend and this book could popup as a topic. Did I savor reading this slim book? As a male parent of a teenage girl, my answer is a resounding yes. For most parts, as expected, I could not relate to Margaret's issues. Later on all, this is a very girlie volume as it deals with young girl's fears, first crush, new daughter trying to fit in to her new school and her select friends whose mantra is to make their breasts bigger: "We must, we must, nosotros must increase our busts." But, while reading Margaret'due south thoughts, if I try to imagine what my daughter went through or even notwithstanding going through, I think this is a worthwhile volume to read by any male parent with a girl regardless of their age. Our daughters don't come to the states for advice regarding menstruation but we see the used pads in the garbage bin. They don't ask us to back-trail them in their shopping for bra and other apparels but we pay for them. They don't normally tell usa who their boy crushes at school are merely we were ones those boys. For those reasons, hey fathers read this volume. For ane, I know that many immature girls dream of becoming a Miss U just I did not know, until this book, that there could be immature girls who because of their dream of having bigger breasts, had to compose and utter some kind of mantra: "We must, we must, we must increment our busts." Then funny :))) "Would y'all change your religious beliefs to marry the person you love? Why or why not?"
Supsup answered: "If I had to change my religious behavior, I will not ally the person that I honey. Because the first person that I dearest is GOD who created me. And I have my religion and my principles. And these what make makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God besides. Give thanks you."
Of course, Supsup at 25, was expected to have a more mature answer than the 11-y/o Margaret Simon in this Judy Blume's (born 1938) most popular novel Are You lot There God? It's Me, Margaret. Supsup was a architecture board examination topnotcher and a magna cum laude and Margaret was just a 6th grader.
Are You At that place God? Information technology's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume Margaret Simon is just eleven, going on twelve, when her family moves from New York City to Farbrook, New Jersey. Margaret'southward female parent is Christian and her father is Jewish. Margaret has been raised without an affiliation to either faith, and does not exercise an organized religion, although she frequently prays to God in her own words, beginning past saying, "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret." She is beginning to feel uncomfortable with her lack of a religious affiliation. For a schoolhouse assignment, she chooses to written report people's religious beliefs, hoping to resolve the question of her ain religion in the process. Part of her study involves attending different places of worship to meliorate empathise religious practice and also to see if 1 of them might exist right for her. She enjoys spending time with her Jewish paternal grandmother, Sylvia Simon, who loves her equally she is, and hopes Margaret will embrace Judaism after taking her to her synagogue for Rosh Hashanah services. ... تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز چهاردهم ماه آوریل سال 2016میلادی عنوان: خدایا آنجایی؟ منم، مارگارت؛ نویسنده: جودی بلوم؛ مترجم: مهری محمودی؛ تهران: نشر قطره، 1394؛ در 141ص؛ شابک9786001198144؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 20م کتاب «خدایا آنجایی؟ منم مارگارت» نوشته «جودی بلوم»، نویسنده ی کتابهای کودک و نوجوان، است؛ داستان این کتاب درباره ی دختر دوازده ساله ای به نام «مارگارت» است، که با پدر و مادرش از «نیویورک»، به حومه ی شهر نقل مکان کرده اند، و «مارگارت» برای پیدا کردن دوستتان تازه و سازگاری با محیط استرس دارد؛ «مارگارت» در خانه ی تازه، با دختری به نام «نانسی» دوست هم میشود؛ «نانسی» و دیگر همکلاسیهای «مارگارت» یک گروه چهار پنج نفره را تشکیل میدهند، که «مارگارت» هم در آن عضو است؛ این گروه ماجراهای عجیب و غریبی را رقم میزنند؛ در این داستان «بلوم»، دغدغه های دختران نوجوان، در سن بلوغ را به خوبی بیان میکند، و شیوه های برخورد با این مشکلات را، شرح میدهند؛ دغدغه هایی که شاید هیچگاه در موردشان حرفی زده نمیشود؛ «جودی بلوم» در این کتاب به مسئله ی مذهب و خداپرستی پرداخته است؛ «مارگارت» نسبت به همسنهای خودش یک تفاوت دارد، و آن این است که به هیچ مذهبی تعلق ندارد، چون پدرش «یهودی»، و مادرش «مسیحی» است، و او با اینکه در زمینه ی مذهب، خودش را «هیچکس» معرفی میکند، در پی یافتن «خودش»، و «خدا» است، و در زمانها گوناگون و ساعات شبانه روز، با خدا راز و نیاز، و نجوا میکند، که خدا یاریهای غیبی��� اش را از او دریغ نکند نقل از کتاب «خدایا آنجایی؟ منم، مارگارت»: (1: خدایا آن جایی؟ منم، مارگارت؛ امروز اسباب کشی میکنیم؛ خدایا خیلی میترسم؛ خدایا تا حالا هیچ جای دیگری، به جز اینجا زندگی نکرده ام؛ اگر از مدرسه ی جدید بدم بیاید چه؟ اگر آنهاییکه آنجا هستند، از من بدشان بیاید چه؟ خدایا لطفاً کمکم کن؛ نگذار «نیوجرسی» خیلی وحشتناک باشد؛ متشکرم؛ ما روز سه شنبه ی قبل از روز کارگر، اسباب کشی کردیم؛ از لحظه ای که بیدار شدم میدانستم هوا چه طوری است؛ میدانستم، چون دیدم مادرم زیر بغلش را بو میکند؛ او همیشه در هوای گرم و مرطوب همین کار را میکند، تا مطمئن شود هنوز بوی دئودورانتش نرفته است؛ من هنوز دئودورانت استفاده نمیکنم؛ فکر نمیکنم افراد حداقل تا قبل از دوازده سالگی بوی بد بدهند؛ پس هنوز چند ماهی وقت دارم؛ زمانیکه از اردو برگشتم، و فهمیدم که آپارتمانمان در «نیوی��رک»، به خانواده ی دیگری اجاره داده شده است، و اینکه ما صاحب خانه ی دیگری، در «فاربروکِ نیوجرسی» شده ایم، خیلی متعجب شدم؛ اول اینکه، هرگز در مورد «فاربروک» چیزی نشنیده بودم؛ دوم اینکه معمولاً در تصمیمات مهم خانواده، نادیده گرفته میشوم؛ اما وقتی که اعتراض کردم: «چرا نیوجرسی؟» به من گفتند: «لانگ آیلند» یک شهر خیلی اشرافی، «وستچستر» یک شهر خیلی گران، و «کانکتیکات» شهر نامناسبی است؛ پس، تنها جایی که پدرم میتوانست هر روز به محل کارش در «منهتن» رفت و آمد کند، و من میتوانستم به مدرسه ی دولتی بروم، و مادرم میتوانست گل و گیاه، و درختانی را که همیشه میخواست داشته باشد، «فاربروک نیوجرسی» بود؛ فقط اینکه من هرگز نفهمیدم چرا مادرم به اینها بیش از هر چیزی اهمیت میداد؛ خانه ی جدید در خیابان «مورنینگ برد» است؛ خانه ی بدی نیست؛ قسمتی از آن آجری، و قسمتی دیگر چوبی است؛ پنجره ها و در جلویی، سیاه هستند، یک کلون برنجی خیلی قشنگ هم روی آن است؛ خانه های خیابان جدیدمان خیلی به هم شبیه اند؛ و آنها همه هفت سال ساخت هستند، و درختان هم هفت ساله اند؛ فکر میکنم شهر را به خاطر مامان بزرگم «سیلویا سایمون» ترک کردیم؛ دلیل دیگری برای این اسباب کشی نمیتوانم پیدا کنم؛ مخصوصاً چون مادرم میگوید: «مادربزرگ نفوذ بسیار زیادی روی من دارد.» در خانواده ی ما از کسی پنهان نیست، که مادربزرگ، مرا به اردوی تابستانی، در «نیوهمپشایر» میفرستد؛ و اینکه او با کمال میل، شهریه ی مدرسه ی خصوصی مرا میپردازد (کاری که از این به بعد دیگر انجام نمیدهد، چون به مدرسه ی دولتی خواهم رفت)؛ حتی ژاکتهایی برای من بافته، که برچسبهایی درون آن دوخته شده و روی آن ها نوشته است: بافته شده توسط مادربزرگ...؛ فقط برای تو؛ او این کارها را به خاطر این که فقیر هستیم انجام نمیدهد؛ میدانم که فقیر نیستیم، البته ثروتمند هم نیستیم، ولی حتماً به اندازه ی کافی داریم؛ مخصوصاً که من یکی یک دانه هستم؛ همین خودش خرج غذا و لباس را کم میکند؛ خانواده ای را میشناسم که هفت فرزند دارند، و هنگامیکه به فروشگاه کفش میروند کلی خرج روی دستشان میگذارد؛ مادر و پدرم تصمیم نداشتند که من تک فرزند باشم، ولی شرایط برای اینکار جور نشد، و این به نفع من بوده است، چون کسی دور و برم نیست که بخواهیم با هم دعوا کنیم؛ در هر صورت، فکر میکنم که این اسبابکشی به «نیوجرسی» هم، نقشه ی والدینم برای دور کردن من از مادربزرگم است؛ او ماشین ندارد، و از اتوبوس متنفر است، و فکر میکند که همه ی قطارها کثیف هستند؛ پس چون مامان بزرگ گزینه ای به جز پیاده آمدن ندارد، که این هم غیرممکن است، من او را زیاد نخواهم دید؛ حالا بعضی از بچه ها ممکن است فکر کنند، دیدن یک مادربزرگ چه اهمیتی دارد؛ اما «سیلویا سایمون» با توجه به سنش که اتفاقی فهمیدم شصت ساله است، خیلی شوخ و سرحال است؛ تنها مشکل این است که همیشه از من میپرسد: «آیا دوست پسر دارم و آیا او یهودی است؟» حالا خنده دار اینجاست که اولاً دوست پسری ندارم و ثانیاً اینکه چه اهمیتی دارد که او یهودی باشد یا نباشد؟)؛ پایان نقل تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 01/05/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
Oh, how I do miss the 1970 edition of this book. Somehow the beautiful fiddling embrace girl of the new edition, what with the sparkling optics and her head in the clouds, doesn't express the loneliness and contemplative nature of Miss 1000. in the same style the little girl with lank brown hair and brown knee socks did. And how else tin can i completely warning and overwhelm a modern ten-year-erstwhile about the mysteries of the pubescent female body without the mention of the belt? When I first read the book, not merely was I terrified of getting my first catamenia, especially at school, but I thought I at least had the basic mechanics down of all the necessary accoutrement. Subsequently reading "Are You At that place...", a frantic me had to spend 20 minutes in a Walgreens, reassuring myself that this mythical "belt" contraption no longer existed, and was completely unnecessary. And even and then, information technology wasn't until age 12 that I was completely satisfied. In 2006, they "updated" the volume to include the mention of "sanitary napkins" instead of "menstruation belts," and I somehow find that incredibly incorrect. "Are You There..." is a astounding book, more than for Margaret's quest to empathize the workings of the life around her (inter-religious household; crazy relatives; despondent fathers; nutty friends; and 15-year-olds who are but too hot to handle), than for her journeying through early on pubescence. But to fundamentally alter a portion of that journeying seems a fleck farthermost. So what if a curious kid wants to know what a belt is? Most parents, even the young ones, can handle that question. Even I can answer it now! I just recollect... "Are Yous In that location..." was so much more than than the period episode. It was more deftly written than many adult novels I've read. We don't go scrambling to change every work that falls behind the times as far as cultural references are concerned, so why this one? Women didn't starting time having periods in the 00s, and function of the dazzler of the outdatedness of information technology all was that, for me (after the daze and horror), it reminded me that I was continued to an incomprehensible number of women through history in this one tiny way. And that felt good, as saccharine as that sounds.
I'm feeling very nostalgic today. I tin can still remember sitting on the floor in the library and reading this book. Ane of my favorite authors when I was immature. If I didn't have so much to read I would read information technology again now. Really if I can find my box of old books I probably will read it again. I LOVED this book :)
The first matter Margaret asks God is "Don't let New Bailiwick of jersey be too horrible," and so yous know she's in for a rough time with God. The 2d thing she asks for is boobs. What makes Blume so wonderful - well, there are lots of things, but ane of them is that she respects her audition, which is specifically 12-year-old girls and no 1 else. She'due south tackling big subjects hither - puberty and God, and so that's one-half of the entire listing of Big Subjects - and she respects their difficulty. Margaret is the production of a mixed marriage - her mom is Christian and her dad is Jewish - and the big contend hither is which God, if any, she will cull. Her parents have left the decision to her, which she feels is bullshit. "If I should ever accept children," she declares, "I will tell them what religion they are and so they can beginning learning nigh it at an early on age. Twelve is very belatedly to learn." And what I beloved is that past the end of the volume, this is hard, isn't it? she says. She does this throughout the volume. Margaret's new best friend Nancy is a mean daughter. Blume doesn't exactly tell you this, and at that place's (arguably) no character arc. She's just there, kindof a bitch. Blume drops hints that the 6th-grade teacher is harboring inappropriate feelings for early-developing Laura Danker, merely she leaves it to the reader to make up one's mind how seriously to take them. Well-nigh dramatically, Margaret's maternal Christian grandparents arrive for a reconciliation, afterward disowning their daughter when she married a Jew. You lot expect some resolution; This is hard, right? Merely await, no one even remembers any of this shit. What you and/or your girlfriend remember about this book is that it'due south the commencement i that talked about boobs and periods, and this is why Judy Blume is 1 of the slap-up heroes of literature: she takes growing up seriously, which is of import because growing upward is serious business. Blume doesn't talk down and she doesn't moralize. She wrote this way dorsum in 1970, in the olden days when peoples' dads subscribed to Playboy magazine, and she'southward still ane of the most ofttimes challenged authors of the 21st century because she dared to approach topics like periods. (And sex and masturbation and other marvelous things.) It'south a seminal piece of work for generations. My wife got all dizzy with nostalgia when I told her I was reading it. Which, like, I mentioned that Blume is writing solely for 12-year-old girls, and yous might wonder what it's similar for a 42-year-onetime human to read this. Probably not though, considering literally who cares, but I'll tell you anyway: it'southward awkward. On the i hand, we aware men should be well past being freaked out by periods, right? And on the other hand, there's a heavy social taboo confronting adult men beingness in any way interested in training bras, and some of the reasons for it are good. Allow'southward merely say that I often label my Kindle and then people on the subway tin tell what I'm reading, and this time around I chose not to. And let's also reiterate that no 1 cares what I think about Judy Blume. What matters is that, l years on, her vox is nonetheless articulate, universal, non-judgmental, invaluable. "I wanted to be honest," she says. "And I felt that no adult had been honest with me. Nosotros didn't have the information we should have had." Here is the honesty and the information. God will not increase your bust and neither will that chant, as Judy Blume is willing to prove in the most likable author interview always. And New Bailiwick of jersey is horrible. If you lot are a parent: If yous are a kid and your mom won't let y'all read this:
There's nothing objectionable in this book. I'grand alarm to dated gender roles and old-timey bigotry, a la the unfortunate "darkey" verse form in Little Firm in the Big Wood, and at that place'south nothing like that here. Y'all're all good.
Your mom sucks. Read it under the covers with a flashlight, or whatever kids use for light these days. Welcome to literature.
One of my favorite books ever when I was younger!! I bought it for my girl and she loved it too. I think I may re-read information technology this weekend.
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