Silvia Soriano Reading Response: September 8 2012
Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez
In "Finding Miracles" by Julia Alvarez its a book about dealing with adoption, fears and learning to find out who you really are. The main character Milly (Milly Spanish name is Milagros, which in her native country means miracles) is a girl adopted into the Kaufman family. Milly hasn't told anyone besides her best friend Em that she is adopted, and well besides her parents and her sister who was adopted in her native country, who is the same age as her.Milly doesn't want anybody to know from where she really is, cause shes ashamed that she is from their and not from Vermont . Milly nationality is brought to notice when a boy named Pablo moves to Vermont and discovers that Milly looks exactly like all the people back at his Native country.Milly has no choice than to revel to everybody who she really is, where she originally comes from and everything else she has been keeping from everyone .The entire book is about Milly figuring out her past piece by piece ,and traveling back to her native country to learn more about who she really is, what happened to her birth parents, why did they give her up, how did she end up with her family, but was all of this to fast for Milly to figure out? Was Milly satisfied with what she found out about her past or not?
While i was reading " Finding Miracles" one questioned always showed up, did Milly really know what was going to happened to her after she found out the truth about who she really was? After finding out truth to her and her family? One thought that came to my mind was maybe she thought if she found out all she wanted to know she would either be so happy and be grateful about everything that has happened to her. She could react like her being put up for adoption was for her own good. She could realize that maybe her parents weren't capable of taking care of her at that time. On the other hand Milly would have not understand why her biological parents did what they did. She could have thought that coming to her native country was something she regrets . Her learning more about who she truly is is something that she hates . Something that she would have never wanted to know. Milly could of also realized that she has the perfect family even if their not her biological parents, their still her parents that love her.
Another questioned that i always asked my self when reading this book was did Milly parents really want her to go back to her native country?Did her parents not like that Milly talked about her not being a part of the family? And did Milly parents not care if she was adopted , did they treat her as if she was their real kid? Her Parents never really liked talking about her being adopted. Was that maybe a sign that they didn't like that subject.When Milly Dad mom came to visit them talking about her will, she only included her sister Katie and her brother Nate , her parents were angry and upset that Happy ( Milly dad mom ) didn't include Milly in her will because she wasn't their birth child , so they ( Milly parents ) told Happy that no kids of theirs were going to part of anything with unincluding any child of theirs. Milly Dad told his mom that he didn't want to be part of that because it didn't include Milly .When Milly decided to go back to her native country by herself her dad always made up excuses. Either that their wasn't enough money , that she was too young. He even brought up that maybe it wasn't safe to travel alone to another country. Even if it was her native country. In the end her Dad had no choice other than letting her go.
I think if i was a parent of an adopted child, I wouldn't want them to go back to their native country by them self's to figure out their past. I would tell them that I'm their parent, i cared for them, i watched them grow up. I will never ever be able to replace their biological parents, but I am their other parent. But if they truly would wanted to go, I would like to go with them, I would like to be with them every step of the way, knowing that it may hurt me emotional that they want to find their other parents , but ill try to be as supporting as I can. Many kids go throw these same problems everyday. Some are worst some are not. Some find out on their own that their adopted, some parents tell them when their at the right age to know, and to make their own decisions. Knowing they wont make any mistakes in what they choice to do and wont regret it after .
In conclusion "Finding Miracles" its a book that kept me thinking and wondering till the end. Its a book that i have learned to love and really respect. It has made me more aware that adopted children arent always aware that their adopted.They make the choices they do cause of what they been through That they make their choices because they want to figure out who they really are. If they do thats great if they don't thats also great.What matters is just being happy with what ever choice you made at the end, cause in the end its what you think and what you feel that really matters.
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