Blog 7

I really enjoyed ready Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodriggo Corral.  Although it was mostly a picture book, it was made for an older audience.  I never realized how much pictures tell a story.  Chopsticks was about a young pianist that lost her mother in a motorcycle accident.  Her father was her piano teacher and had her travel all over the world to share her talents.  At a young age she falls in love with a boy who lived on the same street.  Her father disapproved of their relationship and forced her into more shows to keep her away.  During her tour, she would "slip" and play the song Chopsticks.  Chopsticks was the song that reminded her of the boy back home.  The couple continued to talk to each other while she was on tour through IM and mail.  She would also recieve multiple paintings in the mail.  Their love grew very strong and eventually both of them snapped.  The boy got expelled from schol and she had to go to a school to deal with her mental break-downs. 

As I was reading this story I often felt like I had to go back and read/look at the previous pages at times.  I realized there were details from the pictures that I had not noticed that were important for the storyline.  It would not surprise me if there are things brought up in class that I had not noticed while reading.  I'm excited to hear what my classmates got out of the story and see if there's a deeper meaning to the book than what I saw. 

One thing that I would like to figure it out from the story is the meaning behind the octopus.  Throughout the book there were several pictures of an octopus and I'm not really sure what it symbolizes.