Ruby Lu Brave and true- Lenore Look (10/18/08)

Ruby Lu, Brave and true-(10/18/08)
I enjoyed reading this fiction by Lenore Look because I thought that it showed the relationship of a little girl with the rest of the world and the importance of having a feeling of unique. I t shows how at first Ruby felt special in where she was going to have a baby brother and suddenly her mind changes. It shows how children’s mind change opinions very quickly and it is like they don’t stop and think. This is shown when she rides the car to school and wakes up and puts her baby brother in the back sit and just drives. When she has to take Chinese lessons and but she doesn’t want to because it doesn’t interest her to the least. Look shows the imagination of a child, Ruby, and how she enjoys doing her magic tricks and wanting others to view her as talented. She also worries about her relatives are about to come and change everything because now she has to share her room with someone she doesn’t know, but at the end she finds out how she connects with her.
In all the situations that happen throughout the story Ruby worries about doing everything right and if she will be liked or not by others. She likes the closeness with her mother but worries when her baby brother comes along, when the new student arrives in school and she is mean and makes fun of the sweaters Ruby’s father makes, her not being able to learn English, and then her relatives arriving and having to share rooms. Ruby worries about all this situations but at the long run everything turns out for the better and she is able to realize it and come to terms by learning to get along. I enjoy this story because it shows the relation of Chinese culture in an American culture and the accommodation they have.