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Title: Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch ISBN: 0-8050-6686-1 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Read
Comment: I chose this book for my American Cultures project, and I thought it would be a pretty bland book. Turns out that it was very good book that gives a lot of facts, but everything is woven together so one does not tire of reading this book easily. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to learn a little bit more on the building of America all in a fairly easy read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ashes of Roses Enlighten
Comment: America was the land of opportunity. The main character, Rose, seeks out that opportunity with her family in Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch. Rose is known for her hard work and her stubbornness. This book shows the immigrants' struggles to survive in America. Rose's family has to learn to live in America from the different Ireland. Ashes of Roses lets the reader view an insight to the pressures of living in America.
In Ashes of Roses, Rose's family travels from Ireland to America for a new life. But at Ellis Island, tragedy strikes the family when Joseph, Rose's baby brother, has trachoma and cannot go into America. Roses' dad decides to take Joseph back to Ireland to stay with Grandma Nolan. While Rose's dad takes Joseph back, the family stays with Rose's uncle. However, Rose's mother hates to live for free, and Rose tries to find a job. A short while later, Rose's mother decides she does not want to live in America without her husband and Joseph. On the way to the boat, Rose asks her mother to let her stay in America with her younger sister.
Rose and her sister find a place to live in America with a father and his daughter, Gussie. Gussie helps Rose find a job at a cloth factory. BR> In Ashes of Roses, Rose and the readers learn not to take life for granted. The story line is easy to follow and keeps the readers hooked. The author did an impressive job bring the story to life. Ashes of Roses shows immigrants making their life in America by the trials they face.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Moving Depiction
Comment: Rose wants to stay in New York after arriving as an immigrant from Ireland, but she finds that it is much easier for a man to make the riches promised in America than it is for a woman. She ends up working in a sweatshop where the owner tries to take advantage of her. She leaves there and finally ends up getting a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company where she believes she has finally found a place where she can build a life for her and her sister. But tragedy will soon tear her new safe world apart.
Auch pulls you into the world of 1911 and creates an atmosphere that allows the reader to feel the desparation that accompanied the fight for women's rights in the workforce. The characters come alive and when many are lost in the Triangle shirtwaist company fire you grieve for them along with Rose. Ashes of Roses is a poignant book that will move the reader to a new, deeper understanding of the struggle for rights and the horror of the fire that took the lives of over 150 people in the Triangle Company fire in New York.
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Title: Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman ISBN: 0618052526 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson ISBN: 0142400017 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall ISBN: 0375814906 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean ISBN: 0066238749 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman ISBN: 0786807695 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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