Story Review of My Very Own Room

Basic elements:

Characters:  Amanda, Víctor, Mario, Other brothers

Setting: One morning in a crowded room

Plot: A girl named Amanda doesn’t like being stuck with her brothers in a crowded room, and wants her own room.

Perspective: 1st person perspective

Genre: Realistic fiction

My Very Own Room is about a young girl named Amanda who has to share a room with her other brothers. She then gets tired of it, and so she goes to the storage room, and tells her mom it's perfect. But inside the storage room stores many important things, but after taking them out, painting the wall, and even using blue chip stamps to buy a lamp, with the help from the whole family she succeeds. She then shows her gratitude and thanks her brothers by letting them in her room, and reads them a story. 

Privacy is an essential for many reasons, its something that others cannot see, or simply being alone and having personal space. It allows one to focus more on themselves without any other person knowing what they are doing. In the story ,Amanda feels freedom when she finally gets her own room. This lets her read without all of her brothers. That is ok because we all need our space to do something and calm down. Another example is when we all go to bed, we don’t want someone else near us, even though it might be comforting, it might make us feel like others are watching us. Privacy leads to freedom, and calmness, without privacy one will feel insecure.

Family is an essential part of our lives, because it has love, support, and makes us feel welcome. In a family, they one helps another to achieve something, they care for each other, and pass life’s challenges together. In the story, Amanda’s family helps her build her own room knowing that she wants some privacy to read, they try their best to help Amanda. I think that is right because it is what is special about all of us. We have different cultures, we have all different methods to do things. We all have homes, from velvet and silk, to raggs, and soot, we all have family.

Gratitude is the act of thanking another of what they did for us, it could either be a simple action, or one that had a big impact on our lives. One could thank the other in many ways, they could either just say a simple “thank you” or they do something that returns the action. In the story, Amanda shows her gratitude by letting her brothers into her new room, and even reads them a book. I think that is correct, because when one does something good to one, they should return them, because if they don’t, the other person could think that they don’t care about the action. Gratitude flows with all the actions we do, one mistake, and it shatters.

In conclusion, I think this book is good because of what it teaches us. Like family, privacy, and gratitude which is important because of how it will help us later in life, family teaches us the importance of our loved ones, privacy teaches us the importance of freedom, and gratitude teaches us the importance of thanking one another. I also personally like this story because of the illustration, at first when I didn’t understand the blue chip stamps, with not only the help of the text but with the illustration helped me understand it more.