The books One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia and Grasping Mysteries by Jeannine Atkins have a lot of similarities and differences. In the first mentioned book talks about a girl that traveled to Oakland with his sisters to meet her mother, but Cecile (the mother) don’t care about them, so for the girls get out she puts them on a camp of the Black Panthers Movement, and the second book talks about brave girls who loved math, and discovered some crazy and important things.
In both books a girl is the main character, and they run to their objectives, no matter what it is. Is so important for the woman to be recognized, because sometimes they are downgraded, sometimes they try so hard to do something and in the end someone steals the credits and deletes everything that they did. In Grasping Mysteries a lot of determined women try to discover something really important for the whole world like a meteor that will hit the Earth. They try so hard, they spend a lot of nights working on their projects, so finally they will have equal rights, visibility and recognition and they fight a lot for this and for not to be downgraded. In the other book named One Crazy Summer, Delphine and her sisters was abandoned by his mother when they was so young, so the girl feels so bad for her sisters that don’t have mother to take care of them, so she do everything that she can for protect the girls and for made them happy, so this shows that the girl really love her sisters and is willing to do everything for them.
In the book Grasping Mysteries the lesson is to be dedicated, that is similar to One Crazy Summer that is to be courageous. If you are dedicated and courageous you can do everything that you want to, you can be intelligent, strong, focused, and this is
important for everyone to achieve your goals, no matter what it is, you don’t will need to be scared to try, because you just get it right trying. In the books this is related to, Delphine needs to be dedicated to take care of her sisters, and the girls of Grasping Mysteries need to be courageous trying to discover things and impress the world.
In the second book the girls were recognized in the whole world because of the important things that they do, although, in the first book Delphine do important things too, and she wasn’t recognized, she fight so hard to protect her sisters and she was not acknowledged. In the real life this happen to, sometimes people do a lot of important things, and others just do a basic thing and win a lot of premiums and visibility for it, when the people who do the important things lose it, so sometimes life is not fair. Going back to the book, The girls in Grasping Mysteries do really important things and everyone needs to agree, but Delphine needs recognition too.
Here you can see a compare and contrast essay of the books “Grasping Mysteries” and “One Crazy summer” that talks about power, lessons and recognition of both books and we can see that girl power is important, that you need to be dedicated and courageous, and that sometimes the life is not fair.
