Review of Are You There God Its Me Margaret
I offset read this book in kindergarten. After getting into an argument with the PTA lady running the school volume off-white virtually whether or not I could buy the volume (I thought she was trying to imply that I couldn't read information technology, which I establish insulting) - an argument that was ultimately settled past a call home to my mom - I brought the book home and read it all on a Friday night. Upwards past my bedtime, I snuck downstairs, where my parents were entertaining friends, and announced that I had a question about what a flow was. Without missing a beat, my mother said "The dot at the end of the sentence." Patronized once more, I cried, "I know what that kind is. I'one thousand talking about the kind Margaret doesn't get until the end of the book!" This is the stuff family legends are made of. Beyond that, it'south a great book, but I sure am glad I don't have to use the contraptions Blume describes within equally my feminine hygiene products of choice. Belts? Garters? Yikes.
Isn't information technology pathetic that as a girl, in one case yous larn well-nigh periods, you lot but can't look to get one, and then for the residual of your life, you just wish the effers would go abroad? Except of form, the periods that show up JUST when you need them to- like when one is possibly a few days late and not super confident in her decision-making skills during the last month. Those periods are probably fifty-fifty improve than the satisfaction of that very first one.
What a powerful fiddling volume. Sure, information technology is a coming of historic period story about a pre-teen girl in the late 1960s, early 1970s, but it feels similar a story with lessons and ideas that are important to everyone in whatever era. I can come across why this is on many must read lists. Only written – it can be read in one or two sittings. This is a great thing for those looking for a quick and entertaining read in the midst of a busy schedule. No great delivery is required to get through this one. And, y'all may find more content in 150 pages than you sometimes make it 400 to 500 pages! Another important element of this book that is very applicable to everyone today is the pressures Margaret goes through – social, religious, relationships, etc. She simply wants to live, only people are filling her caput with lies and arguments that make it hard for her to brand decisions for herself. All information technology does is make her miserable. This reminds me of how some people seem to be willing to treat others today (peculiarly with the anonymity of the internet). While information technology isn't everyone, information technology seems like many people similar to force their opinions downwards people'south throats and brand them feel bad about their own feelings. Those people don't consider – or don't care - how this makes others feel. Information technology makes me very lamentable! And, it fabricated me very frustrated for Margaret! Side notation related to the annotate above: The key plot of the story is Margaret trying to decide which religion she wants to be – if any. I was reading online that this volume has been censored and banned in some places considering of its have on Christianity. As a Christian myself, this is ridiculous – and the behavior of the Christians in the book is ridiculous. No one should be made to experience bad about exploring what feels comfortable to them and, if they make up one's mind one thing over another, that is their choice and no one else's business organisation. The way she is treated in this volume I am not surprised she responds the style she does! I recommend this book to everyone. I call up it will teach us all a lot about how we should treat each other, and information technology is a good reminder that nosotros are all human, no affair what our differences are.
I was a picayune scrap of a white girl, growing upwardly, and the daughter of Midwestern parents as well. Mom and Dad were sheltered, small boondocks people who had been relocated to the subtropics of Due south Florida and raised their children there. Our family unit was an island of conservatism and traditionalism among an extremely multicultural sea. Our quiet, casserole-eating crew had very expert manners, and spoke quietly, but we spoke not of feelings, and we deferred always to Dad's opinions. In contrast, our Hispanic, Italian and Jewish neighbors spoke with their easily, and spoke over each other, often giving kisses and total-bodied hugs every bit they did so. I was attracted to the wildness of these neighbour's homes, and I always felt I'd take adult more of a voice at that place, among those more boisterous dinner tables. I knew I had an innate sassiness, but I didn't know how to make information technology emerge, or how to exist more than authentic to my self. When I was faced with early puberty, things became even more challenging. How do y'all tell a silent female parent the changes that are occurring within your body, when yous've never fifty-fifty met her parents or heard a unmarried story from her childhood and she is as cold and remote to you as the Statue of Liberty?? Well, here is where the school librarian (over again) saved the twenty-four hour period by placing Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret in my hands. That adult female always seemed to sense my love of books, my silence, and my needs. And at that place she was. . . Margaret. Right when I needed her. Margaret, the Every Girl, the nondescript, skinny white girl with brown hair who struggles with fears of inadequacy and invisibility amongst her peers. So much most Margaret is tangible. You do non doubt her existence for a moment, and her struggles with faith, family and her fluctuating figure fill her every mean solar day with hopes and fears. Margaret is the only child of a Jewish male parent and a Christian mother who have denounced their religions as the only acceptable solution to raising a child inside this dynamic. Withal, Margaret's beliefs get lost in the shuffle. She loves God and wants to connect more deeply to the Source, just in searching for a deeper spiritual experience, she finds only people who want to manipulate her, to add together to the head count at their places of worship. I loved Margaret equally an 11-year-former, and when I introduced her to my ten-year-old this week, I found my daughter felt exactly the same way. It was weird; nothing had really changed. It was still life, adolescence, social politics, love and fear. It turns out, angst has no expiration date. My daughter, toward the very end of the read, wrapped her body around a pillow and said, "Mommy, I dear this book and then much, information technology makes me feel almost embarrassed." Ah, dang it. And I thought I was going to get through this re-read without tears.
During the concluding round in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, Miss Philippines Shamcey Supsup was asked this question: But that dazzler pageant question and the main disharmonize in this book are basically the same. They both put on the tabular array In the end, Supsup was crowned every bit 3rd runner up in the competition. In the stop, *spoiler alert* Margaret gets her first mens-troo-ation and she is so happy that she resumes talking to her god (whoever it may exist) by uttering her innocent thoughts with this opening Are y'all in that location God? Information technology's me, Margaret… blah apathetic.*spoiler ends* I only stole this book from my 16-y/o daughter'southward bookshelves. Well, information technology is TIME 100 and that was my main motivation. The secondary reason was that some of my GR Filipino friends volition join me in my visit to my island hometown this weekend and this book could popup as a topic. Did I enjoy reading this slim book? As a father of a teenage girl, my answer is a resounding yeah. For most parts, as expected, I could not relate to Margaret'southward issues. After all, this is a very girlie volume as information technology deals with young girl's fears, get-go trounce, new girl trying to fit in to her new school and her select friends whose mantra is to make their breasts bigger: "We must, we must, we must increment our busts." Merely, while reading Margaret'south thoughts, if I effort to imagine what my daughter went through or even still going through, I think this is a worthwhile volume to read by any begetter with a girl regardless of their historic period. Our daughters don't come up to us for advice regarding menstruation but we come across the used pads in the garbage bin. They don't ask us to accompany them in their shopping for bra and other apparels but we pay for them. They don't normally tell us who their boy crushes at school are but we were ones those boys. For those reasons, hey fathers read this volume. For one, I know that many young girls dream of becoming a Miss U but I did not know, until this book, that in that location could be young girls who considering of their dream of having bigger breasts, had to compose and utter some kind of mantra: "We must, we must, nosotros must increment our busts." Then funny :))) "Would you lot alter your religious behavior to marry the person you lot love? Why or why not?"
Supsup answered: "If I had to change my religious beliefs, I will not marry the person that I love. Considering the commencement person that I love is GOD who created me. And I take my faith and my principles. And these what brand makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should honey my God too. Give thanks you."
Of course, Supsup at 25, was expected to have a more than mature answer than the 11-y/o Margaret Simon in this Judy Blume'due south (born 1938) most popular novel Are Yous There God? It's Me, Margaret. Supsup was a architecture board exam topnotcher and a magna cum laude and Margaret was just a 6th grader.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume Margaret Simon is just eleven, going on twelve, when her family moves from New York City to Farbrook, New Jersey. Margaret's mother is Christian and her father is Jewish. Margaret has been raised without an affiliation to either organized religion, and does non practice an organized organized religion, although she ofttimes prays to God in her own words, beginning by saying, "Are you lot there God? It'south me, Margaret." She is beginning to feel uncomfortable with her lack of a religious affiliation. For a school assignment, she chooses to written report people'due south religious beliefs, hoping to resolve the question of her own faith in the process. Part of her study involves attending unlike places of worship to better understand religious do and also to come across if one of them might be correct for her. She enjoys spending fourth dimension with her Jewish paternal grandmother, Sylvia Simon, who loves her as she is, and hopes Margaret will embrace Judaism after taking her to her synagogue for Rosh Hashanah services. ... تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز چهاردهم ماه آوریل سال 2016میلادی عنوان: خدایا آنجایی؟ منم، مارگارت؛ نویسنده: جودی بلوم؛ مترجم: مهری محمودی؛ تهران: نشر قطره، 1394؛ در 141ص؛ شابک9786001198144؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 20م کتاب «خدایا آنجایی؟ منم مارگارت» نوشته «جودی بلوم»، نویسنده ی کتابهای کودک و نوجوان، است؛ داستان این کتاب درباره ی دختر دوازده ساله ای به نام «مارگارت» است، که با پدر و مادرش از «نیویورک»، به حومه ی شهر نقل مکان کرده اند، و «مارگارت» برای پیدا کردن دوستتان تازه و سازگاری با محیط استرس دارد؛ «مارگارت» در خانه ی تازه، با دختری به نام «نانسی» دوست هم میشود؛ «نانسی» و دیگر همکلاسیهای «مارگارت» یک گروه چهار پنج نفره را تشکیل میدهند، که «مارگارت» هم در آن عضو است؛ این گروه ماجراهای عجیب و غریبی را رقم میزنند؛ در این داستان «بلوم»، دغدغه های دختران نوجوان، در سن بلوغ را به خوبی بیان میکند، و شیوه های برخورد با این مشکلات را، شرح میدهند؛ دغدغه هایی که شاید هیچگاه در موردشان حرفی زده نمیشود؛ «جودی بلوم» در این کتاب به مسئله ی مذهب و خداپرستی پرداخته است؛ «مارگارت» نسبت به همسنهای خودش یک تفاوت دارد، و آن این است که به هیچ مذهبی تعلق ندارد، چون پدرش «یهودی»، و مادرش «مسیحی» است، و او با اینکه در زمینه ی مذهب، خودش را «هیچکس» معرفی میکند، در پی یافتن «خودش»، و «خدا» است، و در زمانها گوناگون و ساعات شبانه روز، با خدا راز و نیاز، و نجوا میکند، که خدا یاریهای غیبی��� اش را از او دریغ نکند نقل از کتاب «خدایا آنجایی؟ منم، مارگارت»: (1: خدایا آن جایی؟ منم، مارگارت؛ امروز اسباب کشی میکنیم؛ خدایا خیلی میترسم؛ خدایا تا حالا هیچ جای دیگری، به جز اینجا زندگی نکرده ام؛ اگر از مدرسه ی جدید بدم بیاید چه؟ اگر آنهاییکه آنجا هستند، از من بدشان بیاید چه؟ خدایا لطفاً کمکم کن؛ نگذار «نیوجرسی» خیلی وحشتناک باشد؛ متشکرم؛ ما روز سه شنبه ی قبل از روز کارگر، اسباب کشی کردیم؛ از لحظه ای که بیدار شدم میدانستم هوا چه طوری است؛ میدانستم، چون دیدم مادرم زیر بغلش را بو میکند؛ او همیشه در هوای گرم و مرطوب همین کار را میکند، تا مطمئن شود هنوز بوی دئودورانتش نرفته است؛ من هنوز دئودورانت استفاده نمیکنم؛ فکر نمیکنم افراد حداقل تا قبل از دوازده سالگی بوی بد بدهند؛ پس هنوز چند ماهی وقت دارم؛ زمانیکه از اردو برگشتم، و فهمیدم که آپارتمانمان در «نیویورک»، به خانواده ی دیگری اجاره داده شده است، و اینکه ما صاحب خانه ی دیگری، در «فاربروکِ نیوجرسی» شده ایم، خیلی متعجب شدم؛ اول اینکه، هرگز در مورد «فاربروک» چیزی نشنیده بودم؛ دوم اینکه معمولاً در تصمیمات مهم خانواده، نادیده گرفته میشوم؛ اما وقتی که اعتراض کردم: «چرا نیوجرسی؟» به من گفتند: «لانگ آیلند» یک شهر خیلی اشرافی، «وستچستر» یک شهر خیلی گران، و «کانکتیکات» شهر نامناسبی است؛ پس، تنها جایی که پدرم میتوانست هر روز به محل کارش در «منهتن» رفت و آمد کند، و من میتوانستم به مدرسه ی دولتی بروم، و مادرم میتوانست گل و گیاه، و درختانی را که همیشه میخواست داشته باشد، «فاربروک نیوجرسی» بود؛ فقط اینکه من هرگز نفهمیدم چرا مادرم به اینها بیش از هر چیزی اهمیت میداد؛ خانه ی جدید در خیابان «مورنینگ برد» است؛ خانه ی بدی نیست؛ قسمتی از آن آجری، و قسمتی دیگر چوبی است؛ پنجره ها و در جلویی، سیاه هستند، یک کلون برنجی خیلی قشنگ هم روی آن است؛ خانه های خیابان جدیدمان خیلی به هم شبیه اند؛ و آنها همه هفت سال ساخت هستند، و درختان هم هفت ساله اند؛ فکر میکنم شهر را به خاطر مامان بزرگم «سیلویا سایمون» ترک کردیم؛ دلیل دیگری برای این اسباب کشی نمیتوانم پیدا کنم؛ مخصوصاً چون مادرم میگوید: «مادربزرگ نفوذ بسیار زیادی روی من دارد.» در خانواده ی ما از کسی پنهان نیست، که مادربزرگ، مرا به اردوی تابستانی، در «نیوهمپشایر» میفرستد؛ و اینکه او با کمال میل، شهریه ی مدرسه ی خصوصی مرا میپردازد (کاری که از این به بعد دیگر انجام نمیدهد، چون به مدرسه ی دولتی خواهم رفت)؛ حتی ژاکتهایی برای من بافته، که برچسبهایی درون آن دوخته شده و روی آن ها نوشته است: بافته شده توسط مادربزرگ...؛ فقط برای تو؛ او این کارها را به خاطر این که فقیر هستیم انجام نمیدهد؛ میدانم که فقیر نیستیم، البته ثروتمند هم نیستیم، ولی حتماً به اندازه ی کافی داریم؛ مخصوصاً که من یکی یک دانه هستم؛ همین خودش خرج غذا و لباس را کم میکند؛ خانواده ای را میشناسم که هفت فرزند دارند، و هنگامیکه به فروشگاه کفش میروند کلی خرج روی دستشان میگذارد؛ مادر و پدرم تصمیم نداشتند که من تک فرزند باشم، ولی شرایط برای اینکار جور نشد، و این به نفع من بوده است، چون کسی دور و برم نیست که بخواهیم با هم دعوا کنیم؛ در هر صورت، فکر میکنم که این اسبابکشی به «نیوجرسی» هم، نقشه ی والدینم برای دور کردن من از مادربزرگم است؛ او ماشین ندارد، و از اتوبوس متنفر است، و فکر میکند که همه ی قطارها کثیف هستند؛ پس چون مامان بزرگ گزینه ای به جز پیاده آمدن ندارد، که این هم غیرممکن است، من او را زیاد نخواهم دید؛ حالا بعضی از بچه ها ممکن است فکر کنند، دیدن یک مادربزرگ چه اهمیتی دارد؛ اما «سیلویا سایمون» با توجه به سنش که اتفاقی فهمیدم شصت ساله است، خیلی شوخ و سرحال است؛ تنها مشکل این است که همیشه از من میپرسد: «آیا دوست پسر دارم و آیا او یهودی است؟» حالا خنده دار اینجاست که اولاً دوست پسری ندارم و ثانیاً اینکه چه اهمیتی دارد که او یهودی باشد یا نباشد؟)؛ پایان نقل تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 01/05/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
Oh, how I do miss the 1970 edition of this volume. Somehow the cute little embrace girl of the new edition, what with the sparkling eyes and her head in the clouds, doesn't express the loneliness and contemplative nature of Miss M. in the same way the piffling girl with lank brown pilus and chocolate-brown human knee socks did. And how else tin can one completely warning and overwhelm a modern 10-year-old about the mysteries of the pubescent female torso without the mention of the belt? When I first read the volume, not only was I terrified of getting my first menses, especially at schoolhouse, but I idea I at least had the basic mechanics downwards of all the necessary accoutrement. After reading "Are You There...", a frantic me had to spend 20 minutes in a Walgreens, reassuring myself that this mythical "belt" contraption no longer existed, and was completely unnecessary. And even then, it wasn't until age 12 that I was completely satisfied. In 2006, they "updated" the book to include the mention of "sanitary napkins" instead of "catamenia belts," and I somehow find that incredibly incorrect. "Are Yous There..." is a phenomenal book, more for Margaret's quest to empathize the workings of the life effectually her (inter-religious household; crazy relatives; despondent fathers; nutty friends; and xv-year-olds who are just too hot to handle), than for her journey through early pubescence. But to fundamentally alter a portion of that journey seems a scrap extreme. And then what if a curious kid wants to know what a chugalug is? Most parents, even the young ones, can handle that question. Even I can answer it at present! I but call up... "Are You There..." was so much more than than the menses episode. It was more than deftly written than many adult novels I've read. We don't become scrambling to alter every work that falls behind the times as far equally cultural references are concerned, so why this 1? Women didn't start having periods in the 00s, and part of the beauty of the outdatedness of it all was that, for me (later on the shock and horror), it reminded me that I was connected to an incomprehensible number of women through history in this one tiny fashion. And that felt good, as saccharine as that sounds.
I'm feeling very nostalgic today. I can nevertheless call back sitting on the floor in the library and reading this book. One of my favorite authors when I was immature. If I didn't accept so much to read I would read information technology again now. Actually if I tin can observe my box of old books I probably will read information technology again. I LOVED this book :)
The first thing Margaret asks God is "Don't permit New Jersey be too horrible," so you know she's in for a rough time with God. The second affair she asks for is boobs. What makes Blume and then wonderful - well, at that place are lots of things, only ane of them is that she respects her audition, which is specifically 12-year-old girls and no ane else. She's tackling large subjects here - puberty and God, so that's one-half of the entire list of Large Subjects - and she respects their difficulty. Margaret is the product of a mixed marriage - her mom is Christian and her dad is Jewish - and the big debate here is which God, if whatever, she will choose. Her parents take left the decision to her, which she feels is bullshit. "If I should ever accept children," she declares, "I will tell them what organized religion they are so they can first learning virtually it at an early age. Twelve is very late to learn." And what I dear is that by the end of the book, this is hard, isn't it? she says. She does this throughout the book. Margaret'due south new best friend Nancy is a mean girl. Blume doesn't exactly tell you this, and there'due south (arguably) no character arc. She's only there, kindof a bitch. Blume drops hints that the 6th-course teacher is harboring inappropriate feelings for early-developing Laura Danker, but she leaves it to the reader to make up one's mind how seriously to take them. Nigh dramatically, Margaret'south maternal Christian grandparents make it for a reconciliation, after disowning their girl when she married a Jew. You look some resolution; This is hard, correct? But await, no one even remembers whatsoever of this shit. What yous and/or your girlfriend remember nearly this book is that it's the starting time one that talked about boobs and periods, and this is why Judy Blume is one of the great heroes of literature: she takes growing up seriously, which is important because growing up is serious concern. Blume doesn't talk down and she doesn't moralize. She wrote this way back in 1970, in the olden days when peoples' dads subscribed to Playboy magazine, and she'due south withal one of the nearly often challenged authors of the 21st century because she dared to arroyo topics like periods. (And sex and masturbation and other marvelous things.) Information technology's a seminal work for generations. My wife got all airheaded with nostalgia when I told her I was reading it. Which, similar, I mentioned that Blume is writing solely for 12-year-old girls, and yous might wonder what it's like for a 42-yr-old man to read this. Probably not though, because literally who cares, merely I'll tell yous anyway: it's bad-mannered. On the one mitt, we enlightened men should be well past existence freaked out by periods, right? And on the other hand, there's a heavy social taboo confronting adult men being in any fashion interested in training bras, and some of the reasons for it are practiced. Allow's just say that I often label my Kindle and then people on the subway can tell what I'm reading, and this fourth dimension around I chose not to. And let's likewise reiterate that no one cares what I recall about Judy Blume. What matters is that, 50 years on, her voice is even so articulate, universal, not-judgmental, invaluable. "I wanted to exist honest," she says. "And I felt that no adult had been honest with me. We didn't have the information we should accept had." Here is the honesty and the information. God volition not increase your bust and neither volition that dirge, equally Judy Blume is willing to testify in the near likable author interview always. And New Bailiwick of jersey is horrible. If you are a parent: If you lot are a kid and your mom won't permit you read this:
There'southward cipher objectionable in this book. I'm alert to dated gender roles and old-timey discrimination, a la the unfortunate "darkey" verse form in Little House in the Big Woods, and there'due south nothing like that here. You're all skilful.
Your mom sucks. Read it under the covers with a flashlight, or whatever kids use for light these days. Welcome to literature.
One of my favorite books e'er when I was younger!! I bought it for my daughter and she loved it besides. I think I may re-read it this weekend.
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