Gathering of Peals

Kei Yasuda
Ms.Guarino
English II G Period
11/19/15


        "Gathering of Pearls" is my most favorite English book. This book is about a girl who name is Sookan. She is from Korea and she is going to college in the U.S. Sookan is really hard worker, little bit shy but she wants to make friends and her English is not good at beginning. In this book, it showed how Sookan grew up, she learned many thing in her college life. She learned from experience, culture, friends, teacher and family. I really liked this book because of two reasons and I want to recommend this book to my friends.

First thing is this novel is easy to understand more than other English book for me because I can understand really well about what kind of situation does Sookan in. I'm going to school in U.S and I'm international student. I couldn't speak any English first month. There are many similar experiences between Sookan and me. For example, in Japan, I'm really outgoing because Japanese is my first language and I like to talk to my friends. But when I came here, I became shy person because I couldn't speak any English. I understand Sookan's feel that when older people tole me to introduce myself front of many people. Sookan was very nervous every when she did that and her face was red. I was exactly same as Sookan. I wanted to say no but I thought I should listen what older people saidamd I should do it. So I introduced my self front of many people with my poor English. I was nervous and my face was red, after that, i breathed out and couldn't look at other people.

Next thing is when I read this book, this book makes me to think about Sookan's thought. I was comparing my thought and her thought. For example, hanging out with outgoing people. For Sookan, outgoing person is Ellen. I think Ellen is really kind girl and best friend of Sookan. But when I hang out with outgoing person, I sometimes felt tire because outgoing person is keep talking. Usually, talk to outgoing people is really fun because they say some jokes or talk about funny story but when I'm tired or sleepy, I wouldn't want to talk to outgoing people. I was thinking about have Sookan ever think that Ellen is annoying sometimes. She doesn't want to say bad thing to other people because Sookan is nice girl and she doesn't want to hurt people's feelings. But she might think that she doesn't want to talk to Ellen when she was sleepy or tired. I think she didn't want to talk to Ellen sometimes because she had to study and if Ellen talked to Sookan when she is studying, she she would feel tired. Like this example, I was thinking about her thought a lot. I don't know why I was thinking about her thought but this book makes me to do it.

In conclusion, I would like to recommend this book to my friends because I want to my American friends learn about how do international students feel in their daily life. I think Sookan told readers that the international students's perspective of U.S. This book tells readers about her experiences really detail. Also I would like to recommend to my friends from my hometown because they asked me about how is the U.S life many times and I can tell them about it but if they read "Gathering of Pearls" they would understand more about U.S. I think this is interesting book for people who didn't know about U.S culture and people. I want to readers focus on Sookan's feelings or thoughts in each situations, then I want to readers think about what do they think if they were in the situation.