Reflections after reading "Knowing You Love Me"

Thoughts after reading "Knowing You Love Me"

? "Knowing You Love Me" is a classic work by Cynthia Kakuhata, a famous American children's literature writer, and is also based on Kakuhata's own novel Written based on the adoption experience, it explores life issues about love and responsibility, which children must learn and face as they grow up.

? "Know You Love Me" tells the story of a troubled adopted child who finally opens up his heart and learns to feel and give love. It explores the child's need, desire, feeling and learning for love, and its connotation It is profound and worthy of reading and pondering by every growing child.

Children can understand from this that love is not an innate ability, but love is accumulated responsibility and dedication over time. Moreover, true love will not let you refuse to accept it because you are worried about losing it. True love, Let you know how to give and love your best.

The author Cynthia Kadohata has won the Newbery Gold Medal for Children's Literature, the National Book Medal, the PEN America Children's Literature Award, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Her works have always been full of richness. Her other work "There Will Be Good Luck Tomorrow" has won unanimous praise from teachers and parents.

Specially invited illustrator Shan Yu created the illustrations for this book, which are very consistent with Jayden’s character image and the reading experience conveyed to readers by the entire work. His delicate brushwork makes the entire work full of emotion and tension, satisfying A dual experience of children's literature and visuals.

Chinese Translator: Ah Xuan

Content Introduction:

? Twelve-year-old Jayden is a Romanian boy. When he was still ignorant, He was abandoned by his biological mother and lived in a very backward and impoverished place in Romania (there was no electricity), often fighting to the death with other children over a piece of moldy bread. When he was eight years old, he was adopted by an American couple (mother Penny and father Steve), and he no longer had to go hungry. However, the nightmare memories of childhood, especially the experience of being abandoned by his biological mother, and The discomfort with the unfamiliar environment deepened his fear and uneasiness. He no longer trusted the world and had no idea what love was. Although his adoptive parents bought him the best clothes, quilts, toys and food, he was still worried that he would be abandoned again. But his adoptive parents still tried their best to love and care for him, which seemed to gradually open Jayden's closed heart.

? Just when he began to fall in love, the adoptive parents' new adoption plan made him panic again. They crossed half the world, from the United States to Kazakhstan, where Jayden felt an uncontrollable power when he met Dimash, a Kazakh orphan who was even worse than himself, thinner and with a gloomier future. - He wants to save this boy. At that moment, Jayden suddenly understood that maybe, this is love...

This is a journey of finding love that spans half the world. A person must understand love, love others, and love himself. First of all, we must understand the responsibility and obligation of love. I think Jayden should understand the true meaning of love.

Character introduction:

Jayden, the protagonist, is a Romanian orphan who was abandoned by his biological mother. After being adopted by an American couple, he came to live in the United States. This time he came to Kazakhstan with his parents. Stan adopts another orphan.

Penny: Jayden’s adoptive mother

Steve: Jayden’s adoptive father

Katherine: Penny’s sister; Marty: Katherine’s husband< /p>

Akrk: The receptionist of an orphan adoption agency in Kazakhstan

Sam: The driver who receives the Jayden family in Kazakhstan is Turkish

Dima HI: The Kazakhstani orphan (in a baby home) ends up being Jayden's little brother.

Ramazan: Kazakhstani orphan (in a baby home) who ends up being Jayden's younger brother.

Kanat: Kazakh falconer.

About the author:

Cynthia Kadohata?

Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese-American and a famous American children's literature writer. Born in Chicago, he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. She began publishing articles in The New Yorker in 1986. She is good at writing about Japanese immigrants, thinking about her own life experiences and creating touching novels. The author's father is a second-generation Japanese immigrant, and when her brother was born, the entire hospital staff came to see him because they had never seen a Japanese baby. She placed this scene in the novel, and she still remembers the indescribable feeling of isolation.

Currently, Kadohata is writing another children's novel about Japanese immigrants, based on her father's internment in the United States during World War II because of his Japanese identity. "My father once told me that he had long forgotten what happened at that time, and he asked me who else would care about these things. I said to him: 'Dad, I care.'"

She His works have won international awards such as the Newbery Gold Medal for Children's Literature and the US National Book Medal. Because of her identity as a Japanese, Kakuhata has experienced racial discrimination. Therefore, she pays special attention to culture and identity, and her works are full of strong humanistic care.

In 2004, Kakuhata adopted a baby boy from Kazakhstan, and "Know You Love Me" was created based on this experience. ?

In 2005, he won the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature.

In 2006, he won the PEN Children’s Literature Award.

In 2006, it won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.

In 2013, it won the National Book Award.

Classic works

"The Thing About Luck" (The Thing About Luck)

"Half a World Away" (Half a World Away)

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"Kira-Kira"

"Weedflower"

"Clark!" "Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam" (Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam)

"Write what you know and love, and don't think about whether others will like it." Cynthia Kakuhata once said.