Book Club #4

The next section our group read over Spring Break included chapters 7-15, quite a lengthy section but we're keeping up with the reading.  In our last meeting we discussed the cultural differences as being a prominent theme in the novel.  This may turn out to be a project idea for the Book Club presentations, but we haven't discussed that in detail as of yet.  Again, one of the main themes in our book focuses on how American culture is not all that different from Iraqi culture aside from some of the extreme religious aspects illustrated in the book.  Presentation ideas involve songs regarding the war, photos from the novel and from the photographer that contributed to the novel, and getting feedback from the class.  The book is still confusing for me in some aspects which include the different names of people mentioned in the book but I don't think that extracts from the central themes of the book at all.  It would make it more comprehensible to understand the names but one can still get the main ideas of the book through comprehending the scenes presented.