This video by Jack gives a overview of the story, discusses central ideas, social issues, and the theme of “The 57 bus”.

This book is called “The 57 bus”, written by Dashka Slater. This book mainly about what happened between two people,  white person is a homosexual called Sasha, a black person is a bad boy called Richard. This book explores discrimination, racism, and gender discrimination. Sasha and Richard tried to let others accept them and they tried to change, because of some external influences, they fell. However, they never gives up. Richard started to do the homework and to earn money for his family. Sasha don’t care other’s thought, so Sasha wear dress on the street, this is the reason that Richard burn fire on Sasha’s dress.

One theme of this book is one mistake is likely to affect many people.  Three reasons why we should read this book are 1) This book is very interesting. This book is written in the form of a story, as long as you finish the story, you would get a lot of information. 2)This book can inspire you and let you know more, you can learn some truth and life lessons. 3)This book explores discrimination, racism, and gender discrimination in America, which seem to be issues that continue in America today.

Somethings I learned in this unit is that I need to make the connection between each part of the book and to reread the things that I don’t understand, to make a deeper understanding. Before I thought I don’t need to reread and there are no connections in this book, but now I know I need to make the connections between each part and reread to things that I don’t really understand.