Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming talks about the missing case of Amelia Earhart and a summary of her life. Amelia Earheart was known as the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, the author changes perspective back and forth from her daily life and the day she went missing. The book gives a description of Amelia’s whole life starting from her childhood. Amelia was born in a family where girls were taught to be a lady and boys were taught to be a man; however, Amelia has always been a boy inside her. What she did and liked as a child did not go as society’s expectations for a girl, she had a special role and personality that led her to be what she wanted. Reading from her childhood, my first central idea was about being free of gender expectations in the 1900s.

The first three chapters had a lot of obvious examples of gender expectations and sexism, people judge others because of their difference from society just like how Amelia was judged for being a “Tomboy”.

 

I focused on my biggest idea which was about sexism and also my second idea reputation and wealth. This idea wasn’t very obvious in the beginning, but as I read to page 60, this idea happened more to Amelia herself.  Amelia’s reputation keeps going up and down during different situations, especially when she was announced as the first female pilot to fly solo at the Atlantic. In that situation, her gender didn’t really matter at that point because more people were liking her than judging her.

Then, I focused on the setting of the book. The author made the setting very different and unique that a lot of books don’t really have; instead of telling the story from the beginning to end, the author switches different perspectives from her daily life and the day she went missing. the author is trying to give a spoiler or a clue to tell us what might be happening in the future. This makes the reader feel anxious about what’s happening in that certain situation, and think about what might this flash-forward mean.

Lastly, parts to re-read are also important parts to build up my central ideas. quotes from the text that are important have lots of meanings, so I wrote down thoughts and reasons why I think it’s important at the bottom of the quote. One quote can tell us a lot, what’s more important is for me to explain the importance and to let that idea spread.