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A Million Shades Of Gray (2010)

by Cynthia Kadohata(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1416918833 (ISBN13: 9781416918837)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

review 1: This is a terrible book. It is plain boring. The narrator's tone is flat. There is no suspense. The characters are forgettable. Even the protagonist has no special characteristics. Everything is predictable. So main character's whole world was torned apart because of the war and then he decided move to Thailand, that's it? What was the point in writing it? Oh yeah, to paint a nice picture of the Americans and maybe get some $$ for it. What pissed me off the most is not how much time I had wasted in reading this book but what is written in the author's note. She wanted to highlight how evil the Vietnam government was toward the Montagnards and how GREAT the U.S. was for allowing 9,000 Montagnards to have a better future in their country. 9,000 is such a great number? Should... more they earn a medal? How about the millions of people the had killed since they formed this country? Did they get punishment for that? What a joke. And why pretend that the Vietnam government doesn't torture their own people and is only discriminating the Montagnards? Why pretend that the U.S. government didn't send Japanese Americans&Immigrants to concentration camps during WWII? Why pretend the U.S. didn't have a massacre of the Native Anericans? Need I say/type more? This is sensitive subject. So MS/MRS Author, stay away from it. You are not of Vietnamese descent. You have no right to talk shit here. I suggest you stick to with what you're familiar with. It's reflected in "Kira-Kira" which is one of my favorite books.
review 2: In the book “A Million Shades of Gray” written by Kadohata Cynthia, Y’tin the main character reaching for a goal. His goal is to be the youngest of something. Not just the youngest of this but the best. He wants to be... an elephant trainer. It’s not easy to just be courage, patience and have intelligence. Y’tin had said “If the North Vietnamese or Vietcong ever attack the village, we should escape with the elephants” pg 43 You can see that Y’tin is also caring. He doesn’t just leave what is useless to him. But he does bring along what is important. In that case he brings his elephants. They have been with him for along time making them apart of his life. He also says that they need to escape from the North Vietnamese. The reason being is because they will have a war. They need to make sure not to be captured from them. But the day he was scared that they were coming..... They came. Fighting, capturing, and killing, all on replay. One by One. As Y’tin was running away on his elephant. He got caught. With his heart pounding like the sound of a clock he was looking for something that meant everything to him. His parents. His life is falling into a million peices. A million peices that are just drifting away like a piece of paper. less

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