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"Brown Paper Bags is a critical analysis of a system designed to help innocent children. Written as seen through the eyes of a child you will journey from a normal family setting through its breakup and into life in the foster care system. This is the true accounting of four children growing up strangers to each other and the lives they endured as wards of the state. This story was written to bring awareness to the foster care system and the lives foster children are given. Warning, read with Kleenex available, this is not a story with a happy ending."
Nora Steuber-Tamblin, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- growing up orphaned
- orphan story
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Age:
- a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Century:
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- concerned
Commentary on society?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very unfavorable
Is this a biography of several people?
Yes
If this is a kid's book:
- Age 11-14
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 0-25% of book
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