What is the strangest part of the text in the novel The Chosen One?

In the novel The Chosen One, the strangest part of the text to me is the whole paligamist side to this story. I understand how the children of this story would follow the orders of the Prophet because they were raised in a sheltered community where that is all they were taught to believe in.  As it states in the novel the Prophet resently decided to forbid any members of the community to go past the fence lines so that means in the past the older members of the community were allowed outside to the real world. I don’t understand after experencing how the real world is that older community members would want to bring up their children in surroundings like this. Where their young teenage daughters are forced by the Prophet to marry older men in there 50’s, 60’s and so on and then be expected to have babies shortly after while taking on the role as a wife  at such a young age.

From what I have read so far this is all happening to the main character Kyra. Kyra is only 13 years old and she has been chosen by the Prophet to marry her 60 something year old UNCLE. Yeah that’s right as if it wasn’t bad enough she was getting forced to marry an old man now it is incest too and what makes it even worse is no one can help Kyra from her fate. Of course Kyras’ father tries to alter her fate by talking to the Prophet himself but nothing seemes to adjust the Prophets mind.

Free Choice….The Chosen One

For my second novel in Reading 104 I chose the book The Chosen One. So far from reading the back of the book haha I have learned the novel is about a girl named Kyra who is thirteen years old and has grown up in an isolated polygamist community. Since Kyra lives in an isolated community she has never questioned the fact that her father has three wives and that she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when Kyra finds out that the Prophet orders Kyra to marry her sixty year old uncle who already has six wives of his own.

For some reason this book seems interesting to me. I think it’s because I can’t understand why anyone would want to be a polygamist except maybe for the guys because they get to mess around with a bunch of different women and it’s considered ok. I don’t know how it doesn’t bother women in polygamist communities to have to share their husbands with several other women and then have to live in the same house with the other wives and their children. I could understand how if they were raised into a polygamist community that’s probably all they know but if they received the option to have a monogamous or a polygamist relationship why choose to be a polygamist. Recently there has been a new show on TLC called The Sister Wives that follows a polygamist family where the husband has four wives and a bunch of kids. So if you are curious about polygamists check out Sister Wives on TLC it’s very interesting.  

Free Responce.... Thirteen Reasons Why

Reading this book Thirteen Reasons Why makes me think a lot about my time throughout high school. I went to a fairly small high school where only a little over 200 kids attended and most of the time everyone knew everyone because of the most part we all grew up together. I mean my school was like every other school, we had fights, bulling and what not but nothing to the extent that happened to Hannah Baker or even a lot of the stuff you see on TV. I think that all had to do with the size of the school, with less student in the school  it made us get to know each other more. Just thinking of the possibility of something like that could have happened to someone who I have had grown up with is a little frightening. I mean how would one even pick up the signs that something is wrong with an individual? I mean it must not be that easy to pick up on because no one even had an idea that something was wrong with Hannah. With Phoebe Prince people were stunned that it went so far or that she would take it to that extreme where she would take her own life to make her pain end. I think this book is a good eye opener for kids. It shows how things that you do to others that you might consider as harmless fun but to the victim of bully it could be construed as harsh or painful.