conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister about Sohane, Djelila, Racine with the genre: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction?
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conversations.value: Studious Sohane, 18, has always taken care of her beautiful sister, Djelila. But at Racine High School, Sohane becomes more religious, while basketball-playing Djelila wears tight jeans and makeup and kisses her boyfriend in public. When Sohane decides to wear a headscarf to school, something forbidden by French law, she is expelled. This controversy is overshadowed when Djelila is horrifically murdered by a tormentor for making different choices than her sister. Written in first-person present tense, sometimes directly addressing Djelila, Sohane narrates the story from past to present. The issue of a womans right to freedom of choice is important and timely, and theres plenty to think about here as the author presents both sides of a complex issue that will be new to many American teens. A glossary of Arabic and Muslim terms is included. Grades 7-10. --Lynn Rutan
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Add another sentence about Racine, Wisconsin, Parisian, nothing, describing.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Studious Sohane, 18, has always taken care of her beautiful sister, Djelila. But at Racine High School, Sohane becomes more religious, while basketball-playing Djelila wears tight jeans and makeup and kisses her boyfriend in public. When Sohane decides to wear a headscarf to school, something forbidden by French law, she is expelled. This controversy is overshadowed when Djelila is horrifically murdered by a tormentor for making different choices than her sister. Written in first-person present tense, sometimes directly addressing Djelila, Sohane narrates the story from past to present. the author provides almost nothing in the way of describing the settingit could be Racine, Wisconsin, as easily as a Parisian suburbbut her passion comes through loud and clear. The issue of a womans right to freedom of choice is important and timely, and theres plenty to think about here as the author presents both sides of a complex issue that will be new to many American teens. A glossary of Arabic and Muslim terms is included. Grades 7-10. --Lynn Rutan
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the first four paragraphs for this book?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister
  My thanks to everyone who so graciously accepted to answer my questions on various aspects of the Muslim religion of which I was ignorant—especially Mohammadi and her sisters, and Maud, who was my enlightened go-between as well as advisor on various other points.
  The women walk slowly, heads down. They hold a banner that stretches across the length of the street.
  The group stops in front of the tower where Djelila lived, the tower where her parents, her brothers, Idriss and Taïeb, and her sister, Sohane, live still.
  But this morning Sohane isn't home. She's at the foot of the tower, bare-headed; she helps carry the banner.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know five more paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Once, when you were seven and I was eight, two tigers attacked us. We had to kill them to save our lives. Then we discovered that they had a cub. We took it with us, you bottle-fed him, and he became loyal to us. Do you remember, Djelila? He became our protector.
  Our games often ended in arguments. When I wanted to conquer a new country, you would meet a charming prince and demand to get married.
  My sister would come back, lie down next to me, and put her head on my shoulder. She couldn't stand having us mad at each other.
  I'm beginning to have a knack for filling out applications. Since enrolling in correspondence courses, I've had to sort through all sorts of forms: registration forms to courses by mail, where you have to make sure to answer all questions if you want to receive the lessons in a timely fashion; forms to take the French and biology exams, where you can't overlook anything if you want to be admitted to the test room; forms for the graduation certificate...
  I asked him where I could find computers with Internet access and he showed me, saying, "You're lucky. One of them is just freeing up." I thanked him.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the last five paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: We stop in front of the tower, the one where I still live today. Behind us, Estelle carries a huge bouquet of flowers. She kneels down to lay it on top of the slab.
  My eyes fill with tears. Finally I give myself permission to say goodbye to you, Djelila. I will try to keep my fears at bay; I will try to think that you will always be with me.
  I did not cover my head this morning. It was useless. My head scarf is not a pronouncement. I do not want it to be used as justification for any kind of violence.
  Karine lets go of the banner to join Estelle in front of the slab. She holds a piece of paper in her hand. A short text that we wrote together.
  On March 15, 2004, the French government passed a law prohibiting public school students from wearing any conspicuous religious symbols or religious attire. This includes head scarves.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: This includes head scarves. Behind us, Estelle carries a huge bouquet of flowers. She kneels down to lay it on top of the slab.
  My eyes fill with tears. Finally I give myself permission to say goodbye to you, Djelila. I will try to keep my fears at bay; I will try to think that you will always be with me.
  I did not cover my head this morning. It was useless. My head scarf is not a pronouncement. I do not want it to be used as justification for any kind of violence.
  Karine lets go of the banner to join Estelle in front of the slab. She holds a piece of paper in her hand. A short text that we wrote together.
  On March 15, 2004, the French government passed a law prohibiting public school students from wearing any conspicuous religious symbols or religious attire.We stop in front of the tower, the one where I still live today.