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Summary: Abuseing story
Review: THE LOTTERY ROSE
BY: Irene Hunt
reviewed by: Abdiweli Hussein Have you ever been abused by your parents? well,Georgie Burgess has, and learns to hide his hurt.One thing I like about Georgie is that he won't tell his problems to nobody. Irene Hunt the author of The Lottery Rose describes how kids like you get abused by their parents. I think who ever reads The Lottery Rose will enjoy it and learn something from it. Georgie, an unhappy boy who won't talk to anybody, hates people that won't let him do what he wants to do. Georgie lives with his mom and his step dad, who never listen to what Georgie says. Steve, the step father, lives with the family because he earns money and that's the only way georgie's family can live.Once the policeman comes to Georgie's house and the policeman ask georgie if Steve is his real father, Georgie says, ''I don't think I got a father.'' And that's true, because Georgie doesn't know if he has a father or not because a 12-year-old kid like georgie don't know anything about his true father. Thats what's happening to kids like Georgie. When the court sends Georgie to a Foster Home he felt safe there because he would not see Steve and his mom anymore. Now he feels like he was born again, because everybody at the Foster Home is welcoming to him (like Sister Mary Angela, who shows him around and introduces him with some of the older kids). When Sister Mary Angela show him his own room he was very happy because at home didn't use to have a beautiful and clean room like the one in the Foster Home. One thing on Georgie's mind was where he was going to plant his rosebush! He went outside to look for Sister Mary Angela but he couldn't found her, so he saw a garden across the street and plant his rosebush there. Why should you read The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt? Two reasons, One to see how people like you get abused by their parents; and two, to see How a Rosebush you won from the grocery store can change your life.If you're looking for a book about those two things, this is the right book for you. I will guarantee you will enjoy this book. The message of this book is that no matter what your parents or your friends say about you just leave it to them and go on with your life.
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Summary: I can't add much to what other reviewers found.
Review: This book was a worthy read that I am presenting to a nephew. While the story is sentimental in nature, it presents a strong morality and a good adventure. Coming to a grasp with the death of innocence in all its beauty and terribleness is something that can lead to great discussion with young readers. I also recommend this book for the sheer pleasure of reading a fine novel.
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Summary: Lottery Rose- Review
Review: The conflict in the story was about a boy named Goergie getting abused by his mom and step dad. Goergie changed during the story because Goergie learns to be kind and gives love and he recieves love back. It makes him feel good inside. I would recommend this book to a freind because it's a good book and people would be interested in reading this book. The conflict is interesting, keep on reading.
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Summary: Bbills
Review: In The Lottery Rose, after Georgie was beaten and neglected by his mother and her boyfriend,he was sent to a home for boys where he debates whithin himself if he should trust the new people around him, using the only comfort he has to giude him through his tough times, a rose bush. When living in his new home watch him learn new things about himself, build a stronger self confidence, and trust in others.I would fully recommend this book.It gives a new affecting knowlage of what peole all over the world suffer through.Creating a new perspective in life, friends, and family.
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Summary: Don't Judge This Book by it's Title
Review: The Lottery Rose, by the excellent author Irene Hunt, is a heartwrenching story about a little seven year-old boy struggling to survive in his own household. His alcoholic mother and her evil boyfriend Steve physically and verbally abuse Georgie Burgess. Craving for love, and living in a broken home, he courageously endures his beatings hoping that someday it will end.
At a grocery store lottery, Georgie wins a little rose bush, which receives all the attention, love, and care that he is starved of. The rosebush becomes a symbol of love and hope for the deprived child, and he becomes attached to it for security. Flowers are the only thing he finds true beauty in, which is why he is so connected to his rosebush.
School is no refuge for this innocent child marked "trouble maker" by his ignorant teachers. He grew up being told and thinking he was dumb, which ruined his self-opinion from a young age. He has no where to run or hide from pain, and is chained to his mother by love, until one day Steve and Rennie go too far and nearly kill him in their usual drunken rage. The police then remove Georgie from his broken home filled with scarring memories.
Georgie is removed from his home and placed in a Catholic school for boys. He has a difficult time learning how to give and accept love- something he's never had. He gains more self-esteem when he learns how to read, and realizes he was never dumb to begin with. It takes time to heal emotionally and not deny the scars covering his back.
I compare this book to They Cage the Animals at Night an equally appalling and emotionally powerful novel based on a true story about child abuse. Books like these make your problems seem ridiculous and easy, and your life more fortunate. The painful experiences Georgie endured will haunt him the rest of his life; he will always be different. To make matters worse, he becomes best friends with a little boy who suffers from a mental problem. Georgie understands this boy named Robin, because they are both different. One day Robin dies, and Georgie experiences more tragedy. Irene Hunt has mastered the art of character development. As ALA Booklist states, "A deeply affecting, affirmative story..." The best thing about this book is it is only a story.
I recommend The Lottery Rose to any reader who loves children, or who is an alcoholic, or who believes in anti-alcoholism, or is a Catholic, or is a mother who lost her child, or any person interested in reading an amazing novel about misfortune and life's many problems, and how they can be changed for the better. I give this book the 5 stars it deserves.
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Summary: life-changing
Review: This was one of the best books I have ever read. I was absolutly stunned. When normal 7-year-olds get bee-stings, they run crying to their parents, if the main character, Georgie were to get stung, he probably wouldn't even feel it, go home at the normal time and get beaten up for no good reason. After reading a few chapters, you get caught up in the situations, and start to really feel for Georgie, and get truly apalled at the people who hurt him. The symbolism in this book is unbelievable, the author is a genious. This book will certainly make you thankful for what you have. Sometimes, the story can really bring you down with sympathy and anger, but in my opinion, that's part of why this book is so great.
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Summary: The Lottery Rose
Review: This is the heart moving story of Georgie Burnees. Georgie is a 7 year old "trouble maker", or so he has been labeled by his classmates and teacher. Even though he trys to behave some times, it's not easy when you've always had it rough.
Irene Hunt does a wonderful job of capturing the hurt and love of a child in The Lottery Rose. Her writing brings to light what far too many children sometimes endure in their life.
Georgie is only a 7 year old boy, yet he's seen and felt more pain than many adults. In fact it's adults that are always hurting him, even the one that should love him the most, his mom. Rennie thought of her son only as a burden.
Rennie would even help her boyfriend Steve lock her son in the closet, sometimes for days. Steve was not Georgie's dad, to him the boy was a problem. Georgie had been abused ever since he was a baby.
He'd been beaten black and blue by Steve for years. Steve scared Georgie so bad looking at him could make him scream, and then came another beating.
The only thing that brought Georgie peace was flowers. With a stroke of luck he won a rose bush in a grocery lottery. It was the only thing he had ever won, and it was the best prize in the world to him. That night when he returned home with his rose bush, Steve almost beat him to death. That was the last beating he ever got and the last time he would be in that house. Soon after he was on his was to a safe school for boys.
While there, Georgie starts to learn that not all life is bad and neither are all people. But after a life time of abuse and pain, love is hard to take.
The rose bush he won is a start to giving his love and learning how to receiving it from others, no matter how hard the journey.
To tell much more would give away some of the best parts of the book. It ends in tragedy yet, still there is hope and love, as two heart broken people find each other. In the end, there is hope and love for two people that have known pain beyond their years.
I would recommend this book to everyone. To me it was a page turner full of real feelings. Personally, I enjoyed the whole book front to back.
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Summary: Lottery Rose
Review: This is a really good book for children starting in the upper elementary or middle school grades and going up through adults. I will warn that the book has graphic abuse scenes and may be unsuitable for some. All in all this book gives the reader a strong message and a good read.
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Summary: Great book!!!
Review: This book is very emotional and tells the troubles of nbeglect from his parents. He confides in only one person, and with her help they send his somewhere away from his parents. It's a great book, I finished it in about a week. I highly reccomend this book!!!!
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Summary: cried buckets
Review: Abused by his mother and her boyfriend, Georgie Burgess learns to hide his hurt. When Georgie wins a small rosebush in a grocery store lottery, he gives it all the love and caring he has never had. With him and his rose a new life starts and he starts to learn trust. Georgie becomes a "hero" to all of the readers.
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