Toning the Sweep

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Summary: Toning the Sweep
Review: This book was very interesting. Basically the story is of Emily, Emily's mother, and Emily's grandmother Ola who has cancer. Emily and Mother have gone to take Ola back home. The story of this book is pretty hard to understand in the first few chapters, but towards the end, it becomes completely clear. It's also an easy read, so it's not like it is set for any age. I give it four stars

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Summary: Toning The Sweep
Review: This was a good book because it show some values that you can find on the family, and how emily try to understand why her mama didn't like the desert. After she start to find answers at her questions she also get to know better her grandmama Ola by making a videotape where she get to know better Ola's friends and learn to get along with people. This Book show the way that this people were traveling scaping from something that is call saness going through different places, the real reason that Ola was runing away from alabama was to save Diane from the ugliness deth like it say on the book but this wasn't the good way because you have to get infrom of your problems to solves them. That is why I agree with Diane that ola wasn't suppose to run away fron something she shouldn't. By the time Emily find the reason Diane didn't like the desert was because she didn't want to get away from the pain of her father that she found dead near a field of kudzu. That was the day that Emily really felt for her mama and understand her loss. It say that Diane won't ever forgive her mother from ripping it away. Because I think that the only things that where attach to Diane and that she remember about her father were gone and the only memory she has about her father were in her heart and that is okay because she will never forget her father even that she don't have any oject that may remember her him. I think that Emily realize that it really don't take that long to get to know someboy if you really want to know them. I think Emily haves a positive change because she learn to appreciate more her family and to understand the situation they hava passe. I think Ola and Emily really like the desert because there they really felt free like a bird and freedon if one of the most important value in the world. If you don't think like that I do. I really like this book even that it show all the pain this people have and or their loss. But at the end it really teach you that family is very important If you haven't read this book do it because it can help you to apreciate it more. That all I have to say I hope you like what I have done.

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Summary: Reviewing the Sweep.
Review: Toneing the sweep is a book about a girl and geting in tuch with her family. I did not like the book at all. I could not get into it because of the way the auther writes. The way emiloy speaks is to weird:I did this and i did that. if there was 0 stars on this thats what i would give it.

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Summary: Toning The Sweep
Review: Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson is a book about three generations of African-American women. The main character is the youngest of the three (Emily). The book is about Emily and and her mother going to take care of Emily's grandmother because she is dying of cancer. Emily's grandmother lives in the desert where she ran to after Emily's grandfather died. Throughout the whole book Emily decides to video tape memories of the desert and her grandmother's (Ola) friends and favorite things. Emily and Ola have always loved the desert and hate to leave it, but Emily's mom hates it. Later on in the book you find out what really happend to Emily's grandfather, and why Diana (Emily's mom) hates the desert and has a grudge against her mother for running away to the desert. Towards the end of the book Emily and her mother "tone the sweep" which is an old ritual that means you hit a plow with something to make a really loud noise to let everyone know that someone has died, and sends the deceased person's soul to heaven. So Emily and her mom tone the sweep for Emily's grandfather. All in all, the book was pretty good. Not the most interesting book ever, but it makes you appreciate your family that much more.

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Summary: Toning the Sweep..A not-so-bad book.
Review: Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson is a book about three generations of African-American women. The main character is the youngest of the three (Emily). The book is about Emily and and her mother going to take care of Emily's grandmother because she is dying of cancer. Emily's grandmother lives in the desert where she ran to after Emily's grandfather died. Throughout the whole book Emily decides to video tape memories of the desert and her grandmother's (Ola) friends and favorite things. Emily and Ola have always loved the desert and hate to leave it, but Emily's mom hates it. Later on in the book you find out what really happend to Emily's grandfather, and why Diana (Emily's mom) hates the desert and has a grudge against her mother for running away to the desert. Towards the end of the book Emily and her mother "tone the sweep" which is an old ritual that means you hit a plow with something to make a really loud noise to let everyone know that someone has died, and sends the deceased person's soul to heaven. So Emily and her mom tone the sweep for Emily's grandfather. All in all, the book was pretty good. Not the most interesting book ever, but it makes you appreciate your family that much more.

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Summary: The thoughts of slappy
Review: Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson is a good read if you want a book that is short but has a lot of meaning behind it. It teaches you to be strong when things are looking bad, to keep on going when it looks like you cannot go any further. But best of all it teaches you to make the best out of your life because you only have one life.

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Summary: Toning The Sweep
Review: Toning the Sweep in my opinion is very boring. It has no climax to keep you on the edge of your seat. Some of the chapters don't make sense, nad they don't flow into each other smoothly. The Characters were structured pretty well, but it was hard to understand them till the last few chapters. I couldn't understand the way they were feeling, and sometimes I couldn't understand why they were feeling that way. The book also has no dramatic points in it, the plot was very weak. Some positive things about the book are that it is an easy book to read. The grammer usage is appropriate for the book. Sometimes you have to reread parts of the book to understand it. Over all the book is an easy read and I recommend it for older people who have probably lived through the civil rights movement.

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Summary: Ishéa's Book Review
Review: Toning The Sweep is a great book by Angela Johnson. The main character of this book is a girl names Emily. Her mother's name is Diane, and her grandmother's name is Ola. Ola and Emily are very close. Throughout this entire book, you can tell that the mother is somewhat jealous of the relationship that Emily and Ola share. She wishes that her and her mother were like that. After the funeral of Emily's grandfather, her and her mother move to Little Rock, California. Towards the beginning of the book, Emily and her mother find out that Ola has cancer. They then move to Cleveland so that Emily and Diane can take care of Ola. Throughout the book, Emily decides to videotape Ola and her friends. There are a lot of happy moments in the videotape, as well as moments where she filmed her grandmother sitting under a Joshua tree. Later in the book Emily finds out what really happened to her grandfather. The name of this book means to hit a plow and make a really loud noise to show that someone has just died. In chapter 19,Emily and Diane finally "tone the sweep" of their grandfather.At the end of the book, Emily, Diane, and Ola move back to Ohio so that they can spend the remaining time with Ola before she dies. This book has taught me that faimilies should always stick together no matter what. I'm glad that I have a family like that. I would recomend this book to everybody.

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Summary: Toning the Sweep
Review: Toning the Sweep is a great book by Angela Johnson. The main characters of this book are a girl named Emily, her mother whose name is Diane, and her grandmother, whose name is Ola. Ola and Emily are very close. Throughtout the novel, you can tell that Emily's mother is jealous of the relationship that Emily and Ola share. Towards the beginning of the book Emily and her mother find out that Ola has cancer. There are alot of happy moments in the book such as when Emily viedotapes her grandmother under the Joshua tree. In the book you can see how much Emily cares for her grandmother. The book is based on relationships between mothers and daughters.

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Summary: Toning the sweep review
Review: Toning the Sweep is a novel by Angela Johnson. It's a book about a fourteen- year- old girl named Emily who goes with her mother to visit her grandmother, Ola, in the desert. Ola moved to the desert in California from Alabama in 1964 when her husband was shot for being uppity. Emily and her mother went to help Ola pack because she is moving to Cleveland to be with them because she is dying of cancer. Emily doesn't want her grandmother to leave the desert because she does not want to leave it behind her, and she knows once her grandmother leaves she will not be back to visit. I did not like Toning the Sweep because I thought it repeated a lot of the same things over and over. Emily is videotaping Ola and her friends from the desert, which was boring to read about. There was a few parts in the book that were more exciting, but nothing was too interesting. If more happened while Emily and her mother were visiting Ola, it would make it less boring. I think that Toning the Sweep is a book an adult would like, even though it is written for more of a high school level reader.