In the book "Because I Am Furniture" by Thalia Chaltas. Is about this girl named Anke that feels like she's invisible, her dad hit her brother and her sister, but never lays a hand on her. she wonders why. She's always hiding her voice and opinion and keeps things to herself a lot. Anke doesn't get attention at home, her mom doesn't show her any real love and attention.Her sibling are mean you could say, they tell her things that shouldn't be said.
I feel like this book relates to me because I know what it feels like to be stuck in the middle of things and feeling like your being forgotten. For example when she says "At times I still want to sigh,curl into her, nourish in her motherness.....But she doesn't welcome that, and when he"s there all her motherness is spent on him. This makes me feel sad and disappointed in a way, because every girl needs her mother there for her, and needs that attention that every other girl gets. I completely know how she feels because sometimes i feel like my own mom pays attention to other things and not really on me. I'm not saying that I need attention at all times, but it would be nice to feel like she care and show her love..When Anke talks about her mom giving all her motherness to him she means that when her father is around, all she does is focus on him and what he wants. Which I believe is not fair, nor right that she only pays attention to the father when he's there. I think that Anke is missing love and needs someone to tell her that they love her everyday, which everyone needs that one person that does that for you everyday.
Another example that Anke's brother and sister are always putting her down, and not really making her feel good about herself. For example, they told her "You don't look like us your noise is different you don't belong" then they told her she was the mailman's child. Thinks makes me mad because, to have someone tell you that you don't belong can really hurt your feelings but the person that your saying it to can kill themselves or do something to end there life. I feel like her brother and sister should've never said that because everyone belongs and everyone is equal. Nobody should be excluded from something, or be told these things.
In a way I feel like her family is just distant and there not really a family. They pretty much do there own thing when they want to, which I think you shouldn't really call a family. This book is going to have a lot to do with not only bullying outside of school but inside your home too. This isn't right because your home should be a place that you want to go home everyday, and you feel safe. In Anke's case I think she feels safer in school then at home,it's not somewhere where you wan to go home to everyday.
