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Indlæser... Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two (original 2005; udgave 2006)af Joseph Bruchac (Forfatter)
Work InformationCode Talker af Joseph Bruchac (2005)
  
Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  PaulLoesch | Apr 2, 2022 |   This is a really good YA book. The language and syntax are easy, but the topics are in depth and the author doesn't shy away from hard discussions. He talks about being forced to assimilate as a child and what that did to Native Americans, about how language can define a culture and person, and war topics such as losing friends, fear, and PTSD. I read this because my mom always does a summer book club with my son and was thinking about this book. She wanted to make sure it wouldn't be too upsetting or adult in topic. I think that it's a really great book and would recommend it to middle grade and high school readers. And actually, I think a lot of adults would enjoy it too. Original publication date: 2005 Author’s nationality: Nulhegan Abenaki Citizen Original language: English Length: 205 pages Rating: 4 stars Format/where I acquired the book: borrowed paperback Why I read this: at my mom's request (  ) japaul22 | Jan 22, 2022 | BLTSbraille | Oct 28, 2021 | rgruberexcel | Sep 22, 2021 | It would have been welcome if the author had presented a set of balanced choices instead of bombing the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (  ) m.belljackson | Feb 4, 2021 |
Gr 5 Up-In the measured tones of a Native American storyteller, Bruchac assumes the persona of a Navajo grandfather telling his grandchildren about his World War II experiences. Protagonist Ned Begay starts with his early schooling at an Anglo boarding school, where the Navajo language is forbidden, and continues through his Marine career as a "code talker," explaining his long silence until "de-classified" in 1969. Begay's lifelong journey honors the Navajos and other Native Americans in the military, and fosters respect for their culture. Bruchac's gentle prose presents a clear historical picture of young men in wartime, island hopping across the Pacific, waging war in the hells of Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Iwo Jima. Nonsensational and accurate, Bruchac's tale is quietly inspiring, even for those who have seen Windtalkers, or who have read such nonfiction works as Nathan Aaseng's Navajo Code Talkers (Walker, 1992), Kenji Kawano's Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers (Northland, 1990), or Deanne Durrett's Unsung Heroes of World War II: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers (Facts On File, 1998). For those who've read none of the above, this is an eye-opener.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.  Meredith Ackroyd (Children's Literature) When Kii Yázhí is sent away to the Navaho mission school, he quickly learns what it is to be a Navaho in a white man’s world. At the mission school, he is given a white man’s name, Ned Begay, and he is forbidden to speak his Navaho language. In order to receive an education, Ned must leave his Navaho language behind. Although determined to excel in the white man’s school, Ned is also determined never to forget his Navaho language and culture. When World War II breaks out, Ned suddenly finds that his language is of value beyond the reservation: Prized for its complexity and obscurity, the Marines use the Navaho language to develop a secret military code, recruiting Ned and other Navahos as top-secret code talkers. It is in war that Ned comes of age, as he learns about life and death, friendship, race relations, and the pride to be found in one’s language and culture. Though far from home, Ned is able to sustain and renew his faith and pride in his Navaho language, culture, and beliefs. A first-person fictional account of the Navaho code talkers in World War II, Bruchac presents a detailed look at the history and culture of the Navaho people. Although at times his main character seems to serve more as a vessel for history than to tell his own story (often at the expense of the emotional impact of personal events), the book presents an interesting and important multicultural perspective on American history. 2005, Dial Books/Penguin Group, $16.99. Ages 12 up. Sixteen-year-old Ned Begay detested life in the Navajo mission school where he was sent. There, "anything that belonged to the Navajo way was bad, and our Navajo language was the worst." However, in one of the greatest ironies in American history, when WWII broke out, Navajos-victims of the US Army effort to destroy them in the 1860s and the harshness of the mission schools in the 20th century-were recruited by the Marine Corps to use their native language to create an unbreakable code. Navajo is one of the hardest of all American Indian languages to learn, and only Navajos can speak it with complete fluency. So, Ned Begay joined a select group of Navajo code talkers to create one code the Japanese couldn't break. Telling his story to his grandchildren, Ned relates his experiences in school, military training, and across the Pacific, on Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. With its multicultural themes and well-told WWII history, this will appeal to a wide audience. (author's note, bibliography) (Fiction. 10+) HæderspriserNotable Lists
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. No library descriptions found. |
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Author Joseph Bruchac was a Navajo Code Talker himself. As a code talked, he served as a U.S. Marine in their invasions of various islands in the Pacific in WW II. Code talkers used variations of their own native languages to convey urgent and top-secret messages from one combat unit to another without fear of being decoded or translated. The unbreakable nature of the native languages used by the American Indians who served as code talkers allowed messages to be communicated at the moment of need rather than after hours of being translated into and then out of codes.
What makes the work of the code talkers so remarkable, however, was the context in which it was used. Native Americans had been the victims of genocidal racism since America’s earliest days, and that same racism continues even today. Yet in spite of the treatment, the Indian Nations have received, they have remained loyal citizens of the nation that oppresses them. In fact, Native Americans have always served in greater proportion to their populations than any other ethnic group.
The book is not a difficult read, although some of its content reflects the horror that is war. It is a lucid, succinct, and articulate telling of an important contribution to American history that resulted in the saving of countless lives. (