Becoming Naomi Leon

I just finished reading the book becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam munoz Ryan. I liked it a lot. It was fun and interesting to read. And it was very different from most books i've ever read. It's about a girl named Naomi Leon who struggles with a lot of things, like speaking up for example. But she's pretty much always made the best of living with her Gram and brother, Owen. Then her mom, Skyla, who has a drinking problem, and a new boyfriend, has revisited after leaving her kids with her ex husband's (the dad) mom for seven years. And after she kisses up for a while she reveals the real reason she's here; to take naomi, just naomi, to live with her. Naomi decides that she wants to meet her dad before going to court against her mom, and she is glad to have met him when she goes home and faces her future. Once naomi wins the argument in front of the judge, her mom leaves. Leaving Naomi almost thankful for the things she taught her.

I think this book is really about how some little things matter. But some really don't. It didn't matter when Skyla bought Naomi a bunch of clothes, Naomi still wanted to live in her home, not with Skyla. It didn't matter that Skyla was her real mom. She would never be her real family. certain things don't make an imprint on us. I think it's mostly because of the past and sacrifice.  It didn't matter that Skyla was her mom, because she wasn't there for Naomi like Gram and Owen always were. And it didn't matter that Naomi got a bunch of clothes, because it didn't really coast her mom anything.

I think it's pretty much the same for the good little things. It only matters where it comes from in you, and what you really sacrifice for it. It mattered when Skyla bought Owen a bike. Because She always treated Owen second best, and now her got the first best for once. Also, when she says Clyde (her boyfriend), spent good money on it, i think she really means she had to work for him to do buy it. It also mattered when Skyla knocked over Naomi's favorite soap carving. Because That's something that mattered to Naomi, but didn't matter to her mom, which it should've. It's not the fact that Skyla broke it, it's the fact that she didn't care, and never cared about it in the first place.

People often say the best things are little. But i thing that most little things that matter actually aren't all that little. It's more like the specific act may be simple, fast, or little, but the gesture is big. Like the bike was just a little present. But it wasn't to Owen. Because it meant his mom did care. It meant more that his mom loved him than that he had a bike. Because i think that all that disapproval Skyla gave Owen was actually directed towards herself, for leaving him when he was struggling so much and needed her. I think its the little things that go so much deeper. And they're special because it only matters like that for you, no one else in the world.