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“WE ARE NOT UNBREAKABLE” Elsa Barnemann: She is one of the most
important Argentine writers of children's and youth literature in Latin America. Her books
have been published in various languages and some of these were even translated into
Braille. He was born on February 20, 1952 in the Parque Patricios neighborhood of Buenos
Aires.

 2. Book: We are not unbreakable Book: We are not unbreakable. Publisher: Alfaguara
Author: Elsa Bornemann.

 4. Story: “With the sun between the eyes” The protagonist is a young woman who is in
love with a boy named Gustavo and sees a sun between his eyes. One day in class she
decides to tell all her classmates the secret: that Gustavo has a sun in the middle of his eyes.
The classmates make fun of her and Gustavo got angry with her. Then they became friends,
because she was the only one who could see Gustavo's sun, since she was very in love with
him.

 5. Story: “A Thousand Cranes” This story is about two young people, Naomi and
Toshiro, who lived in Hiroshima and were in love. It was 1945 and the country was at war.
On June 21, the holidays were announced and they were sad because they were not going to
see each other. Toshiro went to his grandparents' village. On August 6, the atomic bomb
fell on Hiroshima. When Toshiro was able to find out where Naomi was, he went to visit
her. She was in a hospital terribly injured, she told him she was dying and she only had
twenty cranes. Then Toshiro decides to make the thousand cranes, because according to a
Japanese belief, wishes come true. Even though Toshiro manages to complete the thousand
cranes, Naomi dies.

 6. Who is that goose? Marcela and Gerardo were friends, he was in love with her, but
the young woman was only interested in an actor. When Gerardo went home he saw that
she only had that poster: Who is that goose? - he asked. Gerardo helped Marcela make an
album to get closer to her on the condition that she doesn't say anything to her friends. But
she told them and they charged him. Then he got angry and told her that he only did it
because he liked her, but that she only cared about a paper man. In the end, Marcela
realizes that what he told her was true.

 7. “Little wave” An “old man” who wonders what he is doing in a children's story and
decides to tell his story: It all started when he was 10 years old and lived in front of the sea.
He looked at the waves and fell in love with one, he said that was his wave, he baptized it
“Mariola”. She told this to her best friend, Malva. She didn't believe him and since he told
her, Mariola never appeared again. In the end he married Malva and says that all waves are
equal.

 8. “As the crow flies” It is about a girl who, one day, goes out to the balcony and sees a
Goldfinch. The next day she went out to the balcony to look for her plants and waited for
the goldfinch, she waited for it with breadcrumbs in her hand. The bird always came back,
but she didn't want to tell an adult because they were going to put it in a cage, so she
decided to let it go free.
CENTRAL THEME SUMMARY

The central theme of the book is not unbreakable, it is love and friendship between
children our age.
Twelve independent stories reflect the various ways in which love is manifested among
children. Through poetic resources and sorrow, joy, encounters and disagreements are
collected in very varied settings and in multiple geographies. Stories that can show that
love is not just a feeling of maturity.

CHARACTERS WITH THEIR REVIEW

1.- Gustavo: A boy who was different because of the sun between his eyes through which
only his best friend and lover could see.

2.- Naomi: She was a girl who was in love with Toshiro who had long black braids and
lived in Hiroshima.

3.- Toshiro: He was a boy who was in love with Naomi and they both lived in the Japanese
city of Hiroshima.

4.- Marcela: Fans of Robert Redfort, who is an artist who appears on posters

5.- Gerardo: Jealous friend of a singer who had Marcela as posters and who helps her
understand the uselessness of pining for a paper man.

6.- Nicolás: He is an expert in naming windows according to what he sees through them

7.- Cricket: He is a child who falls in love with an ocean wave and learns to differentiate
that wave from the others.

8.- Malva: Best friend of the cricket who did not believe him about his wave and who
ended up marrying the cricket after a while.

9.- Mariola: It is a sea wave that was given that name by his friend cricket, which means
Sea and Wave (Mariola).

10.- Edwin: He attends one of the last grades of elementary school and does not get along
very well with multiplication tables.

11.- Gabriel: Susi's best friend.

12. Luis and Iván: Susi's younger brothers.

13.- Aníbal: Susí's older brother, he is thirteen years old and works in a mechanical
workshop.
14.- Talita and Aguará: They are two children in love who belong to different tribes.

15.- Constantine: He is of Brazilian origin.

16.- Federico and Leonardo: They are two children who fall in love with the same person.

17.- Manolo: He rejects the love of a girl

 A THOUSAND CRANES – SEMBA TSURU Words from the story that caught my
attention: *Miyashima: small island located near the city of Hiroshima. *haiku: short poem
of seventeen syllables, typical Japanese poetry *obi: sash that accompanies the kimono.
*Donguri- koro Verse from a Japanese popular song.*Semba Tsuru: a thousand cranes. A
popular Japanese belief claims that by making a thousand cranes - as origami teaches how
to do it - you can achieve long life and happiness. *furoshiki quadrangular cloth that is used
to form a bag. *Toshi-chan: diminutive of Toshiro

 2. The two main characters of the story that Elsa Borneman wrote are Toshiro and
Naomi. Characteristics of Toshiro: he is good, poor, thin, a child of about 10 years old, he
shares his food. Characteristics of Naomi: he is thin, he has black braids, he is poor, He has
to mend clothes and writes haikus. A nuclear bomb falls on Hiroshima in 1945 and many
Japanese died. Toshiro decides to complete a thousand paper cranes to achieve his wish, as
an ancient Japanese tradition says.

We are not unbreakable

Author: Elsa Bornemann
Just as things break, we are not unbreakable. They can harm us too
especially our heart in matters of love.

With the sun between your eyes

A girl had a friend and classmate named Gustavo. She saw that he had a sun between his
eyes, this was a secret between them, but the girl couldn't take it anymore and told her
entire class. Upon realizing the mistake he had made, he learned that it is useless to expect
everyone to feel the same way.
Now she writes things in her notebook and continued playing with Gustavo as always.

Thousand Cranes
This story is about two children Naomi Watanabe and Toshiro Ueda, who lived in
Hiroshima. They loved each other, summer vacation arrived, on August 1st Toshiro went to
Miyashima. On August 6, an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, many people die and
Naomi is seriously injured. Toshiro managed to find her and she tells him that she is going
to die, and that she will not be able to complete the 1000 cranes (she was 20).
That night Toshiro made the 980 cranes he was missing. First thing in the morning he took
them to the hospital. go dead.
February 1966 Toshiro lives in England, he is 42 years old, married, has 3 children and is a
bank manager in London. In his office there are always cranes, the employees comment
without even suspecting what happened.
Who is that goose?
Marcela was an admirer of Robert Redford and her friend Gerardo was jealous of that
goose as she called him. She made a Robert Redford album with the help of Gerardo, who
offered to help her be close to her.
One day, Marcela, Gerardo, Osvaldo and Claudia did some work at Marcela's house and
she shows them the album indicating that she made it with Gerardo's help.
Gerardo, embarrassed, says that he didn't like Robert Redford that he actually liked Marcela
and also tears up the album.
Marcela starts crying and her friends leave without commenting anything.
When Marcela is in her room, she realizes that Gustavo is right, she admires his eyes, his
gaze, and his presence was made of paper.
That night she realizes that Gerardo's eyes could return her gaze and when she falls asleep
she dreams of him.

Windows
Nicolás was a 12-year-old boy who had a special preference for windows.
He gave each window a name, depending on the memories related to it.
The first window is a bay window
It was the one he saw when he was a baby in daycare, it seemed very big to him.
The night window was the one in his first room, he only saw it at night.
The hocus-pocus window was the window of his house, there he projected his dreams.
The vertigo window was on the 17th floor, he felt like a bird and it scared him.
The window towards recess (it's the one I liked the most, because I also look out the
window of my living room and entertain myself), I looked at who was passing by, at the
rain and the teacher challenged him. He drew on the fogged glass.
The window neither fu nor fa had no emotions. But that's why he met Clara.
The window of loneliness reminded him of his mother being sad because his father left
them.
The window of grief was where he saw them arguing.
Through the window of joy she saw her father return.
And through the bright window he went to Clara's house, and when he saw the door he
began to be interested in doors. So his dad thought he was growing up now.
Characters: the boy Theme: the boy likes windows, he gives each one a name and sees
something in it.

7. “Little wave”
An “old man” who wonders what he is doing in a children's story and decides to tell his
story: It all started when he was 10 years old and lived in front of the sea. He looked at the
waves and fell in love with one, he said that was his wave, he baptized it “Mariola”. She
told this to her best friend, Malva. She didn't believe him and since he told her, Mariola
never appeared again. In the end he married Malva and says that all waves are equal.
“little wave” the wave Mariola, Malva and the narrator. A boy falls in love with a wave and
one day
He drowns and his friend saves him.
Cricket, son of fishermen, and Malva, a questioning girl, were condemned to get married,
they fought. He liked to see the waves and met Mariola (sea and wave), Malva did not
believe him, she was jealous and made fun of him. One day Grillo followed Mariola and
saw her with the things that were floating, a current dragged him to the shore. Malva had
saved him. They ended up married.
The privilege of having your wave and its company only lasts as long as you believe in it.
Characters: Mariola and Grillo.
Theme: A boy falls in love with a wave, he drowns and she saves him.

8. “As the crow flies” It is about a girl who, one day, goes out to the balcony and sees a
Goldfinch. The next day he went out to the balcony to look for his plants and waited for the
goldfinch, he waited for it with breadcrumbs in his hand. The bird always came back, but
she didn't want to tell an adult because they were going to put it in a cage, so she decided to
let it go free.

As a bird flies
I wash my hair and dry it on the balcony, I see sparrows, a goldfinch stands on the balcony,
it comes back the other days, we love each other.
The elders need to feel like owners, I and the goldfinch only need the air to have
everything, he comes back because he wants to and it is also my freedom that awaits him.
Characters: the girl and the birds
Theme: see the birds that return
And we only need the air to have it all

Do not forget me
Edwin and his friend were in love, she gathered flowers and he helped her. One day he
wanted to pick a flower near a river and he fell. Before drowning, she yelled at her friend,
don't forget me. The flower that grows where he rests is blue like forget-me-nots.
Edwin always gives Silke flowers, she keeps them and writes in her notebook; daisy
(yellow head and wears white ribbons), oak leaves, poppy, Christmas twig, tulip (red bell),
rose, fern (where the spider lived),…
They were walking along the edge of a river, Edwin fell into the river and threw a twig at
Silke and shouted “don't forget me.” The cemetery flower is blue like forget-me-nots.

You look and don't touch

For Susi's birthday there were no gifts, with the excuse of seeing Gabriel she deflated her
bicycle. As a birthday gift, he showed him the fig tree that had produced roosters and not
figs. They got married and Sisi's birthdays are celebrated with 5 roosters.
For Susi's birthday there were no gifts, her family was poor. As a birthday gift, Gabriel
showed him the fig tree that had produced roosters and not figs.

Hummingbird
Two Indians from feuding tribes meet and fall in love, but they are discovered and
punished. She decides to die and he decides to turn into a bird so he can find her in a
flower.
Aguará, brave little Indian, I wanted to see the others. He met Tala, he liked flowers, and he
fell in love. One rainy day they were found hugging, Tala was punished in a hut and was
forced to marry one of her tribe, she preferred to die. Aguará was punished by living in the
forest, the moon told him about Tala and he asked the wind to turn him into a bird, so he
could kiss as many flowers as he discovered, and thus be able to find her.

a flying love
The plane was delayed in Athens and it was hot, while waiting I met a Brazilian couple,
Constantino was their son. At the airport in Germany we also had to wait. There
Constantino met Lynn, a little black girl. They sat together and communicated while
painting and fell asleep together. In Senegal they separated
By painting they communicated because they spoke different languages. In the end they
fell asleep together. In Senegal they separated

The new
Federico “quincho” with straw hair, Leonardo “little cane” very skinny, Cristina “little
Christmas tree” decorated herself a lot. “The triplets” were inseparable friends. They both
liked Cristina and that's why they fought but Tommy, a new student, arrived, with whom
she fell in love. Then the two former friends got together again, jealous of the skateboard
that Tommy gave Cristina.
Cristina “little Christmas tree” because she decorated herself a lot.
They both liked Cristina and that's why they fought

bye
It was Friday and I was sad, I told my mom that I had gotten into a fight with my friend,
but it was because Mariano told me bye.
I leave you; the little papers of verses, the chocolate, the drawing, my joy,... but I take with
me; the emotion, the warmth of your hand, the ring.
Sunday: I told my mother everything while crying, she seems like a magician with the
verses she gave me, they are the same as what I feel.
I was sorry, it was because Mariano told me bye.