Children of blood and bone

Write that essay:
Essay Question: Describe at least one memorable idea in the text.
Explain how the text helped you to understand this idea.
There are two sides to every story.

Essay:

Do you think there is always two sides to every story? Children of blood and bone
by Tomi Adeyemi, A memorable idea is that there are two sides to every story.
This idea is shown in chapter 39- Inan, Inan uses his magic to see what happened
to his mother, chapter 13-Zelie, Amari tells Zelie “ my father killed my best friend”
and in chapter 22- Amari, Amari remembers not being allowed to leave the
palace.

The idea that there are two sides to every story is shown in chapter 39-Inan,
Inan uses his magic to see what happened to Zelie’s mother When he finds out
what happened he realizes that Zelie’s memories were nothing like the stories
his father had told him as a child and they weren't the villains his father had told
him about. Instead, all he saw were the families his father tore apart.
This chapter shows that just because one person says or tells you something
it doesn't mean it is always true or should be true. You could comper this to the
real world when someone in school tells you something bad that someone else
had said about you and you go and ask them about it but it wasn't true.
I think you should always know both parts of the story before you go and do
something about it because you might say or do something you regret.  

We also see this in chapter 13- Zelie, Where Amari tells Zelie
“ my father killed my best friend”. From Zelie’s point of view, this would sound
terrible because she wasn't there to see what happened, but either way, it is bad.
If you look at it from Amari’s view it is still bad maybe even worse because her
dad knew that they were best friends, but Amari knew the whole story and
knew what had happened even though her dad shouldn’t have done it.
Then there is Amari’s father that would have thought it was the right thing to do
and he was doing something good for his home because if Binta
(Amari’s best friend) was to be let go she would have had some of her power
back and he wouldn’t have known what she would have done with them.
If she was going to strike back or stay the same and do nothing about having
them back. He probably thought it was the right thing to do because then he
wasn’t putting any of his family at risk but either way he shouldn’t have done it.
This could be linked back to real life where someone might do something bad
and think that they are doing good and that they are helping their family or their
friends when really they have not to help and maybe even made worse. 

Another idea is that in chapter 22-Amari, Amari remembers not being allowed to
leave the palace because of what stories she was told and what her father had
told her. In this chapter, I think Amari remembers this because of all the things
she is starting to realize she missed out on because she listened to those stories
and what her father had said. Her father would have told her these stories
because he wanted to keep her safe and out of harm's way because with his
other family, he was more relaxed and worried less about keeping them safe and
more on letting them have fun and because of this it got them all killed. Now that
Amari is out of the palace and looking around for the first time, she probably
thinks that her father only wanted to keep her locked up or something like that.
You can see this type of thing happen in everyday life when someone tells you
not to do something and you listen but when you finally decide not to you find
that it is actually nice or it might not be but it doesn’t matter because you found
out for yourself, instead of just going by someone's word. I think that even if
someone tells you not to do something you should at least try it out for yourself
because you might like it and have different experiences. Even if it does turn out
bad at least you know that you did it and found out for yourself. 

Even though one person says something does not always mean it is true. Sometimes you have to find things out for yourself whether it is good or bad.
Just like most of the characters in the book, they were told one thing and it didn't
turn out to be all true.