Text to Self Connection

 The novel that I am going to connect to is called 'Bamboo People' by Mitali Perkins. At least three times in my life I have felt great fear, distress, and grief. Just as Chiko, one of the two main characters did. When Chiko had arrived at the location where the job posting for the teacher, the military came out and opened fired and gathered everyone who came to the job posting, controlling Chiko like a savage. When I was about four years old, I had gotten lost in a giant store ('Walmart'). Even though it does not seem that big now, it was huge when I was four. I was wandering down an isle, trying to fnd my parents, when a big hefty guy, dressed all in black, starting walking down the isle. I started to feel so scared, and I was already upset that I could not find my parents, that I started to bawl. But finally I found my parents walking down the main isle, and I scared them by grabbing onto the buggy. I was so happy when I found them, that I started to smile and forget the grief and terror that I had just faced.