Where the Broken Heart Still Beats, the story of Cynthia Ann Parker

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	• Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker Carolyn Meyer Gulliver Books Paperbacks, 1992 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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Where the Broken Heart Still Beats, the story of Cynthia Ann Parker

Book arrived quickly and in new condition. Its a good book and easily read by younger readers.

Cynthia Ann Parker has always fascinated me and her life was hard.

This is a wonderful book about the little white girl taken by Indians in central Texas at age 10. She was later married to Indian Chief and bore 3 children. One of her sons was Quanah Parker, famous in his own right.

Don't miss this account of her life. I could not put it down until I had finished reading it.

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Will the broken heart still beat?

After we read Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer I could tell why Cynthia Ann wanted to go back with the Comanches. I also see why Meyer wrote this book. It makes you feel like you a really there with her and you feel how she feels. It makes you feel sometimes you wish you go and tell her Uncle just let her go back.
Cynthia Ann thought that that she was part of the Comanche tribe and they are not the ones that captured her. She thought that they were her family and her real family where the ones that captured but they rescued her. She had lived with them so long and thought she was a Comanche. She had a husband and kids there and she wanted to be with them.
I really see why she wanted to go back with the Comanche's. She had her family and wanted to see her son. She also wanted her little daughter, Topsannah, to see how they lived. She talked how they talked and acted like them she needed to be with the Comanche's.
You should read this book if you like books that go back and forth and if you like happy and sad books. I think that if you like biography you would really like this book. In some parts you will feel like you are sitting with Cynthia Ann.

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Where the Broken Heart Still Beats

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats takes it all!

Just yesterday we finished Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer. It's based on a true story of a lady, Cynthia Ann Parker, who has been kidnapped from her settler family by the Comanche during a raid. When her uncle finds her he brings her back to his family. It then tells about Cynthia Ann's struggles through a period of 3 years. In my opinion the first line says it all. "Our strange cousin, Cynthia Ann, arrived yesterday" You see, Cynthia Ann's Comanche habits prevent her from fitting in.
It takes place in Texas in the 1800's. Cynthia Ann is an outsider who is hated by almost everyone! You could of easily mistaken her for a Indian! She feels out of place and dreads all her present life. She doesn't have a place in the world besides with her Comanche. She is forced to go against all she believes in. It's a book abut Cynthia Ann whole life turned upside down.
Personally I don't think the book was my absolute favorite. A lot of times I didn't understand most of what was going on in the book. In my opinion I love how this was based on a true story! I always try to put myself in the characters shoes. Overall I wouldn't be the one to pick this book up in a quick second.
I really like the way Meyer wrote the book in 2 points of view. It helped me understand the confusing parts. Even the message was priceless! The message was to always cherish what is in front of your, because you never no when it will fly away in a quick second. This book means love and depression, Cynthia Ann loved the Comanche but was depressed with out them. This was a terrific book for people who love history and are really interested in Native American couture. Now all you have to do is answer this: Where's the nearest library so I can pick up this book?

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Historical significance

This is an interesting concept on the history of Cynthia Ann Parker, captured as a child and raised by Indians. This work is focused on the history of the episode and Parker's return and foreced residence among a family she barely remembered. Although Parker rarely communicated her history, the author postures the cruelty of her Indian Captors. One must compare how this story contradicts other works such as "Ride the Wind" by Lucia St. Clair Robson. Robson puts forth the opposite opinion and relates how good the Indians were to the children they took and raised.

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At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to live as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chief and the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker. But in 1861 Cynthia Ann Parker and her infant daughter are recaptured, and returned against their will to a white settlement. ?A skillful examination of how individual identity is determined by cultural and social structures, and of what happens when these are drastically altered.?--Kirkus Reviews

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