**spoiler alert** Hello! This is Chloe who loves to write short stories and read interesting books! Today I'll be reviewing the book Hidden Figures. To**spoiler alert** Hello! This is Chloe who loves to write short stories and read interesting books! Today I'll be reviewing the book Hidden Figures. To be honest it took me some time to completely enjoy this book. I first read this book when I was in elementary school, did not enjoy it then. After a couple of years later, I found this book on my shelf and started reading. I'm not a big fan of science but I became more interested in space, human rights, and girl' power as years passed. Before I get into any details I wanted to write a short summary. Here's how this book goes.
This book is about African American women working at NASA at a time of cold war between soviet union. It puts the spotlight on Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson; a smart women mathematicians. Before the World War 2 there was segregation. Such as African Americans not being able to go to white-only- restaurants, restrooms, and even on the bus they had to be separated. However, the war was an opportunity to make a better life for African Americans. Government started to give more jobs because most men went out to fight the country needed more people to work. This gave opportunity for women like Dorothy, Mary, Katherine to work for NASA.
Mary Jackson was the first African-American woman to move up the ranks and become an engineer at the NASA. Katherine Johnson was an African-American woman who became an essential member of the team that put the first American in orbit around Earth. Dorothy Vaughan was the first to be promoted in to a management position as an African-American woman.
This book contains a lot of topics to think& discuss about such as segregation, human right, girls' power, patriotism and a love for their family. This was everything that I wanted to read in a book! However, the reason why I gave 4 stars is because I thought the writing style was a bit dragging and dull. It took me a while to really be able to focus on the book and get soaked up in it. I usually like to read fantasy, YA novels that it's even put down once I started it. Although I'm not a big fan of these types of books I still wanted to try it. Except for these reasons I think it was everything I could hope for! I hope my review and rating helped you, if you have a spare time don't forget to drop by my profile! Thanks for reading and have a great day...more
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