Haileybury Gazette | Hope | Issue 9

8 BOOKS TO READ WHEN
YOU’RE IN NEED OF HOPE
BY ALIMA G
COMPILATION
As you successfully lived through year 2020, chances are you’ve experienced feelings of
hopelessness and a sense of lack of any kind of purpose at some point. We’ve all been
there, the feeling of incapability, an absence of motivation for the simplest tasks and the
dreadful presentiment that things will never change for the better that follows. Sometimes it
can be incredibly hard to maintain a positive mindset, and understandably so, but it is
important to try your best at it. Keeping a positive mindset is a form of self care and is vital to
a healthy, productive and most of all happy living. We have carefully picked out a
compilation of uplifting books that will help you see the better side of things, inspire you and
perhaps even shift your perspective.
THE COLOR PURPLE BY ALICE WALKER
The praised feminist work focuses on the lives of two African American
women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls,
sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to each other across time,
distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years,
the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of
characters and their experiences. It explores and raises the important
topics of the silence around domestic abuse, narrating the lives of
women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, and
resilience and bravery.
DRAW YOUR WEAPONS BY SARAH SENTILES
The book tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector
during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib
and the ways they have dealt with their experiences through art. The
spotlight shone on art and war through personal narrative, memoir,
visual culture and theology in this book will challenge the way you
view the world as a whole. This book effectively works like a narrative
photograph, drawing the eye to many places, a good number of
which we'd perhaps rather not see.
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