Most love stories start with love at first sight but not books written by Rainbow Rowell. Those books were written by Rainbow Rowell. Rowell wrote a book called “Eleanor and Park” which is a love story with a strange start. Rowell was born in Nebraska on February 24, 1973. Love and romance are what Rainbow likes to write books about, but they find love in a strange way. The characters in the story do not like each in the beginning, but at the end, they love each other. Love doesn’t always happen at first sight.In Rowell’s novels, love never happens at first sight. She writes with ups and downs in her stories. First, the story is going up and great things happen, next thing, something awful happens and it repeats. An example in “Eleanor and Park” is on pages 66- 67. Trouble starts when Park goes over to Eleanor’s house and Eleanor’s stepdad Richie gets mad at her for having a boy come over. The story went from having Park over, a high, then Richie is getting angry, a low. Then a high happens when they stumble upon a low. Rowell likes to write repetition in all her stories. …show more content…
Eleanor and Park, it starts out as Park’s perspective, then in the next chapter, the story went into Eleanor’s perspective. Rowell does that so you can notice the story in two different ways. One perspective explains what happens and what they saw and then the other person explains what happened. Then you can notice if their story is the same or different. Sometimes one perspective could move beyond just when Eleanor and Park are together like when they are at home. Most times, Eleanor gets in a predicament after and Park doesn’t know. There are some things that other books don’t have because there is a heap of details. She likes to get into a great deal of detail and distinct
Jimmy Dean once advised, “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination.” The novel A Long Walk to Water authored by Linda Sue Park, is a work of realistic historical fiction and a dual narrative focused on adjusting to change. One storyline is about a young eleven year old girl named Nya who is apart of the Nuer tribe and lives in Sudan. Nya lives the life of a young Sudanese girls because they collect water for their family every day. The other storyline is about an eleven year old boy named Salva who is in the Dinka tribe and lives in Sudan, but travels throughout many countries and states in his life. Salva’s story line shows how getting attacked by rebels and escaping from civil war changed his and many others’ lives. Both characters face many changes throughout the story. Linda Sue Park wants readers to know to accept change for good or bad.
The poem “Cozy Apologia” by Rita Dove, explores the idea of love, and modern routine, while alluding to the disastrous hurricane Floyd of 1999. This poem was written for her husband, Fred, as mentioned after the title of the poem. In the first stanza of this poem, Rita Dove uses imagery to display her immense love for her husband. Dove writes, “This lamp, the wind-still rain, the glossy blue/ My pen exudes” (Dove 2-3). The imagery in these two lines represent items and things that remind Dove of her husband. She says everything makes her think of him, and in these two lines we can see that even just a lamp, or the ink from her pen bring her thoughts of her husband. Her true love for Fred is shown through this. The second stanza, Rita Dove starts to explain how a hurricane brought back memories of her teenage relationships.
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate is the story of an African boy, Kek, who loses his father and a brother and flees, leaving his mother to secure his safety. Kek, now in Minnesota, is faced with difficulties of adapting to a new life and of finding his lost mother. He believes that his mother still lives and would soon join him in the new found family. Kek is taken from the airport by a caregiver who takes him to live with his aunt. It is here that Kek meets all that amazed him compared to his home in Sudan, Africa. Home of the brave shows conflicts that Kek faces. He is caught between two worlds, Africa and America. He feels guilty leaving behind his people to live in a distant land especially his mother, who he left in the midst of an attack.
April Raintree is the main protagonist in the book, In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier. Throughout her childhood she was embarrassed to be Metis, and because of her taking after her mother’s Irish pale skin, being able to blend into white society she would hide her native ancestry.
Because in the way that first person point of view it really feels like someone is telling me mouse's. Another reason that I really like first person point of view is because you get that one on one action with the main character and you know what he is thinking and how he feels about some of the opinions that the main character has. In the first person point of view, it also makes a clear picture of what the story is trying to tell the reader and the reader is able to take out facts from the book and paint a picture in their head with the words from the characters. Also, in this point of view, it also helps get a character out of the words that Walter Dean Myers Explains in The Mouse Rap. In the first person you can really relate to the person that is talking in the story like in this story I really felt that I could relate to Mouse, the main character in the
This style of point of view adds a new feeling while reading the novel. The reader will be looking through the eyes of someone shadowing Jennifer Government and seeing it in one style, but then on the next page, the reader will see what's happening through the eyes of someone shadowing Billy NRA. Even though the narrator may change, the story will progress. You can compare the technique to a basketball game. One moment, the person is in the audience watching the game. The next moment the person is a player on the bench. Then the person becomes a player on the court taking shots. After that, the person changes into a referee calling the game. At the end, the person becomes the coach and calls the shots of the game.
sets the tone for the whole book. What is the purpose of having the story
Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” is an Author’s telling of societal beliefs that encompass the stereotypical gender roles and the pursuit of love in the middle class with dreams of romance and marriage. Atwood writes about the predictable ways in which many life stories are concluded for the middle class; talking about the typical everyday existence of the average, ordinary person and how they live their lives. Atwood provides the framework for several possibilities regarding her characters’ lives and how each character eventually completes their life with their respective “happy ending”.
Starting the book is about the most painful thing (almost as painful as a head on collision with a semi on the highway.) Never the less once the characters become more apparent, and a type of plot is reveled, things get more interesting. It doesn’t take to long to get into the book, and learn something interesting about the characters. All of them have something in common which is a brilliant way to bring all of them together. Addie is the mother of the Bundren family and wife to Anse. She is on her deathbed, and the characters all revolve around this each reacting in a different way. Darl is the most level headed about the situation (at first), Jewel is more horse, Dewey is rather devastated, Anus is rather insensitive, and so on.
With the various characters introduced throughout the plot of the book, the characters voice their opinions and their thoughts. The wording and emotions
...eaders because the stories are woven in a related fashion. They both take place in similar worlds with comparable conflicts. The governments of both are more concerned with keeping their way of life than they are with individual people. Both stories center on a teenage girl who has become targeted by the government because she has upset the norm in some way and has in turn become part of a rebellion. Both of the girls view themselves as being less important than the ones they hold dear. Both book series have different groups in society that are meant to keep the people separate and focused on certain tasks. The two series contain many differences, but when they are stripped to their barest parts, it is evident that they are both meant to serve as tales that will encourage the readers to fight for what is right, no matter how strong the force that they stand against.
When books are written, they are meant to be unique and unlike other novels. However, authors frequently create relationships between characters that teach readers about real life-themes. When they do this, it creates a connection to other novels. Take The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice for example. In The Great Gatsby (1925), F. Scott. Fitzgerald produces a tragic romantic love story which shows how two old lovers try to recapture their old love but in the end, fail due to being too different. In contrast, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), two different people from two different social classes learn to overcome their pride and quick judgment of each other in order to be together; they change themselves in order to get a
When reading a book understanding the context, juxtaposition, and the author’s style is important, so the reader can later interpret the information. Understanding the juxtaposition of a book allows readers to understand how the events of the story are placed. The juxtaposition of a book also helps with comparing and contrasting. If the reader understands what occurrences were placed next to each other, than they can make connections between the various concepts.
The style of writing in both of these pieces have a big impact on the perspective of the audience. In one story it is written in a style that allows the reader to establish a closer connection with the character while in the other story it adds more emotion to the story.
...these two books with different author, different published century, different ways to create the story. It seems like different, but it’s the same in some way.