In 2013, 81 aviation crashes occurred. 3 billion people flew safely that year on 36.4 million flights. Due to this the percentage of a plane crash occurring is fairly small. The Raft by S.A Bodeen is a suspenseful fiction that keeps the reader wanting to read more. The Raft is about a girl trying to survive a plane crash while being stranded in the ocean. Robie (main character) gets on a plane after she stays at her aunt’s house in Hawaii. She is hoping to get back to her parents in Midway Atoll (a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean). When she is on her way back home to Midway the plane crashes and she and one other boy are left and stuck in the middle of the ocean. Everyone else died from the crash. Robie and Max (the only …show more content…
Bodeen is a good book, but has some parts that could have been better. This book is told from a girl named Robie’s perspective. She is the main character who is going through the aftermath of a plane crash. The author does well with explaining how the characters feel and how it should be portrayed. In the book it says, “My heart was pounding and I took a few deep breathes (page 121, The Raft)”. On page 37 it says, “Salt water poured in my open mouth as I screamed at the darkness swallowing me.” This is a good example when the author does well describing different parts of the story. In contrast, the author wrote a story that was unrealistic in parts. On page 53 in the text it says, “Why was I talking to Max? He couldn’t hear me. So I turned to the left and answered myself. “What list?” Turning back to the right I answered. “Our list of issues.” Like wet clothes…and no food, no water.” This book is told in first person point of view. That means that this book should show the emotion from the character telling the story. One bad thing the author does is she portrays the characters as unrealistic and uses their emotions out of context. This book is emphasized on Robie’s individual experience and what she feels. Overall the plot is explained well but the author could have paid more attention to
The author uses a lot of description when setting the scene, or writing how someone looks. He also uses a lot of color imagery within the chapters and writes in 3rd person narrative.
Evaluation: I thought the book was very exciting and suspenseful like her other books. The book had very good detail and an interesting plot. I liked the twist when Juan and the girl’s father came upon Glenn walking down the road. I also liked how the author described the action in great detail. It made me feel like I was right there seeing it all happen firsthand. I don’t think that the author could’ve made this book any better than she did already.
For instance the Night excerpt can be compared to the other text with the same theme which is ¨Speak up because you never know what might happen.¨ The excerpt Night was an Autobiography about Elie Wiesel and his experience during the Holocaust. IN the excerpt he is talking about Moishe the Beadle experience how they were took and put in a train made for animals and stopped at a destination and were forced to built trenches were the would be killed in. He was injured and left for dead and escaped. ¨How had he, Moishe the Beadle, been able to escape? By a miracle. He was wounded in the leg and left for dead.¨(Wiesel, 7). After he escaped he tried to warn everyone but they thought he wanted their pity and he was imagining things, ¨Some even insisted that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things.¨(Wiesel, 9). This was
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
I found the book to be easy, exciting reading because the story line was very realistic and easily relatable. This book flowed for me to a point when, at times, it was difficult to put down. Several scenes pleasantly caught me off guard and some were extremely hilarious, namely, the visit to Martha Oldcrow. I found myself really fond of the char...
Once I get past all of the rambling I did in the past paragraphs, I honestly really enjoyed the book. Though it wasn't like most of the other books I’ve read (meaning I didn't cry during the process of reading it), the characters were just as provokingly interesting as the characters in other stories, it was a little edgy and made me want to yell at it, shouting at Sam when she wouldn’t let Tyler play video games with Danny, or Danny when he called to have Sam and Tyler taken to a separate facility. Overall, this book opened me up to something that just isn't a romance novel. This story really shows that there are people with a lot of difficulties in their lives, and that’s what I liked the most about it.
This story caused a lot of emotions in me. I felt sad about how Giuseppe is kidnapped and taken away from his family. I also felt unhappy about how Hannah has to quit the things she loves because she had to work to get money for the family. I felt depressed how both of Fredrick’s parents died when he was young. After Stephano got shot I was really cheerful. When everyone solved each others problems, I felt happy for them. Finally characters in the story seem believable. I could relate to them because care about my family a lot. I especially like Yakov because he got to kill the bad guy. I would recommend this book to students that like books that have struggle, friendship, and care. It was one of the best books I have ever read
emotions and subtle nuances provided by the author in the book, and many of the deeper feelings and emotions therein are missed entirely, or touched on much too briefly
.... I found that the use of unclearness in the narration was really confusing but at the same time it gave me an idea that there would be a big twist the end of the novel about the narrator. Also, the Holman challenged some of the characters characteristic and human conditions that our society on girls and how they are viewed by our society that we currently live in. Though out this novel Holman made lots of connection to real world situations and she used lots of different ways to develop the novel so that the reader could find something interesting about her writing style.
The ending of the book is so much more different than I thought it would have been. I thought the characters were going to like happily ever after and they did not. A smart writer throws loopholes and twists into his or her writing to keep the story interesting. When I think of love stories I think of happy endings. This story came to me as a surprise. It was not a happy ending and I was very sad at the end. The author knows how to control people’s emotions and can easily change them. Now I know that a piece does not have to be what someone might expect to be thought of as “good writing”. A piece can change up the rules of writing and still be considered “good writing”.
“The Found Boat” by Alice Munro is a story about five teenagers that learn to explore and have a sense of freedom after finding a boat washed ashore after a flood. The boat becomes a common ground used between the characters to become closer friends and explore things in the world around them. This boat that they find gives these kids a new found form of freedom and they embrace that.
Firstly, the narrator gives little detail throughout the whole story. The greatest amount of detail is given in the first paragraph where the narrator describes the weather. This description sets the tone and mood of the events that follow. Giving the impression that a cold, wet, miserable evening was in
8.Recommendation: I wouldn’t recommend this book for anyone to read because it’s quite boring and very confusing in some parts of the story. Well it’s confusing to me and it’s like the most weirdest book I have ever read. Someone who likes to read novels or read in general would like this book because or if they like this genre they would like this
was about cute babies. However, in my opinion, the story didn't progress well. I really wish that something exciting happened in the middle of the story, as I felt that there wasn't a climax. I do not recommend this book to people who like action or adventure novels.
The author also utilized these weird paragraph breaks which didn’t make a lot of sense. One paragraph ends and is separated by the next paragraph by a line of asterisks. Only, the next paragraph is a continuation of the above paragraph. There were a couple of times when a character’s name changed from one page to the next. Also, one of the characters was wearing a set of scrubs that started out being one color and ended up another color later in the book.