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Molly In Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

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The book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline was about a girl named Molly who is a considered a Goth at her school. Molly has black fingernails, wears dark clothes, has black clothes, and listens to dark music as well. Molly is an outcast at her school and does not have many friends, or people that like the same things she likes. Molly is having a tough time adjusting to her peers around her. I would rate this book a 6/10 because the author makes this story boring and it is hard for me to follow the storyline, the author does make good vivid pictures of the characters and I can easily imagine the characters in my head. The three reasons about this story I do or do not like, the first one is how Molly develops in the story. The second one …show more content…

I liked how the author described the development of Molly and how she adapts to the new world. The author describes Molly as a younger girl turn into a woman. Molly still has a Goth personality; she will probably not outgrow this because that is her personality. Molly has outgrown being a little shy orphan girl, to a now more powerful, less shy orphan girl. Molly’s physical appearance sells to people that she is a Goth. “Being Goth wipes away any expectation of conventionality, so Molly finds she’s free to be weird in lots of ways at once.” (Kline 5). Molly sports black clothes, with black fingernails and black hair. Molly’s makeup id also heavily weighed on the color black. Molly listens to dark metal music and gives of a pungent sense of Goth. The second reason this book is okay is that the author gives good descriptions of the characters. The author uses dialogue to tell the reader that Jack; Molly’s boyfriend is self-centered and has a real potty mouth. Jack uses profanity a lot to express his feelings for everything in this story. Jack uses this to get his point across and talks to Molly like this in the book. “It’s just some ancient pack rat who needs help getting rid of her shit.” (Kline 11). Jack uses this word choice for even the slightest things you don’t need to use this for. An example, in this quote Jack describes something that does

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