Trinity falls is the kind of perfect, All- American town, that is plastered on postcards and idolized by snobby people all over the world. However as everyone knows, nothing is ever that perfect, it will always have flaws. In the book The Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci, a bizarre occurrence leaves the perfect little town in an almost perfect mess. Carol Plum-Ucci wrote this novel in 2008, and it strongly portrays the paranoia of the American people after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Carol Plum-Ucci is 59 year old novelist, currently living in New Jersey. She has been nominated for a couple awards, including; Michael L. Printz Award, and The Edgar Award for Best Young Adult. In one of her more recent books, The Streams of Babel, she is praised for her top quality writing style. The element of literature that is superior in this novel is the multiple first person viewpoints. The multiple first person viewpoints make this novel excellent, because it never becomes boring, gives the reader more information, and helps with the development of the characters.
Multiple viewpoints make this novel constantly interesting, and ensures that it never becomes boring. Plum-Ucci continuously changes viewpoints throughout the novel, usually switching to a different viewpoint at the start of each chapter. These changes force the reader to be more focused on the reading, this promotes more in depth reading and makes it easier to retain information. Each character was faced with different challenges related to the
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Partly because of how she flawlessly set up the plot of the novel with multiple different viewpoints. The multiple first person viewpoints make this novel excellent, because it never becomes boring, gives the reader more information, and helps with the development of the characters. Her plot was perfect, and she used plenty of similes and metaphors, along with her cliffhangers, making the perfect
That uniqueness will keep you reading for hours without stopping. I like the book, because the way the book was written, the theme, and the environment of the book. The book’s text is written as if Wyatt was the one writing the book. The book is unique from other books.
There are a few things that made this book good. First, I liked how the author used real people that survived Hurricane Katrina as his characters. I liked this because it really showed what all differnt people went trough when the storm hit, and the months after. Second, the author drew out a good timeline on how all the events occurred. Third, even though though this was a graphic novel it still was easy to read and follow the story line.
This book was interesting for me because it allowed me to relate to a character. I love reading novels that not only allow me to feel a connection with a character, but allow me to relate to their personality or
Observing each character, the book draws attention to the inner dialogue and struggles they
A Whole New World Many people have experienced thoughts of the world ending and a different society following the aftermath, and this has led to many imaginary post-apocalyptic worlds. Station Eleven, a dystopian novel written by Emily St. John Mandel, revolves around human life on Earth after a pandemic wipes out ninety-nine percent of the world’s population. The author employs literary devices, such as imagery, tone, diction, and detail in order to effectively describe a world recovering from such a fallout.
She relays heavily on flashback and reflections to inform the reader how things connect at the beginning and end. The structure she uses is clear and engages the reader. For example she compares the old time people to the new world people to keep reading more to find out more information, this consists in a circular sequence by going back to themes to themes. She first started talking about beauty.describing herself.
The books manages to tell a very well crafted story, while not using many types of settings. The author used great writing techniques which made you want to keep reading. The book accomplished to be a great science fiction novel that was entertaining. The story is great even though it is hard to follow it at times. The author had many great story dynamics like Ender trying not to be like Peter or how Ender always figures out a clever way of resolving a problem.
I also enjoyed how there were many things that carried on throughout the book such as the Lady of the Lea song, Abbie sings it throughout most of her life and remembers it when she thinks about her past dreams of memories and how it would always bring joy to
The use of dreams and flashbacks in the novel helps create suspense and shows different sides of a character. These techniques help the audience in forming an opinion on these characters as the audience then knows why a character behaves in a certain way. The use of dialogues further strengthens the development of characters as the characters expresses themselves through the use of dialogues. Through this book Caswell has given audience various messages about life however his main message to the audience is about moving on in
It has so much combinations of wonderful characters, principles, moments, scenes, and words. One thing that I also liked about the story was the little facts that was mentioned about the bees. The bees actually played an important part of the book because almost all of the main characters and Lily’s situations can be compared to one of the bees who go and collect honeys. Bees also do work or do chores just like what humans do. My favorite part of the book is when it showed forgiveness at the end of the of the story when Lily and her father talked, and also when she stays at Tiburon with the Boatwrights family because she finally has mothers that will take care and love
This section of the novel was powerful because it connected all of literature’s history. Instead of viewing literature as a mass collection of novels, it can now be viewed as one story. By viewing literature as one story “you begin to pick up on some of these other elements, these parallels and analogies, however, you’ll find your understanding of the novel deepens and becomes more meaningful, more complex” (Foster 31). Consequentially, literary works are based on other literary works which solidify their eternal connection. Reading a novel about novels is a hidden pleasure that many people, especially within the English community, indulge in.
To some people it is not. Some teachers say that the book is challenging for students. Now, this novel may be difficult for students, but that is how students learn new information. If students weren’t to have read harder pieces of literature all throughout their schooling career, they would stay at the same level of reading for most of their life. The reason why students should read more challenging novels are because they learn new things, and they could also learn how to act in a certain situation based on the type of challenging story they read.
It held a lot of repeats in different word arrangements. I was able to understand a lot of the vocabulary in it. This book, while it may not become one of my favorites, was very educational and I did enjoy reading it. However, I was unable to discern Kasson’s bias in his writing. I enjoyed reading about Shirley Temple because I’ve watched a few of her movies when i was younger and I feel in love with her character.
She wrote a book that received rave reviews, endorsements, and testimonials from readers, critics, and experts alike. She wrote a book that changed lives, perspectives, and paradigms. She created a book that became a popular success, an excitement, and an occurrence. She created a book that received enthusiastic reviews, recommendations, and feedback from readers, critics, and experts alike.
Additionally, the author also developed the characters with diversity and this aspect made the book more engaging. For example,