It is nearly impossible to understand everything the first time around, especially when it comes to stories that are as detailed as The Bright Forever. When reading stories the first time, I believe we don’t understand every element that the author is trying to portray to us. When reading The Bright Forever for the first time, we all anticipated how it was going to end. With each page, we all tried to put the pieces together and tried to figure out who, how and why it all happened the way it did. The first time around, we were all clueless, but after going back and reading the book again for a second, you are able to pick up on things a lot easier. By doing this, you can figure out the meaning of the authors imagery and clues throughout the book. From the beginning, I believed that Mr. Dees was the one guilty of kidnapping Katie Mackey. It seemed as if there was no way to argue it. Every section, whether it be the third person narrative, other characters narratives, or Mr. Dees’ first person section, he always sounded guilty. Everything he did just sounded so creepy and so suspicious. But then, after I read more and more, even though he still seemed very creepy and guilty, I felt that he couldn’t have been the one to do the kidnapping; it just seemed too obvious. Looking back at things now, I believe that Clare never really knew who Raymond R. really was. During the time in which Clare met Raymond, I believe that she was in a very vulnerable state. Her husband had just died not long before that and I believe she was very lonely. Now I am not saying I am 100% correct on this theory, but the way I see the situation, is that Clare was desperate, she had a void in her life that she was looking to fill and Raymond happened to be t... ... middle of paper ... ... Although I personally do not believe in fortune tellers or anything like that, I believe Margot Cherry plays a very important role in the search for Katie Mackey. When Tom Evers has no where else to turn he decides to go see Margot Cherry, the local lady who claims to have ESP. She tells Evers to look for the letter “J” and that is where he will find Katie. At this point even I was clueless as to what she meant. But, later on in the story when Clare comes and tells Mr. Dees about her dream, it all makes more sense. Clare tells Mr. Dees that she knows where the police should search. She told Mr. Dees about the place that Raymond took her not long ago. She told him they needed to go to Georgetown. For in Georgetown, a little ways off the road, there was a junkyard. Works Cited Martin, Lee. The Bright Forever: A Novel. New York: Shaye Areheart, 2005. Print.
When reading a book, is really hard to get the attention of the reader. Who is interested with hearing once upon a time? For me, I would eater the novel start off with something relatable then ease me into the plot. Life doesn’t always start off as a fairytale so I prefer that my novels don’t either. So while reading this novel, I was evaluating not only the author but the content and if it would live up to the hype.
As Judge Dee begins solving the crimes, the story unfolds slowly and shows the reader the history of China. In the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, Judge Dee lived in the Tang dynasty. During this period, one can see how the Chinese authoritative views were strict, the laws and punishment which were enforced, and what the outlook on the Chinese society was. Authority had a strong hold on their community and the people in the town also confined in them to help them and solve crimes. The community also knew what the consequences of causing a crime was and that indeed it was wrong to omit a crime. Judge Dee and with the help of his associates, begins solving the crime through much observation and Judge Dee was very clever. He used methods and tools such as, going undercover, using underground sources, interrogation, and forensic science to solve his problems. It isn’t much different today on how we solve crime in the western world.
Jack's disgust in colored people and assertion of his hate toward Negroes impact Clare Kendry, his wife, to re-estimate her value of life. When Clare and Irene run into each other at the restaurant, Clare is confident of her `passing' and is even sorry to those who didn't do the same thing. Passing to the white society is "even worth the price" to Clare (160). She believes that wealth is everybody's final desire and by passing she achieves that in a "frightfully easy" way (158). However she doubts her confidence on her passed life since the tea party in her house.
Clare longs to be part of the black community again and throughout the book tries to integrate herself back into it while remaining part of white society. Although her mother is black, Clare has managed to pass as a white woman and gain the privileges that being a person of white skin color attains in her society. However whenever Clare is amongst black people, she has a sense of freedom she does not feel when within the white community. She feels a sense of community with them and feels integrated rather than isolated. When Clare visits Irene she mentions, “For I am lonely, so lonely… cannot help to be with you again, as I have never longed for anything before; you can’t know how in this pale life of mine I am all the time seeing the bright pictures of that other that I o...
Tragic mulatto characters such as Clare transport unforeseen horrors when they make the selfish decision to reinsert themselves back into the world they so desperately desired to flee. Larsen makes this point clear through the diction she uses when describing the self-esteem destruction Irene undergoes once Clare has reinserted herself into Irene's life, and the situations Irene finds herself as a direct result of Clare. Prior to Clare’s reentrance into her life Irene is a self-assured, independent, and confident woman; however, she soon turns self-conscious, dependent, and hesitant. Upon viewing Clare at the hotel Irene is struck by Clare’s ...
Raymond was very light-skinned, and many people accused Claudette of having a white child. As the years passed and Raymond got older, he became addicted to drugs. Claudette witnessed her oldest son falling into a bad addiction. She could do nothing to stop him. Raymond died of a heart attack at the age of thirty-seven. Raymond passed away in his mother's apartment. Claudette says that she is very disappointed, but she is just thankful that her grandchildren did not have to suffer what she had to struggle when she was growing up.
The style of the book is what made it so special. It was VERY easy to understand, and at the same time it was exciting. Some readers may think a tragic, but yet romantic novel is hard to understand, but what they don’t know is that all books are easy to read. You are just stopping yourself too soon to learn it. This book had no problems with being beautifully written and understandable.
Another way the author develops his consistent style is in the way he describes certain images. For example, there are a few different occasions where his way of describing what he sees around him are similar to eachother in a way that they all make reference to the fact that the day is going by and it will soon reach dusk. Like when he said 'the soft dew of morning which had glistened and twinkled on the blades of grass which grew in clumps by the side of road quietly disappeared.'; This indicates that the day is going on. At another point in the story the author makes reference to the shadows saying that they have grown longer, which would indicate the sun was setting. Also, the author never exactly comes right out and says the obvious. He uses his descriptive ways to give you an idea of what is going on or happening. For example, he never exactly says that the man he encounters on the road is an old man. He just gives certain physical characteristics that would associate with an old man. I feel his reasoning for this was to also indicate that this man was not just old but a man of wisdom, which very often is associated with old age.
The book is so well written it can be read in many different ways, as I have mentioned. In the first chapter we get hints as to all of them and the ambiguity of the story starts as early as chapter 1, giving the reader different paths to read the story, in different ways.
.... Maloney would leave to be with the other women. This thought though, became a reality for Mary Maloney. Mary Maloney has testified to happening to “stumble across” a will, which mentioned Mary Maloney receiving three quarters of Patrick’s fortune if he were to pass away. Being the wife a detective, Mary Maloney new how to plot a scene. First she would murder Patrick, receive his fortune to care for the unborn child, never have to face him again after he said to her face that he loved another women and had been having affairs with her. Secondly, she would need to dispose of the murder weapon secretly, and create an alibi that would testify for Ms. Maloney. Thirdly, pretend that it was all a dream and that it never happened. Sadly, it was an incredibly easy task for a clever woman such as herself. How is it that money is what shapes our world but also destroys it?
Through the first page, Steinbeck cleverly foreshadows the final chapter. Subsequently when the reader reaches the final chapter, they realise that the opening of chapter six repeats the onset of the novel. The image of the sun "climbing up to slopes of the Gabilan mountains" seems like the return to paradise.
I liked how in the book Bright Morning didn't lose hope. From this book I've learned to never give up and always have hope. My favorite part of the book was when Tall Boy and
Base on skimming through the book, I look every part from beginning to the end and saw nothing. I thought I was a failure just because I couldn’t see the thing he want us to focus on. I took my time again in reading the book slowly. Analyzing the book more thoroughly, I think I started to get the hang of the theme he wants us to learn from. I felt so ignorant because it was always there in front of me the whole time.
The art of storytelling has been around since the beginning of time. Stories keep people entertained and teach life lessons. Tales have been recorded in books and movies for centuries. The plot line is incredibly important to keep the audience captivated. However, an easily overlooked importance is the author’s literary choices, or how the story is told. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr crafts a beautiful tale of how a blind French girl and an orphan boy in the Third Reich collide in the heat of World War II. What makes this story amazing is the literary devices Doerr uses to keep the reader entertained. Anthony Doerr keeps the chapters short, uses switches between points of view, and uses flashbacks to create a novel that is hard
It was in the scenery, the environment. It was in the ash that covered everything, the pockmarks made from the gunfire. You could taste it on your tongue, sort of like the scent of coagulated blood. The man didn’t really mind that the world was ending. He wasn’t worried because he was him and that meant he was alive and not one of those things that had torn up the Army barricades, the Army men and most of all, his family. He was a survivor, an adaptor, a changer and he was ready for everything and anything that slept under his bed and stalked the shadows. He was ready.