The book I have chosen to review is called “Last kiss of the butterfly” by Jill Hucklesby. I enjoyed this book but it took a long time to get to the interesting part of the story. I related well to the book as it is from a teenage perspective. In this review I will be looking at the setting, plot, characterization and the diction.
Jaz lives in England but she leaves the city to spend the summer under the open skies of the country in Papa Toms (her grandfather) old house Frog Cottage- this is where the majority of the book is set. England is a wealthy urban area that is politically controlled but the setting switches to a not so wealthy rural area. The setting is foreign as I do not live in England and it is very different to this part of the world. I was unable to relate to this setting as I don’t know what its like on the countryside of England.
Jaz is faced with the difficulty of her mom (anna) being extremely ill when she is diagnosed with cancer, because of her mom being ill she didn’t get time to spend with her mom. Her mom got better and decided to go to the countryside for ...
The Truman book I chose to read for the first quarter is All Fall Down by Ally Carter. I enjoyed reading this book because the plot was very interesting and I liked seeing how the events would turn out. All Fall Down is about a girl named Grace Blakely who has grown up in Adria, a European nation. She finds out her mom has died. Grace remembers an old man with a scar who was at the sight of where her mom died when it happened. Grace thinks he is the killer. She calls the man the Scarred man. Grace meets some people on the way including Megan and Noah who help her with her search to find the person who killed her mom.
The book I chose for my book review was Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. The genre of this book is Realistic Fiction and is 195 pages. In Hatchet, Brian is on a bush plane visiting his father in Canada. The pilot suddenly had a severe heart attack, and unexpectedly died. Brian lands the plane in the deserted northern woods of Canada and has to learn how to survive in the wilderness. This book review includes my opinion and the summary about Hatchet.
M butterfly a play by David Henry Hwang has captivated audiences for many years! I love story with many twist and turns M butterfly describes an affair between a Chinese “women” and a French diplomat that caries on for 20 years only to discover that the Women was actually a man. A spy for the communist party sent to get information on the Vietnam war, but Gillard was to stubborn to see it until Liling the Chinese opera singer is sent to France where she is found to be a man in court. Through this we can see the relationship between Gender, capitalism and ethnicity/ nationality and sexuality.
I liked this book only a little but not that much because it showed only a little bit about where she hid. I think the book needs more details about what she did in school because it only talked a little
The butterfly that Grant mentions in the book A Lesson Before Dying best represents Jefferson. Grant goes into great detail about the butterfly’s color and behavior. He mentions that the butterfly is yellow with black dots. The butterfly is beautiful but has blemishes that represent Jefferson’s life. His life is beautiful even though there are some ugly times. The butterfly can also represent Jefferson because of how Jefferson changes throughout the novel. A butterfly is the symbol of resurrection because it dies as a caterpillar and comes back as a butterfly. The butterfly represents Jefferson because even though Jefferson has passed, he has moved on to a better life in heaven. At the end of the novel, Grant mentions how the butterfly opens
...ather is forgiving her for all the ‘mistakes’ she has made with her life, referring to her marriage with Howie, and their daughter Leila. He asks her to come back to Iran, to visit him before his time on earth ends. By her breaking the norm ‘rules’, she took a risk, leaving everything to chance. It was a hard decision to make, but the hardest decisions are the ones that pay off the most.
It was the biggest challenge she would have to face. Annika Lawrence was a typical 18 years old girl. She had long wavy chestnut hair, with bright blue eyes. She had many friends and a loving family with two dogs, Daisy and Hunter. She had just graduated from a local high school in her town. Her life was perfect, until she went for her physical and was diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctor’s advice to her was “Stop counting your life by years and start counting them by weeks”. After her visit with the doctor Annika felt that she been punched in her guts, and it hurts.
In this book the narrator and main character is Laurel. She is 15 and she is a freshman in high school. And she is fresh in grief, because her older sister who loved excitement and being herself that just died recently in April. Her mom divorced her dad, and went to chase her dreams of becoming an actress in California.
This elderly patient was so bossy just now. If you don't your doing don't stick me I need a butterfly. So I get the butterfly stick me right here on my hand. Me: that's your bone shit see you don't know what your doing.
‘Preloved’ by the one and only, Shirley Marr is not only one of the most mysterious speculative fiction novels you will ever encounter, but in fact it also creates a sense of romance and adventure to captivate the audience. A lost ghost from the 80s, an eccentric mother and a toxic best friend the list never ends, the main character Amy faces all of those complications which is why the book is so spellbinding. Speculative fiction is starting to become one of the most preferred genres as teenagers like me and you use it to enhance and boost our imagination which is what ‘Preloved’ focuses on, changing our mindsets to see diverse worlds.This book is very beneficial for everyone as it has many relatable life lessons that people can undertake
“For the dead and living.” There are two people one there is a story. The other there is a poem called The Butterfly. One is Kristina Chiger and the other was Pavl Friedmann. They wanted to be free from the Nazis. They were living in the Ghetto. This happened during the years 1939-1945. The reason the Germans were killing them was because they were Jewish. Kristina escaped by hiding in the sewer, and Pavl died. Kristina was there for 14 months. Pavl was in the Ghetto for 7 weeks.
The book I have chosen for my independent reading assignment is “Dying To Tell Me” by Sherryl Clark. This book is a horror/mystery novel set in Manna Creek, Australia. This story is a fast paced mystery with thoughtful, realistic family relationships, along with a police dog named King who forms a protective relationship with the family, who work together to solve a local mystery. It is a depressing/scary novel as it contains a fair amount of jumpy chapters which keeps the audience at the edge of their sit. The main compilation in this book is the journey of the characters through the mystery of the past in Manna Creek. This novel is suitable for years 9-11.
who wanted to enter her life, she is left alone after her father’s death. Her attitude
The novel takes place in a city called Air Strip One, formerly London, England. By setting 1984 in London, Orwell is able to invoke the atmosphere of a real war-torn community where people live in ‘wooden dwellings like chicken houses’ in bombed out clearings. London in 1984 then becomes not just a make-believe place where bad things happen to make-believe people, but a very real geographical spot that still holds emotion connection for the modern
Ira Levin's A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin was twenty-two when he wrote his first novel, the award-winning thriller “A Kiss Before Dying”. He was twenty-five when he, fresh from military service, wrote his first play; the smash-hit adaptation of Mac Hyman’s “No Time for Sergeants”. In the years since, he has continued to work both sides of the literary street. His plays include the comedy hit “Critic’s Choice”, the musical “Drat!”, “Cat!” and the thriller “Veronica’s Room”.