Soapstone: Alabama Moon
Characters:
In the novel Alabama Moon a boy named Moon is the main character. Moon is very independent because throughout the story he does a lot of things on his own including living alone. On page 3 I found out that he was ten years old because it said “I was ten years old and he’d taught me everything I needed to know about living out in the forest.” So this showed me that he knew how to live in his own out in the forest and that he was ten years old which was pretty young to be living on his own out in the forest. At first when Moon was scared and lonely without his dad he was aggressive with the other characters. On page 27 Moon really showed his anger toward Mr.Abroscotto
“I felt anger flash through my head. I jumped up on the seat of my chair and leaped across the counter to land on Mr.Abroscotto. He fell back into the shelves behind, and I started hitting him with my one hand that wasn’t holding on to him. I pounded him on the cheek over and over as fast as I could. Once he got his balance, he clamped his arms around me so that I couldn’t move my fists.” Moon get’s angry when anyone talked bad about his father so he decided to try to beat them up. Also Moon is willing to do what he thought his father wanted him to do. Like when he wanted to go to Alaska because that’s where his father told him to go after he died. On page 25 and 26 Moon was talking to Mr.Abroscotto and asked him where his was going to go, “Where are you headed when you leave here? Alaska. How you plan on gettin’ to Alaska? Sell the watch and things in this box. And I’ve got the money left over from last time we were here. I see. What are you gonna do when you get there? Pap said there’s other people like us there. He said you c...
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Why did the author do this?
The author of the story Alabama Moon did this because they wanted to make the story have all of those things. The author wanted to make it in first person because they wanted the main character to tell the story through their point of view. The author wanted the conflict to go from very much to very little because they wanted to make it interesting. The author made all of those vocabulary words in the story so the reader wouldn’t be too hard but not to easy to where they would get lost too. The author put the story in paragraph form so the reader could read the book easily and follow along like every other book. The author also made all of the textual evidence in the story so the reader could follow along really well and get all the information that they needed to know. That is why the author did all of these things.
The brochure uses realistic photos of Moon Bears and their environment which makes it seems informative. It has a graph providing information about moon bear age growth in captivity compare to them in the wild and a map of the location of the moon bear’s main population. But the pictures did not show the disadvantages of living in a cage. The literary provided the audience illustration that was not realistic as photos in the informative, but this helped the literary text to add facial expression, for example, on page 15, it shows a picture of Star’s mother howling at the distance in hope that she will here Star’s cry. Her mouth was open and she was frustrated. The background colour sets the mood, in this instance, dark blue, with the picture telling you what is happening. The informative simply just doesn’t appeal to another’s sense of
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"Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy...
The author uses imagery to show when and where the next part of the chapter is taking place to make the reader feel uneasy. The kid that has now awoken by the coldness and not the “footsteps”, which they heared get far away prior to awakening in the woods, then assess the situation. The kid then thinks “By the light of the moon I could see that they were everywhere. I looked at my other foot but was fine, and as a matter of fact so was the rest of me. I didn’t have another scratch on me and I wasn 't even that dirty” (Auerbach). The author makes the reader feel uneasy by making this take place at night which can be told by the moon. Another thing that makes the reader feel uneasy is when the author makes the kid be in the woods and besides them stepping on the thorn they are uninjured or even dirty. The way these sentence are made the reader can see this and feel the uneasiness even more than it already has. Also the fact that the reader knows that this is a kid makes it more uneasy. The imagery used by the author then makes the reader feel uneasy since where and when this is. By “seeing” what the kid sees, and knowing what has been going on in the beginning of this chapter makes this mysterious to where the reader feels
Once these styles have been noted they can be explained with the knowledge that the novel was written for serialization. Since the novel was written in monthly installments, the story written for that episode needed to be able to stand on its own in a literary sense. Each installment needed to capture the attention of the reader while not being too lengthy, it needed to advance the plot but not too much to ensure that the novel could be drawn out over as long a period as possible to insure the highest profit for both publisher and author. This leads to groups of chapters that act like events in a person’s life. One encounter leads to another in the next installmen...
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. This story embodies how the author saw her experiences that she had lived through.
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Having this written in the first person allows the audience to have a more understanding. It also makes the reader feel like they are in the book. Although if this book were to be written in the third person the text would carry on forever and you also would not understand to its full potential.
Conclusively, the moon is present during important moments within the novel and despite sometimes being noticed by Mikage, it still plays a role in implying certain themes and recurring notions such as finding the light within despair and new beginnings. Mikage’s journey through ‘Kitchen’ is effectively highlighted with the use of the moon.