A Critical Analysis Of Adam's Summer By Adam

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However, Summer is much more interesting to be analyzed from its -narrative perspective. It is written by Adam, who uses second person narration and historic present tense to describe the events of the summer of 1967 that he spent in New York sharing a flat with his sister and working in a library. -Summer delivers probably the strangest and the most compromising topics of the book, talking about the specific features of Adam’s relation to his family after the tragic death of his brother, and also about his rather strange, passionate and incestuous relation with his sister, which had started to develop in 1961 and reached its climax in the summer of 1967. The chapter ends mysteriously and leaves us wondering about the credibility of everything …show more content…

The text itself describes the events from the fall of 1967, from Adam’s arrival to Paris to the moment of his deportation back in the USA. The events, dialogues, meetings with different characters run in a series, so that the action seems to run much faster than it actually happens. However, as this part of the story is not in first person point of view, it is not very personal or intimate. If compared with the previous two chapters of Adam’s book, Fall seems somehow compressed, and incomplete, but, on the other side, filled with action. In the third chapter of “Every Soul a Star” however, we have just reached a point where the story line is escalating at its fastest and the eclipse is getting nearer each day. As Ally tells us in her first person point of view, more and more buses keep arriving each day to stay at the campground. Bree is trying to escape her parents and the trip by first fleeing to her best friend Claire’s house. But in the end she is persuaded to leave by her mother and Claire. With a very teary goodbye she leaves and decides to finally pack for the

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