She walks like a model. She wears the expensive designer purses the week designers release them. She never thinks twice after she takes a risk. She has the IQ of a squirrel, but people should not underestimate the power she holds. The novel Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver includes a complicated plot and format, as well as a well-developed characterization of the protagonist and other characters. Most people can agree that a complex plotline can keep a reader engaged in a book. Samantha Kingston has to undergo a full turn-around from being the socialite-popular girl to manifesting the traits of a caring young woman, all within one week. The plot twists around back and forth between monologue and the day in which the protagonist, Sam, is living …show more content…
In the novel, Sam, the protagonist, repeated the same day for seven days after she got into a car accident. The reader deems Sam to be in a coma or maybe unconscious when speaking through the book, but she was not. Lauren Oliver wrote a monologue of Sam speaking to the reader for the last two pages of the book. It started out with, “They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happens for me,” (Oliver 469) and ended with the statement, “The rest you have to find out for yourself” (Oliver 470). These last pages of the book left the reader on a thought about what had happened to Sam. An inference can be made to say that she did indeed die from the car accident, but was she dead the whole time? Was she actually in a coma and just dreaming the repeated days? For these reasons, the ending of this novel was not at all what the audience may have desired after reading almost five hundred pages. Readers would most-definitely feel better about this ending if it had ended differently. For example, instead of a monologue by Sam at the end, the author could’ve written in an entry from a doctor saying that she hadn’t made it. Better yet, the novel could’ve ended with the same monologue format, but it would have had to be longer with a detailed description on how Sam had
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
Characters in the story have a major impact on the theme of fantasy versus reality. The main character Connie, is a fifteen-year-old who exhibits the confusing, often superficial behavior typical of a teenage girl facing the difficult transition
So as you can see, in the book "Safe" by Susan Shaw, you can tell there is significant character development in the main character - Tracy. She goes through a horrible experience on June fifteenth... She gets kidnapped and raped by a kid she knew. "Burgess Newman ". She was tortured by her thoughts of it. Throughout the story she was mostly inside isolated from everyone and everything. Until school started again. She had to go, she couldn 't not go. She started off isolated, hurt, feeling unsafe... to slowly healing and feeling safe once
After changing communities they will party all the time and spend most of their time drinking champagne. But then Tally find out that the government is hiding a scary secret about becoming a pretty and she will risk her life and her friends to save them from becoming pretties. B. Characters- Tally- She is the main character in this book she has to choose to betray her friends or become a pretty. She isn’t so sure of what she wants.
The type of narration, the plot’s rising action, and the overall imprint that is left on the reader, pushes this book above and beyond. Whaley creates a picture for the reader by using third- person omniscient point of view. This method helps the reader better understand the main characters. The rising action development was extremely easy to follow. The descriptions of the characters and the background information helps explained how the story was laid out. Also, the author seemed like he wanted the reader to realize the purpose of the three-way friendship. It represented how a relationship allows everyone to learn from their flaws and unwarranted decisions from other’s reactions. This book is truly unique, from the composure to the character’s
“A tan to die for” written by Claire Oliver is a letter to the editor that shows that the use of solariums can greatly increase the potential for life-threatening melanoma. Claire Oliver’s tone shows a composed, collected and complacent frame of mind at her imminent death, stating that “[she is] at peace”. Her composed tone when discussing the certainty of her impending death appeals to a sense of rationality, and writes optimistically about the remainder of her life. This optimism, and personal responsibility, comes from her wish of helping those who do not know of the health risks involved in the beauty young teens crave to acquire.
As we progress though the novel, we a introduced to a variety of characters in the story like Rachel Turner
The main character’s teenage world, at the beginning of the story, revolved around beauty, curiosity, and independence from her family. Connie “was fifteen and she had a quick
Kempf’s reading style is also a strong positive to this novel; he uses a fair amount of transitional phrasing and adjectives to really paint a vivid picture for the reader. A lot of sifi readers don’t properly portray their vision of the fictional world they’ve created and therefore it becomes hard for the reader to correctly envision where the author wants to take him or
Her father works out of town and does not seem to be involved in his daughters lives as much. Her older sister, who works at the school, is nothing but plain Jane. Connie’s mother, who did nothing nag at her, to Connie, her mother’s words were nothing but jealousy from the beauty she had once had. The only thing Connie seems to enjoy is going out with her best friend to the mall, at times even sneaking into a drive-in restaurant across the road. Connie has two sides to herself, a version her family sees and a version everyone else sees.
influence all her life and struggles to accept her true identity. Through the story you can
The reason for this book appealing to such a broad audience lies in all the characters’ personalities. Mrs. March is a strong, independent woman who never falters, therefore she relates to all independent women; but she is also a mother who plants strong values in her girls and is the rock foundation of the family, with that she relates to all mothers. Margaret’s desire for luxury is a desire that we all can relate to and her properness is a trait most girls can relate to. Jo’s mischievous demeanor and talent for writing is something that if one cannot relate, admire to have. Beth is the insecure, sweet, homebody in all of us. Amy represents the beauty and talent, and sometimes moral code, which all women have. Laurie represents all the men that wish to be loved any uncommon-but-beautiful woman.
The twists in the plot start with the exposition and rising action in the short story.
For instance, the plot complexity in “Jane Eyre” was easier to follow because it allowed the reader to follow Jane’s life all the way from her childhood to adulthood. The reader gets to look at Jane’s childhood
As a protagonist, Anna's complexity has raised questions about whether she is a heroine or an unsympathetic character, with the majority of criticism observing her relative lack of sympatico in her complexity (Reader Response, 2014, http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/austen/index.html). In short, Emma is difficult to understand as a heroine, or her qualities as heroine are elusive due to her complexity, raising questions about Austen's intention in her depiction of Emma, and the meaning of the character of Emma's character arc.