Tom Leveen, “Random” is a Fictional novel that was published in 2014. This novel has a new layout that has not been seen in many books. This book incorporates a Facebook style layout that most teens are used to and it has news articles within that help create interest in it. The book target audience for this would most likely be teens as it deals with social media and bullying/suicide. This novel has many character that we don't really get to learn abou which can be a downside to some. But, one of the main character in the book is Tori Hershberger a sixteen girl. She is a “normal” teen living in Arizona.The author makes use hate her for her actions. She has been accused of bullying a kid at school which took his life. She doesn't see that …show more content…
One of these conflicts is that she is going to court for causing a death of Kevin Cooper. That night she receives a “random” phone call. On the phone, there was a guy stating that he was going to kill himself. Tori laughed at him and did not believe him.After hours on the phone the guys says she better drive to him or he is going to jump of the bridge, after meeting with him she learns that that random guy was Andy. Tori doesn't see this to be funny and makes fun of him.andy is trying to teach a lesson about suicide but doesn't take it in. She later finds out what this all really meant the next morning. The novel gets the viewer's attention. They use many elements that attract the reader so they could continue to read. This book has suspense in each chapter. It causes the viewer to want to learn more about the characters and their life. But with every book it has its downsides. The novel at time seems to try too hard for the simplest of things. But one of big downsides is that this book only takes place within that day and nothing beyond. It makes you wonder why you read the novel to the end which is just a long conversation between andy and Tori. After all this novel is a book i recommend as the author is locale and the book introduces new ways to weight by including a social media layout that will grab the teen
are what keep us interested in the plot of a book. The ongoing battle between a
What makes a book successful? Perhaps it is the characters and their varying personalities that make them memorable and realistic, or maybe it’s the thought-provoking plotline with its many twists and turns. One of the elements to a good book is most definitely the characters, and a good number of main characters gain their characteristics when the author encounters someone similar in their life. This encounter makes the character seem real, someone the reader can relate to. The same inspiration can be said happened for Flowers for Algernon. Specific events in Daniel Keyes’s life led to the formation of many main characters.
The book establishes a sense of isolation much like that of the first part of The Matinen, or even the story of Apollo 13. The book also establishes a timeframe, and a sense of urgency like Saturn Run, except using an entirely different method. While Saturn Run used a race between America and China this book uses the limitedness of supplies and oxygen to create a sense of panic. The author also uses temperature to create a sense of panic. “I’d seen the thermometer outside, it was more than thirty below” (Oppel 196)Is one of the quotes that support this. Because of this and many other improvements made to her books, the author has improved from her last book. The characters were more in-depth and the book seemed to move faster. This second book, had more things that were good about the first book, like more pirates and ship-boarding. It is because of this and many other parts of his book that makes it easy to connect to other
way that grasps the reader’s interest until the very end. The book did not address many
People can relate to the book because they can imagine what it is like for the characters, and they get some idea of what the setting is like.
Have you ever felt you are not significant, or have no purpose? Well you do and theses novels will make you feel significant. Lord of the Flies, and a Separate Peace all make the reader feel important by letting them live a different life in the novel instead of their dull normal life. Why do we read fiction tells just what the title says, why we like fiction. Well we like to read fiction because, as this quote says, “It gives us a release from living our own dull and drab life.” We put ourselves in the story and relate it to our own life and it makes us feel more important.
Authors use suspense to get readers to read the whole book ¨Suspense is the sense of anticipation or worry that the author makes the reader feel. ... Suspense is the lack of certainty the author creates, leaving the reader to wonder what will happen. It draws the reader into the story and creates a sense of momentum to the plot¨. August Heat was a great story, it uses every single type of way to use suspense. Once I started reading it, I was hooked I couldn't stop reading. The ending of the story is the
The book uses fictional documents, such as book excerpts, news reports, and hearing transcripts, to frame the story of Carietta "Carrie" White, a 17-year-old girl from Chamberlain, Maine. Carrie's mother, Margaret, a fanatical Christian fundamentalist, has a vindictive and unstable personality, and over the years has ruled Carrie with an iron rod and repeated threats of damnation, as well as occasional physical abuse. Carrie does not fare much better at her school where her frumpy looks, lack of friends and lack of popularity with boys make her the butt of ridicule, embarrassment, and public humiliation by her fellow teenage peers.
While reading the story of what Simon had to endure and the story that troubled his conscience for the rest of his life makes the reader stand in his shoes. The most significant part of the book is after the entire story is told and the reader
Andy goes back to school and talks to his basketball coach about how he feels about Rob's death and how his fiends and family feel about the accident. In addition, they discuss Andy's sentence because Andy keeps punishing himself for Rob's death. Everybody at school was crying during Rob's memorial service. Grief Counselors from downtown come to the school to try to get the kids to share their feelings.
This book teaches the importance of self-expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful of what is going on. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
The very fact that the novel has a first-person narrative is significant. This usually allows readers to know and understand more about the narrator's character, as the text is ?written' by him.
The reason that is because it’s a story that can be told to your children for generations to come. The reason why kids like to read it is because it’s what their parents read to them. Seth from good reads.com says that this was one of his favorite books growing up (Seth).
The thorough development of characters, the novel's structure and cohesion, and the portrayal of the social order are qualities that loom essential in my mind as I read Persuasion. These attributes are by no means exhaustive. But I focused on qualities that are necessary for the novel's success, that not only are present in the novel, but also distinguish it from other genres.
... to wake up all the senses of children. When reading these stories children begin to feel, taste, see, smell, and hear the world that the author has created. These senses within the text make children long for more of what the enchanted world has to offer. The authors of these books try to put up a veil in their writing so that it will not show that the child reader’s desire for more is in reality the longing of the author.