In Lauren Oliver’s, “Before I Fall”, the author was able to create very potent reactions and vibes from her readers throughout the book. She was effective in doing so through her eloquent word choice and powerful thought-provoking ideas. Oliver cleverly uses a very distinctive point of view to capture a unique, enticing story. Anyone who reads this book is guaranteed to enjoy and linger in the work of Lauren Oliver. The development of mood in this novel is fairly exclusive to the literary world. Lauren brilliantly constructs a web of an abundance of contradicting moods to capture the true atmosphere and thought-process of a teenage girl. “Before I Fall”, needless to say, is an emotional-rollercoaster. She reveals and revisits constantly moods such as anger, frustration, humor, embarrassment, relief, care, love, depression, and hope. But overall, the most distinctive and possibly the most important of all: the sense of wonder, of never knowing.
Oliver builds all of her ideas off of this sense of wonder; each idea interlacing with the next. She sets the tone right off the gitgo with the prologue that expresses Sam’s shock of her experiences versus her expectations of death and the expected “final reflection” of her life. The very first sentence of the entire book already produces the sense of wonder, “They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.” (Oliver 3) This statement enables the reader to really start thinking about what’s to come, what their death will bring, and what it will ultimately mean. Not only that, but Sam also mentions the knowledge she has that not everyone will be aware of when they will die, saying, “Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you ...
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...gh this was very honorable, I don’t think it was Sam’s duty. I strongly feel like Lindsay should have been the one to ultimately save Juliet. Maybe not exactly like Sam did, but somehow. I feel like Lindsay was the one who needed to change the most, but she never did, and that really disappointed me.
I found this book really hard to finish, and I hated the ending. I loved the book up until the last couple of pages, where everything seemed to come together wrong and become very confusing. I feel like Oliver rushed the ending and ultimately ruined the conclusion. But until then, she used the power of mood to make the characters come to life, keep the readers intrigued, and give them a deeper understanding of the story as a whole. Mood is the authors way of controlling what the readers may feel and that's exactly what Lauren Oliver achieved in her book, Before I Fall.
A keen perception of reality is an integral component in one’s life as it dictates the reaction of an individual in the most distressing times. In Patricia McCormick’s Never Fall Down, an accurate perception of reality stems from the loss of innocence. The author uses text, setting, character and conflict to vividly illustrate that loss of innocence breeds emotional strength.
The book had a few characters that I liked, but a lot of characters that I disliked. For example Yasmine was a character that I disliked. I didn’t like her because she brought pain to Paige’s life. Yasmine and Paige were best friends for months in Sixth grade. They were constantly doing fun activities together, like having sleepovers or planning each other’s birthday parties, but all that was ruined by a mistake Yasmine made. Paige and Yasmine were at a school dance, when
I think my favorite thing about this novel was the realistic ending. Some books try to just give you a fairy tale but this book had an ending that mad you think in the end if I was in the same position would I do the same thing. I didn’t like the fact that the novel portrayed mental illness in a way to say that it needed to be hidden and protected. I thought this novel was very believable for the time period that it was set in. I think the ending to this novel was perfect it was an accurate ending to this
Although I loved the plot, the characters and all the twists and turns. I didn’t fall in love with the writing style. I am not a massive fan of lots of short sentences, I felt that when the book was in Lorali’s point of view it made sense but not when it was in others. I also felt the ending lacked – I was just really confused by the ending. I don’t know if that was just me and I missed
The ending of the book is so much more different than I thought it would have been. I thought the characters were going to like happily ever after and they did not. A smart writer throws loopholes and twists into his or her writing to keep the story interesting. When I think of love stories I think of happy endings. This story came to me as a surprise. It was not a happy ending and I was very sad at the end. The author knows how to control people’s emotions and can easily change them. Now I know that a piece does not have to be what someone might expect to be thought of as “good writing”. A piece can change up the rules of writing and still be considered “good writing”.
The ending of this book was a cliffhanger. In my opinion that is the worse kind of ending, but that’s how that writing persuades the reader to get the next book in the series. Without giving too much away about the end of the story, it was very unexpected. To be
book I was greatly troubled by its ending. I can see why it is an excellent novel, but at
In the book, Before I Fall, the readers experience life seven times through a teenage girl with hope of surviving. The main character, Sam Kingston whose life was ephemeral, dies in a car accident and is thrown into disarray. However, she lives that day over and over again seven times; all with different endings. Through her repeated days in Before I Fall, readers will come to know that Sam Kingston is hopeful, determined, loyal, and caring.
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.” (Wiesel 32). Elie Wiesel wrote his memoir Night about his eleven months in a Nazi concentration camp, which he compared to one long night. In the concentration camps he was subjected to physical and mental harm, which no human should ever have to endure. Wiesel’s memoir Night illustrates how his experiences in the Holocaust caused him to lose innocence, develop family bonds, and lose faith in religion.
I found the book to be easy, exciting reading because the story line was very realistic and easily relatable. This book flowed for me to a point when, at times, it was difficult to put down. Several scenes pleasantly caught me off guard and some were extremely hilarious, namely, the visit to Martha Oldcrow. I found myself really fond of the char...
Marita Bonner starts her short essay by describing the joys and innocence of youth. She depicts the carefree fancies of a cheerful and intelligent child. She compares the feelings of such abandonment and gaiety to that of a kitten in a field of catnip. Where the future is opened to endless opportunities and filled with all the dream and promises that only a youth can know. There are so many things in the world to see, learn, and experience that your mind in split into many directions of interest. This is a memorable time in life filled with bliss and lack of hardships.
Fans of the novel found that the way the novel is written, you never want to put it down and the action keeps things moving and is quite entertaining. The novel pulls you in and makes you love each of the main characters in it. This is a great series for anyone to read, and it is audience friendly for whoever reads them. There is quite a bit of suspense that will make the novel exceed readers 's expectations, and the twists and turns keeps you guessing and lets nothing be predictable. Some like the way this group of people bands together when they really need to and keep things together so they can all stop the
I did not like the ending of the story. I found that the ending was very predictable and anticlimactic, especially when all the tension was being built up throughout the rest of the book. When I was nearing the end of the book I was already starting to envision the ending of the book and when I got to the end I was disappointed to see that I was correct. I would have preferred if the ending was more of a cliff-hanger and ended completely different than anyone would have expected.
Innocence is something always expected to be lost sooner or later in life, an inevitable event that comes of growing up and realizing the world for what it truly is. Alice Walker’s “The Flowers” portrays an event in which a ten year old girl’s loss of innocence after unveiling a relatively shocking towards the end of the story. Set in post-Civil War America, the literary piece holds very particular fragments of imagery and symbolism that describe the ultimate maturing of Myop, the young female protagonist of the story. In “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, the literary elements of imagery, symbolism, and setting “The Flowers” help to set up a reasonably surprising unveiling of the gruesome ending, as well as to convey the theme of how innocence disappears as a result of facing the harsh reality of this world.
The book ended with a plot twist that could lead to understanding why Silas and Charlie have lost their memories in the first place. While reading the last pages of the book, I was so hooked that it was really hard to breathe because it was like I was Silas who’s reading the letter that holds the truth of what was happening to the two of them. I did enjoy also the feeling of being by their side while they try to uncover the secrets of their past lives. I especially enjoyed the chapter to where they have found a video of Silas surprising Charlie and then making out in the bedroom. It was so private between them that I felt like a voyeur snooping to get a glimpse of what was happening. I particularly did like being inside the heads of the two while they were trying to think whether to trust someone who is a complete stranger but at the same time were feeling this certain connection for each other. I do experience that having my own special friend. I have this special connection with him that every time I look at him. Even though I am so mad or frustrated with him, my heart tells me to calm down and reminds me how much I love him. I also could relate of the feeling of Silas wanting to protect Charlie at all times, because I feel the same way when my friend was in trouble or just when he is not around me. Next, I also did like the different letters and pictures that they have given to each other when