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Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now, used external and internal conflict as well as mood to portray the theme, that together nothing bad can happen. Rosoff put together these elements in her novels to teach her readers this lesson. Rosoff is described as a cross-over writer and does not reflect on the cultural dumbing-down, where adults tend to lose themselves in a childish fantasy where book sare written for the teenage group of kids.
In Boston Massachusetts during the late 1950’s Med Rosoff was born. Rosoff was born into the Ashkenazi heritage to her mother and father. Her father a former surgeon, worked at Harvard University teaching medicine. Her mother was a psychiatric social worker. Together they all lived in the suburbs of Newtown, Boston. During this time Rosoff discovered that she had become a book work (Vincent).
During her teen years, Rosoff was described as an outcast. She wasn’t very athletic as a teen. Whereas in the town she grew up in, sports were a social obligation. While in college she felt the same way (Vincent).
After earning her degree, Rosoff moved to New York City. Rosoff left publishing and journalism to join the world of being a copywriter. Although she rarely kept a job, “ I kept losing my job, mostly for being mouthy,” she continues being a copywriter for 15 years in both New York City and in London. She had stayed in London for good after that (Vincent; Rosoff).
In 1989, in her first week of living in England, Rosoff met her husband. By 2001 Rosoff and her husband were married, had their daughter and moved to North London. During this time Rosoff, even though she still worked, she took time off due to her younger sister dying of breast cancer (Vincent).
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... to come home as well as the lack of resources. She also uses characterization as part of the conflict. She does this by making Daisy grow up over night by making her Pipers guardian and having to take care of her.
In conclusion, Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now is one of her best-selling novels, using external and internal conflict as well as mood to portray her theme. She teaches us that if you have each other, nothing can stop you. To do so she used characterization as well as conflict to not only keep the readers engaged but to also teach us what the theme is also trying to tell us.
Works Cited
Rosoff, Meg. How I Live Now. New York: Wendy Lamb Books, April 2006. Print.
“ British Council.” Literature. Penguin Group. 20011. Web. 24 Apr. 2014
Vincent, Bruno. “Meg Rosoff Biography.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. Advameg, The., 2014.Web. 1 May. 2014.
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