Book Analysis Assignment

For my book analysis assignment, I read the book, “Stories for a Teen’s Heart.” compiled by Alice Gray. The book is over 100 stories from numerous authors that are trying to encourage teenagers. This book has 327 pages and took me an entire summer and the entire school year to this point to read. I might would have finished it sooner, but I sometimes get too busy and don’t have time to sit down and read a book, but when my mom would force me to read a book, it would be this one. I learned a lot from this book. It was written specifically for teens and so it applies a lot to me. Some of the stories told in this book would make you laugh, others would make you want to cry, but almost everyone one of them was relatable. It really opened my eyes

It goes on to tell how Mary sent her a package with some brand new hot pink tennis shoes and how Maria was interviewed and asked Mary to come and be with her and how they became forever friends and how happy they were. It’s crazy for me to think that some people have to deal with these kind of things, every day. It also has a section, almost like a chapter, but it is specifically for encouragement and one of the articles that really stood out to me was a poem written by Stephen Levine and it said, “If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” I just really liked that not exactly for that certain situation but to me that’s saying don’t waste

Plus it helps knowing some of these things going through high school as a teenager and such and knowing that I’m not the only one that had to go through some of this stuff. The main theme of this book was definitely to tell teenagers that they aren’t alone and that teenagers across the world can also relate to what they are going through. Although this was written in 1999, and the world is so much different today than what is was back then, (an example would be that peer pressure is so much worse today because different types of people and social media saying it is okay to do things, when growing up we were told that they were not good for us and that we shouldn’t do them), there are still some good principles of life and things that we can learn from this book. It was written to teenagers because in my opinion they are without a doubt the biggest age group that struggles sometimes with life. They have so much stress on them and sometimes we feel like we are alone. I think that author wrote this book to stop us from feeling that way and to show that we are all going through the same things or things very similar