Donnelly's A Northern Light

356 Words2 Pages
(TITLE) There’s something about reading that gives it more respect than speaking, writing, and viewing. It’s the combination of these senses which make it a book. It’s like you’re in the plot, living the setting, sympathizing with the characters, and everything that is written, can be related to and aspirated for. Through books, I have found the idea that our lives can be written for us, for others to watch, living multiple lives through each book. I can be a writer who works valiantly but can’t find a way to reach it, like Mattie Gokey in Jennifer Donnelly's novel, A Northern Light. I can be a patient in a mental hospital connecting with realistically fictional characters like Craig Gilner in Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind Of A Funny Story. But wasn’t