I did not have many complaints. Even though, at times, I may have felt there was information or conversations that were not entirely needed, it did add more depth to the book and allowed the reader to see more into each individual
Judith was impatient and Mercy was kind. The thing I would change if I had the option might be the title. The title is “The Witch of the Blackbird Pond” and the “witch” is not even mentioned until the eighth chapter and after that she isn’t even really a main character. I liked pretty much everything, except for some awkwardness.
It has some great scenes when Maggie Maddock just lets go and embraces her powers that she had been suppressing for ages. All of the novels of the series also end with an excellent unexpected twist that most of the time the reader has probably forgotten by the time it is resolved in an explosive way. What makes these twists so important is that they make way for some interesting continuation in plot in the next novel in the
The only thing I didn 't like about the book was how it was written. I think it would be way better if it was written as a story in 1st person about there life and not how it was written. The book didn 't really make me think differently about things because I know what I think about slavery and no one can change my mind
Due to pouring rain, all of the bridges washed away. I also didn’t like how dysfunctional the family was. They would butt heads and lose their tempers constantly while on their journey. The portion that I highly disliked about the novel is in the end. Anse is coming back to the wagon, after burying Addie the previous day before, while walking he looks “kind of hangdog and proud too, with his teeth and all, even if he wouldn’t look at us. ‘
I don’t like Deborah because she is so mean to Miriam and doesn't seem to love her and care for her. Sisters are suppose to fight but not make fun of each other as much as Deborah does. At one part in the section when Deborah and Miriam sat in the bathroom together, I started to like Deborah just for a second. Deborah wanted Miriam to tell her mom and dad that she was getting bullied at school. She wanted things to change for Miriam. As for Artie, I have mixed feeling about him.
The event I disliked the most was Scott quitting basketball. I didn’t like this because I wanted to see Nick and his brother play together on the same team because then I don’t think that their parents would have gotten divorced. Another thing I didn’t like about the book is that Nick’s parents left each other. If that didn’t happen then Nick would’ve been closer to his dad so he could get better at basketball all the time. The last thing I didn’t like about the book is that the reader never got to meet Nick’s Dad’s girlfriend.
Through parts of the book, I am able to feel like I am walking in the characters’ footsteps. For example, when Danny is describing how he is brought up in silence (Ch.8), I feel like I am able to jump in the story and experience how that would feel. I do not think I would be able to tolerate being brought up in silence. I also believe the reader is able to realize all the struggles Reuven and Danny must encounter during their friendship. The characters also underwent a great change.
It showed that the pressure of always being perfect and beautiful was hard on her. I also liked that most students can relate to being pressured to be something they’re not. I disliked that I felt the length of the book on multiple occasions. I identified with Paige because I have also been pressured to be someone I don’t want to be. In the story, Paige is pressured to be perfect and make no mistakes and this often happens in real life.
It gave me more insight into the lives that the children had while they were in St. Joseph. One of the things that shocked me most, was the fact of how brutally the children were ripped from their homes and thrown into a world that was alien and unfamiliar to them. I knew that these things had happened, but reading it in such a context opened my eyes to what it was like for these children. I enjoyed how each individual character had a chance to tell their own story and I found it very
I found it very boring because she would drone on at some parts and I had no interest in the book after reading the first few chapters. The way she wrote the book was interesting. There are three different narrators and during those parts you fill in more pieces of the puzzle and they all converge in the end to create a big picture. I liked that she used foreshadowing a lot.
In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda gives a really good example of character development throughout the story. Melinda just starts her freshman year at high school. Over the summer her and her friends went to a party and Melinda gets raped by a boy named Andy Evans and ends up calling the police, she didn't tell anyone why she called the police, causing her friends and everyone at the party to reject her. Melinda’s only friend is a new girl named heather. Melinda gets depressed and starts expressing her pain through stuff like biting her lips and her nails, and not talking.
The night after Marilyn leaves to go pursue her dream of becoming a doctor, James finds a note torn up in the trash can, saying, “I have kept all these feelings inside me for a long time, but now, after being in my mother’s house again, I think of her and realize I cannot put them aside any
My responses to this first part of the book are confusion and sympathy, I felt pity for Lori because she don't deserve to get this sort of illness, especially when she was just starting her life and the fact that she had no clue about what was going on to her. I felt a little bit confused on the part that she was having
Lydia Maria Child used the idea of the Noble Savage, the audience’s confidence in social norms, and figurative language to make her story, Hobomok, an early example of sympathetic treatment towards miscegenation in the 17th century. With Lydia Maria Child’s renowned reputation as an abolitionist, it is no surprise that she disapproved of the anti-miscegenation laws, and that she sought social equality for minority groups; however, her goal was much larger than simply expressing her disfavor towards racial animosity. She aimed to dismantle the standing beliefs that founded racism in this country, as well as lead her audience to question why such behavior was seen as valid. Thus, it is important that this story is learned in classrooms today
