1. The author of this book, Katherine Paterson, is an award winning writer whose predominantly known for her books for children and young adults. She chose to compose The Bridge To Terabithia after her child's friend was struck and killed by lightning. In the novel, Jess represents her son and Leslie was his long lost friend.
2. Taking place in the 1970’s, the characters all live in a residential area called Lark Creek and, aside from when Jess goes to Washington, D.C., with Miss Edmunds, all of the activities take place there. Lark Creek is a little town in Virginia where individuals are eased back to acknowledge change and disapprove of contrast. They don't care for radicals or young ladies who “wear pants”. Individuals live on farmland, buckle down, and battle. They don't have numerous
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He kind of reminded me of my younger self. He was ambitious, youthful, and always overcame his challenges whatsoever. In contrast, Janice is a character that I dislike the most. She is rude and has a issue with everyone, even though they haven't hurt her in any way. Paterson's use of third person perspective means we see the occasions and the conditions as Jess would see them, similar to we're looking behind him. We more often than not know how he feels, despite the fact that the book's not composed in first individual. Above all, we get the opportunity to consider Leslie to be Jess sees her. It isn't so much that he sees her with eyes so one-sided that we don't get a reasonable photo of her – it's that we never observe Terabithia or Jess straightforwardly through Leslie's eyes as well. We know how she felt about them two, however that data is constantly separated through another person's point of view, as Jess's, or her father's. Since we never hear the story from Leslie's perspective, when she dies, we don't have any approach to process that data but to feel alongside Jess and be sad with