Summary: The Pact

In the novel The Pact, Jodi Picoult effectively uses plot structure to build suspense and shock. Jodi Picoult also uses an point of view where it is third person omniscient, and switches between the past and present. In a past moment that the author shares, it shows the closeness of the families. “‘Look at that,’ Michael said. ‘My Daughter’s an hour old and she’s already sleeping with some guy.’”(25). Melanie just gave birth to Emily and Chris and her are sleeping together because Gus, Chris’s mom, was in the delivery room with Melanie. During the exposition, Melanie and Michael get a call at three in the morning saying that Emily, their daughter, has been shot and they need to go to the hospital. Once they get there, the doctors explain she

Nelson is very clever in her word choices and it causes the reader to think and react to them, and gives a great image. Her use this of metaphor and personification creates an interesting image that definitely gets the point across, “Grandma told us not to listen to her artichoke of a son and to take those grains of salt and throw them right over our let shoulders to blind the devil.” The grandma is explaining that they should not listen to their father because he doesn’t know what he is talking about. When Noah notices something is wrong with Jude, he thinks a simile, “Something in her face is different - it’s like a curtain’s been parted in the middle of it.” This shows she is depressed and you can see it in her face. This simile also shows how depressed and upset she is. “She looked like a crumpled piece of paper.” Jude is going through rough times and you can see it in the way she looks. Another literary piece Nelson uses is a strong and powerful one. Noah drowns and Jude goes in to save him. “When I finally got his body twice my size, chest still as stone, eyes slung back-to-shore, and to revive, I was so furious at him I almost rolled him back into the surf.” This hyperbole shows that when Jude got him to land he was