Summary Of Bridge To Terabithia By Katherine Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia written by Katherine Paterson in 1977 is about two lonely children who create a magical forest kingdom. Bridge to Terabithia tells a fascinating story of friendship, Paterson’s novel is a heart-warming story of two children who use each other’s strength to conquer and overcome their weaknesses (Bryson, n.d.). Bridge to Terabithia deals with real life situations and problems that many children between the ages of nine and twelve find tough to cope with (Bryson, n.d.).
The characters live in a small town called Lark Creek, Lark Creek is a small town in Virginia where people are slow to accept any form of change (Paterson, 1977). In Lark Creek people live on farms, work hard and struggle as they do not have many resources and people. However, Leslie and Jess are making do
Jess and Leslie possess imagination so powerful, magic turns the creek into a boundary between kingdoms, the forest into a sacred place and a puppy into a prince. Terabithia is a setting for ceremonies, battles and imagination (Shmoop.com, 2015). Jess tells us that ideas and morals from Terabithia bleed over into regular life in Lark Creek by the end of the book the reader sees him formularise the connections between the two regions, physically linking them by building a bridge (Sparknotes, 2015).
In the beginning of the book Jess is introduced to the reader and learn about Lark Creek and about Jess’s family life. Jess is not understood by his family, does not have any real friends and does not like school. Jess take out his feelings of being lonely, left out and frustration on setting himself a