Also in her explanation, she discusses what-to-do and what-not -to-does when around the Deaf community or Deaf people. The most significant subject she discusses is the difference between deaf and Deaf. Furthermore as the book continues, it describes Deaf Artists and art techniques. This book seems to be to be a manual for ASLor art teacher.…
While the mysteries kept my attention, my favorite part of this novel was the characters. Todd is a delightful young boy who, while not overly troublesome, gets in his fair share of scrapes. His sisters Libby and Lilly Jean do not start off with much of a role, but they become more important as the novel continues. I found myself laughing with the family, crying with the family, and even getting upset for the family. To me, one of the gifts in writing is to be able to make your audience feel what the characters themselves feel. Ms. Ulmer makes this novel enjoyable by making her characters…
The book is amazing, but it is lacking in the use of descriptive words. It seems dull in some points of this book. It is all around a good book in many other ways though. It shows Cole's…
Although at times it was hard to follow what was exactly happening in the book. I felt like the book jumped around a lot because each chapter was a different event that happened throughout the year. I didn’t know when the events occurred so at times it was confusing. In addition, the book was older so it was hard to make connections with the book and my everyday life.…
My opinion that this book was a little sad because Kevin (also known as Freak) had a disease that made him stop growing at three feet so he had to wear metal leg braces and crutches. Also in the beginning Max was a bully because in the beginning of the story Max was called Kicker because whoever touched him Max will hurt that person by punching and kicking him/her. The book also talks a lot about friendship and trust because when Freak and Max first saw each it was only for one afternoon and that afternoon they barely talked to each other but once years have passed, some how Freak moved next to Max’s emptied neighbors house (the only reason the house was empty because the old neighbor was still in jail) So after Freak got out…
The first half of my book “The Girl Who Was Supposed To Die” written by April Henry, was so good that I could not put the book down. The girl, at that point, had no memories which include her name and anything before she woke up on a dirty, bloody cabin floor. She looked down at her throbbing hand and found that two of her fingernails were missing. This scene was super suspenseful, it felt as if I was actually in the book. I liked how the author had put this scene in the very beginning of the book and turned around and explained more.…
The characters are developed so well. Psychological thrillers, such as Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, can be hard to write, because the reader almost always has to know what the characters are thinking, and this has to be done while developing a plot. There was nothing in particular that I didn’t enjoy about the book. The final confrontation with Andy was climactic, despite my expectations of an anticlimactic ending like what usually occurs in books read for school. Anderson even developed Andy well enough that when Melinda was holding a piece of glass to his neck, I didn’t want her to kill him, despite his having raped her. In the aftermath of this confrontation, Melinda’s goal is to finish her tree before the school year ends. One girl sees her and congratulates her on defeating Andy. Melinda finishes the tree, and recognizes the fact that it is perfect because of its imperfections. This is an amazingly written ending, and a great conclusion to a great novel. Most loose ends are tied up, and the ones that aren’t resolved, such as Rachel calling Melinda after the fight, were supposed to be left for interpretation. The ending was satisfying, and not simply because it had a happy ending. The ending satisfies because it was realistic. Anderson could have simply written that Rachel believed Melinda when she was initially told that Andy raped Melinda, and then everything ends happily ever after. Instead, Rachel is infuriated, the same way a real teenager would, and is in denial, which is a natural human response to negative emotions. The fight is also realistic, because Melinda legitimately defeats Andy on her own without any form of dumb luck. This was an amazingly written…
One reason to read this book is how fast emotions change. On one page the characters are laughing the next they are grieving over a family member who is a victim of a deadly plague that will take life. On one page the main character is rampaging and destroying technology the next she is trying to save her sister's life. If you like books with fast mood changes that this is the book for you. Something that makes this book even better is the cliffhanger ending.…
- I thought the author did a good job making the story realistic through the dialogue, characters, and plot. (esp. the characters’ individual situations like Juliana’s desire to quit, or Embry’s attitude towards everything)…
When I opened the book I was expecting to be blown away by another bittersweet tale of love. I guess my expectations were too high because in all honesty I was disappointed. I got really frustrated in the beginning when they wouldn’t tell us the whole story and kept us guessing, and I like a mystery as much as the next girl but after a while it got tiring and I just wanted to know what was really going on. I dreaded especially the parts when Bennet kept changing his attitude towards Anna, like one time he liked her and another time he couldn’t stand her, those parts really got to me and I felt like throwing the book across the room because it just kept going round and round and not getting to the point. Of course that made sense later on because he was redoing the moment but those first few chapters were torture and it got me extremely confused at times.…
Some of the vocabulary in the book was hard to understand.the beginning of the book was not too interesting but overall…
“This world we live in” Honestly this book feel flat on it’s face.It had a very poor style, and had reppeditive word choice .Even though this book wasn’t my favorite there are deffinitly was that it could be improved. For example the word choice was really repetitive over, and over again the book kept talking about how they need food. Also how they do not have enough food or supplies to feed, and care for the people living in the house. Another example of how this book had poor wording is when they keep saying they need to go Knoxville, and when they get to Knoxville the author keep saying how they were slips , and that is how they got in. A third example of how this book had poor style was when the author kept talking about how everyone misses…
The setting of a dystopian California was extremely interesting, it made me wonder how my home state could get this way. It also hinted on the status of other places in the United States and it was a great mystery not really knowing how things out of the Republic's zone of influence were doing. The characters were another strong point in this book. Seeing both sides of the character's views was really interesting and entertaining. You really got to see the world through the eyes of an oppressed outlaw who was trying to save his brother, and you got to see the world through a vengeful military prodigy who just wants to find her brother's killer. This book definitely passed my expectations. I honestly was not expecting much from just another dystopian young adult novel but having it being set in a California that looks much different from my own and getting to see two different perspectives really won me over. Legend is not perfect however, there were a couple out of character moments and one romantic relationship that in my opinion seemed extremely forced at…
After that brief introduction of the story and characters I will now begin to explain my thoughts and ideas behind this book. When I first began to read this book I was hooked. It was very humorous and the book seemed like it would be a fun read. So I read on. With almost fifty pages left in the book I thought to myself "where is this book going?" I was thinking either that I have the worst case of A.D.D. ever or that this book has absolutely no meaning at all. I finished the book and was astounded. I just read 300 pages and had no clue whatsoever what the point…
First of all, I really liked the idea of book: a girl explaining why she committed suicide to the people responsible for it. I think the chain of tapes, forcingly being sent from one person on the list to the next was a concept I found intriguing and allowed me to stay involved and crave more with each chapter.Just like Clay, i find myself wanting to know who was on the next tape and why.I loved Clay as a character and i really enjoyed the way he was written into the story. I felt like i was in his shoes a lot of the time, hearing the tapes through his ears and experiencing this journey alongside him. The suspense of each following tape was entertaining, i wanted to know which tape Clay would be featured and when his story was coming up, this gave me a sense of impatience. Each time a new character was introduced was a sigh of relief as it wasn’t Clay’s turn to be humiliated, i found myself wanting what was best for him but i also wanted to know how and why he was involved in the death of Hannah Baker.There’s something addictive about this book, I couldn’t stop reading it because I…