Preview

Summary Of Maggie Stiefvater's Linger

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
785 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Summary Of Maggie Stiefvater's Linger
The longing, the loss, the linger. Grace and Sam found a cure for Sam to stay human but now it is Grace’s turn to be worried about that chill of the spring air. Sam is still getting used to the whole being-human-even-in-the-winter thing☺(hyphenated modifier). He is longing to have Beck back so he does not have to deal with the new wolves that Beck bequeathed ☺ (vocabulary) to him before he turned into a wolf for the last time. Cole is one of the new wolves who has many secrets, and he does not seem to be willing to tell them to anyone especially not Sam. Through all of this, Grace is dealing with a new sickness that causes a lingering thought in them all that it might be a lot more than just a common cold. I would give the book Linger by Maggie Stiefvater an A+ because it has a very suspenseful storyline, the characters have enticing characteristics, and the love story between Grace and Sam is very interesting. The storyline of the book is very up and down and keeps you wanting to read more. It starts out making you think everything is perfect and back to normal for the main characters Grace and Sam, then it to totally gets turned upside down with the entrance of the new wolf Cole: “I felt a weird prickle go …show more content…
Grace fell in love with Sam, and at the same Same fell in love with Grace. Sam is very emotional and Grace is normally the one who comforts but she also has a soft side: “ I was used to me being the practical one and Sam being the emotional one” (Stiefvater 147). Grace is the strong hearted one in the relationship. She hold herself together for Sam especially when he is going through a hard time. Sam and Grace are so in love they would do anything to be together, but Grace’s parents are beginning to make their relationship very difficult. They are the modern day Romeo and Juliet being kept apart by their parents when all they want is to be together

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Medicine River

    • 535 Words
    • 3 Pages

    I found the book to be easy, exciting reading because the story line was very realistic and easily relatable. This book flowed for me to a point when, at times, it was difficult to put down. Several scenes pleasantly caught me off guard and some were extremely hilarious, namely, the visit to Martha Oldcrow. I found myself really fond of the characters, especially Harlen Bigbear. Harlen came across as a sort of ‘trickster', but a likable one. He was gentle, caring, and harmless in his own right. Will, the protagonist, was very likable as well. However, his character only evolved for me as a result of Harlen's unconditional and relentless friendship with him. In short, Will's character would've lacked without the likeness of a Harlen Bigbear. The character naming was also very ingenious. The Oldpersons, Prettywomans, baby South Wing, and others…

    • 535 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    When dogs cry

    • 744 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The novel When Dogs Cry by Markus Zusak is a boy meets girl story but it is more than that. It relates to brotherly love and a boy finding himself as well as boy meets girl relationships. Zusak constantly reminds us of the themes and relationships occurring in the novel. The relationships shared with the characters are emotional and exciting while they take us through their journeys.…

    • 744 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    This book was possibly the best book I have ever read. Let’s start with out with the characters. These characters were very descriptive and interesting. Kaz Breeker was the main character; he was the leader of the dregs. With his character, he was a well-developed character from the beginning, but his character developed even more through-out the story. He was strong, but you also saw his weak spots, mental breakdowns, dealing with a never healed broken leg, and lash outs. He was someone you were scared of, but you would become best friends with him. He was like fire and ice at the same time. Now the setting, this is a fantasy book so it does not take place anywhere we know. Most of the story takes place in Ketterdam. Ketterdam is a city on…

    • 301 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The acts of betrayal show who some of the characters really are and bring out the theme of this book. The two themes focused in the text are moving beyond the past and people will always face consequences. When Luke and Maggie were dating, he made her believe things about that river and how it was sacred. Maggie betrays Luke when she decides that Ruth’s body should be brought out of the river. Maggie’s father left her and her brother alone one day when they were younger. Maggie grew a strong dislike for her father when Ben suffered major burns while he was gone. Her father had to deal with the consequences for a while. After the towns controversy over how Ruth’s body would be taken out of the river, Maggie finally decides to forgive her father after all these years. The town betrays the river rats and the law when they allow a temporary damn to be put in to stop water from flowing so they can get her body out. When the dam fails the first time, the town does not let a second attempt to happen out of fear that another life would be lost. After the death of his twin brother, Ronny betrays the Sherriff and throws dynamite into the river to get the bodies out of the hydraulic.…

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    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…

    • 267 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Wolves. Humans changing into wolves. A high school girl who was attacked. A wolf boy. The Minnesota winter. These things are all very important to the story of Sam and Grace in Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. Grace is a high school girl who has an obsession with the wolves in the woods behind her house, even though she is attacked by them when she as a young girl. This only made her interest in the wolves grow. There is one wolf in particular who she remembers clearly and who she is very found of. The wolf with yellow eyes “my wolf” (13) as she fondly calls him. What she does not know until later in the story, is that her wolf is infatuated with her as well. Six years later, after Grace’s incident she meets a boy named Sam after he shows up on her back porch naked, with a gun shot in his neck. She realizes this is her wolf when she sees his yellow eyes. This is the start of a sad, action…

    • 616 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The 5th Wave Book

    • 463 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Many tragic events have happened from the beginning of the book to the end of the book.Cassie is just living the life of an average high school student to literally fighting for her and her little brother’s life.Cassie had both her parents in the beginning of the book and she lost both of them during the waves.Cassie changed,because she liked Ben then creating relationship with Evan along the book.Cassie is a tough girl for what she has been through and put up with.…

    • 463 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Stephen Crane’s first novel Maggie (girl of the streets) is a tale of uncompromising realism. The story chronicles the titular Maggie, a girl who lives in the Bowery with her emotionally abusive parents and brothers Jimmie and Tommy. The novel revolves around the trials and tribulations of Maggie and her family in the Bowery. Highlights of the story include the death of Maggie’s father and brother Tommie which drive Pete to turn into a cold and hard person by novels end. Maggie desperately tries to escape bowery life, but in the end Maggie succumbs to the Bowery and dies a broken woman. Crane is considered a Naturalist, and in Crane’s naturalist world no one escapes their biological chains. Maggie’s parents are both unfit parents: they are emotionally and physically abusive, and have alcoholic tendencies. Despite Maggie’s and (to a lesser extent) Jimmie’s longings to escape the bleak world of the bowery they do not. Crane is making a statement on the adverse effects of industrialization and urbanization with the novel. Industrialization and urbanization on the surface create jobs and strengthen business, but upon further examination it disenfranchises the very people it promises to help. Many of the families in the bowery are immigrant families who become wage slaves. Maggie’s family is no different; because of their dependency on big business they have become disenfranchised and incapable of growth. This idea of being set into a world where there is no escape from one's biological heredity that Crane showcases the in the novel is mirrors Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory. According to Darwin only the biologically strong would survive in the world, with the weaker specimens expiring. In Crane’s novel the people are not inherently weak; it is the environment that shapes them and prevents them from growing. Ultimately, all of the characters in Maggie are victims of the Bowery life.…

    • 1532 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Sound Of Thunder

    • 385 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The book can keep uou in suspense on what will happen next because of Rays imagery and tone the book will keep you interested. Everything about his story catches my attention. He goes into time to travel back into the past to see how it was.…

    • 385 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    illustrates the maturing of a young man. In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a…

    • 647 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    That was the first encounter of “Romeo … beauty” (Pearson, 64) and that was the time the two lovers “Romeo & Juliet … words” (Pearson, 68) and that was the beginning of their journey as star-crossed lovers. As we all knew in every situation and decision they take, there would always there who are not in favor of it and who are not going to support for it, it is just a matter of how the two lover, Romeo & Juliet take the responsibilities and consequence in every decisions and action people take and as well as how they manage on choosing the right path in order to achieve the goals were they want to in the future. As can be expected, as they go through their journey as being lovers, they are not expecting that their relationship would be easy as for all they know, their parents are not in good terms due to the reasons that they cannot accept the fact that their wealth and power is just the same. Furthermore, in which generally their family’s the only important tradition is “sexual alliance” (Bloom, 8) only in, which they only think of the family’s inherits and to become more powerful as what they thought they are. However, as times goes by…

    • 509 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    5.4)Challenges and trials: when she escapes to NY her brother end up coming up after high school as well and then eventually so do her crazy parents. She learns to cope with her strange parents “wanting to be poor” ideas her parents want to be poor so they dig through dumpsters and don’t shower and she doesn’t understand why they want to do that. She has to cope with their ways of life and still create…

    • 1682 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hazel Grace is someone I dream to meet one day. Her jolly expression, her witty responds, her drive and her sensitivity makes her unique and lovable all throughout the story. She was characterized with great courage in facing her own cancer problem and engaging into a relationship with another cancer patient. I couldn’t seem to tear my eyes away from the book especially when Hazel Grace went to find the author of her favorite book and ask him what happens in the story. She expected a satisfying response from the author but it was not given to her thus all her efforts were put into waste.…

    • 844 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    This novel foreshadows Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters cancer journey through love and courage. The time they take to live every minute, brings risks but do not come in the Hazel Grace from making brave decisions or having a strong personality. Throughout the novel, John Green gives an idea of how Hazel Grace discovers many essential lessons about passion and life.…

    • 973 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    bad girls in school

    • 500 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I continued reading on the second day feeling empowered by the animals uprising; I felt the freedom of the characters. The commandments were brilliant, but they seemed more like rules to me. I already predict that Napoleon isn’t the best character here, but on a whole the animal’s hard work amazed me. I honestly like the character Benjamin; he has me thinking I can’t exactly read him, his personality. I could have only imagined him as what the book described. With the war and molli’s betrayal, the book already seems to be going down a dark path.…

    • 500 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays