Analysis Of The Pregnant Pause

depths, emotions to the characters, plot and theme in the book. The devices are used

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are,” (Cooley). Throughout our lives, reading has impacted us in many ways. Often times books give people different perspectives on their lives. People with high stress levels often find comfort in reading books to take their mind off of their concerns. Sometimes, people just need to take a step back from their lives and relax for a while; therefore, reading is a great tool. In fact, all kinds of books have also helped me become a better writer. There are many different books that have impacted me over the years.

As well as removing entire themes, important moments of characterization as well as general atmosphere of the book.

In this book there is a girl named named Isabel “ Belly” Conklin her brother Steven Conklin, her 2 “lovers” Jeremiah Fisher and Conrad Fisher, her mother Laurel Conklin, and Susannah “Beck” Fisher who is her most favorite person in the world. It all starts when Belly, Steven and Laurel are in the car driving to Cousins beach to spend the summer with Beck and her sons like they do every summer since she was born. Belly loves to be at Cousins Beach because she feels it's where she belongs and she gets to spend it with the 2 boys she loves very much. In the beginning her and her brother and mother pull into the driveway of Susannah's beach house and Conrad

and left the readers on the tips of their toes after each chapter. This lead me to not wanting to put

story form just like her other books, and it's always easier to read a story that study a text

There were many facets of the book that helped provide to the flow of the storyline. These include the use of flashbacks to build the structures of different characters, dialogue within the mind of the protagonist (further explained in next paragraph) that foreshadowed future events, and the suspense that was always building up under the surface. It kept the reader entertained and the conflicts never felt prolonged.

old house that she used to visit and tries to convince the family to stop and view is. With

The whole book felt a little disjointed to me. There were seemingly random events that left me feeling confused as to the significance, and flashbacks that weren’t clearly portrayed as flashbacks. The author also seemed to skip around a lot. Little parts were written from different characters perspectives which detracted from the overall flow of the plot.

characters. Making it a thriller to read. Moving on to the events of the books, it was an amazing read, one

The beginning of the book started out really well. The author uses amazing description to really make

I think the book was confusing also. An example of this would be the way it switched characters each chapter. I would forget who was leading and have to flip back and forth many times, this was annoying. And the bigger words were confusing leading us to have to do

Different types of texts require different approaches. When I’m picking out a new book to read for pleasure, I like to read the description on the back or in the front cover. It gives me an idea of what the book is going to be about and whether or not I’ll be interested in it. If the description

but in the large picture of the Jewish religion, she will not be making large

formation also is not clear at times. Because of how he formatted the book, it was much