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Book Of Broken Hearts Literary Analysis

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“That was the thing about pictures. No matter how beautiful they couldn’t capture the truly felt parts of a moment.” The Book Of Broken Hearts is about a girl trying not to fall in love with a “flawless” boy. In the story the reader can put together piece by piece how she is falling for him. The story’s main base in the beginning is talking about her dad and how she wants to spend the whole summer with him because his Alzheimer’s is getting worse and worse every day. She explains to her friends how she can’t spend time with them because of her father so it really shows how much he means to her. The book is trying to start off with something sentimental before going into her falling for the boy that helps her try to bring back some of her …show more content…

She has to spend most of the summer sticking by her father’s side, she has no time to worry about boys. She talks about how her working with the boy is strictly business. The last part that it is the most important is the speaker, her name is Jude. Jude is in high school. She makes a huge impact in how the story is told because the reader will hear it from her point of view.
The books attention to detail was very wonderful along with the whole main plot story. In this story the characters and text really brings the reader into the story. For example “My heart thudded in my ears and I pressed myself closer, burying my face against his neck.” (pg. 243)Another piece of textual evidence is “His mouth feather soft…”(pg. 243) These pieces of textual evidence really pull the reader in and make them image the scene of the book. This book does a marvelous job of following the story and making sure to stay on track. In the text, the best part is how the main character make the reader wonder what is happening next. This makes them continue to keep reading. The book is an overall great book with wonderful context. The book some of the lacking features sometimes stand out because of how well other things are portrayed in the book. Some of the wording and context can either get the reader lost or it doesn’t seem to fit right. Like when the author uses “I” a lot. This is a hard word to replace, but some of the sentences seemed repetitive because of how many similar words

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