“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
The author achieves her goal. For me the book is written very clearly because of its simple yet descriptive vocabulary. For me this book is the most interesting and entertaining book I have ever read on this topic. If I could change one thing in the book it would probably be to add some visual aid, although the book is still amazing without pictures. This book for me is an 8/10. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a suspenseful and entertaining read. The book is intended for anyone who is mature and likes fiction
I loved this book so much. There is so much action and is so much better and exciting with so much amazing detail and description. This is one of my favorite books ever. When you read it, you don’t want to put it down and it makes you feel like you are with the characters in the book and you know them so well. I recommend this book to anyone who can read at this level.
The writer accomplishes making the writing more interesting by, using three of many expectations for a ninth grader which are, connotation, syntax, and imagery. He used all of these categories various times throughout the story/memoir. All of these helped in making the memoir more emotional and what makes it impacting. In this memoir we are given a true and emotional impacting words that make us feel various emotions inside. This memoir succeeds in using connotation, syntax, and imagery to create a bigger impact when it comes to the reader’s
I think that this work is a very well put together book. Even though In the earlier questions I make it sound like a ten on ten this book is not. I rate this book a 9/10 for the soul reason that it was on a very directed path and you could the events that were going to happen before they did by just reading the book. Even the twist that the author put in were not that book which made some of the book predictable and who really wants a book in which they know everything that is going to happen.
I, personally, loved the author's writing, although I did not really understand why she structured the book like so. With each chapter changing different perspectives and stories, it was kind of hard to remember which chapter went with another considering the chapters where out of order. With each story, I was a little annoyed that they just suddenly ended at the end of the chapter. It made me want to read more and more trying to find the next chapter that went with that person's story. It was also kind of difficult to connect the stories. Other than that, she did a marvelous job grabbing my attention. I loved the analogies that she included in the stories. For example, on page 216- 217, one of the mothers told her daughter about a turtle that eats her tears and then creates birds that laugh
In Cry, the Beloved Country, the city of Johannesburg enables Gertrude’s desires to control her life, yet the desires that govern her are shamefully careless. Before Gertrude left Ndosheni, she had been surrounded by villagers who essentially knew many or all of their community’s people, including her. With the fear that several people would know of or observe her actions, Gertrude was encouraged to act upon the ethical desires widely accepted by her people. On the other hand, Johannesburg has little to no sense of community—being a heavily populated city and the majority of its inhabitants strangers to one another—which allows Gertrude to pursue the amoral desires within her, and for them to occur unnoticed by relatives. When Stephen Kumalo, her brother, finally receives word of Gertrude’s illness, he leaves for Johannesburg and finds her in a shabby, dirty house, crammed between similar buildings. Anxiously standing in front of his sister’s door, awaiting what would be their first encounter after several months, Kumalo overhears a “laughter in the house, the kind of laughter of which one is afraid… perhaps because it is in truth bad laughter,” (Paton 59 emphasis added). The bad laughter he hears is a product of Gertrude’s careless desires; her undisciplined lust for men. The context in which this laughter comes from is what makes it bad, especially in Kumalo’s mind, for he is not just her family, but a priest as well. Without a close-knit community to direct
The characters bring a riveting story to life when reading. Throughout the book, I felt emotions left and right for the characters and what they were going through. There is a lot of mystery and questioning that will be answered later in the book, but once its done, there are still many questions being asked. when I look for a book, that is something that stands out to me because I really want to read more, and when you have that reaction to a book, that means it was worth reading. I found this book remarkable because of the behaviors, characteristics, and decisions that the characters make, and I recommend this book to everyone, even if they don’t like to
I really enjoyed the book because from the beginning it started giving background information about the characters, which really helped me see how they became the person we see in the book. Also the book does a wonderful job at painting pictures in your head. One part described the city as “… a ceaseless passage of carriages, trains, and grip cars all with iron clad wheels that struck the pavement like rolling hammers.” With that description I could see the cars and hear the wheels, plus it just helps me understand the book a little better.
The best way to get a four spot on the Billboard Hot 100, is by rapping about something everyone will go through, a heartbreak. That is what Kanye West did in “Heartless,” a song about a heartbreak he went through with former fiancee Alexis Phifer. The song debuted as a single but was later put on his 808s & Heartbreaks album. The song explains nearly everything about his relationship. They both made mistakes, but she’d act as if hers were minor. That is why he states, “I’m gonna take of tonight.” He emphasizes the word tonight, to prove he is exhausted and wants to be taken seriously. But he then argues himself by asking why they always end up late night on the phone. Which proves who is the intended audience. Simply, anyone that has gone through something similar, sometimes ends up on the phone with them late night with remorse. West’s tone in is angry in this song. He was tired of his ex-fiancee, who left him at his lowest point. When his mother had passed away just months before he was finished working on this album. Both of the women that he loved the most have left his life, in an instant. Kanye just began working on his music as a way to overlook the trials set ahead of him. He released this song and it was only the second time he used auto tune. Apparently auto tune can get you a 5x platinum record, mind that’s five million sales.
I believe that this was a pretty decent book, at times it was boring and
First, I like the thoroughness of detail in some parts of the book. For example when reading about the circus acts it is like being there seeing it with my own eyes. I also, like how it gives you an off the stage or behind the scene view of some of the circus characters and how the interact with each other being more like a big family rather than just some random people that came together just to put on a show. I believe this sheds a new light on the fact that just because someone or something may appear different it's so easy just to look at a person and cast judgement without actually knowing the person for whom he or she is inside.
The book itself was hard to comprehend for me because it was so detailed I didn’t remember the important parts. It was a good story with a good moral but I never was excited or eager to read it. In other words it never put me on the edge of my seat. So basically what i’m saying is that this story was boring. Yes there was some action but it wasn’t intense in my opinion. To make this book better I would say don't depict the details on what doesnt matter and focus more on the moral or the lesson of the story. But the book did very well putting the lesson out there, but adding more detail would make it that much easier to
Additionally, author Ayden Lee did a good job with the detailing of scenes, the images she created were vivid descriptions. However,there is a point of contention; this book needs editing, there spelling and syntax errors, throughout the book , for example in chapter 1 ... “Without further civilities, they passed their hurry goodbyes by Dan’s ears ”. Unfortunately there are many instances of editing issues throughout the book, which would once addressed, would make this book a more dynamic
-The book was really easy for me to read. I didn’t get confused at any point. I liked it, because it gave me a better understanding of what was happening in the book.
The transitions between chapters often felt like the writer jumped. One chapter your reading one story then the next chapter you time jumped to something else. You got what's going on as you read then suddenly your on another subject and confused as to where that part of the story is going. It made the book hard to read. Thankfully most of those chapters that were confusing get explained later on as the story progresses. Also I think someone might want to get proof reader. Some of the sentences felt like words were missing. That made it hard to understand what the writer was trying to bring