Jennifer Finney Boylan's I M Looking Through You

Overall the book gives a level of depth and openness that was startling as an uninformed individual. As the book is a direct insight to Lori’s schizophrenic mind as she recalls in detail her thoughts and experiences revolving her stays in the psychiatric ward and halfway houses. Indeed the progression of Lori’s illness is reflected in the author of the chapters in her book. For in the middle of the book, where Lori is in the depths of her psychosis, the story is carried on by her parents

would you do if you woke up and didn't remember a single thing? In the book Don't Look Back, by Jennifer Armentrout, a teenage girl named Samantha seems to find herself broken, brusied, and confused wandering the streets near a lake of a fairly upper class town. She goes through a very rough time when she discovers her best friend died the day Sam was found helpless and doesn't remember a single thing about it, although some don't believe her. She starts aquiring parts of her life piece by piece, finding out she was an awful person and the life she's lived was cruel and pointless, which was hated by most. Samantha meets all new characters that she already knew and grew up with in the past, including her brother, the soon-to-be love of her

As the story progresses, the theme changes from being comical to being violent. Also, the reader's perception of the grandmother becomes more intense . As O'Connor said, "[t]here is a change of tension from the first part of the story to the second where the Misfit enters, but this is no lessening of reality" ("On" 176). The presence of the Misfit causes the story to become more of a mystery; therefore, the actions of the grandmother also become a mystery because the reader doesn't know what to expect from her. It is a surprise to the reader to find the grandmother become so sincere. The grandmother tries many traditional methods to keep the Misfit from killing

The writer composes the story from the perspective of an analyst. She alludes to occasions later on, facts, and information that no character could have known in the setting of the story. Incorporated into the content are genuine quotes said or composed by the general population she expounds on, including the primary character. She utilizes an extremely objective voice, giving successive analysis of distinctive individuals' outlook and continually alluding to insights to demonstrate her point. Since the book does not focus on the point of view of any single character, it peruses more like a news article than a story, which frequently exhausting its groups of readers. Accordingly, Hillenbrand's written work style once in a while obstructs the correspondence of her thoughts because she regularly includes actualities, quotes and investigation in the book; it usually bores audience on the grounds that it peruses more like a news article instead of a

The book was divided into 3 parts, the first section was Facing Mental Illness. In this section there were 6 chapters that covered every part of her coming to terms with her illness which is bipolar disorder or manic depression. In Chapter 1: Darkness, she gave her history with mental illness and she wasn’t the only person to deal with it within her family. Her father and brother also dealt with depression.There were also many close friends and family members that killed themselves. She makes mention of how she hated what the illness dd to her father and brother but it helped her when she had to deal with

Laurie Halse Anderosn has written a book which is considered as a trauma novel “speak”. Usually anger is a phase that begins with madness and ends with regret, but in this book anger will be tackled in different way, Melinda’s anger starts with silence and ends with speaking. In other words it’s starts with fear and ends with triumph over self. Over the course of the novel silence struggling with anger is leading to speak. Anderson incorporated all themes in anger direction with different techniques such as flashback, allusion, symbolism, and fragmentation.

When writing a story, authors have to worry about ways to add tension to the conflict. To add to this aspect of a story, authors can make a twist in the plot, use more sensory detail, or introduce new characters. In Diana Lopez’s realistic fiction, “Confetti Girl,” and Jennifer Cervantes’s, “Tortilla Sun,” both the narrators have different perspectives from their parents. In the stories,”Confetti Girl,” and ,”Tortilla Sun,” the fact that the narrators have different perspectives from their parents adds tension to the conflicts by having characters disagree on a certain topic.

Lyn Di Iorio and Laura Restrepo in their respective novels have managed to provide an overview that how supernatural and mystical powers and entities can change the life and perspective of individuals. Both of the novels entitled as Outside the Bones and Delirium are having a similar theme of conventionality and ghostliness.

“The Book Thief” presented a story filled with various themes that comprised a powerful plot line. Although there were many themes in the story, there was one that stood out to me more than others. In the process of reading the book, the theme of suffering affected me the most. The definition of the word suffer is to experience or be subjected to something bad or unpleasant. Different characters within the story are subjected to dreadful feelings and are therefore suffering. Through my analyzation, I observed the three different types of suffering that the characters experienced: guilt, feelings of emptiness, and anxiety. The characters of “The Book Thief” experience these three types of suffering in different ways.

First of all, during the novel, the author made several incidences of irony that made the work so emotionally. To apply the quote of Hemingway, Mrs. Sueck reported precisely what was happening to her and her brothers in their childhood life, she did not exaggerate to get people’s praise. It was ironic when grandmother resented how Sueck’s mother was treated and took these jealousies out on her own grandchildren. In fact, Mrs. Sueck wrote: “she resents my mother’s attachment to my great – grandmother.” (Sueck, 2004). The author tried to find out and seem to understand more why she and her brothers were letting down by their relatives. From that bad experiences in her early life, she finally finds a way to live in a happy life and able to forgive those did not take care of her and her siblings as they were supposed to do. Therefore, Sueck’s memoir is a rigid foundation for Mrs. Sueck to keep going

It is a rather non-traditional history book, being half a travelougue and often going on tangents according to Vowell's whims, but it teaches the reader plenty nontheless. While she does delve into deeper topics, such as individual political views and more morbid things about both the killer and killed's deaths, she keeps a lighthearted and cheery tone about it as she continues on with a lighthearted and cheery tone. However, Vowell does tend to insert a lot of useless facts in an attempt to stay interesting, which actually does the opposite at times. You learn a lot of quirky facts about her, such as her problem with phobias and a long story about her yellow teapot's past, which have nothing to do with the actual topic she's going on. This could be quite distracting and pointless with these irrelevant facts stuck between the presidential assasinations she talks about, yet she always does bring it back on-topic before the reader loses interest. For example, when she talks about the Mudd Family, she diverges into a story about her own great-great-grandfather and a discussion of the grandfather complex. But in the end, she does connect it back to what she was talking about with Mudd’s

Eleanor, the protagonist, undergoes a difficult childhood which cause many of her repressed feelings to be expressed through supernatural experiences that are ambiguous. She took care of her ill mother for 11 years, until she died. That affected her tremendously. For example, during Theodora’s supernatural experience, Shirley Jackson displays how Eleanor’s inner child managed to let her grow anger and jealously towards Theodora. Eleanor felt like Hill House was giving Theodora more

The switching points of view help form the world and breadth of the novel. Every chapter guarantees a new point of view and a new central character as parts of the methods of Egan’s madness. The opening chapter “…began the usual way…” (Egan, 1), with the character Sasha in third-person point of view like a typical novel. It exposes Sasha’s vulnerability and weakness, defined by her kleptomania, in an encounter with the character of Alex: “…the mix of feelings she’d had, standing there with Alex: the pride she took in these objects, a tenderness that was only heightened by the shame of their acquisition. She’d risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life” (15). Then, the novel closes with an older, reflective Alex and a glimpse into Sasha’s newfound strength and happiness. The end of the novel “…was

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

Susie worries most about her gifted and petulant sister Lindsay. Lindsay is only one year younger but still is not told directly about what's happened to Susie; instead she hears telephone snippets and bits of conversations between her parents and the police. After hearing her father describe Susie's features, she asks her father not to lie to her, so he doesn't; but even answering her question, he can't face the truth of his words. Susie watches Lindsay sitting alone in her bedroom trying to harden herself. As the story unfolds, it is clear that Lindsay carries the hardest burden, because no one will ever be able to look at her and not think about Susie. By losing her sister, Lindsay is in danger of being robbed of herself.