Orphan Train Writing Style

I loved how she always showed a love for everything and knew everything was living. I loved how she lured roaches out of the house with graham crackers and marshmallows. I loved her idea of the Wailing Wall where she could go and put papers of prayers for people in the wall. I was entirely devastated when she committed suicide after finding out that her godson, Zach, had been arrested for a race related matter. It seemed that after her twin, April, died when she was very young, May had been carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. So, she had to finally let it all go. My least favorite character in the story was T. Ray. I hated the way he treated Lily and everyone else in life. I especially hated when he made Lily kneel on the grits for an hour as a punishment. Those grits had hurt Lily so bad that her knees had swollen up! I was very proud of Lily when she ran away from him. He was very abusive to

I enjoyed her writing style over all. I enjoyed every other character in the book but there was never enough time away from Jules Jacobson. I love the plot. I really wish I could go on so I can see what happens with the characters but even when I skipped to the end of the book, Jules was still behaving in a way that I just couldn’t stand.

The mud glueing my recently bought sneakers to the trail became deeper and deeper as we continued walking but I was too busy admiring the vibrant leaves around me to let it phase me. The smell of trees and the subtle trace of cinnamon floating in the air seemed to shoot into my nose. The wind picked up and formed a nice, light breeze. The crisp air blew through my hair which was firmly tied in a ponytail. I continued walking down the slender path, every once in awhile my path was crossed by a small chipmunk or squirrel. I thought back to this morning when my mom had asked me if I wanted a jacket, I refused. Regretting that decision I crossed my arms in front of my body. It was about 2:00 and I hurried along as the cold air continued whisking

Christina Baker Kline, a very accomplished writer, produced the work of Orphan Train which quickly rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and there is no question why. This was a novel about adventure, discovery, persevering, and learning to love life. It was based between a series of two different time periods one being during 2011, which is Molly’s story. She meets a 90 year old woman who has had many identities during her time. She tells Molly about her travels as an orphan during the 1930’s. These stories are very similar in their type, even though they were many years apart. Molly and Vivian are both orphans, they have both encountered tragedies, hope, and most of all loss. They have come to feel at times as if the world were to fall apart, and the ground might break from beneath their feet, however they found ways to move past the mournfulness and frightening times. Kline has written a page turning masterpiece that paints a picture for the audience, the lives of orphans and how they persevered through the unbearable times. Molly and Vivian both encountered times, where they were mistreated as a child, lacking the education or food they needed, yet

This book was all in all a “good read” (get it?). I loved the concept of the book and the general story of the book also. It had a couple of good characters here and there that brought a lot of new story and energy into the book such as Rusty who brought a lot of energy, and Debbie who brought a ton of new story that we wouldn't expect.

The book was well written in chronological order, which made for an easy read. This book is extremely enjoyable and telling, and it allows readers to find themselves really sympathizing and empathizing with Linda and her family. The one thing that I think Jacobs could have done differently is not using different names for the characters. To me the book would have been a thousand times more personable had she chosen to use her real name, and her family’s real names. However that does not in anyway take away from the power and sadness that her personal story

That is interesting that you liked the switch from high school drama to mysterious adventure. Personally, I did not like the switch in my brain I kept trying to justify what was happening. When reading I did not even notice the excessive language and the sexual content. I have to agree with what you said, Micah’s lies were crazy and hard to justify and hard to read.

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

All of the characters were adequately and nicely developed, with no one character getting an unbalancing amount more or less development. Though the introduction of so many characters — the story is from the perspectives of five characters, if I remember correctly,  — as the novel progressed, it became easier to keep up with the shifts in each chapter. It was also a welcome change to not read a dystopia/utopia/futuristic story that centred around a 'chosen one', a cliché which I feel is running dry in all honesty. My only character related criticism would probably be **SPOILERS** the romance arc with Avery and her adopted brother. Why there is a current 'trend' of incest in fiction is beyond me, but there we

During the funeral I realized that the reason why I wasnt there was because if I did go to it I would cry and show my weakness. I am walking through the garden and I heard footsteps, So I hid in a bush and couldn’t make out who they were because it is dark. I grab my sword from its sheath and attack the intruder, It is Roden. He attacked me and cut my stomach, but I fought back. As soon as he had me pinned down he said that I have one week to surrender to the pirates or they would attack Cathia. Roden left once he heard my soldiers running to help me. After the funeral, I went to talk to Mot, he was with King Vargan the King of Avenia. They helped me get bandaged and Mot said something about a steward taking my role as king until I was older,

One day there was a babysitter named john and 5 baby’s and their names where john Jr. bob, frank at 12 o'clock the phone RANG and the girl said “hello” but no one said anything and when I looked outside I seen a girl looking at me and John said who are u get off my property and the girl said nothing.

I didn't much care about the main character Jacqui. She brings absolutely nothing to the story. She considers herself worldly and experienced, but she came across very naive. But not a lot happens to her so she was easily ignored. Eliza is one of the most horrible characters I've ever read about. She wasn't written badly, she's just a bad person. She's shallow and vapid. Only considers people who are rich and beautiful, and is unbearably rude to those who aren't. She's has some seriously unhealthy views on life in general and love in particular. Mara was great. She's a smart girl from a small time, has a firm grasp on reality and on what in life really counts. Though she does give in to peer pressure a couple of times, but that's not surprising considering she likes to keep the peace and avoids conflict at all costs.

Beads of sweat trickled down my neck and onto the collar of my previously immaculate white show-shirt. It was a beautiful spring day for a horseshow, not a cloud speckled the sky, not too hot nor too cold. Yet, I was feeling feverish with the nerves that twisted inside my stomach. I knew I had failed even before the announcer could declare the results of my flat class. Fifteen horses with riders on their backs stood in a line waiting to hear who would claim the blue ribbon. Number after number was called, and I anxiously perched waiting on Rohan’s back to hear my number, 197. As the number of riders dwindled, the realization that I fell short with my performance crossed my mind again. When the last ribbon was handed out and I was left empty-handed my realization became reality. I patted Rohan’s neck and dismally exited the arena.

I don’t know why, I felt that she was somewhat bland in a way. I enjoyed reading her but I felt that she had no real character arc. She rather stayed the same the whole book.

Great diversity of characters. Towards the end the buildup of the conflict was a real page turner.