The Swerve Analysis

The author did a brilliant job of putting together all the facts of every aspect of what happened but at times I felt bogged down with all the information. Therefore, the prose was not badly written it felt overwritten also containing an overabundance of

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.

Overall, the syntax in the novel is able to tie all of the literary elements together to create a story that captivates the

For the most part, the novel was very enjoyable. One aspect of it that I loved was that the storyline was extremely intense, which always compelled me to find out what would happen next. For example,

My reflections on the orginization of the novel ended with me loving how the book came together. Alex started off as a normal teenager that does normal teenage activities , but then in a blink of a eye his

Another thing that I liked about the book is that at the beginning, the wake/vigil/funeral was so accurately described. Funerals are awkward, tiring, and numbing. Meursault

The author’s style of writing is straightforward and to the point and the novel is unique because it is written through the different perspectives of the four main characters. The switching of perspectives throughout the book is what made the book so hard to put down. I could see, compare and contrast how the characters themselves feel about the situation. As this goes on, the reader can comprehend the characters’ personalities better and their view on the other characters. If this story was written from just one point of view, one wouldn’t be able to figure out each character’s thoughts and perception of people around them.

I liked that the author leaves the reader to make some conclusions themselves but I thought that the novel was confusing at times because the Blackfoot names for animals were confusing and the author did not provide any major information about what the animals were. The novel was successful in character development, descriptions, dialogue, portraying the characters and developing the story.

     I believe that this was a pretty decent book, at times it was boring and

Final Essay: Write a critique of the novel. What worked or didn’t work and how does that affect the theme or the overall story?

I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested

I’d like to build on what I was saying about understanding the book, when I read it especially in certain chapters when something big happened, I could predict what was going to happen. This was a really intense book but after the theme I could understand it.

For a first novel, the prose was lovely, and the mystery and alienation came through in the story that always danced over and across a line of fantasy, leaving multiple avenues to interpret parts of the story. It was intangible as ice or snow in the sun, melting and reforming.

There were many points that I agree with him, such as how we need to change our lifestyles to preserve the world for future generations and how far we have become but do not differ much from past civilizations as we like to think. The style of how he wrote this novel was conveying a series of logical and rational ideas by listing simple tasks that actions can be easily made and seeing how our world needs to be altered, it makes readers want to create change. However, I felt that his writing style was quite pessimistic since there were many downsides to the information that he made from our society to the past civilizations and while mentioning progress, it was all standpoints of how our advancements will become ‘progress traps’ that could harm ourselves in the long run. This is the main idea that I disagree with because there are many great advancements that our current society and past civilizations have made that not all progress or advancements will create problems ahead. Many of our developments have served great purposes in society, creating a remarkable amount of positive impacts, that many of which we cannot be here without, such as improvements in technology, medicine, art and many

     Without giving away the ending, it is hard to explain what a tremendous job was done in the conclusion of the story. Simply put, the last fifty pages have to be read in one sitting—it is impossible