When You Reach Me, By Rebecca Stead

Rebecca Stead is fame as an American writer of fiction for children and teens. The achievement of her novels is not doubtful. She was born on January 16, 1968 and raised in New York City. Vassar College was the institution where she acquired her bachelor’s degree in 1989. Moreover, she has started to write since she was a child but she altered her career to become a lawyer. However, Stead started to become of writing subsequent to the birth of her two children. Her inspiration of writing children’s

Nathaphone Luangoudom Professor Giso Critical Analysis November 27, 2011 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead GENRE When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is science fiction because the theme of the story is time travel. Time travel is a scientific principle that is new which contradict known laws of nature, for example Marcus abilities to travel in time as a homeless man to save Sal make this story science fiction. The book is also considered a mystery novel because Miranda receives a strange

How do you spend your summer? This summer I spent half of my time focusing on the book When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. When You Reach Me is a novel that takes place in the late 1970’s. The main character, Miranda, receives letters from a mystery man. She is frightened at first, but when she kept getting them, she was interested in who was sending them an why. Throughout the story, Miranda gets in conflicts with her classmates that lead to misinterpretations. Each conflict helps find out who the

How did you spend your summer? This summer I spent half of my time focusing on the book When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. When You Reach Me is a novel that takes place in the late 1970’s. The main character, Miranda, receives letters from a mystery man. She is frightened at first, but when she kept getting them, she was interested in who was sending them and why. Throughout the story, Miranda gets in conflicts with her classmates that lead to misinterpretations. Each conflict helps find out who

How do you spend your summer? This summer I spent half of my time focusing on the book When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. When You Reach Me is a novel that takes place in the late 1970’s. The main character, Miranda, receives letters from a mystery man. She is frightened at first, but when she kept getting them, she was interested in who was sending them an why. Throughout the story, Miranda gets in conflicts with her classmates that lead to misinterpretations. Each conflict helps find out who the

and the emotions that come with it. In Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me, Stead incorporates a veil metaphor to communicate an important theme in the story. Using a metaphor, Stead compares not being able to see the truth to a veil covering one’s face, disabling

In When You Reach Me, author Rebecca Stead tells a story of a young girl, named Miranda, she lives in a small apartment with her mother near a corner where a crazy homeless man lived. Miranda and her mother called him, The Laughing Man. Miranda loves A Wrinkle In Time, it is her favorite book and she reads it over and over, she has one friend named Sal, and her mother loves a game show and always wanted to be on it, The $20,000 Pyramid. As Sal and Miranda were walking home from school, a boy, Marcus

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Reading Response #1-8/29 Miranda and her mom live in New York City and the year is 1979. Mom has a boyfriend named Richard who is a lawyer and who has one leg that is a little bit shorter than the other. He visits often and helps Mom prepare for her game show appearance. Miranda said that her favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time, and she carries a copy around with her constantly. Miranda meets the kid who punched Sal one day in school. It's the day everyone was

history that everyone needs knowledge on. Elie Wiesel was 15 when the Nazis came for the 15,000 Jews of his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in May 1944. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, his mother and sister were murdered within hours, while he was put to work as a slave laborer. Eight months later, the Germans evacuated the camp and forced the survivors on a death march that ended at Buchenwald. Wiesel was one of the few still alive when the Americans arrived in April 1945. Now this is a hard book

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