Wilder's 'Ma' By Wilder: Analysis

One thing the book talks about is keeping childhood innocence. Mostly through the characters of the story the novel also shows how easily experience can change people and cause them to lose their youthful traits. Dallys rough youth has made him tough and fearsome, and he seems not to care about anything. But Dally has a soft spot too caring for Johnny.

For instance, the author’s use of characters: Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, and Ivan, help to give the story meaning. Sanger Zaroff, a world-renowned big-game hunter, intelligent and experienced, Rainsford uses his wits and physical abilities to outwit General Zaroff: “I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey’s. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon.” Hiding from Zaroff, he recalls his days fighting in the trenches of World War I, where he witnessed unimaginable violence: “Rainsford had dug himself in France when a second’s delay meant death. That had been a placid pastime compared to his digging now.” At the same time, the three-day chase reverses his life of privilege and ease, forcing him to sacrifice comfort and luxury to survive. General

I love how I can somewhat relate to this book. This book really explains what it's like to live on a farm. I love how Gary Paulson uses comedy to make this book one of my favorite reads. This book is a great story for all ages who love to read stories that you never know what's going to happen next. This book just always takes a different turn, you never can guess what will happen next. I love how Gary Paulson uses action and comedy to make this book interesting and fun to

      From the very first paragraph of the narrative, I noticed that there were several details that the narrator mentioned that required further, deeper thought. For me, this is what made the story appealing.

Plot is one of the most important aspects of any story or novel. Without plot, there is no point to the story being told. If there are characters walking through the woods the reader needs to know why they are walking through the woods and where they are going. In “Indian Education” there is a clear and concise plot that follows a logical sequence of events. For example, when Victor is shown to be in second grade he narrates that his teacher “…sent a letter home with me that told my parents to either cut my braids or keep me home from class.” This causes feelings of outrage in not only Victor, but his parents too. Later, as an act of defiance towards his oppressors, Victor tells the reader that his graduation cap does not fit because of his extremely long hair. With each event that happens, the reader can connect it to another event or the story as a whole without confusion or difficulty.

And also when I read about the goblins where they are lived. Also, when the Princess lost herself to their house and she meet her great grandmother at the secret part of their house. And her grandmother is a mysterious in the story because the people on their house didn’t know about the queens at the top of the house, only the Princess. I like also when the Princess and Curdie meets and he saved the Princess from the goblin. And it becomes interesting with me because in that story shows the good relationships of father to daughter, nanny to Princess, grandmother to her grand-daughter, and also to her friends. And also the moral lesson that we can adopt and we can apply to our daily lives. It becomes interesting with me that their house has a secret part, and only the Princess are the one who went there and that place was his grandmothers room. And her grandmother lived only by eating the pigeons egg. I also like in the story is when the Princess do his promises, she did not break

Also the conflict that was announced in the parking lot where the bad older character was hit with a tire iron and the three young teenage boys were fighting with this man. For the most part the narrator consistently talks about his wild life style. He chose even though he was from a well off family and he didn't have to take that road, but we all have the choice and every generation goes though it. The narrator also tips of his rebirth and baptism in the lake while he was running from his fight that he just encountered with the tire iron he trips over a body floating in the lake. All in all I thought this story was super fun to read and relate to in the sense of being wild and ruthless, but the song that came along with it was pretty awsome and was fun to listen to and get a feel for the time period and style back in the day where it was good to be

It didn’t help me to analyze anything from the book or make any good connection with the themes. The movie and the novel share one thing in common, which is the main characters struggle with society. The main character in the movie, Charlie, battles with his love for religion (Catholicism) and his Mafia ambitions. The movie has an abrupt ending with a scene of an ambulance and paramedics arriving to help Charlie and Johnny that have been shot by the man they owe money to. The movies main purpose was to illustrate the cultural and ethnic situation of the time and how it impacted the youth’s

This quote is important to the narrator, because it upturns her feelings about her home.

Setting, the setting of this story is what really got me into the story because it made me feel as if I was one of the characters, as

The book has lots of different times where I feel I am personally connected with the story or can make connections with the characters or setting. The setting of the book is in an old rural town where there isn’t many people. The town is constantly being described in further detail throughout the book. The more the town is described, the more it reminds me of the little old towns we passed on our way done to Coffs Harbour in NSW. In particular, this one that ran down a river with a sugar can mill all old buildings and a dodgy road. It matched the exact description of the town in the book. Also in the book the main character and his brother Keith always spend afternoon with their dad eating chips or special special treats.

The humanizing aspect of the book is what I enjoyed most about the book, because while I love learning about science, colorless scientific histories are rather difficult to read.

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

novel because it pushes the children closer to the reality of the adult world. Mr. Nathan Radley

Not only do the roles of the characters compel a reader, they also illustrate the