Dear Jodi,
I recently finished you novel and I've started another one of your books: The Pact. I have also read My sisters keeper and i noticed you have the same sort of theme in all your books: How well do you know your children. Do you enjoy writing about sad and depressing things that make the reader have sympathy for all the characters? well, you sure know how to make it seem that way! i am going to analyze your main quote of this novel.
"In nineteen minuted, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist;you can fold laundry for a family of five...In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge". This quote relates to many instances in this novel. For example, Peter decided to get revenge against all his classmates that ever bullied him. Do you think this was acceptable? Personally, i think no. But studies showed that Peter was in a state of not knowing what was going on. In the end, the secret is revealed about the truth, and in that instance, she jumped off of the world. Well Jodie, all in all, this novel was great. Although it had dark times, it taught me many lessons that i will always remember.
THANKS!
Claire O'Neill
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Week 7, Post A
Nineteen Minutes
VOCAB
1.) Molotov (251): Soviet politician who was head of the Council of People's Commissars (1930-1941) and foreign minister (1939-1949 and 1953-1956).
2.) Crocuses (252):the flower or bulb of the crocus.
FIG LANGUAGE
1.) Imagery. "Josie glanced from the serviceable gray tile floor to the cinder-block walls, from the iron bars that isolated Dispatch from the sitting area to the heavy door with its automatic lock"(273). This quote is clearly imagery because it describes the jail as Josie is seeing it and you can imagine how it must look.
2.) Metaphor. "What they'd lost was written across their faces, a collective scar"(264). This quote is a metaphor because you could see what a person lost through their expressions but it wouldnt leave a scar but it might have left an inner scar.
3.) Similie. "How questions could build up like the pressure inside a champagne bottle"(274). This quote is a similie because it uses "like" but also, it compares building up questions to the pressure in a champagne bottle.
QUOTE
"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest-learning when it was better to lie, rather than hurt someone witht eh truth. [...] it was why she was talking about camp and stuffed animals - the hallmarks of the son she remembered - instead of discovering who he had become. But Peter had never learned how to say one thing when he meant another. It was one of the reasons he'd been hurt so many times"(257). This quote was the turning point in the novel when lacy realizes that her son, Peter, knows that she cannot handle the fact he is in jail. She has gone so far to lying in order to make him not be hurt anymore with the truth that other kids have ruined his life with.
THEME
Relating to above, a major theme is lying rather than hurting someone with the truth. This is what is needed to do in order to make someone feel better about themselves even though it is not true. Lacy does this to her son in order to get other the truth that he is in jail.
VOCAB
1.) Molotov (251): Soviet politician who was head of the Council of People's Commissars (1930-1941) and foreign minister (1939-1949 and 1953-1956).
2.) Crocuses (252):the flower or bulb of the crocus.
FIG LANGUAGE
1.) Imagery. "Josie glanced from the serviceable gray tile floor to the cinder-block walls, from the iron bars that isolated Dispatch from the sitting area to the heavy door with its automatic lock"(273). This quote is clearly imagery because it describes the jail as Josie is seeing it and you can imagine how it must look.
2.) Metaphor. "What they'd lost was written across their faces, a collective scar"(264). This quote is a metaphor because you could see what a person lost through their expressions but it wouldnt leave a scar but it might have left an inner scar.
3.) Similie. "How questions could build up like the pressure inside a champagne bottle"(274). This quote is a similie because it uses "like" but also, it compares building up questions to the pressure in a champagne bottle.
QUOTE
"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest-learning when it was better to lie, rather than hurt someone witht eh truth. [...] it was why she was talking about camp and stuffed animals - the hallmarks of the son she remembered - instead of discovering who he had become. But Peter had never learned how to say one thing when he meant another. It was one of the reasons he'd been hurt so many times"(257). This quote was the turning point in the novel when lacy realizes that her son, Peter, knows that she cannot handle the fact he is in jail. She has gone so far to lying in order to make him not be hurt anymore with the truth that other kids have ruined his life with.
THEME
Relating to above, a major theme is lying rather than hurting someone with the truth. This is what is needed to do in order to make someone feel better about themselves even though it is not true. Lacy does this to her son in order to get other the truth that he is in jail.
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