Themes -week four Novel study June 8, 2010

This week we are supposed to write about themes in our books. We are also supposed to answer a couple of questions about the themes like; what are a few themes in novel? And also How do you know that these things are themes?

A couple of themes in my book are… sadness and worry. Ther are many other themes like anger, and regret, but I’m going to write about sadness and worry from my book.

Sadness because Cammie and her friends are going to graduate this year and because they know that one best friend of theirs  wont be working with them in the field. They  possibly wont ever get to see her again and they know that this  is their last year together. Sadness because at the end of the book Cammie’s Aunt Abby leaves and all o f the girls look up to her and love her.

Worry because Cammie is trying to figure out who attacked them on the roof of the building in Boston. When she figures out that the people on the roof  is the Gallagher academy’s only true enemy The circle of Cavan. Worry also because the girls find out that Jillian Gallagher is Macey’s great great-grandmother.  So they think that is why the circle of Cavan attacked them on the roof. But later i n the book  Cammie get attacked and then that brings out a whole new kind of worry because why would they be after Cammie she’s not a descendent of Jillian Gallagher.

I think that the last couple of chapters were pretty intense and a lot of stuff happens in them. The last couple of chapters were a pretty fast read I mean I read them in just a couple(like 2 0r 3) silent reading classes. 

I guess to find out I’m going to have to read the next book called “only the good spy young”. To find out what happens next.

 

Authors Craft… week three novel study June 2, 2010

For our novels  this week we have to write about the authors craft and the writing style the author used.

In my book I didn’t find that the authors writing was very good. I felt that she could have used bigger words or at least more descriptive words. I feel like im read a book meant for little kids.  I have read books with better authors craft and I like it when I have to read over a word a few times to find out what they mean. To me for a piece of writing to be good it has to be harder to understand it has to make me want to read it again three more times. It also has to have a good vocabulary.  To me I might have a completely different opinion for something than another person. I could say that something sucks really bad and some one else could absolutely love it.

If I were to write a book or a short story I would use the best vocabulary I could and I would try to make my style of writing really good. I would look at a bunch of different kinds and categories of books and learn and use  some good vocabulary from those books.