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Because Of Winn Dixie Analysis

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Jennifer Lucas
Professor Broadus
LTED 3513-002
12 September 2017
Crafting of Because of Winn-Dixie Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo is a tale about a girl named Opal. She is new to town and encounters a dog at a grocery store that helps her along her new journey. Throughout this book Opal gets to know everyone and eventually becomes friends with them. The ending may not be a perfect one, however, it does have a good one. This book supports the realistic fiction criteria. The author does a good job in portraying this book as having realistic characters, scenery, and plot. I partially liked the way the author crafted the characters when making the book, was they resemble real people. The author makes the characters come to …show more content…

When I had finished the book I felt I got to know the characters as another person. A Second thing I liked about how the book was crafted was the scenery. The author made the scenery look like any other small town. It has a library called the “Herman W. Block Memorial Library,” (DiCamillo 40). It has a church, a trailer park, and a “Gertrude’s pet store,” (DiCamillo 50), this is where Opal received her first job. Every student including myself can picture these places in their heads easily. Some may have not seen a trailer park before, but they can take what they saw on television and put it into pictures. The scenery is realistic because most small town have all of these places and many students can relate to this in some way or another. The last point that stood out to me about the crafting of this book was the plot. The author used recurring plots. A plot that is mentioned in one part of the book but then comes up in another part but gives a larger meaning then before. For instance, Otis tells Opal he has has a dark past and was arrested but does not explain to her as to way he was arrested. Later on in the book though, he tell Opal he was arrested because, “I pushed down a police officer for not letting me play my guitar out in public,” (DiCamillo 131). I believe the plot is one of the important aspects of making a book. It is where the story revolves around and how the events of a book

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