In the novel, Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard, there were many parts in the text that I had difficulty understanding, while there were other parts of the text that were easy to understand and connect to. I can clearly understand and see how the author described the settings to help the reader better understand the story and scenes. At the funeral, the author explains the setting around the characters and introduces new ones. The author states, “The church was dark and the silence was eerie. The room was filled with sorrow. The only glance of light was from the sun, which bounced from the windows. Then my phone rang, breaking the silence” (Shepard 282). I can visually see everything that is happening and how sad and dark everything must …show more content…
I can mentally create a picture in my mind of the scene and how people may have been feeling. Also, the dark and gloomy church makes the reader feel more suspicious about what is going to happen next. It also built up suspense, which made me want to continue reading. Once I imagined that I was part of the scene, I felt all the of emotions that the characters were feeling and it helped me get to know how the characters and how they react to different problems. I can also connect to this book and this scene because I have gone to a funeral before, and I did feel gloomy and emotional, just like the girls in the novel. Even though I could connect to some part of the story, there were other parts and scenes that were difficult for me to connect to. One part of the novel I could not connect to was how all of the girls had their best friend die. Not only that, but I have never had a person stalk or threaten me before. Overall, there were many parts of my novel that I could understand and connect to, while other parts were difficult for me to comprehend and attach …show more content…
The book has many different types of settings that explains where the characters are and creates a specific tone for the reader. Before I start reading my book, I always go back a couple of pages to remind myself of what is going on during the scene. This helps me better understand the book and helps me jump right back into the text. When the author explains the setting, it makes me feel like I am part of the story and creates an image in my head. I can also connect to the the characters more when I feel like I am in the story. While I am reading, I normally jot down significant information to help me remember important details in the story. Once I finish reading, I normally look at my paper that a wrote on and see all the main ideas that occurred during the section I read. Following all of these steps every time I read helps me comprehend the plot, characters, and setting. I did meet my goal for the marking period and I can better understand my book through my strategies. It is easy to see that while following all the steps and strategies while reading my book, I can reach my skill goal of understand how setting contributes to conflict, plot, and characterization of a
There are lots of things that contribute into a good reading experience. A few of them being, you have to want to read the book. You also have to pick a good time where you can focus on the book. Also, you need to be able to evaluate every couple of pages to make sure that your understanding what's happening in the story. In the book I read there's this part where he falls in love with the common
It allowed me to connect with the author’s thoughts and thoroughly understand the story or novel. Because of this, it caused me to enjoy reading, which I was not particularly fond of before.
The character and the setting work together to help find the theme in multiple ways. The characters lives and works in the setting, while the setting and society helps influence the main character. The setting shows where the character lives in the world, and how the culture in
At these points it is more up to the reader to imagine what the settings looked like instead of the author just stating what the places looked like. An example of this is when the author says Dally was waiting for Johnny and me under the street light at the corner of Pickett and Sutton.” Here the author says that there is a street light in a corner, this has some description, but it is up to the reader to figure out what the rest of the place looks like. The reader has to figure out whether there is a brick sidewalk or a cement one, this is good because then it will be more fun for the reader and it will keep them more entertained. The book also has really specific descriptions, such as this one, “One time there was a very specific description of the setting was when the author was describing the park. “The park was about two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for the little kids. The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain was going merrily. Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark, and it would have been a good hangout, but we preferred our vacant lot, and the Shepherd outfit liked the alleys down by the tracks, so the park was left to lovers and little kids.” In this quote it shows how big the park is, that there is a pool and a fountain. The quote also says that the
Digging into a chapter and realizing that each one is a different event in her life, is thrilling. The reader forms opinions and creates a vision in their mind about the characters and scenery. There are times where I found myself asking questions and wondering what
The last method I am going to talk to you about is setting makes a big part of the a book because it impacts the character's emotion.For example when francesca has to go to her nona's for a while because of her mum being sick.it changes francescas mood and how they respond to charcters.Like francesca was missing her brother alot because they have’nt seen each other in so long because they where split up for along time a quote from when francesca was at her nonas.“I've been at nonna's for 2 weeks”.This quote shows that she has been at her nona's for a long
I’d like to build on what I was saying about understanding the book, when I read it especially in certain chapters when something big happened, I could predict what was going to happen. This was a really intense book but after the theme I could understand it.
reader feel more immersed and in-depth with the story. In this story, the author also uses
The author wants to draw us into the story; they want us to feel like we are in the
The authors want to paint a picture in your mind of what is happening in the book. It helps you understand if the characters are scared, sad, or happy. If you don’t have a mood for the story, you will never understand what the characters feel about their surroundings. “Rainsford sprang up and moved quickly to the rail, mystified. He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come.
To read is to understand yourself, it’s seeing you in a different world exploring, fighting, surviving, but living and doing what needs to be done. You start to feel as if you belong to a group, there’s no more worry about if you need to be perfect. Why? Because those characters will become your strength, when you feel like crap remember them and you’ll feel much better.
While reading through books I sometimes find myself just saying the words in my head and they begin to have no meaning. By trying to create a picture in my head and linking together what I am reading to something that I heard in the past I find myself able to comprehend the passages in the book. I will then have an understanding of what is being said and will be able to recall what I read at a later time. Any time that I find this happening to me I will stop get up to take a break before I sit back down to read what I missed all over
During the time that I’m reading the novel, there is abundant of psychological descriptions and conversations, but it is hard for novel readers to see and feel directly what is happening except for imagination. First, by observing the tone of the novel, the text can’t pass the difference and the changes of
The setting creates the enviornment for the entire story, the time and the place. Every single part of the story revolves around this. What the characters look like, how they talk to eachother, where they live, what is going on around them. The main conflict is even determined by the time period and where in the world it takes place. For example, the story "The Cask of Amontillado" is set in Paris, France around the rennaissance era. but theres more to the setting than just that. "It was about dusk one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that i encountered with my friend." This describes more about the enviornment around the characters in the beggining of the story. Then the setting shifts,"Its walls had been lined with
Once you begin a book, you’re thrown into a story. As you read you begin to see the true meaning of the book. You see the theme. Character development shows you how the character progressed throughout the story and changed to enhances the theme. Plot events show the character’s reaction to an event to enhance the theme. Setting puts the character in a place that they have to adapt to, which helps bring out the theme. Although each book has its very own unique theme, all authors use character development, plot events, and setting to express the theme.