Theme
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I asked him what
happened, what animal had hurt him, but he wasn´t listening. “Go to the
Island,” he repeated. “You´ll be safe there. Promise me.” “I will. I promise”
What else could I say? “I thought I could protect you,” he said. “I should´ve
told you a long time ago…”I could see the life going out of him. “Told me
what?” I said, choking back tears. “There´s no time, “he whispered.
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We picked this
paragraph because we think it shows the theme quite well. Since we guess the
theme is trust and to follow your instincts, we thought this paragraph was
suitable because it shows how Jacob has to decide to trust his grandfather.
Jacob has to choose whether he should believe his grandfather and go to the
Island, or if it´s just fairy tales.
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Setting
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“A loop,” I repeated,
remembering my grandfather´s command: find
the bird, in the loop. “Is that what this place is?” “Yes. Though you may
better know it as the third of September, 1940.” I leaned toward her over the
little desk. “What do you mean? It´s only the one day? It repeats?” “Over and
over, though our experience of it is continuous. Otherwise we would have no
memory of the last, oh, seventy years that we´ve resided here.” “That´s
amazing,” I said.
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This paragraph shows
some of the setting. The setting is a bit back and forth. In the beginning they
are located in Florida, USA, in modern times. Then Jacob travels with his
father to Wales, to the Island, and finds a tunnel which takes him back in
time, to third of September, 1940. This paragraph is taken from the time when
Jacob has recently travelled back in time, and is about to discover it.
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Plot
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I´d always known I
was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar. But if I could see things almost
no one else could, it explained why Ricky hadn´t seen anything in the woods
the night my grandfather was killed. It explained why everyone thought I was
crazy. I wasn’t crazy or seeing things or having a stress reaction; the
panicky twist in my gut whenever they were close-that and the awful sight of
them- that was my gift.
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It was a bit hard to
find a paragraph that shows the whole plot in a good way, but we thought this
paragraph shows it quite well. Some of the “mystery” in the book is revealed
in this paragraph. We find out why Jacob can see the monsters, and why his
friend can´t. The whole plot is not revealed, but some of it is.
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Character
Development
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A tree branch landed
in the water. I grabbed it and Emma pulled, and when we finally came out of
the bog I was shaking too hard to stand. Emma sank down beside me and I fell
into her arms. I killed it, I
thought. I really killed it. All
the time I´d spent being afraid, I never dreamed I could actually kill one!
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This paragraph show
how Jacobs character has developed through the story. Before he was always afraid,
but now he has dared to face his fear. This shows his character development quite
well.
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I did this together with Ingeborg in my class.
I thought
the book was very interesting and fun to read. The book contained images of
different people and things doing weird things. It was a bit creepy, but it made
the story much more fun to read when you could see the pictures and got the
feeling it was real. Our class made a tweet to Ransom Riggs, the writer of the
book, and asked if the images were real. He answered that they were real, and I
was quite surprised actually! But the book itself was a new type of book for
me, and it was fun reading it. But sometimes I think it was a bit boring and “still-standing”.
But the book was interesting and well written, and I can recommend reading it!
I'm glad you recommend it! I read it and liked it as well. Very surprising how it changed from Florida to Wales! Very descriptive. Like the paragraphs you have chosen!
ReplyDeleteFrom Florida to Wales? How did they do that? Oh yeah, this magical thing called "an airplane". Seriously, why is that setting change so surprising?
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