Hello, I totally forgot to share my opinion about this book, and which pages in the book were important to understand the theme, plot etc, so are they:
Page 302 and 303
Character
development
"So i squeezed
my eyes shut, because I didn't want its gaping jaws to be the last thing I'd
ever see, and gripped the shears in fron of me with both hands. Time seemed to
strech out, like they say it does in car
crashes and train accidents and free-falls from airplanes. and the next thing I
felt was a bone-jar-ring collision as I slammed into the hollow.." (...)
" I killed it, I thought, I really killed it. All the time I'd spent being
afraid, I never dreamed that I could actually kill one."
This describes how
Jacobs thoughts changes fast, in the first part he is really scared and he
really thinks that he is going to die. The last part shows that he has made
something happen. This is his thoughts after an important event in the book.
This part is important for the book because you get an inside look to Jacobs
thoughts. It gives you a deeper inside of who he is as a person.
Page 243. Plot: "He could see the monsters. The moment she said it, all the horrors I
thought I'd put behind me came flooding back. Thew were real. They ere real and
they'd killed my grandfather. "I can see them too", I told her,
whispering it like a secret shame. Her eyes welled and she embraced me.
"I knew there
was something peculiar about you"
she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.""
This draft really
describes the plot very well. The most important point is that all the stories
Grandpa Portman ever told were real. The peculiar children were real, the
monsters and the loop. Everything turned out to be true. It also describes the
feelings that appear between Jacob and Emma.
Page 79.
Setting: My
grandfather had described it a hundred times, but in his stories the house was
always a bright and happy place-big and rambling, yes, but full of light and
laughter. What stood before me now was no refuge from monster but a monster itself,
staring down from its perch on the hill with vacant hunger.
This paragraph
describes the setting of where most of Grandpa Portmans stories took place. The
setting is a old house situated on a small island in Whales. This is also the
place where most of the setting in the book takes place and the house plays an
important role in the book. This is the house were Grandpa Portman grew up and
Jacob is now returning to the same house many years later to find out the truth
about all the stories he has been told.
Page: 45. Theme :"
Beneath those photos were five more that Grandpa Portman had never shown me. I
wondered why, until I looked closer. Three were so obviously manipulated that
even a kid would see through them: one was a laughable double exposure of a
girl "trapped" in a bottle; another showed a "levitating"
child, suspend by something hidden in the doorway behind her; the third was a
dog with a boy's face pasted crudely onto it. As if these weren't bizarre
enough, the last two were like something out of David Lynch's nightmares: one
was an unhappy young contortionist doing a frightening backbend; in the other a
pair of freakish twins were dressed in the weirdest costumes I'd ever seen.
Even my grandfather, who'd filled my head with stories of tentacle-tongued
monsters, had realized images like these would give any kid bad dreams"
This part of the book shows you the theme in
the book and it also describes how the grandfather used to tell the stories to
the main character. The last sentence about monsters gives you a hint that the
book will not only be about grandfather telling some stories.
- If you have read this book, do you agree that these pages were important in the book? If not, which would you rather use?
Ewa
