Dear Mrs. Zrihen I just finished the short story called The Appearance by Kate Lubrigacy. Although this story is very short it had some pretty weird events that happen in a regular chapter book. I thought this book was a little scary so if you are the kind of person that wants to read a short story that is scary I recommend this to you. This book was scary but at the same time very spooky like things you will ask while reading this book is
what will happen ? That is crazy? Why did he do that? Just by looking at these questions you can see how haunted the book is.
The first strategy I used before I started this book was I skim and scanned for text features. The other strategy I used before starting the story was to predict what was going to happen and I predicted that this story was going to be about the author writing about a tale being told that might have been interested to her. After I read the first few paragraphs and went to the second page I used other strategies like to confirm my prediction I made before and it was correct, but too general for this story. The other strategy was to reread parts for any kind of reason, maybe I didn't understand it or I just want to read it many times. When I was done I, first asked some questions about what had happened in the story, like what was the conflict, where did it happen, ETC.
The foil character is the firefighter who takes place in the book not so many times. There is no protagonist the author is the main antagonist talking about the person who was appearing at the girls house every week that was why it was called the appearance. The characters in the story are not dynamic they are flat because it is a short story. The conflict in this book is that everyday the girl comes home and she sees and hears noises coming from a person that is in her house and she lives in a town were not that much people live out of the city she is
very unpopular and does not have many friends. The conflict is Man vs. Man, and their is no weather conditions at all that are discussed in the story. The rising action is when the girl realizes that their is noise in her house, the climax is when she tries to investigate who is at her house, the resolution is when there are noises coming from the vent and their is really nobody at her house she was officially going crazy according to the author.
The genre of the story is short story fiction because it only has one plot, one conflict, and mostly one of everything. The setting is in a house. I don't know the theme and I don't think there's a moral. The point of view in this story is first person because the author is talking about herself. The author organized this book into time order because it is going through time. Edgar wrote this story to entertain the reader or maybe share. I couldn't find any figurative language and the perspective.
I would rate this book a 10/10 because it was the best short story I have ever read.
Dear Bar,
ReplyDeleteYour Readers Journal was great. I just have a few questions. First, what would you change if you were the author? Also what would you do in the main characters shoes? Lastly, what was your favorite part?
Sincerely,
Mikey
Dear MichaeL thank you for commenting on my readers journal last week nobody did. If I were the author of the book I would not really change anything the book had everything it should of had in it. I would have done almost the same thing that she did call an investigator and he will solve the problem. (this was in my RJ if you read you will find it) The favorite part of the book for me was when they found out who was making the noise in the house.
ReplyDeleteSincerely, B.P