Sunday, September 30, 2012

Plot Structure Reading Response

     I started and finished the book Burned this week. It's by Ellen Hopkins. The font is in the style of a poem, so I guess it's a big poem, and it tells this story. I think it's the second book or the sequel to the book Crank which I read in the seventh grade or something. The main character in this book is Pattyn. She is Mormon. She has nine sisters, a dad, and a mom. The setting is in Nevada.
     I think the type of conflict for this book could be man vs man, man vs society, and man vs self. Pattyn started feeling temptations for boys when she was 16, and she didn't think she should because of her religion. She tried to resist, but she couldn't. Pattyn then dated a non-Mormon boy even though she knew it was a sin. Her father made Pattyn move with her aunt a few hours away during the summer because of this. Then Pattyn met another nice, non-Mormon boy named Ethan.
     I think the climax is when Pattyn and Ethan started to date. Pattyn's aunt approved. Pattyn new her father and church would never allow it, but she did it anyway. Ethan gave her a promise ring because they had gained love and trust. Pattyn then moved back home because summer was over, and her father would think that Pattyn would be back in her right mind. The resolution was when Pattyn wanted to marry Ethan so he came  to pick her up in his car, but they had gotten in a car accident and only Pattyn made it. Ethan was dead, and she felt dead to the world.
    I think the theme of this story could be to resist your temptations because something good can come out of it for yourself, but in the very end the last result could be terribly brutal if you don't watch out.

    9/25-30 min., 9/27- 20 min., 9/29- 3 1/2 hrs., pages 1-532
    Total: 260 min., 532 pages.

 

2 comments:

  1. Burned must be a really good book if you read it in one week. You also must read really fast! Which can be a great quality I am really slow at reading unless I get into the book.

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  2. It sounds like you really enjoyed reading this book, because it must have been a really good book. I might want to read this book, because it seems like I would be able to under stand and read this book fairly fast.

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