The End is Near

Love, Lucy by April Lindner Question: Denouement: What is a “conflict” in literature?  What is the main conflict in your book?  How does the ending resolve (or not resolve) the main conflict?  (Is the ending happy, unhappy, or indeterminate?)  Was the ending an appropriate ending for the book?  Explain. Answer: A conflict in literature is…

Beautiful Bridges

Love, Lucy by April Lindner Question: Setting and Mood: What is the setting of the story?  How does this setting create a mood or atmosphere for the story?  Describe the mood, using evidence from the text to support your answer. Answer: There are multiple settings within the story: there’s places and countries all over Europe,…

Love, Lucy : Ciao, Jesse

Love, Lucy by April Lindner Question: General Question: What is the significance of the title of your book?  What does the title mean? Does it mean more than one thing?  How do you understand your book better because of the title? Answer: The title of my book is Lucy’s way of signing her emails to Jesse.…

The Rolling Hills of Italy

Love, Lucy by April Lindner Question: Setting and Mood: What is the setting of the story?  Is the setting familiar or unfamiliar to you?  Why?  (It might be familiar if you’ve been to the place where the story is set or it is set in modern-day.  It might be unfamiliar if it is in a time…

Sophomore 2: Humor Helps

Question: If the story uses humor, how does the humor contribute to meaning? Answer: In Mosquitoland, there is a lot of humor that definitely contributes to the meaning and makes the reader more connected with the book. The author uses a lot of humor (whether in Mim’s narration or the form of an event that is heartwarming…

Sophomore 2: Mosquitoland = Mississippi

Question: What is the significance of the title of your book? What does the title mean? Does it mean more than one thing? In what ways do you understand your book better because of the title? (A response to this question will be more interesting if your title can mean more than one thing.) Answer: The significance…

Sophomore 2: Some Things are Better Kept as Secrets

Question: Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Answer: The author uses point of view primarily to reveal. Throughout most of the book, the narrator is the main character, Mim. Mim is a 16 year-old-girl who is, as the reader finds out in the first chapter, ‘not okay’. The reader is…

Sophomore 2: Mim’s Misfotune

Question: Characterize the main conflicts: physical, moral, or emotional. You have to first decide what the main conflict is or the main conflicts are. Think of what the protagonist desires and who or what is keeping him/her from getting what he/she wants. Is that conflict physical (how?), moral (how?), or emotional (how? what emotion(s) and why?)?…

Mosquitoland by David Arnold

The book I read for the second Independent Reading Project:

Sophomore 1: (Extra Credit Blog Post) | Friends Forever.

Question: Is the ending happy, unhappy, or indeterminate (just ends, leaves you hanging, the conflict is not clearly resolved). Is the ending the appropriate ending for this book?   Answer: The ending is happy, and what I believe to be the perfect, yet appropriate, ending for this book. It takes place in the hospital, when Hannah is…