What mood does your current novel give? What words and/or passages did the author use to get the reader to feel this mood? How does this mood contribute to characters, conflicts, or themes of your novel? Be sure to use your textual evidence.
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Violet Detwiler
10/18/2015 05:51:03 pm
I am currently reading the book “The Voice on The Radio” by Caroline B Cooney. This book has a very complicated storyline therefore making the reader feel many different emotions throughout the novel. There are many times when the reader feels sadness, joy, and anger while reading this book and these emotions can really effect the characters, conflicts, and themes of the novel.
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Peyton Clark
11/8/2015 05:25:49 pm
Violet,
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Aiga Petelo
10/19/2015 06:17:06 pm
In the book “Going Bovine” by Libba Bray the mood is very uncertain due to multiple mood swings in different chapters. One reason this is reasonable is because Bray can make you feel worried, mad, and happy about what you’re reading. “And over where the bus was parked earlier, I see nothing but a big empty space. No. No, no, no, no, no.”(189) this worries me because the bus that was nowhere to be found was Cameron and Gonzo’s ride to Florida (their destination). This mood contributes to conflicts because it causes Cameron to get in trouble with the school and his parents for punching an injured football player. The worried feeling you get also weaves throughout the story. For example:
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Kole Arellano
11/7/2015 09:10:54 pm
Aiga,
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Cora Perkins
11/8/2015 10:55:54 am
Aiga,
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Ella Dillon
10/19/2015 06:19:47 pm
“Go Ask Alice,” by an anonymous writer, is a dark portrayal of a troubled fifteen year-old girl battling high school and home life, who keeps it chronicled in her diary. The story begins with, “Yesterday I remember thinking I was the happiest person in the whole earth, in the whole galaxy, in all of God’s creation...Now it’s all smashed down upon my head and I wish I could just melt into the blaaaa-neess of the universe and cease to exist”(pg.7). This line presents a melancholy mood which grows into despair throughout the days. It shows how her life goes from exultant to appalling within a day. One cause of this mood is that Alice had just had her heartbroken by a boy named Rodger which she claims on October 26, “I don’t feel about any other boy like I did with Rodger, I guess he was my one and only true love.”(pg.12) in this line it really shows the importance that Rodger had to her and how hurt she actually is. Soon she discovers her family is moving, and at first she seems excited but then realizes she will miss her home, making her sad again. January 1st she says, “Imagine moving into a new home and a new town and a new county and a new state all at the same time…I’ve seen pictures of it, but it still seems like a large, cold foreboding stranger…I barely made it in our old town where I knew everybody and they knew me. I’ve never even allowed myself to think about it before, but I really don’t have much to offer in a new situation…Here I go bawling again” (pg.19). This relates to the mood by showing her sadness and how she doesn’t accept herself or anything going on around her. The character’s conflict is that she feels empty, and she eventually finds herself turning to something that will corrupt her spirit and body.
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Noah Butzine
10/20/2015 03:28:14 pm
In my novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there are different moods throughout the story. I think that the strongest mood occurs in Chapter 17 when Atticus (one of the main protagonists) is defending an African American man accused of rape in court.
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Sydni Stoffel
10/20/2015 08:06:36 pm
In my current novel “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult the mood of this novel comes off as dejected. The main character in this story (Anna) is basically her sister’s donor for everything. “I was perfectly engineered in a petri dish so I could be my sister’s dummy. My parents say it’s because they wanted to know exactly what they are getting, but I don’t buy it” (1). Anna comes off as a normal teenager with mixed feelings but unlike most of us who have problems with boys and phones, she has a problem with her body. Her body is more like a pin cushion, always being pricked and prodded. She doesn’t feel loved or that she is really wanted in her family. This leads to the novel coming off as dejection, because of how sad it would be to have to be the “pin cushion” of the family.
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Sydni Stoffel
10/20/2015 08:08:12 pm
I would like to used this revised copy instead please :)
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Noah Butzine
10/25/2015 05:50:02 pm
Sydni,
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Joe Williams
11/2/2015 02:52:12 pm
Sydni,
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Aiga Petelo
11/7/2015 11:38:19 am
Sydni,
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Autumn Detor
11/8/2015 07:08:05 am
Sydni,
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Violet Detwiler
11/8/2015 08:18:43 pm
Sydni,
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Will Smardo
11/9/2015 08:21:01 pm
Sydni,
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Autumn Detor
10/21/2015 05:15:26 pm
I am currently reading the book “Pathfinder” by Orson Scott Card, there are several different moods. Some of them are easy to indentify, while others are more woven into the story, making them hard to find.
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Cora Perkins
12/5/2015 11:56:59 am
Autumn,
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Kassia
10/22/2015 06:05:26 am
I am reading "The Cellar" by Natasha Preston. The mood is mysterious, eerie, and creepy in several different ways. Summer was walking through the the woods in the middle of the night by herself, which I believe was her first mistake. As she is walking she sees this tall dark figure ahead of her and in a blink of an eye he is right beside her whispering in her ear. All this man is whispering is "Lily" Summer tells this man that her name was not Lily but Summer. He still continues to whisper "Lily" into her ear. He then grabs her for duly and takes her to his house, after a short rode to his house he throws her into a cellar with three other girls. I believe that this passage in the novel was a creepy mood and I was on edge of if she was going to get away or if he will take her, and what that man was even doing in the woods, seems like he was just waiting for Summer to arrive.The main character (Lily/Summer) and her friends, Rose, Poppy, and Violet, are trapped in a cellar by a man they have never seen or meet before. This man loves his perfect pure flowers... But flowers can't last long cut off from the sun, and when they do die, this man turns into a maniac and screams and yells, even hits these girls. This makes you wonder if these girls can ever get out with out this man finding out. " YOU.WILL.LEARN" indicates that Clover is hinting to these girls that if they make another mistake or hurt his family or his flowers, they will definitely regret it and Summer knows he can and will kill everyone around him if he needs to, even over flowers. Clover is a true maniac so these girls are terrified of him. The eerie mood comes into play when Violet decides to smash a vase over the mans head and you are just sitting there waiting, with no action as the man stands up and slaps Violet across the face, Natasha adds that the slap was so hard that it echoed throughout the cellar.
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Caleb Upson
11/9/2015 09:20:14 pm
Dear Kassia,
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Haley Christianson
12/16/2015 08:15:19 pm
Dear Kassia,
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Grace Smith
10/25/2015 04:31:27 pm
In my novel, A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks, the main character Landon has just started his senior year at Beaufort High, and despite not being good enough for his senator of a dad and living in the shadow of his best friend Eric, captain of the football team, he is doing well. Landon is sort of oblivious to what is going on around him. This book conveys many moods, but one of the strongest is loneliness. An event that helps establish this mood is when Landon’s ex-girlfriend got sick at the homecoming dance and him and his date, Jamie Sullivan, had to clean it up so the teachers wouldn’t find out, so Landon “Went off and located Eric behind the bleachers, and he agreed to stand guard at the bathroom door,”. This is an example of when Landon is oblivious and can’t take a hint. It doesn’t state it directly, but Landon doesn’t understand that his friend has his own things going on and doesn’t want to spend much time helping or hanging out with him anymore. But don’t get me wrong, he isn’t a complete idiot, he just has a hard time knowing when there is conflict, which, in a way could be an example of dramatic irony, since we know there is conflict but the character doesn’t. This all contributes to the mood of loneliness because there’s no one to explain that there is a problem, he just stays unaware because nobody is there for him.
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Michael Havard
10/26/2015 03:19:02 pm
Michael Havard
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Brayden Kelley
11/9/2015 04:06:43 pm
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Chris Balding
12/9/2015 07:26:05 pm
Michael,
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Haley Christianson
12/16/2015 04:55:56 pm
Dear Michael Havard,
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Peyton Clark
10/27/2015 07:36:20 pm
The novel I am currently reading is "Confessions of a Murder Suspect," by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. This book gives many different moods throughout different events in the book. A good example of the mood is shown in this quote, " Our doors were locked, and there was no obvious signs of a break-in. Aside from me, my brothers Harry and Hugo and my mothers personal assistant, Samantha, were the only ones home." (8)This gives a sense of uneasiness just thinking that someone who murdered people had the key to the house and was someone you trusted. This also made feel sorry for Tandy, the main character, because of the situation she was in. One of the most reoccurring moods is anger. "'I hate you for turning us into freaks,' Hugo said, standing over our uncle. 'I hate you with all my heart. Just like I hated them,'"(261) demonstrates the anger I felt towards the uncle. This quote also makes me feel scared for the uncle because of the hatred his ,215 pound professional football player, nephew has expressed towards him.
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Aliya Wilcox
11/8/2015 04:24:31 pm
Peyton,
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Tysen Trujillo
10/27/2015 08:55:19 pm
In my novel “Paper Towns” by John Green. The mood seems to be very strong to make you feel as there character does. Green makes it as if you feel like the character to understand the story that allows you to make connections as you read. One passage that Green uses that really stands out is, “The day she ran away to Mississippi, she ate alphabet soup and left exactly four letters in her soup bowl: An M, an, I an S, and a P.” (Pg.102) This reflects a mysterious mood because the way she left the letters in the soup leaving you clueless makes you wonder what she is saying. Even though she leaves many clues none of them led anywhere. “The clues the stupid clues. The stupid clues. But you can never follow them anywhere.” (Pg.102) This leads to another mysterious mood, when clues don’t lead anywhere you get eager to find what they mean and this is what happened to Quentin. (Protagonist)
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Chloe Williams
12/7/2015 07:29:54 pm
Tysen,
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Gaby Bowman
10/28/2015 07:33:01 pm
In my novel “Pride and the Prejudice and Zombies” the mood stays at something frightening and even something intense. All authors use mood in stories, in order to connect with the reader. In order to get that certain emotion. Mood is used to change your perspectives and even manipulate your feelings. It is one of the stronger tools in a writer’s kit. Mood switches into the plot as well as the conflict. At times it contributes to the theme. Not using mood is impossible. Mood is in everything even when you don’t mean to put it there.
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Michael Winward
11/3/2015 04:48:18 pm
The mood that is conveyed in my book, "Battle of the Ampere" by Richard Paul Evans is one of continual danger and distress. The main character, Michael Vey, is on the run from not only a power-hungry inventor, but also the Peruvian government. He is not just responsible for himself, but he feels like he is responsible for all of his seven of his friends and his girlfriend, who are all on the run with him. This obviously brings about a lot of danger and stress for Michael.
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Joe Williams
11/5/2015 11:25:07 am
In the narrative that I am currently reading, The Martian by Andy Weir, There are many moods instilled in the reader. The story itself is told from the entries in a log that Mark Watney (the protagonist) creates. As expected, like in any place where somebody puts their emotions, such as a diary, there was a lot of fluctuation in mood, coming from Watney’s problems and solutions. The most relevant example of mood in the book that I can state is likely between the pages 158 through 167, where the character has to deal with likely the most disruptive problem described in the book. The mood it brings, if I had to put it to the one feeling that Weir wanted to simulate for the reader(s) in this section, it would be that of frustration.
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Chris Balding
11/6/2015 01:36:08 pm
In the novel "Paladin" by Sally Slater, a few certain moods are distributed throughout the book. Some authors use moods like dark and mysterious, or happy and uplifting, but Sally Slater used the mood of almost an unreal fantasy. In this book, without this mood, you won't be able to feel all of the emotion that the author put into the novel Paladin.
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Will Smardo
11/7/2015 11:16:28 am
In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the mood is curiosity. This is natural, when the book is written through a young child’s eyes. Harper Lee is creating a suspenseful tone and young Scout is filled with curiosity. The mood develops more and more as Dill (Scouts’ friend) yearns for information about their mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. The town fears the Radley home, “A Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night, he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked. The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley chickenyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley Pecans would kill you. A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked” (11). The primary school trio of Dill, Scout and Jem are intent to find out more about Boo Radley. Harper makes the reader wonder with the characters by only revealing to the reader what the characters already know. The reader, feels themselves experience the story with Scout and feel the same wonder, which is what leads to the curious mood, “The more we told Dill about the Radleys, the more he wanted to know, the longer he would stand hugging the light-pole on the corner, the more he would wonder.”
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Bella Hautzinger
11/7/2015 04:51:43 pm
The mood of my current novel, "The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan is frightened. Every corner you turn in the book there is another disaster, another terrifying event. Every time the characters get in another predicament I get scared for them, I feel like I am in that situation. I read this book and I feel like I am that inexperienced character who is dealing with a whole new world of magic. "I wouldn't have thought it possible so many scorpions existed in the world, much less in Manhattan."(10%) Sadie, who has just got introduced to this world of magic and Egyptian gods, is describing when the Goddess of scorpions is trying to attack and kill her and her brother. As a reader I wanted to jump, because I am terrified of scorpions, well more like spiders, but they are both creepy and crawly. When Sadie and Carter watch their father get taken away by a demon god, the mood was frightened. This contributes to the characters because you can feel how frightened and inexperienced these kids are, making you look at them with a different perspective.
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Chloe Williams
11/7/2015 09:01:49 pm
Mood is a prevailing atmosphere or feeling; emotional setting enveloping the reader. Mood is created by many elements in the story such as the setting, theme, tone, and diction. In my book, "1984" by George Orwell, these elements are used very effectively to make the reader feel depressed and gloomy.
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Kassia lowery
11/9/2015 04:31:05 pm
Chloe,
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Joshua Case
11/8/2015 08:59:24 pm
In my novel "Going Bovine" by Libba Bray she has mastered the art of making the reader feel different emotions at once. At the beginning of the book you feel the despair that Cameron gives off in the very first sentence of the novel.
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Chris Balding
11/9/2015 07:57:52 pm
Josh,
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Ella Dillon
11/9/2015 06:18:06 pm
Violet,
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Caleb Upson
11/9/2015 08:19:17 pm
In the book I’m reading, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I feel that the overall mood is mystical. First, the book is all about magic and its uses. For instance, “… Harry had spent most of the last two years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.” (3) Witchcraft and Wizardry are the studies of the diverse range of magic.” Second, it has magical creatures that don’t exist here on earth. For example, “Harry could sort of see what Hagrid meant. Once you got over the first shock of seeing something that was half horse, half bird, you started to appreciate the hippogriff’s gleaming coats, changing smoothly from feather to hair, each of them a different color: stormy gray, bronze, pinkish roan, gleaming chestnut, and inky black.” (144) Third, it has strange, powerful, and odd magic items. An example of one is, “A loud ripping noise rent the air; two of the Monster Books had seized a third and were pulling it apart.” (53) We don’t have any books that attack one another, so that is pretty strange. In conclusion, the pieces of evidence that I used showed that in the book I’m reading, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the overall mood in my opinion is mystical.
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Chris Balding
11/12/2015 05:24:10 pm
I would like to use this revised copy please.
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Chris Balding
11/12/2015 05:34:38 pm
I would like to use this revised draft instead.
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Violet Detwiler
11/29/2015 12:13:13 pm
I am currently reading the novel “Will Grayson” by John Green and David Levithan. “Will Grayson” has an undeniably depressing mood that strongly affects the characters, conflicts, and theme of the novel. First, there are many key words such as cynical, duly, failure, sad, loser, and even the word itself, depressed that contribute to the mood of the story and make the reader feel the way they do. The vocabulary that the author’s use is a huge part of the mood because, since the novel is written in first person, the reader can really get a sense of how the characters feel in their own head which is usually a bit of hatred towards the world. An example of this is “Every morning I pray that the school bus will crash and we’ll all die in a fiery wreck” (23). This passage shows how the main character, Will, has a very negative attitude and isn’t afraid to share his opinions.
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Haley Christianson
11/29/2015 09:24:40 pm
At the beginning of my book “One of those hideous books where the mothers dies” by Sonya Sones, it starts with a more depressing mood. In my book the mother has recently died and main character Ruby is very depressed and even tells the reader as you can find on page two when she writes,
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Grace Smith
12/2/2015 07:22:13 pm
In my book, The Testing, the author, Joelle Charbonneau, creates a somewhat unsettling and lonely mood. There are many things that contribute to this mood, but the strongest thing is the actual fact of the testing. First the main character Malencia Vale, or Cia, is hoping to be accepted to the testing on graduation day so that her education can continue, but it is very unlikely. It is mentioned that “any discussion of me being selected for the testing is no welcome.” It also says that everyone else in her family of seven changes the subject when she brings u the testing, but her father doesn’t, he listens to her, but doesn’t, “actively encourage” her. This is lonely in the sense that her father is the only person she can talk to about taking her education further, and maybe this is because he was in the testing himself.
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Aliya Wilcox
12/5/2015 02:50:19 pm
My book, “Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer” by Katie Alender, has a restless and suspicious mood. “I glanced up and it took me a moment to process what I saw. The woman in the pink dress stood on the landing at the top of the stairs, looking down over the railing. Her eyes were burning-bright, and her medallion was dangled from her neck. ‘Bonjour,’ I said. ‘Where did you come from?’ She didn’t reply,” (page 59) is a passage from my book that shows how the actions of certain characters result in a suspicious mood. The woman at the top of the stairs was the ghost of Marie Antoinette. The quiet and mysterious act of not responding to a simple and innocent question and looking out of place cause people to feel suspicious. The fact that Marie has been beheading others doesn’t help her cause and makes the reader feel restless. No one can see Marie’s ghost unless she wants to be seen, but why does she want to be seen at that point? By then it is always too late. That makes me feel restless. Another way Katie Alender adds to the suspicion is how Marie seems to follow Colette, the protagonist, and tries to entice Colette to go certain ways. “I felt that same weird urge to go inside [a closed off area in Marie’s residence],” (page 59) shows this. I think Marie gave Colette that feeling especially because it was Marie who opened the gate to the restricted area. It was inside her residence that Marie allowed Colette to see her. This clearly gives a restless and suspicious mood. If the conflict is between Marie Antoinette and Colette, then the mood, restless and suspicious, would certainly play a part in the overall plot of the story.
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Kole Arellano
12/6/2015 01:13:13 pm
My current novel “The Only Thing Worth Dying For” sets intense as the mood in the fact that the green berets are deeper behind enemy lines than anyone has ever been. Things go wrong in the beginning of a mission four of the five helicopters set down the team within range but the fifth helicopter has to set down about two miles away with the four men in that helicopter. “Then he approached Amerine. ‘We’re missing four men : Mike, Mag, Ronnie, and one CIA. Their helicopter must have headed to an alternate landing zone.’
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Aiga Petelo
12/8/2015 03:30:21 pm
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Gia Colosimo
12/7/2015 07:15:15 pm
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of you doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” In my book “Heaven is for Real” by Todd Burpo, right now Todd needs to used this inspirational quote to carry him through the tough times he is having. When you are a pastor, normally the person you look to is God for almost everything. Todd’s family feels hopeless, and we all know that when someone in a book feels hopeless the reader most likely will feel hopeless. This books mood is the feeling of hopelessness in the beginning until Todd realizes that having a pitty party isn’t going to help, then the mood turns to hopeful.
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Grace Smith
12/8/2015 07:54:54 pm
Gia,
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Ethan Konrand
12/17/2015 07:57:44 pm
The mood that my novel, "Battle of the Labyrinth" By Rick Riordan, gives off is a sort of action and humors mood. Just enough action to keep you on the edge of your seat, and just enough humor to keep you smiling during the wild ride. Take Percy, who while he is talking says " You're doing great. Besides,we NEVER know where were going. It always works out. Remember Circe's Island?"
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Ella Tripoli
12/17/2015 08:12:49 pm
I am currently reading “The Future of Us” by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, my book is about two teenagers that find themselves forwarded 15 years into the future. The story is set in 1996, a time before facebook which starts off their journey. Emma finds that in a matter of 15 years she will be married, mentally ill, and her husband won’t even want to be around her. My novel gives off the mood of wonder, wondering what your future holds. Josh is another character in the book that finds that he is married to the last person he expected; which brings me back to the mood of the novel. Wonder. Wondering the unexpected. The mood contributed to the novel because it is what drives the characters to continue to search about their upcoming future. Conflicts occur through the story continuously.
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