Monday, September 28, 2009

Outside Reading

Outside Reading- The book Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier, has kept me captivated even though it hasn't met the standards I had originally set for it(although I am only half way through). In the beginning, the book contains a lot of imagery and descriptions without much dialogue. As the story moves on, the amount of talking and action increases repelling the plot forward(making the book more interesting. The author uses tons of imagery to explain situations and places in the book and is a main part that makes the story suspenseful and tense.

So far I'm liking the book. It's different than most of the other books that I have read so it's kept me rather interested. The conflicts between the characters are real life problems which many people could probably relate to(which luckily, I am not one of). Two of the characters despise each other so the conversations between them are usually stiff and straight forward and can drag on for a while. The tone of the novel is "informatively dramatic", because the author gives you many details and descriptions in a dramatic manner (she uses suspense to propel the plot forward, and brings some unexpected visitors into the story).

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