Blog Entry #2 - Identify and Sort

White, Kiersten. Paranormalcy. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. Print.

1. Characters: 

     A few characters that are in my novel, are Evie (Protagonist), Vivian (Antagonist) and Lend.

2. Crisis:

   The Crisis, in the point I am right now, is that Evie is having troubles deciding whether she is a paranormal or not. She is not classified as one, and doesn't know who to believe any more. Vivian has the same eye colour, one that is not a normal color for a human, or any paranomal to have. Vivian has the same burning flame inside her soul, around her heart. But, Vivian has been killing a lot of paranormals, and Evie fears that she will end up the way Vivian has.

3. Suspense:

     The time that I felt suspence, was when Reth, a faery, showed up and asked Evie to change his name in order for her to set Rend, her crush, free. Reth, without his real name, cannot be commanded to do things against his will, and Reth has a strange obsession with Evie. In releasing Reth, Evie would be in danger, seeing as she could no longer command him to do as she says. Therefore, he could do whatever he wanted to her, whenever he wanted to.

4. Setting:

     Right now, the setting is at Rend's house, where Evie is trying to live the normal life of a teenager, away from all the melodrama that has been happening at IPCA. His house isn't much out of the ordinary, accept that his house is near a lake, where his mother lives, and a forest, where Evie and Lend shared their second kiss. ( Oo la la ).

5. Mood:

    The mood right now, between Evie and Lend's family, is complicated. Right now, Evie is trying to battle her own insecurities, but has yet to tell David (Lend's father) and Lend, what is actually happening. This, is making the atmosphere at Lend's house, more of a tense, and stressful environmnent for Evie.

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"Eyes like streams of melting snow." ( White, Kiersten)

     In the novel, a banshee ( mystical being ), has said the following quote. When Lend first met Evie, Evie has described her eyes in being like "streams of melting snow." What was strange, is that Evie had never heard the phrase prior to Lend telling her about the prophecy. This is significant, because, in hearing the entire riddle, Evie begins to wonder if she is going to end up evil, and "Kill, Kill, Kill."

Post # 1 - Identifying

{ February 17, 2012.}

Identifying 

There are three qualities I expect as a reader of said novel. The first, that it is interesting and can catch me when first reading it. Books that don't catch me within the first two chapters, I will not continue to read. I am a huge fan of books about teenagers and romance stories. I feel, that I can understand and connect to the characters in the story. In doing so, I can understand the book with more detail, where I can then make textual, worldly, and of course personal connections to the book. The last quality, is that the novel has lots of action and suspense. If the writer can not keep me motivated to read the book, to me, it is not worth the effort or time to force myself upon reading it. Therefore, the three qualities I expect, as a reader, is that it is interesting and can catch me when I first read it, that there are teens and romance and that the novel has suspense as well as adventure and action. 

The novel I am currently reading, and that I am almost finished, Blhiss, has all the three qualities that I have listed above. The book is in the perspective of a teenager named Blhiss, who has an unnatural ability to hear the voice of a dead woman at her new school. This novel, also contains a bit of drama between her two friend groups, as well as romance between Blhiss and an boy named Mitchell, who is a year older than her. And finally, Blhiss has yet to discover that her 'friend' is actually plotting to use her as a sacrifice in order to revive the woman who died at her school. Therefore, this novel contains all of the qualities I have listed above.

Myracle, Lauren. Bliss. New York: Amulet Book, 2008.Print.