Readers journal #2 ofek peer September 7th, 2011
Dear Mrs. Zrihen,
I have just finished reading the book “If The Witness Lied” by Caroline b Cooney. The reason that I have picked this passage is because I got a recommendation from you. The significants of this passage is that it explains every single detail correctly. I did six things before, during, and after reading this book (two for each). There were 2 things that I did before reading this book. The first thing I did was I skim and scanned through the passage fore a couple text features. The second thing I did was I looked at the synopsis in the back for a little bit more detail of the book. There were 2 things I did while reading this book. First I imagined everything that was happening in my head and imagined it as if I was watching TV. The second thing I did while reading this book is I tried to remember every chapter one after the other. There was 2 things I did after reading this book. First thing I did was I tried to remember everything that I have read chapter by chapter. The second thing I did was I went online and looked up a summary to see if I had missed anything.
The genre of this book is realistic fiction. The only characteristics of it being realistic fiction is that it does not include anything that would be impossible. The characters in this story are tris, aunt cheryl, smithy, jack, and madison. The protagonist in this article is tris the little new born baby, smithy, jack, and madison (the four fountain children). The antagonists is aunt cheryl. The foils are the godmother and the media. Setting were not applicative. The story follows the four Fountain children, Madison, Jack, Smithy and Tris, who within the last three years have witnessed both their mother's and their father's deaths. Their mother died from cancer shortly after giving birth to Tris, she did not want chemotherapy during her pregnancy to let him stay healthy until he came out. Their father died as well, apparently in an accident caused by Tris, earning the family a long stay in the media spotlight. Tris had ran over dad by pulling off the brakes to the jeep. In the year since their father's death, the children have split up. Madison lives with her god parents, Smithy went off to boarding school, while Jack had care for tris with Aunt Cheryl, their mother's stepsister who came into their lives shortly after their mother's death. Aunt Cheryl clearly feels no love for the children, where more than once she's suggested Tris or Jack belong in foster care and has never tried to get Madison or Smithy to move back home. Instead she is obsessed with fixing up the house, she's one of those women who watches nothing but home redecorating shows on TV all day. Only when for fountain kids are reunited do they start to piece together the mystery surrounding their father's death, and their lives. Is it possible that two year old Tris was even strong enough to release a parking break in the first place. The only witness of the accident, aunt cheryl, have lied about the whole incident. Aunt cheryl is the one who pulled the breaks of the jeep down and ran over there father, and blamed it on tris with no one to know. The reason she pulled off this action was because the father had married her sister, the mother, over her (aunt cheryl). And the fountain siblings forgive each other after being consciously cut off the past few years. The main problem was that throughout the whole story everyone thought that it was tris who had pulled the breaks and ran over his father which is internal and man vs society.
The tone of this book is very sad writing throughout the story because everything that happened couldn't change like the mother and father dying which couldn't be changed. The mood was very sad and depressing at first but then starting to get mysterious. The theme of this book is to never expect the unexpected, which means the book said that tris pulled the breaks and killed his father, but it was really aunt cheryl who came in to help after the death of his mother. The moral of this book is not to blame other people for your actions. The point of view of this book is first person. The pattern of organization of this book would be cause and effect because when the family reunited it was the cause, but when they reunited they filled in the missing pieces to how it couldn't have been tris who killed his father but someone else. The authors purpose is to entertain.
This book was very good but pretty boring in the middle. It sort of took time for the book to get to its point. To me the book wouldn't look like it would be realistic fiction. It sounds more of a mystery.
If I was to rate this book out of ten I would give it a nine out of ten because like I said it took time to get to the point. Thank you Mrs. Zrihen for recommending me this book. It was very good and I no that you have not yet read it but you should.
sincerely,
Ofek Peer
sorry about the color i forgot to switch it.
ReplyDeleteDear Ofek,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your reader's journal very much. However, I have a few questions about it. In the book, how did they figure out the aunt pulled the brakes? Also, if you were the aunt, would you have pulled the brakes?
You talked about the fountain children. How did they get split up and reunited? Also, how did they believe in the first place that a 2 year old could pull the brakes on such a heavy car? Lastly, where was the passage, I couldn't find it.
From Mikey
dear miachael,
ReplyDeletethey figured that aunt pulled the brakes because the aunt called the media and the pieces were put together then. the aunt called the media which reunited the fountain children. as they reunited while the media was there they found out that it was aunt. if i was the aunt i wouldnt have pulled the brakes because it was a little bit after his wives death even though i wouldnt do it period.
the fountain children were very important in the story especially tris and jack. what split them up was the mothers death where one goes to the godmother one goes to bording school and one to keep his eyes on tris. what reunited was the media that aunt cheryl has brought so that she could take tris and jack out of the house but instead the other way around. the reason they believed that was because aunt cheryl was next to the car with tris inside of the car so she acted as if she was the witness and saw tris pull it.
sincerely,
ofek