Exercise #3

Reviews:
1. A Bridge to the Stars
2. 21
3. A Kiss in Time

Elements/Requirements:
1. Introduction: Short biography of author. History behind the novel.
2. Summary: Introduction of main characters. Setting of the novel. What is the problem that the novel will focus on? Expostion.
3. Reflection: What do I think of the book? Why?

Exercise 2

Weaknesses:
(1) "Who can't even CONCENTRATE TO WRITE this because her little sister will NOT shut up," announces the narrator illustrating the harsh reality to her life.
(5)  The " cruddy time on a crudddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town in a cruddy state, country, world, solar system, universe."
 (5) He "kept his butt cocked to one side, his feet up on the shut rails so that the bull couldn't grind his leg, brad him up, so that if it  thrashed he could get over the to in hurry."

Best post:
More Cowbell, Please

 

Exercise 1

Lynda Barry's dissonant and grating tone in her novel "Cruddy," foreshadows a dark story yet to come for the young, immature protagonist, Roberta Rohbeson. As she spends her time "writing the cruddy book of her cruddy life," Roberta displays childish acts that can only belong to a juvenile, self-centered child. Living in "the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town," the stressed out child spurts random phases of anger. Bold colloquial language is also evident and suggests an atonal tone the author feels towards writing. Barry's low diction, which includes a repetition of the word "cruddy," along with Roberta's bipolar attitude verifies the hardships Roberta is going through as a hormonal adolescent in the midst of punishment.