Literacture Analysis #1

1. Summary: In The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen, Macy faces may obstacles. The story begins when Macy talks about her father passing away. Macy blames herself for this because she believed that if she would've gotten up in the morning to go running with him she could've saved him from the heart attack he had. Now Macy is known as the girl who watched her father die, along with that she is dating the smartest guy in school Jason. He is what everyone would call perfect, so to deal with her father's death she began trying to reach his level and stay focused in school. Right when the summer began she took over Jason's job at the library while he was at Brain Camp. Macy also came across a catering service called Wish Bone and began working for them. Macy's life took an unexpected turn when she met Wes a nowhere near perfect boy with too many problems to talk about. She began falling for him when Jason broke up with her for being "too serious about the relationship so soon into it." Macy then realizes that she never dealt with her father's death.
2. Theme: To overcome obstacles you must face them first.
3.Author's tone: The author wrote the story in a teenage girls perspective which made it easy to relate to.
- "Jason was going to Brain Camp. It had another name, a real name, but that's what everyone called it."
- "Clunk! went my front left wheel, disappearing into it entirely. O-kay, I though, as my entire car tilted to one side, this must be why she called it a doozy."
- "I still thought about Wes a lot. It had been about two weeks now, and we hadn't talked."
4. Five literary elements:
-Flashback: Macy flashbacks to her father's death and explains everything that happened and mentions that she watched her father take his last breath. (PG.6-7)
-Simile: Macy uses a simile when helping Jason pack for Brain Camp. (PG.2)
-Symbol: Wes makes many sculptures and many of them are of a hand with a heart in it. The heart represents his mother who passed away. Macy first comes across a sculpture like that when she is on her way to Delia's house. (PG.89)
-Setting: The settings are Macy's house, The library, and the Beach house. -Genre: The genre is Romance, Macy's love triangle causes it to be a romance novel. (PG.177)