Blog Response #10
Each novel has a setting or multiple settings. How does your author create images of the setting? If you had to describe the time/place of when your novel takes place, how would you do this? Does the author use the setting to help develop the plot in your book? What particular images does the author create that are memorable? Is there a particular scene you can visualize, and why is this image so vivid?
**In response to the blogs, try to make connections with your novel's setting. How is your setting similar to that of other books?
I am reading Night, which is shorter than the average book so some of the details of the setting are limited. However when the author does describe the setting it usually is in a negative way. A specific scene that sticks out to me is the description of the cattle cars that the Jews went to the concentration camps in. It was like I was in there with them. I could hear the girl screaming, and I could feel the heat. I am not sure why this image stuck out to me, especially because it is an unpleasant scene. Or when they first get to Auschwitz, some of them are burned on the spot. I know what a dead deer smells like, so I can't imagine what human smells like. Another thing that isn't a setting but is a great description is when Eliezer finally gets to sleep with a blanket in the hospital. He said "I forgot we used these to sleep".
ReplyDeleteHi Sawyer,
DeleteThis sounds like a very good read and you explained very well what it is about for the most part. I also am reading a book about the Nazi concentration camps and how Jewish people were treated in the early 1900's. It is very sad but also good that people are not keeping these events in the past hiding. These stories deserve to be shared with the world
Hi Sawyer
DeleteI have a good background on what happened in the holocaust and the way you explained some images make sense. Packing up the Jews on cattle cars would be terrible and and crammed. The smelled would also be disgusting and i cant imagine it.
Hey Sawyer
DeleteI bet the setting does have a negative image because of what the book is based off. But the part about the jews being crammed on the cattle cars would be something that would stick out to me as well.
Hey Sawyer,
DeleteThe author of Night does a really good job painting a gruesome setting. Everything is very detailed and it makes it easier to imagine the grime and depression that the walls of the camp hold.
Hey Sawyer,
DeleteI feel it makes the book a lot more interesting when you fell like you are in it. I gets you hooked really fast and you don't want to set the book down. In my book there are multiple times where I feel like I am in the main character's shoes.
Heya Sawyer, This book is indeed a good one. The description of the events and places are vivid, and very grotesque. There is a lot to say in this book, and it's good is the main one.
DeleteHi Sawyer
DeleteI read this book and i can agree with you that the author does a very good job painting the scene of this book. Being that he was the one who was there when all of this was going on he knows first hand what actually happened.
Hello Sawyer,
DeleteI just got done reading this book and I can agree that the author can be very descriptive especially since the setting is during the holocaust. Because the book is shorter, I thought the place category of the setting was constantly changing because the main character would be moved from camp to camp a lot.
i can say my book wasnt very long either only had 200 pages. for the parts where you could feel the heat and hear the girl screaming, the person in my book dies and i feel like i could feel what he could feel and i could feel the coolness of the snow seeping through my clothes and i could hear the cop talking. was the anything you remember really well from the book.
DeleteSawyer
DeleteI can imagine this cramped space, hot from humidity. Sticky clothes from blood or sweat. This would be an unbearable scene with the children screaming and the Germans could come back and shoot all of them at any time because they got annoyed
Hi Sawyer
DeleteIm reading the same book as well and I totally agree with you its very vivid and sad to hear what all happens to them. I can always imagine their time in the camps forced to work hard.
Hi Sawyer
Deletethis book seems like it is a really good book I'm sorry the setting isn't set up but I'm glad that the book has great imagery my book is described through someone's mind and it really describes what is going on and his surroundings
Hi Sawyer
DeleteNight was a really good read but so hard to actually get through the book because of all the hard moments in the book. But the way the Elie presents it is the best way.
Hi Sawyer, this part really stuck out to my too. especially the part when they would kill their own parents just to get a bite of some bread. I think he did an amazing job describing this part.
DeleteYou're book is a very interesting book and it does sucks that the settings was very limited in the book and my book is also limited as well, but I'm glad you're enjoying the book.
DeleteHey Sawyer,
DeleteI agree with you that at times the setting was very limited because of how fast pace the book was. But I also think that at times, the author did do a good job of working in the mood at that moment and give a visualization of just how bad the camp was.
I am reading "Three Good Things", by Lois Peterson. She creates images of the setting by describing the little details and the people in the book. I would say the time the novel takes place would be the 2010's because it seems pretty recent but still is kind of dated. I think the place would be somewhere in the states, like Ohio, in the Midwest. I think this is because the people there are friendly and it does not seem like a too populated area. An image that the author creates would be when Leni goes to library and meets a boy. That moment us special because the boy is helpful to him and is his friend. An image that is vivid to me would be when Leni is with his friends family and they have supper. The family is very friendly and welcoming to Leni, which I think is why I remember it so well.
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Hi Kaylee,
DeleteThis sounds like quite an interesting book. I've never heard of this one before. I like that the author creates good imagery in not only outside visuals but also emotions. I hope you are enjoying the rest of the book!
Hi Kaylee
DeleteThis is a new book that i have never heard of and it sounds intriguing. I Thought it was interesting how you thought that it takes place in Ohio because Ohio people are friendly. Leni sounds like a good person who enjoys his friends.
Hi Kaylee!
DeleteIt sounds like all of our authors do an excellent job of describing a setting. I think it is cool how this book takes place only 10 years ago! Most books I have read take place 20-30 years ago. It's cool to see that you have a newer book! I hope you enjoy the rest of your book!
Cade Messer
A place tied with emotion. I like it. This book is also in the near past as well. I almost always hear of a book that's taken place a long time ago. I hope you enjoy your book.
DeleteI am reading "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana De Rosnay. This book is full of detailed imagery and I imagine the author put this in there on purpose to explain the horrors of what Jewish people had to go through in the late 1930s to the early 40s. Some powerful scenes that stuck out to me was when she explained early on in the book the Arena like place thousands of Jews were kept in for several days. It seemed to be almost like a zoo or jail the way they were crammed in there like a holding station, before their families were eventually separated from each other and they were all sent to different camps or ghettos. The specific imagery of this place stuck out to me because I truly could not imagine what might be going through those peoples heads at that time. The fact that there was no running water, no food, no air conditioning, no place to sleep comfortably, no bathrooms...nothing. After a few days the smell was horrendous everywhere and it was said that the people of the city surrounding (non Jewish) would no longer want to go outside or open their windows. People had to relieve themselves by going wherever they could find, with no privacy or hygienic products. They truly were treated like they were nothing, as inhuman as you could get.
ReplyDeleteHi Eve!
DeleteI enjoy reading books that are full of imagery because it makes it easy to picture scenes in your head. It also makes you realize hoe unfortunate people have it. You talk about how people do not have running water. The author would have to describe that, and it is just terrible to picture.
Kaylee Schueller
Hey Eve this book sounds good i like the books with alot of imagery on them
DeleteHi Eve
DeleteIt seems like the author does a very good job setting up the scene in the book. It also seems like you are loving your book and that you are very hooked on the reading.
Hi Eve
DeleteIm reading a book like yours and i do like the imagery but sometimes its a little to much.
In my book Tuesdays with Morrie, The setting is in a normal sized house with expensive furniture that is not new but nice. If i had to describe the time and place of the book i would say it took place in the early 2000s in a place like Seattle because it is raining a lot in the story and This book is based off a true story. Mitch is older now so it would make sense it took place in the 2000s. The author only uses the weather to create a mood in the story as gloomy with all the rain. The image that is memorable that the author painted in my head is Morrie struggling to move his body. He is dying from ALS and it slowly weakens your muscles. Each scene that occurs Morrie gets weaker and weaker and soon he cant lift his arm above his shoulder.
ReplyDeleteHey Jayden
DeleteI agree that the author kind matches the setting with the mood on how it is gloomy and kind of sad. I hope you like your book.
Hi Jayden
DeleteI also read Tuesdays with Morrie and i agree with your idea on the setting
Hi Jayden,
DeleteI was able to read and watch the movie, and your description of Morries house is spot on. It is the type of house that you would see in a town in Dubuque county. The actor in the movie does a great job showing what ALS is like.
Hi Jayden,
DeleteWhen I read this book I also thought it was very easy to visualize what was happing in the book because the author did a really good job of description. it was almost scary how well I could see some parts of the book.
Hi jayden,
DeleteWhen i read this book i seen the same setting as you the author does a good job of describing the house and well as the events that are happening in the book
Hi Jayden,
DeleteI agree with your description 100 percent it sounds like a sad and gloomy book. I hope you like your book.
although my book, A Lesson Before Dying, doesn't have the same modern city setting, it obtains mood in a similar way. the weather is a big part in my book too, instead of rain though its more humid and muggy, causing the characters to be more miserable than sad.
DeleteI am reading the book "The Game of Life". It is based on a basketball game and a boy who has autism. It is their senior night for their last game and the coach promises him that he ill get in the game if they are winning by a lot. They finally get up a lot and he gets in the game. Everyone is going crazy and the way the author makes the setting come to life is by making it relateable. The crowd are holding up signs and saying chants and this helps you create an image of the gym and everyone packed in their cheering on their home team. It reminds me of the bobcat community and how we always have great support at our activities.
ReplyDeleteHi Dylan!
DeleteThat would be an awesome game to be at! It sounds like the author did a great job of describing the setting. This reminds me a lot of when Jared Wulfekuhle got into a game a couple years ago! I hope you enjoy the rest of the book :))
Cade Messer
This scene seems very touching which also seems like it makes it easy to visualize
DeleteHi Dylan,
DeleteThis book sounds very interesting and seems like it would be very easy to see what it would be like in that gym at the time of that game. hopefully you are enjoy the rest of the book and are able to find new connections to me that's what makes a book the most enjoyable to read!
I'm reading (read) "The Combination" by Elias Carr. The setting is descriptive enough to give an image to the mind. And... well... the place IS the plot. The main memorable thing would have to be all of the mechanical parts filling the boiler room. The setting switches places here and there, so getting an image of the layout is a little hard.
ReplyDeleteHi Carl!
DeleteI agree it can be hard to read some books where the setting switches places. You can get confused about what is happening. It can also be hard to picture the imagery in your head if the author is not super clear about it.
Kaylee Schueller
I have read this book before it is real good i got kind of the same thing with the switching around.
DeleteIn Tuesdays with Morrie their were two main settings that I was able to picture in my head due to the descriptiveness the author wrote in. The main setting was at Morrie’s house in his work study area. He had a desk, bookshelf sitting behind his chair, a window off to the side that was often cracked and a small green plant on the shelf behind him. This is where Morrie taught his “final class’ to Mitch and told his so many life lessons that everyone should know. The other setting that I was able to picture was Morrie’s classroom. He had an entire wall of books and bookshelves behind his desk which was in the front of the room and desks were in a single file line on the other side of the room. I think both Morrie’s classroom and office signifies to readers like me just how smart and knowledgeable of a man Morrie is. I am sure he has probably read every single book on them shelves. Out of both scenes the one that is the most vivid to me is where Morrie talks to Mitch in his home office. Most of the story takes place here, so this is why I am able to picture so many different details.
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Hey Cade,
DeleteI think it makes a book easier to read when you can imagine everything the main character sees. The author in my book does a great job of describing everything I often feel like I'm the main character.
Hi cade,
Deletei have read that book and I completely agree with you! The setting of Morries classroom i think is a really big part of the book, i also think that Mitch does a great job of describing what Morries house looks like. when i read the book i felt like i was walking through the house.
my book, A Lesson Before Dying, also uses a setting as a sort of way to extend/symbolize a persons identity. like how the wall full of books explains Morry's personality, the small prison cell Jefferson lives in my book, explains his attitude.
DeleteI'm reading Tuesdays with Morrie, the author Mitch Albom is telling the story in a first person point of view. The scene i can most see is the scene where mitch sees Morrie on TV he is sitting in his house flipping through channels when he hears morries name. I can see the old rundown morrie sitting there giving advice to all the young kids watching the TV program. The author makes the scene very visuable, describing the details and the little things Morrie did to tell us who Morrie is.
ReplyDeleteHi Colin,
DeleteThe way the author describes Morrie is exactly how it is portrayed in real life. If you look up pictures of Morrie he looks just like a weathered away old man. You are right the author does a great job describing Morrie sitting in his recliner.
Hi Colin,
DeleteI agree with you one the that scene the author makes it really easy to visual everything that is taking place as well and the way morrie health is taking over his life.
Hi Colin,
DeleteThe way the author describes when Mitch sees Morrie on TV reminds me of when Oskar's grandma was watching the news when she saw the second tower get hit by a plane on 9/11. Her son was in one of the buildings that got struck and she was devastated when she turned on the news. Your book had a good outcome of when Mitch was watching the news, but there was a bad outcome of when Oskar's grandma turned on the news. I am glad that your author is making the scenes vey visual for you so it is easy for you to read.
In my book Public enemy number two, the author is real good at making you feel like you are there in the moment. I think my book takes place like in the eighties or around there. There are still chalk boards in this book. He uses the setting to change some characters like Nick is now acting all hard and doing some bad stuff now that he is in these bad areas. The author can really make you visualize the prison that they start out in.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "The Last Song" by Nicholas Sparks and I think he does a really good job of making the scene come to life as your reading. The main setting of this book is a beach so i guess it is not the most difficult to visualize but just the way it is written allows you to think of the little things and make those come to life. I would say the most memorable setting is the beach because that is where she met her love interest and that is pretty much what the entire book is about
ReplyDeleteBeach scenes are always so fun to read. I love the scenery that comes from beaches and all the things there are to see. It sounds like a beautiful setting.
Deletebeing you have been to the beach before, does it feel like you are almost there? like you can feel the things on the beach that she is describing? those are my favorite things in books; when you can feel what they feel.
DeleteBeach scenes always add so much romance to a book or movie. To have the setting as a beach is perfect for a romance book like this one. I am glad you able to easily picture the setting of this story.
Deletea beach setting is such an easy visualization but can be so intricate, but it seems that your author uses intricate details to describe the beach and characters. just as my author does
DeleteHi Makenna. I can also agree that beach scenes are very visual and easily imagined. Much like your book, my book also involves a love interest and romance. Mine also has quite a bitch of drama as well, but I'm not sure if yours does.
DeleteI am reading the book "Dear Evan Hansen" and I think the setting is pretty bland but the author does a good job of showing it in Evan's point of view. Since Evan has social anxiety, there will be times in the book where he is in very familiar places to a normal person (like a school hallway, classroom, or his room) but in Evan's point of view it is a lot more exaggerated and panicked by these normal places. The author really knows how to make the reader feel like they're in Evan's shoes, even if they don't have as much anxiety and panic.
ReplyDeletedoes reading a book in a persons point of view with social anxiety make you look at these normal things like a school hallway differently? it would be interesting to see things how Evan does.
Deletei have always wanted to read "Dear Evan Hansen", so knowing the author does a good job describing Evan's POV has me wanting to read it over the summer.
DeleteThe book sounds interesting and i think its good it highlights a social issue some kids go through.
DeleteI am reading "Sorry Not Sorry" by Sophia Ranald. the setting/events of the story helps me imagine the way the main character (Charlotte) looks/acts. for example her job is at a firm where her boss and co-workers just kind of boss her around and dump their work on her and she just lets them. she lets alot of stuff slide and starting out by showing the reader what type of person she is through her work setting sets the mood for the rest of the book. this author did a really good job of connecting every aspect of the book and having things happen for a reason. the scene where she is at work is a vivid part in the book for me because that was the first time i realized what type of person Charlotte was and helped me understand every time after that that she was pushed around.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "Dead Lake" by Darcy Coates. She spends a lot of time setting up the scene and letting the reader know everything the main character Sam sees. The author describes everything so vividly I feel like I am the main character. The book takes place somewhere near New York because Sam lives in New York and her uncle's cabin that she is staying at in only a couple hour drive. One scene I can really visualize is when Sam first sees the cabin. The author describes the cabin so well it makes it seem real. The author is so descriptive I can visualize the entire layout of the cabin and where everything is placed.
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds very interesting to in the sense that it's plot is in New York and there's a cabin that is kind of a separate place from the city which in my eyes makes me interested in it because it's in nature. And is your book would you say be a horror book?
DeleteI this for this book it was a good choice make it in new york and the outskirts of new york feels like somewhere where your book would take place your book seems very interesting. the cabin part would you say is a memerable place or not in the book aslo or not?
Deletemy favorite thing about books is when the author can make you feel like you are actually the main character or in the story with them. So I think it is really cool that you author was able to do that.
DeleteHi Leah,
DeleteThe setting of your book sounds very similar to the one in my book. My book also takes place all around in New York. I am glad that the author describes everything vividly; therefore, it is easier for you to comprehend when reading. Do you know the time frame of when your novel takes place?
I love when authors are straight forward in the beginning, it makes me want to read more. That is good your author makes you feel like you're the main character, seems very descriptive.
DeleteI am reading the book "This Is How I Lied" by Heather Gudenkauf. The author does a very good job setting up the scene as well as shows the emotions the characters go through. In the begging of the book we are shown the setting of the town and it paints a very clear picture of how close knit the town in. It is based in rural Iowa which i can relate to this very well. The setting she uses help with the plot of the book because many people dont understand how the body was not found sooner in many of the reviews. But because i have alwyas grown up in a rural town i understand the farmland and many opens areas would be hard to discover a body. I also can picture the crime scene in my head because the author shows in great detail what Eve's body looked like.
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds very interesting to me, and I do agree that many people do not understand how the body of Iowa was not founded. And is this book a true story book?
DeleteThe book does seem very descriptive and that helps a lot to stay interested into the book.
DeleteHi Vada,
DeleteI think you book sounds very interesting as well as descriptive. I think this book would be easier to visualize since in it set in a rural town in Iowa, and you would have something to relate to because almost all of us live in small towns.
I think this book we'd be easy to visualize because we live in Iowa but would make it much creepier. If it is a true story I think the book would become even more interesting.
DeleteThe book I am reading is The Surrender Tree. My Author creates my setting with how she describes the main characters hospitals and its locations. For the scenery it's swampy and it's placed in Cuba and the time and place that this book takes place is in the 1860's, and the way I would describe it to be in the 1860's is exactly how they do it is by putting slavery into the book, because this book is about slavery in Cuba. Like is said with how this setting is perfectly fit for this book, I would say it does most certainly help describe the plot. I can think of one image that the author made memorable for me and that's when it describes Lieutenants Death rage for finding Rose because, in the book he made it his mission to find her because he is a slave hunter.
ReplyDeleteThere is one scene that I can describe in this book and its the part when a hurricane came for Death's house and their is and old Spanish rule that if a hurricane looms, you burn down your house and you let everything you own be free.
You're book sounds very interesting and has lots of detail on where it is based.
DeleteYour author sounds like he is very good at describing the setting. My author also does a great job at that and are books both seem pretty similar from what I can tell. We both have hurricanes, but are based in different areas.
DeleteI am reading the book "Forever and Always Lara Jean," by Jenny Han. The setting of the book is set in present day during senior year of high school. The characters live in a small town in the state of Virginia. In this book the author likes to focus on the mood of the story so that is about all I got for the setting. The reason I am able to really imagine the setting and mood of a part in the book was because I was truly able to relate since the setting is set during senior year of high school.
ReplyDeleteSara
DeleteThis setting is very relatable because we are seniors in high school also in a small town. We have to look at college a lot and look into career paths and what we want to do in life and that sets the mood for our class also.
Hey Sara,
Deletethat book is very relatable to a lot of things for me! Being a senior in high school and living in a small town. I have seen that movie and am curious if the book is the same!
Hi Sara,
DeleteI feel like this book would be a good one to read especially sense we can relate to it. In my book the characters are in highschool too. I am not sure what grade but I feel like it is relatable because their friends are changing and that's usually what happens in highschool.
Hi Sara. I am reading P.S. I Still Love You by the same author so my setting is the same since these books go along with each other. Since it is happening in present day as a high schooler, it makes it really relatable and really easily understood I think. I really want to read the book you're reading next!
DeleteThe setting of my book is a farm. Gorge Orwell the authors descriptive technique is based heavily off of the readers knowledge off of farms and the like. though, he also describes intricate details of the farm. intricate details such as writing on walls or details of how stones crack.
ReplyDeleteIn American Sniper the author sets several settings. He starts out describing his family, then his high school career. The most developed setting in the start of the book are the ranching jobs he had. He doesn't describe the landscape itself, but more of the characteristics of what it takes do do the job. One could say that his own self is the main setting. After the ranching jobs, he describes military bases where he trained and the extreme difficulty of the training. The most vivid setting that is created is the part where 9/11 happens he describes the emotional distress that caused the united states.
ReplyDeleteHi Nick, I have read this book before aswell and really really enjoyed it. The way he described the 9/11 attack and how everyone in the country really brings an incredible perspective to me that kids our age never had cause we weren't alive and we weren't old enough to remember.
DeleteI hear about this book a lot and it sounds like a great book. I will probably pick it up and read it some day.
DeleteHi Nick,
DeleteI haven't read the book but I have watched the movie and because of it I think it helps me put a picture in my head of the different settings their are in that book.
Hi Nick,
DeleteYou're book sounds interesting and I haven't read it but you're author gave a good description about the setting your book and it puts a good image in my head, I'm glad you're enjoying your book.
Hey Nick,
DeleteGlad to hear that you really enjoy the book. I read it a couple of years ago and it is still one of the best books I remember reading. It just made me think differently compared to other war stories I have read. I also enjoyed the movie a lot like Sam said.
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ReplyDeleteIm reading Ghost Boys, She does it by using alot of description like a pink room or what someones emotion looks like or what a street name is colored or not. this takes place in chicago around 2010 to 2018 and in the central part of chicago. yes because they are in the poor part of chicago and when jerome dies he looks at the rich part of chicago. The friendships that were made between jerome and everyone like he hated sarah but in the end was her bestfriend even with emmett he didnt like him the ending of the book they were cool with eachother. Sarahs room is the most vivid in my head because the author described that room the most with a bookshelf, desk with a computer, a bed, a carpeted floor, ect.
ReplyDeleteThe setting for my book takes place in present time New York. the author uses the setting to developes the story because it shows what to two main characters did throughout their last day alive. I would say the most memorable part is when Mateo and Rufus were in the graveyard saying goodbye to Mateo's mom and they saw one of the workers digging his own grave next his moms. it's also the scene that is the easiest to visualize the best because he just gives really good detail in the scene and it helps because I know what a graveyard looks like.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "Flint" by Louis L'amour. My book gives more description about the characters and events then it does for the settings in which things happen. The whole book takes place as an old western and sticks to it well. The part easiest to remember is how the main character James T. Kettelman, he was trained by a famous bounty hunter named Flint and one night while Flint was playing a poker game someone recognized him and shot him which led to James shooting everyone at the poker table the disappearing the next day like he never existed.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book the glass castle by jeannette walls. My book the author really describes the setting and well as the events really well. There are many setting in my book because the characters travel all around the us trying to avoid the police the dad is a wanted alcoholic and is wanted for many crimes. I feel like the book would take place in the early 2000s or late 1990 because i can really relate to most of the things that happen and they have most technology that we had growing up.
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading the book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Foer. Foer sets the backdrop of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Foer also shares Oskar’s story about his grandparents, survivors of the bombing of Dresden in World War II. The author gives readers a background about Oskar’s voyage as he tries to find a key which leads him closer to his dad, who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The bombing of Dresden gives readers a background knowledge of Thomas and Oskar’s grandma’s relationship. In the book, Oskar’s thoughts are revealed when he is thinking of ways his dad could have died. There are pictures of people falling out of the towers and elevators, which are ideas Oskar thinks how his dad died. Thomas and Oskar’s grandmother’s relationship creates images to readers by describing their sex life. In every other chapter, Oskar’s story about 9/11 takes place in the year of 2001, in New York City. The chapters in between, the bombing of Dresden/Thomas and Oskar’s grandmother’s relationship, the story takes place in Dresden, Germany in 1945. Foer uses theses settings to help develop the plot frequently throughout the book. Some images that Foer creates that are memorable are when Oskar’s dad leaves messages on the answering machine. This particular scene is very easy to visualize because it is talked about several times throughout the book. It gives specific detail of the times Oskar’s dad called him and nobody answered, which is why it repeats in his head because he has regret of not answering. Overall, this book has me intrigued and I can't wait to finish it this week!
ReplyDeleteOlivia,
DeleteYou book takes place in Germany about the bombing of Dresden, That was a horrible and insane attack on a city, and fires were left burning for weeks. My book, Enola Gay, Is about the creation and dropping of the Atomic Bombs, and like Dresden, creates mass destruction and leaves fires and radiation in the area for weeks, even years.
I am currently reading the book Ellen Foster by Kaye gibbons. this book is about a little girl who lost both her parents and is now in a foster family. I would say this book would take place back in 1865 or maybe even earlier because in the book Ellen is friends with an African American little girl and her parents have to go do work in a field. And Ellen was taught to never stay over at her house or even eat there food. Kaye does a really good job putting images in the book to life. the way Kaye described what Ellen's mom looked like as she was dying, I felt that I could see the mom and all the pain she was going through.
ReplyDeleteHey Ella,
DeleteThis books sounds really good and I could to picture seeing my mom dying and how sad i would be. Hopefully you keep enjoying your book.
Hi Ella
Deleteyour book gives me one of the movie I have watched these two couple who have adopted three kids and deal kids problems because they were not ready for parenting. But I am gald you are enjoying the story.
I am reading the book, When You See Me by Lisa Gardner. One of my characters that is unnamed, she forgot her name ever since she got shot in the head. She also cannot speak, i just read her thoughts. She describes her surroundings, the terrible screams she hears in the other rooms. The author chose the hills of Georgia. The book mostly takes place in the mountains, where the FBI and DD are trying to solve a murder that happened 15 years ago. The most memorable scene is when this couple went of trail, and found a femur bone. To me it would be totally disgusting that I just picked up a human bone. This scene is so vivid to me because just thinking about me being the one touching that bone, i would never forget about it.
ReplyDeleteHi Kate,
DeleteI think you book sounds really interesting. I could understand why it would be easy to visualize the scenes since you read her thoughts. I hope you enjoy your book
This book sounds really good and I'd like to read it sometime. I agree that it would be disgusting and terrifying to find a femur lying on the ground!
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ReplyDeleteHi Liam, My book tuesdays with morrie does the same thing. It goes to the present then it flashes back to when he was morries student. Hope you are enjoying your book.
DeleteI am currently reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The book takes place during World War 2 and it is about a small Jewish town getting thrown into concentration camps. The main character is a young boy who is 15 and the whole book is all about his decisions on surviving the war. A scene that stuck out to me was when they had 100 people stocked up in a small box car and people got no food and water and at the end only 12 people were alive on the car. This sticks out to me because I could not believe going without food and water for days and the smell of the dead bodies would be horribly. It was just an all out war for who could survive and I could just picture myself fighting for my life.
ReplyDeleteHi Tyler, It seems that a lot of people that read this book can visualize this scene. I personally could not imagine being in that car around all of those dead people while it is freezing outside plus your starving.
DeleteI am reading the book Night. Its not to long of a book so there's not a whole lot of details about setting. Most of the time the setting takes place in the concertation camp because my book takes place during the holocaust. A specific scene that sticks out to me is when the boy got hung by a noose in front of everyone during the air raid of Buna. It was like i could just imagine everyone's horror and feel it because it even shook me a bit. This scene probably stuck out to me because of how bad and unpleasant it is because you cant just read right by a young boy getting hung and not feel anything.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Night aswell, I agree with you, that the kid getting hung infront of everyone sticks out to me, and pretty much the whole book stick out to me because it is so horrifying the things that humans can do to one another.
DeleteI am not even reading the book night and I agree that scene that you just described to me stood out to me vividly too because it's horrifying that they do this to find peace that's what I see in my eyes.
DeleteI have also read Night and I can remember while reading it the images that I had of some of the things the Germans would do to the prisoners. Some of them being so bad it would make me cringe thinking about them.
DeleteI am reading the book Where She Went. I would say they this book give good detail about the setting and develops the story. One scene that I think is described well is when Adam sees that Mia is playing in New York the night he has the day off. I would say that this is described well because Adam describes how her music made him feel and how it gave him flashbacks. This scene was easy to visualize because it gave details from the first book that help the readers understand. In this book the author creates a lot of memorable scenes that take the reader back to the first book, tying those details in pick up the story line and make it more interesting.
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DeleteI am so happy that you are enjoying your book this book gives me romantic comedy vibes and it sounds like a good book.
I am reading Tuesdays with Morrie, the setting is taking place in 1976 summer where Mitch, the student who graduate from college where he cannot cry at very emotional moment his professor Morrie who PhD in sociology this give total image of the moment where they are meet each other but one of them is not emotion. Its a feel you feel then you view it between them.
ReplyDeletemitch describes everything so well and it feels like you actually right there is their conversation.
DeleteIn my book Night, I have seen how the Germans used fear to keep the Jews from wanting to escape. The conflict is like man vs society because it is the entire 3rd Reich against the minority. Elie and his father have to do as their told or suffer to death. Even against the odds they still have hope that they will be liberated by someone to resolve this conflict.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the sea of monsters I am not sure what the time and place of my character at this moment but Percy is in high school and it sounds kind of modern so I guess that it is around 2007. It's mainly difficult because Percy and his friends are always moving and fighting monsters. My author does a great job at using the setting that develops the plot from fighting scene to fighting scene. Tyson keeping an engine together so that they could escape Charybdis before the engine exploded with Tyson down there and obtaining the golden fleece. The most vivid image that I could see in this book so far is when they found this lost resort that was a trap.
ReplyDeleteIn Enola Gay, The setting gets changed constantly. This is due to the Author deciding to give you both sides of the war, both the American and Japanese POV's of the war. Settings get described using the temps, the description of the scenery and areas surrounding. The Author does a good job describing settings and peoples emotions. The plot is the life of those who lived through the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs and how they were created and trained to use them. Images that the Author made memorable is the images of the mushroom cloud after the bomb exploded, and all the burnt and charred walking bodies of those who are searching for a hospital, but unable to find one as 99% of Hiroshima was Disintegrated.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that my mind could understand the power of an atomic bomb because it turns everything to dust and the radiation slowly killing off the survivors every second of the day ticking them down like if they themselves had a countdown to their death like a clock going tick tock tick tock until they all fall down.
DeleteI am reading Tuesdays with Morrie and Mitch Albom puts really descriptive images in your head like when Morrie was a kid and going to work with his father at the fur factory I felt like I was in the factory with them and many more images like with Morrie's family and how it a total different life with kids and having kids.
ReplyDeleteHi Karson, I agree, I forgot about how his father took him to the factory to get a job. I thought it was different that his dad made him get a job but then it fell through. It was a different life back then
DeleteIn Tuesdays with Morrie I can imagine Morries house, especially his bed room and office. This is where he spent most of his time later on in his life and what he saw daily. I think this book took place in 1995 because it didn't seem super old but also not super new. I could tell the electronics and the culture was different back then. Something that I can remember vividly is all there books Morrie had and read with the statue in his office. I can also see the window he saw out of while seeing all the weather changes throughout the year. It showed how fragile he was and how when he was is bed, he was dead.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you because how he describes the window and what he sees outside and also how he appreciates the window more then Mitch.
DeleteI have not read that book but it sounds like you could feel like you are in the book as well from the vivid imagery. My book is the same way especially if my main character is doing what she loves which happens to be swimming and reading poems in a little room with her friends.
Deletei agree with you amelia and karson they do a very good describing the setting in this book. they also do a good job on descibing and giving details about morrie and how he is getting worse day after day
DeleteThe way the imagines are set up in my book is the main character of the book is an author. So, in the bed that he is resting in his #1 fan wants him to rewrite the final book in his series, so he goes through and you get to read what he is writing for the book and its a really cool part of the book. It gets difficult to realize what is what.
ReplyDeleteHi Carter, my book is full of imagery as well the author always gives great detail and as your reading the image just appears in your head.
DeleteI am reading Terror at Bottle Creek, the setting takes place in the swamps of Alabama. A hurricane is coming close and the author does a great job at describing the environment. He talks about the disaster and the destroyed environment. For example he talks about the raging water and how it pulls him down in the muddy bank below.
ReplyDeletethat sounds really good that he describes the environment dose he uses all of the senses and also dose it talk about the rescues and the first responder's or how he gets out
DeleteHi Cayden, it sounds like your book has a lot of description just like mine. I hope you like the rest of your book! - Maci Steffen
DeleteThe imagery is very good in my book. The author Tamera Ireland Stone does a good job at describing where the characters are in the book. For example when she describes the group Sam reads in its like you are right with them. If I was the author and had to describe a setting in the book it would not be as vivid as it is now. Mine would be a simple description of what the room looks like. The author describes the looks, the people, the smell, the size, and even the smallest details.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book, code of silence by Tim Shoemaker and there's not too much about the settings, there's no town name, or the state name. He starts the book off with three kids in a diner and they are just hanging and this diner must be in a small town at night. If i had the chance to change the time and setting, I would kind of change the setting of the book, add a little details on where this place is at at and how the place looks and set the time around at night because it better that way. the most visual image that was memorable is when the owner of the diner is being beaten up so badly and there is so much blood and he just laying down on the ground, left for dead, and it is so vivid because there is so much blood running down form his nose and it sucks because he couldn't fight back.
ReplyDeleteIn my book called Woods Runner I can imagine the main character Samuel creeping through the woods carefully watching for any British soldiers coming his way making sure he doesn't get caught. If I had to guess the story takes place towards the end of the Revolutionary War and the author uses the settings around Samuel to develop the plot throughout the book. One part of the book I can picture in my head is when Samuel comes up on a group a British soldiers who have prisoners. I can picture him slowly creeping up into the brush and watching for a minute before he takes a shot at them.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Night. He does a very good job of describing what they are feeling and what is going on around them. The scene that he described that I could imagine the best was when 100 Jews were in the cars and the Germans would throw food in the car just so the Jews would kill each other for the food. This was one of the harder parts of the book just because of how inhuman the Germans were on a daily basis. The description of the setting definitely helped develop the plot as it made it easier to imagine what their surroundings looked like. the only thing im curious about is how bad it smelled. these people lived in the dumps and did not shower or anything. plus half the people around them were dead.
ReplyDeletein my book the imagery comes through a kid with a mental disability so the imagery is different but in a really good he explains it an d everything in good detail and it uses a lot of the senses also the book goes all over New York so it explains a lot throughout the city I don't think I could explain the setting any better than what Oskar did
ReplyDeleteI read the book, A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines. one of the most reoccurring settings is Jefferson's jail cell, that grant visits once a week. in these scenes the author really tries to draw attention to the crappy parts of the cell like its small size, and the murky water in the sink, which he does to make us feel sorry for Jefferson. another place that shows up a lot is the church that grant teaches his classes in. this church is very old and rundown, and you cant help but feel sorry for the school children and grant.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book Moneyball and it goes back and forth with the story so I think the book has a lot of different settings because it starts with the main character Billy when he was in high school and about to get drafted to the MLB and how he didn't know if he wanted to go to school or not then to when he was owning a baseball team to goes to when he played pro baseball and it explained how he struggled as a young kid playing with older players then in the start of a new chapter it talks about a completely different person who was a baseball reporter and talked about his experience of being a baseball writer and how there wasn't many of them and that he ended up being an author then when the next chapter started it went back to the topic of Billy being the owner of the Oakland A's and how difficult it is to run a MLB team because the team didn't have a lot of money.
ReplyDeleteMy book is set probably in the early 2010's in a small neighborhood with a school and lots of kids. The author Jeanne Ryan uses lots of details to describe the setting. When Vee's dare took place at the coffee shop the author described the look, smell, and noises inside. She also did a good job of describing the school the Vee goes too by talking about the large curtains on the stage and the gymnasium the play was in.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel. For how short of a book this is, the description is incredible. I feel like I was always able to see what was going on and how the character were feeling and acting. Since there is a lot of description in such a short amount of time, I thought that the book would become confusing or lose the overall theme. I was dead wrong though as there was a good balance and the main themes of faith and survival were never left out. The books great detail first popped out to me when Elie first arrived to the camp. Getting off of the old, dusty cattle car and describing the smell of burning flesh and seeing ash in the air. I was able to clearly visualize the disgust they felt in that moment.
ReplyDeleteHi Eric, i always feel like i know whats going on in my book aswell and i have the characters all figured out since there are like 17 of them.
DeleteHi Eric, and my book while being completely different than yours has some similarities. First because it is quite short. And second because there is so much description in such a small amount of pages. And my book also started very interesting. - Maci Steffen
DeleteI am reading P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han and the setting in this book is more today's time and seniors in high school. The author very easily describes things that are very realistic and would happen today in real life. Since it is about high schoolers, it makes the book very relatable. Many things that happen to the main character in this book, probably happens to many other girls in real life. This book is also full of drama and romance that would happen in today's time. The author does a really good job of describing these things and making them relatable.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book Michael Vey: prisoner of cell 25 the setting is basically a scared freshman trying to save his mom from a bunch of lunatics. What the author describes could potentially happen someday because as babies all the kids with powers were put through a machine and gave them powers.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom. And I would say the time period that it is written in is the mid 90's. I would say this because he describes everything around him so clearly. but I would say the best way i can picture things is when Mitch is describing Morrie when he is sick. Because as sad as it is he goes into so much detail on even what his coughs sound like and differ from each other. So reading this makes me picture things very easily.
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Deletei agree with you about how they describe everything very clear and in detail but why do you think it is in the mid 90s
Deletein the book tuesdays with morrie and the way i think the setting is by the way they describe it is morries house and inside there is a hospital bed with mitch sitting by morries bed talking to him and conforting him while he is still alive
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