Author's Note: i really like Touching spirit bear and how Ben uses his figurative language in this book he did a good job and i think im going to score pretty good too.
Life Changing
You come home after
school, you open your door and find your mom passed out on the floor with a
bottle of beer in her hand, Your dad is on the couch watching TV smoking and
looks angry, you try to back away but he hits you. In your room you cry to
yourself thinking it will get better, yet you know in the back of your head it
won’t. Everyday this happens and there is no escape. In this book it's about a boy named Cole who has a lot of
problems, but they all revolve around his anger. His mom is an alcoholic , and
his dad abuses Cole. In my
opinion, Ben Mikaelsen
is a phenomenal writer when it comes to figurative language.
One example of figurative language is
personification, this makes the tone very upbeat and furious. The example of
the personification is "Cole felt
his smoldering anger ignite." (page 64) This kind of thing happens a lot
in this book. Cole has these terrible anger problems that eventually gave him
consequences. Like being sent off to a deserted Alaskan island. When he gets to
this island he learns a lot of lessons and he changes his ways and changes
completely.
The
second example of figurative language is a metaphor, the example is "Fear
flashed in Garvey's eyes." Page 102. How
this affects the tone is because it shows that Garvey just suddenly got
frightened. like he just seen a ghost or something. Ben really knows how to use
figurative language in this book and I think he did a fantastic job on putting
it into this book so well.
Furthermore I would like to say
that how all this impacted the tone and the book is because the tone is anger and
sadness. And later on in the story Cole finally changes his ways. And isn’t so
angry anymore which helps him a lot. That affects the tone because the whole
time he was this terrible kid now he all of a sudden just changes. Cole was
also a sad kid and that change he stood up for himself and became a better
person and wasn't mean anymore.
In conclusion I would like to
say that Ben Mikaelson did a great job with this story. And how he used
figurative language in this book. Ben made
the book come alive and really interesting . He made the tone angry and sadness
and he did a good job using that in the book. Like for example he used anger
with Cole because Cole had anger problems throughout most of the book. This
book is honestly one of my favorites and I really like Ben Mikaelson books.
