Reading Reflection #2

Sept. 17/12

Reading Reflection #2
Crossed
Ally Condle
1 – 343

Here’s to another all nighter. I guess this book was a bit of a harder read, I was actually up all night reading. I don’t think I’ve done that since grade 10. I did really enjoy this book though and I’m pretty upset I only have twenty pages left.

            At the beginning of the book I found I was being giving very little information into the characters and setting. I later guessed that I managed to pick the second book in this series in my rush to find something I found interesting to read, I very much enjoyed trying to figure out and piece together what I was missing, but I’m sure this book would have been more of an easy read if I had actually understood what was going on in the beginning. I guess my original question would have been why on earth is this author being so mysterious?

            I also noticed that her plot is a little like that of hunger games. With the society controlling the entire lives of every citizen, and killing off all of the people who had lost the position of citizen; the aberrations and anomalies. So that was a text to text connection I had, but I also connected the controlling society in this novel with the government in my own book called the confederation. My novel also has a rating system that discriminates certain citizens and the confederation also kills off the lowest level of its ranking system; the unrated. I don’t know if that would be text to text or text to self but take your pick.

            Now for a little flashback to den of shadows, you asked me why I think the author uses animals so often in her writing. I think the animal represent the wild personalities of some of her characters because she always relates the animal with a specific character that normally has some of the same traits.

            In any case I think I’m going to finish my book now. I look forward to more questions.

                        Desi Henry