Monday, May 27, 2013

The Girl That Could Fly Reader Response Entry


The Girl That Could Fly

My book is "The Girl The Could Fly" by Victoria Forester. I chose this book because my mom gave it to me and said I should try to read it. So I put it in the book case in my room. Then one day my friend was over and looking at the books in my room, and saw this one and read the back of it and said it sounded good. I thought I wasn't going to like it before I started to read it. The lead is like an action and a reaction mixed together, because it tells you what is going to happen but then makes it sound like it was being reflected. (Piper decided to jump off the roof. It wasn't a rash decision on her part. This was her plan-climb to the top of the roof , pick up speed by running from one end all the way to the other. Jump off. Pg. 1) I think that the author chose to start with this because it makes you think, Is she really going to jump off the roof? What if she does and hits the ground? It makes you think of questions and makes you want to read more to find out if she jumps or not. If she gets hurt or not. To predictions that I will make about this book is that Piper will learn how to stay up in the air and not fall as fast as she does. Also that her parents are not going to let her leave the house because they think that people will see her flying.

      This book takes place in Lowland County, a small town that is smaller than South Hampton. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody lives on a farm with tons of fields and farm animals. These people had many fields but they wouldn't call it a farm. It's a house with a barn.  This book takes place in the past like many years ago. I know because these people don't had cell phones, and televisions. I have never been to a place like this. I don't know if I would want to go to a place like this. I wouldn't because for so reason I feel like I would be lost. (Piper lived with her ma and pa on a farm. It wasn't much of a farm to be sure, just an old clapboard house and a bank barn that leaned dangerously to the left. Pg. 1)( Swooping over summer crops in the fields of corn, wheat, oats, and barley, she dipped down low and picked stalks as she past. Pg.24) I chose these two pages because it told about her house and the fields. I thought that these were good ways to tell about Lowland County. I though that Piper would be telling the story but I thought wrong. It's a third person point of view. This narrator is a limited narrator. The narrator knows and tells what Piper is thinking. So you don't really know what Piper's ma Betty and Piper's pa Joe are thinking. The only way to tell is when they  talk. Some times you know what Betty is thinking but never Joe. I think that it was a good choice to chose third person because then you aren't just hearing mainly what Piper is thinking.

      The protagonists in my book is Piper McCloud. There isn't really an antagonist in my book but, Betty McCloud might be an antagonist because she won't let Piper fly. Betty McCloud is Piper McCloud's mother. Betty is an uptight mother that believes that everything is planned and things shouldn't be different. Betty home schools Piper because Piper is different than other kids. Piper is able to fly and has never met another kid. You can tell that Piper is very daring because of her actions. She jumped off the roof to see if she could fly. Her mother on the other hand is uptight and was very mad that Piper jumped off the roof, but any mother would be. Betty wasn't happy that Piper was able to fly, she was very mad that she was different than every other kid. (Page 14-17 is where Piper jumped off the roof and page 19-20 is where Betty is mad at Piper for jumping off the roof.)  One minor character in this book is Joe McCloud. I know that he is Piper's dad but he doesn't talk, and he didn't seem to care that Piper jumped off the roof.

      The conflict in my book is an external conflict, also it is a person vs. society because the people of Lowland County don't except the fact that Piper is different and can fly. Nobody wants to talk to Piper of play with Piper. They keep their distance and Piper isn't allowed to go to school or leave the farm. One time her family goes to a picnic for the church and everybody saw her fly and didn't want their kids to go near her.

      Piper was playing baseball with some kids and started flying. Everybody was terrified that she was flying. Her parents were embarrassed and sat there with their heads down. Every kid was shocked but Piper was happy that she showed them what she could do. She caught the ball so that their was an out, but everybody grabbed their kids and left."Parents blank stares quickly turned into concern and soon they were grabbing their children and making a dash away from Piper." (Pgs. 45-47) I chose this passage because it shows that Piper doesn't have an easy life. This is when people refuse to loo of talk to Piper. That is hard for a young child. This doesn't change Piper in anyway because she is still going to fly. She learned that she needs to be careful with what she does. She hasn't made a major decision about flying . She still wants to fly and isn't going to let this stop her from do so. 

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