Behind The Beautiful Forever By Katherine Bou Summary
What would happen if your childhood was stolen? In some places children's childhoods have been stolen. Maybe because they have to make more money or their house was destroyed.Katherine Boo explain how a boy named Abdul, childhood was stolen. Author Katherine Boo did a better job Behind the Beautiful Forever, did a better job at describing the story better and she made the story easier to understand, using description, action, and foreshadowing.
One technique Katherine Boo discusses in Behind the Beautiful Forever is foreshadowing. She used foreshadowing because Abdul and his family will soon be landowners and have an actual house to live in. “If life and global markets kept going their way, they would soon be landowners, not squatters,
in a place where Abdul was sure no one would call him garbage.” page 213. Katherine Boo uses foreshadowing to discuss what is happening in Abdul’s home.
A different technique Katherine Boo used was descriptive, in the story Behind the Beautiful Forever. She chose description to explains the type of person Abdul is which is confident and determined. On page 212 the description she used was, “He had been working as hard as he could in the stigmatized occupation he’d been born to, and it was no longer a profitless position. He intended to return home with both hands and a pocketful of money.” Katherine Boo used description to describe the type of person Abdul is. The last technique Katherine Boo used was action in the in the story to describe events in Abdul’s life. This action shows that Abdul does most of the work at home. On page 209 the evidence Katherine used was, “And Abdul crouched on the maidan, beginning to sort two weeks’ worth of purchased trash, a stained shirt hitching up his knobby spine.” This action tells the reader about what Abdul does in his life.
To sum up, the techniques Katherine Boo used best describes the challenges Abdul struggles in his life. After analyzing Behind the Beautiful Forever readers can conclude that Abdul is growing up too fast. Author Katherine Boo did a better job Behind the Beautiful Forever, did a better job at describing the story better and she made the story easier to understand, using description, action, and foreshadowing.
One technique Katherine Boo discusses in Behind the Beautiful Forever is foreshadowing. She used foreshadowing because Abdul and his family will soon be landowners and have an actual house to live in. “If life and global markets kept going their way, they would soon be landowners, not squatters,
in a place where Abdul was sure no one would call him garbage.” page 213. Katherine Boo uses foreshadowing to discuss what is happening in Abdul’s home.
A different technique Katherine Boo used was descriptive, in the story Behind the Beautiful Forever. She chose description to explains the type of person Abdul is which is confident and determined. On page 212 the description she used was, “He had been working as hard as he could in the stigmatized occupation he’d been born to, and it was no longer a profitless position. He intended to return home with both hands and a pocketful of money.” Katherine Boo used description to describe the type of person Abdul is. The last technique Katherine Boo used was action in the in the story to describe events in Abdul’s life. This action shows that Abdul does most of the work at home. On page 209 the evidence Katherine used was, “And Abdul crouched on the maidan, beginning to sort two weeks’ worth of purchased trash, a stained shirt hitching up his knobby spine.” This action tells the reader about what Abdul does in his life.
To sum up, the techniques Katherine Boo used best describes the challenges Abdul struggles in his life. After analyzing Behind the Beautiful Forever readers can conclude that Abdul is growing up too fast. Author Katherine Boo did a better job Behind the Beautiful Forever, did a better job at describing the story better and she made the story easier to understand, using description, action, and foreshadowing.