How I Spent My Last Night On Earth By Todd Strasser

Have you ever taken a risk and have it pay off greatly in the end? In the story “How I Spent my Last Night on Earth,” by Todd Strasser, the character named Legs takes a big risk and the outcome was very great. When reading Strasser’s story, the literary elements conflict, characterization, and point of view add excitement to the story. Strassers added enthusiasm to the story by making the conflict in the story something that can be related into the real world for most of his teenage audience. One conflict is that Legs was scared to talk to her crush Andros. She says “My mind went uncharacteristically blank. My heart races. Goose bumps marched rapidly up the derma.” These were Leg’s thoughts when the boy she had been dreaming about approached