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Michael Harmon's Stick Analysis
The book Stick is written in the first person. The protagonists of the story are Brett and Preston and the antagonists are Brett's dad, Coach, and Tilly the bully. Michael Harmon the author of the story writes with great detail. He makes everything seem like it's real and paints a visual picture. In chapter 31 the author paints a picture when Preston is trying to save a man “Preston, now sprawled on top of the guy, and what looks like catsup and mustard smeared on his face frantically reached into his pouch and took out his taser”(Harmon 136). The authors style is also very fast paced. The different conflicts in the book are very close together and there is not much time in which the book is boring. The mood of the story is also
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