The Assault Reflective Letter
Reflective Letter
In the prologue, I was puzzled and my brain was clouded with the information that was given. I’m the type of person where a book is very slow paced I begin to let the information flow right out of my ears and my head becomes a notepad with scribbles overflowing the notepad from a four year old. The prologue wasn’t very convincing to jump into the roller coaster ride, but I did read on. After the prologue, I started into the first episode I was amazed of how this author uses so much imagery, personification, diction, and literary elements to get to his point. I love how he writes; the description he gave me about his home in Haarlem encouraged my brain to picture it like a movie in the theater. The literary elements inserted into his paragraphs made the story more intense and enjoyable to read. For example, the motif, stones, had great symbolism towards Fake (the son) where he “threw [the stone] straight at the mirror” and “the glass [broke] into large pieces that landed into splinters”. I think this motif represents all of the past dark memories that Fake and Anton have carried for so long that they try so hard to “throw” it away towards something else thinking it would vanished into particles. However, the stone “still [lies] there like an insult on [their] grand piano”. Therefore, the stone would be ruining their lives just sitting on the present lives and destroying it piece by piece, wondering when it is going to move out of their lives. This motif really impressed me throughout the whole book. I like this motif because almost everyone can relate to carry the past on the shoulders. Even though this book was about some boy’s life, this really impacted me by re-thinking about the past and my current life right now. I felt like I was the one going through the emotions for Anton, and I thought all those terrible events happened to me, but once my eyes left the page of the book; I was in my own world, my own life, that I am living now. I felt
In the prologue, I was puzzled and my brain was clouded with the information that was given. I’m the type of person where a book is very slow paced I begin to let the information flow right out of my ears and my head becomes a notepad with scribbles overflowing the notepad from a four year old. The prologue wasn’t very convincing to jump into the roller coaster ride, but I did read on. After the prologue, I started into the first episode I was amazed of how this author uses so much imagery, personification, diction, and literary elements to get to his point. I love how he writes; the description he gave me about his home in Haarlem encouraged my brain to picture it like a movie in the theater. The literary elements inserted into his paragraphs made the story more intense and enjoyable to read. For example, the motif, stones, had great symbolism towards Fake (the son) where he “threw [the stone] straight at the mirror” and “the glass [broke] into large pieces that landed into splinters”. I think this motif represents all of the past dark memories that Fake and Anton have carried for so long that they try so hard to “throw” it away towards something else thinking it would vanished into particles. However, the stone “still [lies] there like an insult on [their] grand piano”. Therefore, the stone would be ruining their lives just sitting on the present lives and destroying it piece by piece, wondering when it is going to move out of their lives. This motif really impressed me throughout the whole book. I like this motif because almost everyone can relate to carry the past on the shoulders. Even though this book was about some boy’s life, this really impacted me by re-thinking about the past and my current life right now. I felt like I was the one going through the emotions for Anton, and I thought all those terrible events happened to me, but once my eyes left the page of the book; I was in my own world, my own life, that I am living now. I felt