5. Social Issues..

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

The social issue my book best represents is crime. The novel is about how a journalist named Mikael Blomkivist is given a task by a man named Henrik Vangar. The Vangar family is very wealthy and has alot of in-just in their history. Henriks job for Blomkivist is to uncover the mystery of Henrik's grand-daughter who disappeared during an annual family dinner. His reward is millions of kronar and payback against a man named Wennerström(who recently screwed over Blomkivist by setting up a scam to ruin Blomkivist's newspaper credibility). As the book goes on we find out that  Wennerström has been stealing information from Blomkivist's magazine and publishing it in his magazine as well as stealing money from different co-operations.  Without crime in this story I think the whole plot would be ruined. It is based about trying to find dirt on Wennerstrom and without it, the book would be lacking many main parts that makes it a page-turner.

6. Style

The Giver

By: Lois Lowry

In the the book 'The Giver' I think it best resembles imagery. Imagery is when the author uses words and phrases that appeals to our different senses.

     When Jonas is playing catch with Asher using the apple he notices a change as they are throwing it. This is a dramatic point in the story because this change is 'un-natural' in the world where Jonas lives. He nor anyone should be able to notice colours, so when Jonas sees the colour 'red' he doesn't know how to react or what to call this.

"Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic(24,Chapter 3).

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"No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.(20,Chapter 3)"

When Jonas descibes the apples as 'nondescript' we can tell something might be bothering him, he is overlooking the change because as mentioned, it's rude to 'call attention' to things that are 'unsettling or different about inividules'.