Shhhhh, Keep quiet, tell no one

1. In Keep Quiet, Lisa Scottoline does an amazing job of displaying the characters by showing their true emotions. She makes the characters evolve the plot through their actions. The story starts where we learn that Jake, the dad, and Ryan, the son, have quite a tough relationship. The dad states that he just can't compete with all the things his son is doing. This can be true for a lot of families across the country. The only thing they have in common is their interest in cars. Jake does all he can to try to bond with his son who is leaving for college soon. So he goes and picks up Ryan from the movie theaters in his sweet BMW. They start to talk then Ryan just goes to his phone and keeps texting. After that the catastrophic event happens...Jake decides to let Ryan drive his BMW. (I will not state what happens :D) but we then learn later in the book that the mom, Pam, is going through the process to become a Federal Judge for the U.S. That is as far as i have gotten but the book is truly amazing, so many twists and turns which left me at the edge of my seat. And it is very relate able in many situations, you want to have a bond with someone so you suck up to them, in this case, letting Ryan drive. Everyone's true colors show after what happens in the car. I enjoy reading books like this where it can be relate able, not just to me, but to the others and where it always leaves me at the imagination of the reader. Where anything is possible and you just have to flip the page to find the truth. Even though we have only met 3 characters, i have already learned so much about them and how deep they go. I also like that in books where I know a lot about the main characters.

Keep quiet Article

      The article I choose is about how a man was shushed by higher authority to keep his mouth shut on a certain situation. A reptile specialist lost one of his anacondas and told the police. He told Mail Online that the cops handled the situation very differently than he expected... they told him to keep quiet while they search for him. That scared Gerald Andrejcak, the reptilian specialist, because that meant there was a wild anaconda on the loose and he didn't want to disobey the cops. This can be related to "Keep Quiet" because they make a mistake and Jake tells Ryan not to tell anyone while Jake handles the situation, Ryan doesn't want to spill the beans but at the same time the guilt is building up and sooner or later, he might. (I haven't gotten that far).

Read Keep Quiet to find out what happened in the car!

Pure

        There are many ways for characters to evolve into the people they are at then. In order to see a complex character develop through the piece of text, you need to learn their story. Be able to see where they came from and step into their shoes. You have to be able to connect with a complex character and see their back-story. That's a way that authors do a great job of making the reader feel what the character feels because the reader should be able to relate. I love a book where i can relate and where i can truly see a character come to life. In Pure, the author does a great job of that by telling us what each character has been through and when you realize it, you feel bad for the character even though the character is fake and not real and we all go through stuff in life. You can also learn a lot through their dialogue with other characters because you can see how they act weather its rude or pleasant. In Pure, at the beginning of the book, the characters are all mainly selfish. But by the end of the book i realized that as they got to know each other, they could joke around with each other and be open. I once remember hearing, you have to be a friend to make friends and i feel like that's how they acted towards the situation...at the end of the book. I feel like there is always a wisdomatic character when there is a moral lesson to be learned, also to me it seems like a wisdomatic character adds a lot more to the theme then they do to the actual plot. I enjoy reading parts of books when another character is speaking to a wisdomatic character and something useful is always coming out of their mouth, good or bad. All the characters add something to the plot, complex or not, they add something, big or small. Even just their dialogue adds to the plot because you can see where they have come from and where they are now. Not just complex characters can add something to a piece of text even though you learn the most about them and you know what they know and who they are.

                 Pure Article

      The article i chose to talk about is an article about dystopian societies--because Pure is set in Post-Apocalypse--and how the author thought this book stuck out of the crowd. The article mentions how most dystopian society books just totally forgot about the past and make it an obscure idea because the story line is set in the distant future, and people don't really get the idea of where the social decline came from. The article's author also then exclaims how Julianna did such a great job of not skipping over that part by telling us more and more about the past over the course of the whole book. The author also claims Baggott does a great job of talking about the social decline and where the past went wrong. In Pure's case, the past went wrong over nuclear weapons then nuclear warfare. The author calls this "The Blindside" because the book's author does a great job of explaining the social fallacies. Finally, the article's author mentions how Julianna makes the reader relate their emotions to the characters emotions in a dystopian society, we feel less guilt but more curiosity because this world is not like ours and we don't know what will happen next.