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.