General
1. The plot of the story was complicated in the beginning. I'm very slow at catching what's going on so it took me a little while to figure out what the author was doing in the novel. The novel had two perspectives. One was with Honor and what was occurring with her and the other jumped around with all the police that were looking for the so called "Coburn". It created a lot of suspense sense they'd jump around from one view to another and it just kept you want to keep reading and reading. Kept me wanting to know if the main character Honor was going to die.
2. The author was trying to point out a real event that has happened to people before and how they react. Us readers will think that the characters are stupid for doing certain things, but if we think of it, we would probably react the same way if we were in her place or maybe even worse. She let's us see the true fear that runs through the characters mind knowing that she may die and that her young daughter, Emily may be harmed by the murderer, Coburn.
3. The author expresses much tone throughout the whole book. The three that caught my attention a lot would be: "I'm prey to them so I've got nothing to lose.", "...rather than reveal the desperation she felt...", and "No loose ends, no mercy". Those are a few lines where the author, Sandra Brown, shows tone. She shows it in those excerpts because it was all said in threats and one on how she felt towards the situations.
4. Literary elements I observed in this story were foreshadowing when they would say what the officers discovered and later on Coburn re-tells it. A huge symbol that was throughout the whole book was the main characters name, Honor, because it notify's you that she is a good person based on her name.The whole book was written indirectly. The author never got to the point quick but always created suspense. There was flashback in the beginning of the story when Honor remembers a time of when her husband was alive. Schema was throughout the whole novel as well, when she created suspense of everything that was going to happen at one point. She let you try and figure out what would happen and maybe more than half the time you were wrong.
Characterization
1.Two examples of direct characterization would be in the very beginning when Cobalt mentions that the cops are searching for him so he hides out in Honor's house by threatening her. It was obvious he was going to threaten her sense the moment he pointed the gun at her and demanded her what to do and when to do it.
The indirect characterization would be when Cobalt kept everyone wondering if he was going to kill Honor and Emily or not and if Honor and Emily were ever going to be able to get away from him without being harmed.
2.The author's syntax never changes because like I've said before she kept a lot of the important events in suspense. One moment she kept in suspense for a long time was what Coburn was looking for in Honor's House.
3. I think the protagonist is round because in the beginning all she showed was fear, but as the story went on the author mentions how she becomes brave and faces the bad guy not thinking of the consequences much. She eventually tries to escape to save her daughter, something she didn't have the guts to do int he beginning.
4. After reading the book I felt like I had met a whole new person and they had told me a lot about their personal life. The story was written in such a way that it just made you feel like the character was just there telling you what happened to her. It didn't make you at all feel like you were just reading some boring book with normal characters. Everything about it felt so real. There were points where you might have even felt like you were a part of it and there the same moment everything was happening.
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