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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
"I'm starting to wonder just what makes a person
crazy."
I never took myself as a person to like poetry. I'm glad I picked this book up because people told me not to get it. This book goes over mental disorders how they are perceived at the time as crazy or dangerous.
As I read this book, a song come on and forwards beckon rebound came on it really describes the characters and the overall mood of this book
crazy."
I never took myself as a person to like poetry. I'm glad I picked this book up because people told me not to get it. This book goes over mental disorders how they are perceived at the time as crazy or dangerous.
As I read this book, a song come on and forwards beckon rebound came on it really describes the characters and the overall mood of this book
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
I’ve owned this book since elementary school and it deserves a reread every once in a while.
What a beautiful book about farming, Saskatchewan, the 60s, mental health, family, and friendship. I can't believe I hadn't read this book before!
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Emmeline lives in rural Saskatchewan, where her family struggles to eke out a living on a small farm. Her father has never wanted to be a farmer, and when he accidentally injures Emmeline with his tractor, he leaves the farm without saying goodbye. Emmeline now has a permanent disability in the form of an injured and shortened leg, and meanwhile her mother struggles to keep the farm going. At last, she decides to take on Angus, a former inmate of the state's psychiatric hospital, to work her land. Angus is at the heart of this novel: Emmeline gradually befriends him, and realises that the stigma and cruelty he encounters is baseless. Overall, this novel-in-verse is quietly uplifting, as Emmeline learns to make sense of her life without her father and with a disability, and learns to trust Angus and hears his story. It's sensitive and thoughtful, but somehow lacks passion: Emmeline isn't angry or sad enough for this reader to really feel with her, and though the story covers big themes, it manages not to maintain any tension. I'm very interested in the issues of personhood and recovery that Porter raises here, yet I don't think I will find this book very memorable.