Reading Response Essay

The September Sisters, by Jillian hazan, is a story ab let out both childs, Abigail, the oldest and Becky the lateest. They both fight a lot and make each other(a)s life miserable, thats all they do, then Becky disappears in the center field of the night, Abby struggles to cope with her own feeling of guilt and loss. Aby meets a upstart neighbor, Tommy, who with m, discover that love can bloom, even when its surrounded by thorns. This is shown by the author with tone, imagery and similes. Abigail feels a sense of guilt finished the disappearance of Becky, they would invariably fight for no reason or for gormless reasons and now that she realizes that shes gone. She struggles with this deep feeling of wo. I felt this fast surge of guilt, as if I shouldve heard everything, shouldve heard Becky get out of bed, scallywag 13.Throughout the book whole book, the tone is always express as guilt and grief. Every time I got in the liquified pool or I looked at the inner tube, I musical theme about Becky swimming toward me, wanting the pink one so bad, Id feel so guilty, and Id think, why didnt I serious let her have it? What was the big deal besides? She couldve had this one thing it wouldnt have been so much to give, page 296. Jillian Cantor gives us a very strong feeling of sorrow and grief to capture, which tells us the theme throughout the story. Theres as well a big amount of similes used to show the theme. Our house is ilk a prison, something that sometimes feels like its safekeeping me in, locked away, not keeping other people out, page 17. Abigail feels trapped with all this situation of her sister missing, rather than feeling protected, its vice-versa.Another example is, The kiss was short, and when he pulled back, I could see his breath, like frosting, lighting up the air, page 189. When Aby uses frosting, its sweet and good, so Aby describes his presence as sweet air, qualification her happy, which goes with the theme of innocence of youn g love. The way Jillian Cantor captures images about what is release on is by giving imagery. Beckys hair was straight, dirty blond, and just past her shoulders. She had green eyes and pinkish sunburned skin in the summer. She had dimples. She had some freckles on her nose. She had two-inch scar just above her right elbow, from the time she fell off her bike. She was four feet eight inches tall, and she weighted seventy-three pounds. She was ten dollar bill years old, page 28.The author uses vivid amount of sentences to imagine how Becky looked out front she went missing. I felt his lips moving over mine, his tongue pushing behind into my mouth, and it all felt perfectly and warm and so nice, page 315. Abigail is favorable with his presence when shes with him and feels warmth by his side. I certainly stick out this scene as it goes. The warmth of love and innocence is captured in this quote. Jillian Cantor really gives out the theme by expressing himself with tone, imagery an d similes even though theres heavy(a) times in life, love always makes its way through, it will be there, through thick and thin. This innocent young love was told in this story with Tommy and Abigail. Abigail struggled with the disappearance of her younger sister still the love that Tommy and her gave each other made love bloom, through this hard situation of her family and her.