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Literature Analysis #1

1. The plot of the story I am reading is to find out what the main cause is for kids who are getting leukemia. There are suspicions that it is the water which is causing it and later they soon find out that the water did contain harmful chemicals, however they aren’t sure yet. So, they keep doing research on it.

2. In my opinion, the theme for this novel would be darkness and light. In this case, the darkness would be all of the young kids/ adults who are getting leukemia and not knowing what the cause of it is and wondering whether if they could have prevented it or not. As for light, it would be finding out why they got cancer and knowing that it wasn’t their fault.

3. Jonathan Harr the author of this book, seems to me that he was a very interesting person and clever. When out with his friends or family he probably was the smartest and saw things from a much different perspective than others. What makes me think this about him is his book.. His book is based on a true story. Real events that took place during the 1970s. He gathered all of the information and details that took place in the court rooms, from families, and many other resources to  get enough information to put it all together and tell the stories of these children and their families and what they went through. However,  I could not find evidence from the book that can support what made me describe him as that. It is just what came to mind as a personal opinion when I read this question and truly thought about it.

4. One literary technique Harr uses in his novel is foreshadowing. He uses foreshadowing because he repeats the phrase “Anne said in a deposition years later.” The definition for deposition in law means “the process of giving sworn evidence.” This hints at me that soon later on they prove that Anne was right all along about her theory. Another technique that is used is flashback. Flashback is used because the author is telling us about events that had already occurred back in the 1970s. Dramatic irony is also demonstrated in the story because us readers are aware that the water is what is causing the cancer and that Anne’s suspicions are correct but the characters are not sure of that yet.

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