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Datum ingestuurd: | 12 mei 2004 |
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2:
I chose this book, because I had to read a book and saw this one in the school library. My friend Christina chose the same book, but we weren’t really excited about it. But we also didn’t want to look further. Later on, we were really excited about the book.
3:
Well, no one recommended the book to me and I also didn’t read any reviews on it, so I didn’t have any expectations from those things. I also didn’t have expectations about the cover, because you know what they say: never judge a book by its cover!!!
But reading the back gave me some ideas about the book. I kind of expected it to be boring, because there isn’t a real story in it, just letters to each other.
In the beginning I also thought it was boring, but later on I had a hard time putting the book down, because I was so curious of the next letter. And of course there were some boring ones, but most of them were good.
When I was on page 20 or something, I saw a report from someone else on the Internet. It said that it was a boring book and that later you would find out that one of the girls was lying and was in prison.
So Christina and I wanted to keep reading, to see if that was true. And it was. Well, I guess that was an expectation, wasn’t it?
Anyway, most of my expectations weren’t right, some were.
4:
I liked this book, because it’s not a very common book and I thought it was very interesting because you don’t know what they feel and think unless they wrote it in their letters, that was the only way to get to know them.
* I thought this book was very exciting, because at first you know nothing about either on of them and later on you learn some more. I think Mandy’s life was very boring, except for her dangerous and crazy brother. I think that in the end he killed her, because Tracy, who’s in jail, already warned her for him, because she knew guys like him, she said. They end up in Ruxton, a jail.
It was very interesting, because I never read books about a prison and I’ve never read a book that exist out of letters, so it was all new. I also thought it was very original for the same reasons, because I never ever found any book like it. I don’t think there is, well maybe just one.
5:
Subject:
I thought it was a very interesting subject, I’ve never read any book like it. The extraordinary about it, was that the book existed only out of letters from two ‘penpals’. In the beginning I thought it would be boring, but it wasn’t. It was anything but boring. One of the two girls was in jail, but she never said what she did to end up there. So I was really curious, but I never found out.
If I was the author I would have put in a little bit more about jail, and how Tracey survived there. Because there were only bits and pieces about it. And maybe the end. It was an open end, an exciting open end. Mandy, the other girl suddenly stopped writing and at first Tracey thought she didn’t want to write anymore because she had told some nasty things about jail. But at the last page she wrote another letter, in which she told Mandy that her previous six letters were sent back, unopened. So she knew that something was wrong, but we don’t know what is, although I have an idea.
Events:
I think feelings were the most important in the whole book, because there weren’t really events, just letters to each other. And there also weren’t many thoughts, because you couldn’t look in their minds.
There were enough events for the book to be good, but there could have been some more, I wouldn’t have minded that. But the events that were there were good and enough.
I thought the end was good; it’s an open end. Although I do want to know what happened that stopped Mandy from writing, but I have an idea. Only I’ll never know for sure, that’s a pity.
Persons:
There were two lead characters, which sounded realistic. I understood both characters pretty good, although I’ve never been in their situations; I never went to jail, especially not for years and I don’t have a brother who beats me up all the time, he wouldn’t dare!
I did recognise a few persons from my own ‘world’, like Cheryl and Rebecca. My friends from primary school were exactly like them!
If I was the author I’d let Tracey tell Mandy more about her live before prison and the crime she committed, that would’ve been nice. Although this makes you more curious.
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I could read the story well it wasn’t hard. In the beginning it was a bit difficult though. That’s because the story exists out of letters to each other and in the beginning I had a hard time remembering who was who. I don’t remember any boring parts, so there probably weren’t much or non. I can only remember nice, funny and depressing letters, but the depressing ones weren’t boring or anything like that!
At the end I wasn’t completely satisfied because I wanted to know what crime she’d committed and what the hell happened to Mandy!
Use of language:
I don’t remember any difficulty with the use of language, although there were some typical English expressions. I could only guess what those meant, but it didn’t bother me. I understood what they meant so…
The situations were well described, so I could imagine it perfectly. But that could also have been my vivid imagination.
Because it existed out of letters, there weren’t any dialogues. They did call to each other once, but we only read their reactions in their letters, the call wasn’t in the book.
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