When I started writing my thoughts about Bridge to Terabithia for the project, I tried to find all the different themes. Things about friendship and life and death. I also related the book to Charlottes Web. How the characters are very similiar in a way.
The first article I read was by Emily Bazelon on Slate.com http://www.slate.com/id/2160370/. I tried to find out why the author wrote the book. What was the authors intentions. Maybe it was about a relationship or just something she dreamed about. But I found out that the reason that Katherine Patterson wrote this book was beacuse her sons best friend died. Thats probably why the book has such great craft and shows great feelings and emotions. I feel like its easier to write something when you have a personal experience with it. When it has happened to you its easier to show how it feels.
After I read this article http://brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/457 I noticed all the different themes in Bridge to Terabithia. I know a lesson is to live life to the fullest. Now after reading the article I found that you shouldn't be afraid to take risks. Don't be a the one on the sideline. Take action in what you are doing. You shouldn't be afraid of what everyone thinks about you because if you end up keeping your mouth shut you will end up regretting it.
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