Book Analysis

Reading Counts Novel Analysis

Read a book of 100 pages or more within a classroom setting or at your own leisure!!  Write a 5 page paper discussing and analyzing the details below that pertain to your particular selection.  Your paper doesn’t have to be typed (if typed: 12-16 font + Double Spaced), but it does need to be in pen, in complete sentences, and in paragraph form according to topics.  Keep in mind I have read the majority of these books and I do have an information packet for all of them!!!!  

*INTRO PARAGRAPH

     * Attention getter (Question, Statistic, or fact that relates to your paper)
     * Title of the book and author
     * Purpose or What will be proved (Thesis Statement)

*SECOND PARAGRAPH

• Describe, in detail, all of the minor settings and the major settings!!!

• Why do you think that the setting of this story is important to the plot?

• If the story had taken place anywhere else, how would the resolution change? Why?

*THIRD PARAGRAPH

• Why is it important for the reader to know descriptions of the characters that appear in your book? (How they look, act, background info, etc.)

• Why would your reading experience be different if there were no background information about the characters?

• If one of the main characters were eliminated from the plot, how would this affect the plot? Why?

• Give some of the decisions that were made by the main characters.

• What were some of the results/consequences of those decisions?

• If an alternative decision was made by that character, would they benefit from it or be hurt? Why?

• Tell why your decisions would be the same or different?

*FOURTH PARAGRAPH

• Out of all of the events that occurred, what was the major event that caused the plot to unfold? (initial conflict)

• How could some of the conflicts in the story be prevented in your opinion?

• What are some of your solutions to the conflicts in the literature?

• What were some of the things that made the character change from the beginning of the story to the end?

• Was this a good change or a bad change? Why?

• Describe what you think is the most crucial/intense (climax) part of the story?  

• Why is this part the high point (climax) of your selection?

*FIFTH PARAGRAPH

• Was the author’s resolution the best way to solve the problem?

• If you could, how would you solve it differently to achieve better results?  Why?

• Give several life lessons (themes) that you learned after reading this selection.

• Tell how each lesson may help a person that is in a similar situation.

*SIXTH PARAGRAPH

• Do you recommend that someone else reads this story?  Why or why not?

• If you were the author and you were told to change the beginning of the story, how would you do it and why?

• If you were the author and you were told to change the end of the story, how would you do it and why?

• Give examples of some of the events from the story that you can relate to your life!!

• What type of affects on the world, if any, does this selection have?