So recently I’ve read an amazing book and seen a phenomenal movie. When I saw a commercial for The Other Boleyn Girl movie, I knew I had to see it. Something hit me though- I knew that I had that book somewhere in my room. My problem is that I have hundreds of books in my room, many of which I have read and some I haven’t gotten to yet. Once I started reading The Other Boleyn Girl I was hooked. Its not too hard for me to get into a book, but within five pages I felt as though I was the character. Oh, and my other problem is that when I find a book that I like I cannot put it down until I have read until the last page! So for about four days I had my head stuck in between the pages of this 650 page book. The novel starts with the main character Mary telling about her life and giving a basic description to her life in the court of Queen Katherine of England. In these first few pages, I learned about the personality of the characters and the schemes that the families in the book would try to make. These pages set up the mood of the book- striving for acceptance from the King and from family members. This is similar to how Macbeth introduces its plot. Within four scenes the reader knows that Macbeth is thinking about overthrowing the King. When a text lays out the groundwork for the path that the book will take, it makes the reader eager to finish and learn how the story concludes. Even papers need to lay out the foundation with a good introduction. These kinds of texts make me excited to get to the end! In Macbeth I’m positive that Macbeth will be seen as sneaky if he plans to overthrow the King for his own benefit. When this type of mood is in a book- ones with rivalry and jealousy- it is much easier to get to the end because the reader gets sucked into finding out the ending. I’ll keep you updated!
