A Terrible Thing Analysis

The Best Memoir of 2017 Falling in love is one of the greatest joys. Falling out of love is one of the hardest pains. The story is so empowering and is an amazing, awful roller coaster of emotions, that surprises you at each and every turn. With using a duel chapter tactic; jumping from past to present, giving a new and exciting way for the reader to learn new information. The past helps you to understand what is happening in the present. “A Beautiful Terrible Thing” by author Jen Waite is an outstanding novel that shares her story of love, marriage, and betrayal while captivating her audience with sensory details and the outstanding use of pathos which make it so easy to get drawn into. Sensory details are a fantastic way to get the reader to create an image in their head using the author’s descriptions of characters, scenes, and places. “The role called for ‘blonde, pretty, apirational, Swedish-looking.’ Check, apparently check, check check. A whole twenty seconds of dreamily staring into eyes of the chiseled-face man I had met a few hours before and clinking my glass …show more content…
“A hundred times a day there is a voice in my head that screams Help me. The voice comes from a tiny woman in my chest encased in a soundproof glass column, pouding on the walls, begging for someone to notice her” (Waite 150). Each and every word is placed so delicately in the book, such as Mother Nature would place petals gently on a stem to make something magnificent, a beautiful flower. Flowers are the physical object that the reader can relate to this novel. So beautiful, so delicate but when mistreated; they wilt, crumple and brown, becoming terrible. Flowers, a beautiful, terrible thing. Much like a flower, throughout the memoir the reader gets to experience the thrilling romance between Jen Waite and her now ex-husband Marco bud, blossom and then finally and