Analysis Of My Two Blankets

The children’s novel “My two blankets” is heart-warming story about a young girl whose name is Cartwheel, who escaped the war and moved to a different country. Cartwheel didn’t feel like her old self, she used to do cartwheels in the street, smiling and laughing all the time, however in this country she felt like she couldn’t be herself. Cartwheel met a young girl, but was too shy to speak to her, whenever anyone spoke to her, she would hide under her old blanket. Her blanket was her comfort barrier, her secure spot and her home. Using the Right words, the author uses words such as “The waterfall was cold, it made me feel alone” (Kobald, 2014). The meaning of these sentences were describing how she feels on the inside. She did this to move …show more content…
The author used Precise vocabulary such as new words and meanings (Tunnell, 2016, p.19) to the younger audience by describing different meanings of emotions to security items such as blankets. She was making her point come across with such sentences as “When I was at home, I wrapped myself in a blanket of my own words and sounds. I called it my old blanket” (Kobald, 2014). She is saying to her audience that her home, is her own environment that she felt comfort. The character knew she can speak her language and sound out her sounds and she can also feel safe in this place. Furthermore the use of Figurative language is used throughout the book, she had metaphors to describe most of her sentences (Tunnell, 2016, p.21) she wrote “My old blanket was warm. It was soft. It covered me all over. It made me feel safe. Sometimes I didn’t want to go …show more content…
Cartwheel met a young girl, but didn’t understand her, it was clear in this sentence “The girl came up to us and said something. Her words were strange. It was like being back under the cold waterfall” (Kobald, 2014). Music in language became stronger towards the end of the book, Cartwheel, started playing with the girl and started opening up to her emotions “she took me to the swings, I got on and she pushed me higher and higher, I wanted to laugh, I wanted to tell her how glad I was that we were friends” (Kobald, 2014). This created emphasis and repeated tones to make the story blend together (Tunnell, 2016, p.22) When she started to play with the girl, you see her open up more and move on to a new blanket with new words. “I whispered the new words again and again, soon they didn’t sound so cold and sharp any more. They started to sound warm and soft. I was weaving a new blanket” (Kobald, 2014) this was the Understatement of the book, this is related to (Tunnell, 2016, p.23) “presented clearly in writing and readers draw their own conclusion”) Overall, the readers participated in the experience instead of being led through it (Tunnell, 2016, p.24). We got an Unexpected insight when Cartwheel felt better about her surroundings “the blanket grew and