There are many books that are directed towards a younger audience, and are meant to be a quick and fairly easy read. But this does not necessarily mean that an older person cannot enjoy these books, and in fact, the near exact opposite is true in certain instances. Bridge to Terabithia is a fictional book by Katherine Paterson, and although it is a rather simple book to read through, it addresses many complicated themes, and even some that a younger person may not understand. The story focuses on a ten-year-old dreamer, a boy named Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr. (Jess, for short). The reader sees the events of the story from his point of view, as a fifth-grader who doesn’t quite fit in, and is a constant daydreamer, though he often conforms to the
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With a wild imagination, and a talent for drawing, he loves making his own worlds, coming up with fantastical beasts and kingdoms, leading his own stories along to create tales he feels he can only understand. But no one else seems to see what he does, they seem to lack his sense of adventure. So, in order to maintain a position among his classmates, he decides to at least pretend to be like everyone else, if only during school. He practices running, aiming to be the fastest, striving to be noticed, and overall accepted. But one day, while practicing his running, he meets someone. A neighbor who just moved in, teasing him about his practices. An odd encounter, and it annoyed Jess at the time, but little did he know this stranger would become one of his best friends. He encounters her at school multiple times, and they're even put in the same class. Leslie Burke was her name, and over time,the two of them grew closer as friends. After some time, and the two of them got to be better acquainted, Jess finally felt accepted. He felt he could share the constructs of his imagination with Leslie, and that she could understand him. Swearing him to secrecy, she takes him out to the forest behind her house, and swings across a river using a rope attached to an old crabapple tree. He follows in suit, and she introduces him to their own magical land of make believe, a kingdom of their own rule and construct. A land deemed Terabithia.
The two visit this place often,
With a wild imagination, and a talent for drawing, he loves making his own worlds, coming up with fantastical beasts and kingdoms, leading his own stories along to create tales he feels he can only understand. But no one else seems to see what he does, they seem to lack his sense of adventure. So, in order to maintain a position among his classmates, he decides to at least pretend to be like everyone else, if only during school. He practices running, aiming to be the fastest, striving to be noticed, and overall accepted. But one day, while practicing his running, he meets someone. A neighbor who just moved in, teasing him about his practices. An odd encounter, and it annoyed Jess at the time, but little did he know this stranger would become one of his best friends. He encounters her at school multiple times, and they're even put in the same class. Leslie Burke was her name, and over time,the two of them grew closer as friends. After some time, and the two of them got to be better acquainted, Jess finally felt accepted. He felt he could share the constructs of his imagination with Leslie, and that she could understand him. Swearing him to secrecy, she takes him out to the forest behind her house, and swings across a river using a rope attached to an old crabapple tree. He follows in suit, and she introduces him to their own magical land of make believe, a kingdom of their own rule and construct. A land deemed Terabithia.
The two visit this place often,