The two books that are going to be compared are Blue by Danielle Steel and Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden. The reasons that these two books will make a good comparison is because they share very similar themes, they both try to shock the audience and insert curiosity into the reader’s mind. Both the books share a main theme of thriller. They shock the reader in such a way that the book will remain in one’s mind long after the book has been read.
The book Ghost Girl is about an elective mute little girl and how a teacher touched the life of this little girl and allowing her to open up about how she is sexually abused and how its all connected to satanic ritualism. The book is told from a first person point of view and this allows the reader to …show more content…
In both the books the children of abuse did many strange things and got angry very quickly when the wrong topic was brought into discussion. The children had picked up strange habit’s and appeared to be mentally ill. A quote from Ghost Girl about the abused child refusing to have her picture taken, “I don’t want my picture taken.” (page 119, line 22) Another quote from where Jadie performed one of her new found habits, “The first thing she did was to take the key and lock the two doors and then secure the masking tape over both keyholes.” (page 102, line 1) An example from Blue where the abused child feared speaking to authorities about what had happened, “I tried to once . . . I told her that he kissed me, and she said I was a liar and I would go to hell for saying bad things about Father Teddy. Between hell and jail, I never told her the rest.” (page 126, line 16).
The theme of the two books, Ghost Girl and Blue, is realistic fiction. Realistic fiction is a genre to be formed of stories that may have actually happened to people in a believable setting. These stories bear a resemblance to real life and the characters in the story react in the same manner that real people do. The stories that are classified into Realistic Fiction are done so because they have plots that highlight personal or social events of every day life. Therefore, these books are classified into realistic fiction because they are stories about what may actually be
The book Ghost Girl is about an elective mute little girl and how a teacher touched the life of this little girl and allowing her to open up about how she is sexually abused and how its all connected to satanic ritualism. The book is told from a first person point of view and this allows the reader to …show more content…
In both the books the children of abuse did many strange things and got angry very quickly when the wrong topic was brought into discussion. The children had picked up strange habit’s and appeared to be mentally ill. A quote from Ghost Girl about the abused child refusing to have her picture taken, “I don’t want my picture taken.” (page 119, line 22) Another quote from where Jadie performed one of her new found habits, “The first thing she did was to take the key and lock the two doors and then secure the masking tape over both keyholes.” (page 102, line 1) An example from Blue where the abused child feared speaking to authorities about what had happened, “I tried to once . . . I told her that he kissed me, and she said I was a liar and I would go to hell for saying bad things about Father Teddy. Between hell and jail, I never told her the rest.” (page 126, line 16).
The theme of the two books, Ghost Girl and Blue, is realistic fiction. Realistic fiction is a genre to be formed of stories that may have actually happened to people in a believable setting. These stories bear a resemblance to real life and the characters in the story react in the same manner that real people do. The stories that are classified into Realistic Fiction are done so because they have plots that highlight personal or social events of every day life. Therefore, these books are classified into realistic fiction because they are stories about what may actually be