My English ISU: The Storyteller By Jodi Picoult

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The novel I choose for my English ISU is The Storyteller, written by Jodi Picoult. I decided to create a book cover for the narrative. The novel is about Sage, 25 years old girl who lives in New Hampshire, her parents are strict Jews but she considers herself as an atheist. A while back, Sage and her mother were in a car accident, which killed her mother and left a huge scar on her cheek. Her friend, Mary D’Angelis is the owner of the bakery that Sage works at.Later on, Sage started going to grief meeting and met Josef. The two became really close and Josef shared a really big secret about his past; he was a Nazi commander in the Holocaust. He asked Sage if she will help him commit suicide because of all the terrible crimes he has committed. Sage's grandmother, Minka is a survivor of the Holocaust, and she shared her past with Josef. Josef finally decided to commit suicide …show more content…
After Sage and Josef have a sexual relationship, she decides that she should help him die, so she gives him a pastry which was full of monkshood, which is a poisonous flower. At the hospital, Sage finds out that Josef was blood type B+ and Reiner was known for have blood type AB. She realized that Josef was Reiner’s brother Franz, and that he was an SS officer.

I decided to create a book cover for the novel, The Storyteller since the original cover didn’t relate to the actually story itself so I wanted to create a book cover that relates to the story. On the book cover, I decided to add a picture of a girl, who looks like a worker at a bakery which would be Sage. I also added a picture of a guy, which would be Josef who is getting closer to Sage, and then I added picture of events that happened

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