Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, by Barry Denenberg, is the diary of Bess Brennan. This book is about a young girl that got into a horrible accident that changed her life forever. Bess Brennan, the girl that got into the accident, is now blind. She goes to a school for the blind, and doesn’t like it at first. Eventually she learns to do things for herself since the accident, and her view of the world is much different. The setting takes place at her home and her new school, Perkins School for the Blind. The setting affects the story because if Bess would have never gone sledding, the accident would have never happened, but she is now blind and has to change her whole life. I know this because Bess writes on page 11, “He said there is a school nearby that teaches only blind children. I told him I don’t want
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One reason is that I wanted to keep reading was to see what Bess was going to have to overcome next, and that kept me involved the most. This book is a diary, and the girl writing it is blind, so she explains details in characters personalities, but not physical appearances unless someone tells her what they look like. For example, Bess wrote, “Amanda has a deep, throaty voice and is by far the more talkative of the two.” The plot of the story moves very slowly. There isn’t a lot of action in the diary, so that’s one of the things that make it move by slowly. The author uses quite a but of imagery throughout the book. For example on page 13 Bess writes, “ I dreamt I was standing on a rocky shore looking out over a storm-tossed sea. The ferocious waves were crashing all around me in ever-increasing fury.” The tone that the author uses is depressed, and then it switches to hopeful. An example would be, “I am relieved to be home but my sorrow is unfathomable.” The she starts to get more and more happy as the days go by. On page 66, Bess writes, “I’ve been practicing my gymnastics.” And that shows she is becoming more independent and
One reason is that I wanted to keep reading was to see what Bess was going to have to overcome next, and that kept me involved the most. This book is a diary, and the girl writing it is blind, so she explains details in characters personalities, but not physical appearances unless someone tells her what they look like. For example, Bess wrote, “Amanda has a deep, throaty voice and is by far the more talkative of the two.” The plot of the story moves very slowly. There isn’t a lot of action in the diary, so that’s one of the things that make it move by slowly. The author uses quite a but of imagery throughout the book. For example on page 13 Bess writes, “ I dreamt I was standing on a rocky shore looking out over a storm-tossed sea. The ferocious waves were crashing all around me in ever-increasing fury.” The tone that the author uses is depressed, and then it switches to hopeful. An example would be, “I am relieved to be home but my sorrow is unfathomable.” The she starts to get more and more happy as the days go by. On page 66, Bess writes, “I’ve been practicing my gymnastics.” And that shows she is becoming more independent and