“The Fates Will Find Their Way” by Hannah Pittards at first came off to me as a book that was just going to talk about a teenage girl that went missing and the boys that it caused an effect on by pulling at their hearts and how they anticipated on her return. But in reality this book did more than that, it showed how a group of young teenagers grow into adults but while still being affected by the disappearance of Nora. It also shows the reader how a tragedy plays huge roles in their lives for years. I think what many people expected to get out of this novel was for Pittard to go into details more towards the concerns based on the families grieving stages which is what makes this novel so unique in my eyes because it does everything but that.
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Because in the start of the book I was convinced that this would be a book of a teenage girl gone missing and how it took a tow out on Sissy (Nora’s sister) and her family. I knew about the boys but I didn’t that that the story would take a turn like that making the book mainly focus on their disparities, trails, and tribulations. But after that point of the book the theme was very clear in my eyes because Pittard focuses on the children’s life in a before and after or more in the view of moving from point “A” to point “B” in their lives. I would also want to throw in the idea of a mystery theme I was once purely focused on because the way that the story continues on with making the reader want more and more out of the book. Knowing that the boys were going to grow older in the book (because someone spoiled it for me) made it in a way more agonizing to read further into the …show more content…
This is similar to Pittards writing because in her novel the boys are stuck with that same decision; weather to move on away from the illusion of Nora or to keep holding onto the past and what they wish had happened, opposed to what actually did happen. It is also similar in the way both stories are created by surprise being the conflict. In “If I Stay” everything was normal is what a day like any other. But in an instance everything changed when her mom and dad were taken from her due to a car accident. Now I know your questioning how this is in any relation to a girl gone missing but if you think harder about it more towards the core than of the concept of what was lost. Which would be how the boys and Sissy both lost Nora by surprise. In neither book were they able to say go by which is where denial, acceptance, and growth come into play. Because in both books they are forced to be stuck in a phase of denial, later taking them to acceptance, and finally leaving them with
Because in the start of the book I was convinced that this would be a book of a teenage girl gone missing and how it took a tow out on Sissy (Nora’s sister) and her family. I knew about the boys but I didn’t that that the story would take a turn like that making the book mainly focus on their disparities, trails, and tribulations. But after that point of the book the theme was very clear in my eyes because Pittard focuses on the children’s life in a before and after or more in the view of moving from point “A” to point “B” in their lives. I would also want to throw in the idea of a mystery theme I was once purely focused on because the way that the story continues on with making the reader want more and more out of the book. Knowing that the boys were going to grow older in the book (because someone spoiled it for me) made it in a way more agonizing to read further into the …show more content…
This is similar to Pittards writing because in her novel the boys are stuck with that same decision; weather to move on away from the illusion of Nora or to keep holding onto the past and what they wish had happened, opposed to what actually did happen. It is also similar in the way both stories are created by surprise being the conflict. In “If I Stay” everything was normal is what a day like any other. But in an instance everything changed when her mom and dad were taken from her due to a car accident. Now I know your questioning how this is in any relation to a girl gone missing but if you think harder about it more towards the core than of the concept of what was lost. Which would be how the boys and Sissy both lost Nora by surprise. In neither book were they able to say go by which is where denial, acceptance, and growth come into play. Because in both books they are forced to be stuck in a phase of denial, later taking them to acceptance, and finally leaving them with