![]() There is also a third act shift to overtly Christian imagery and allusions that felt entirely unwarranted. Similar to the syntax choices, all the horror descriptions we do get repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat… I’m not sure if Chbosky doesn’t write out the horror because he can’t or because Christopher, the narrator, wouldn’t be able to understand it. At least, their fate is not described as being so horrible. Even those that don’t escape don’t end up suffering all that horrible of fate. All of the horror happens on the imaginary side of the world where no one dies and everyone always escapes. ![]() ![]() But after about the first couple hundred pages, it all grates and all repeats. The choices seem very much inline with how an 8 or 9 year old would think or speak. ![]() The breaks and short sentences create a tone and a mood that leave the reader unsure and unstable. Over 900 pages of this book were written like that: short, declarative sentences fragments strange, unnecessary capitalization breaks in the sentence and paragraph. Christopher and his single-mother are starting over in a town. ![]()
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