Structure is a way a literary work is organized; the arrangement of the parts in a literary work.
If You Come Softly is structered in a unique way. Every other chapter is told from either Miah's point of view or from Ellie's point of view. It gets interesting becuase the author played around like that, but it can get confusing if you dont pay attention to what your reading. The way the events take place in the book is normal. They bump into each other, they dream and think about each other, they get closer, they start dating when people start staring at them, he gets shot by a police officer, and she is devastated. It is basically like every other love story, but it has its moments. I think that the fact that the main point of the book is that they love each other, but of different races is what makes it a unique and touching novel.
Disscussion Questions
1. What are some other structure notices in the novel?
2. How does the author convey a feeling of a regular love story, but with a twist? Use different examples then what is said above.
If You Come Softly Poem
. If you come as softly
As the wind within the trees
You may hear what I hear
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
As threading dew
I will take you gladly
Nor ask more of you.
You may sit beside me
Silent as a breath
Only those who stay dead
Shall remember death.
And if you come I will be silent
Nor speak harsh words to you.
I will not ask you why now.
Or how, or what you do.
We shall sit here, softly
Beneath two different years
And the rich between us
Shall drink our tears.
.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Structure By: Gabby
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