Final Destination (Analysis (2))

Kate Barlow

Sam

A considerable part of the book is flashbacks. For me flashback is a component which makes a book better and more interesting. It shows us that even though the plot is happening at present, it is related with the past, too. Also if the past didn’t happened the way it happened, the story wouldn’t have happened now (oh, too many “happen”s). Especially the flashbacks of “Holes” turned it from a classic children’s book to a novel which we can enjoy very much. In particular the story of the curse was nice. The curse began when Elya didn’t carry Madame Zeroni, ended when Stanley carried Zero.

As I mentioned it before, Zero is my favourite character. Some like Stanley or X-Rayor even Warden. Besides all of them, there are characters that saved “the day”, even they died hundred years ago. Without Sam they couldn’t find the onions and might have bitten by lizards. Without Kate Barlow Zero and Stanley wouldn’t get rich and so on. They are the secret heros of the book. Louis Sachar used the secret heros so well, that at some points we thought what happened, smiled unwittingly and said “I see what you did there.”



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