Transitions

As Callie put it in our class, the transition from Housekeeping to Black Swan was just about as refreshing as Portrait to Catcher. The casual nature of the voice and the way that Jason is so imaginative is very refreshing in comparison to Ruth’s tale.

Immediately I, and presumably many readers, were captured by the familiarity of Jason and his family. There is something recognizable in the four member, upper class suburban family. The stereotypical interactions between the members are often dramatized and televised to a large part of the population. Additionally, the Taylors are a representation of a lot of American families, because of that, the story has a way of connecting personal experience to the words written on the page. I find Julia and Jason’s interactions particularly interesting. I am an only child, but yet when I think about having a sibling, I feel like we would be quite similar to these two. [I started this blog post two weeks ago, so the and interaction between them have shifted a lot now that we have reached the end]. Now at the end of the book, the two are seemingly pretty close. Whether they’re close because of the commonality of divorced parents, or the newfound maturity as Jason transitions into a 14-year-old boy, their relationship is refreshing and so cool to see grow.

When I began this book, I was hopeful and captured. Now that I am at the end, I can say definitively that I was not disappointed.