lit analysis # 2

Dont hurt Laurie

General

1)Laurie was the child of annabell who was beating her.  laurie and her mother divorced and annabel started to hate laurie due to the fact that she reminded her of her ex husband.  Annabell soon after had remarried  to a man named jack and he had to children who became lauries step brother and sister.  They are all blind to see that laurie is being abused because annabel does it in secrete.  She only does it when absolutly no one is arounds.  One day laurie got really hurt and cut her arm when her mom was beating her so her mother took her to the emergency room.  The doctors cleaned her up and put stitches in her arm but when they were about to leave the doctor started looking at her papers and relized thats shes been in there a lot and started to question how shees been getting hurt and her mother flippped and had a rage and they never went back to that hospital.  Laurie was always being beat by her mom.  She wasnt alloweed to have any firends because her mom didnt wasnt anyone finding out about her but eventually laurie found her self a friend George. He was crippled and couldnt do much but him and kaurie were the best of friends they would always hang out no matter what. they even found a secrete hiding spot that annabell couldnt find.  while they were hanging out they found a dog who had signs that he was abused and extremely hungary so laurie and george started to take care of him and eventually called him theirs.  This dog was one of the best things that hapeen to them but to laurie it was one of the worst.  george was getting really hurt and sick so he eventually had to be readmitted to the hospital and left laurie to be with her mother again.  her mother beat her and pushed her down the stairs and found her dog and took it away from her.  Her step brother and sister found out that laurie was being abused and would not stand for it so they took her to her grandmas house and told her everything so she let her stay there, but it wasnt soon after that anabwll took her away.  Jack didnt believe what was going on until one day he saw by walking in on annabell while she was in action so jack took laurie to his mothers house where she ended up living and her mother was put into a mental institution.

2)The theme of the novel would have to be stand up for yourelf even if it against your family.  You cant let people take advatage of you and most imortantly abuse you. 

3)The authors tone of the story is more depressing because you feel so much simpothy towards laurie.  She gets abused and and shes always having to lie like when she went to the doctors or when people at school like her teacher woul adk her question about how she got urt. Annabell was a cruel person she puched her down the stair and then kicked her telling her to get up. Thats not the happiest thing to smile about.

4)Allusion-laurie would always picture and dream that her mother loved her and that she never did anything bad to her.

Dialouge-Their is a lot of talking between laurie and her step brother because he is one of the only ones that knows everything because laurie tells him.  Also his grandmother laurie ends up living with her because of all the talking and things that happened between her and her mother.

flashback- laurie does have flashbacks of a few times that her mother has been nice and has tried to change but nothing ever happened so laurie was just being put to devistation.

Hyperbole- annabell says that she isnt that bad about abusing laurie but everyone knows thats a lie.  she also say that laurie is a demon child and does everything wrong when laurie does everything she asks she just hurts her.

Irony- jack thinks that nothing is wrong in his house hold and that everything is sunshine and rainbows but when he leaves his house hold turns into a hell hole.

point of view- laurie and her mother have completely different point of views but the same at seeing one another as demons. 

Characterization

1)two indirect characters are Annabell and jacks mother.  Annabell because while we read the strory we are revealed that she is a cruel mother. she abuses laurie and lies about it. she is two faced.  jacks mother because she is a sweet woman and all she tries to do is help laurie by letting her stay at her house to gwt away from laurie and eventually letting her live with her. two direct characters are laurie and jack.  laurie is a direct character because right from the beginning you know she is a young defensless girl who loves life when she living it and not being beaten.  shes scared most of the time but when she gets a chance she lives life to the fullest.  jack you can tell is just an older man who is just around and works all the time so he really isnt home but he loves his family very much and would do anything for them. The author uses both approaches because he wants you you to know some caracters right off the back butothers he wants you to be curious and wonder what their like so it makes you want to read more.

2)The authors syntax changes when he talks about the different characters.  When he talks about annabell its usually dark and cruel like when he is talking about her abusing laurie nothing is ever good about her.  she gets mad for stupid reasons and beats up on laurie like when she pushed her down the stairs.  When he talks about laurie he is more soft and playfull because she is still a young girl.

3)The protagonist is laurie and she is very dynamic because at the begining of the story she is a scared little girl and hates being around her mother but in the end she is a happy girl who isnt scared of anybody because she knows she is around people she loves and will never let anything bad happen to her.

4)After I was done reading this book I felt like I did get to know laurie because I felt her pain and I truely had sympothy for her.  I really felt for her when when her mother kept her enclosed in a world of hate. Her mom didnt let her talk to anyone yet alone ever do anything because she didnt want people to know her secrete.  that really does damage to a kid because they will have no social life and be to them selves.  a child is supposed to have fun and be outgoing and laurie was the opposite until her mother was sent away.