In my opinion the most significant event that transpires during chapters 13-19, occurs in chapter 14 when James is sent to live with his sister in Louisville, Kentucky. ... James tells Chicken Man, "Nobody knows how smart I really am," (150) in an attempt to express that he will succeed regardless of bad behavior but Chicken Man blatantly retorts that " nobody"ll give a damn," (150) and insists that if James continues to flunk out of school James will end up sitting on the same corner. ... I do not like the fact that Chicken Man is stabbed at the end of the chapter, bu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I think that this is an interesting point because the first chapter of the novel was entirely dedicated to the physical burdens and metaphorical weights that soldiers carried as they trekked through Vietnam, and now the end of the story relates back to that in explaining the reason why O'Brien needs to write stories the way that he does. ... O'Brien adds new details to give people that died in his stories new life that he could experience as he was creating it, almost as if the person that had died was alive and making new memories with him right at that very moment. ...

• Word Count: 685
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the use of a "disabled" narrator, the author Mark Haddon creates intrigue and gives us rare insight into another, even alien like world! ... An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. ...

• Word Count: 1041
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate