The two main characters in the story are Jesse and Lesley who are the protagonists. Jesse is a sixth grade boy trying to make it through the school year without getting beat up by the antagonist, a girl, who is the biggest bully in school. Lesley, on the other hand, is an outgoing girl with a great attitude towards life. .
The plot of the story is when Jesse and Lesley decide to create a make believe world just for themselves. They call it Terabithia which is the setting of the story. It's a secret place in the forest that only they know about. Jesse is a great artist and often brings his work to Terabithia for Lesley see. Lesley also brings the dog that Jesse bought for her to Terabithia. They named him Prince so he could be the prince of Terabithia.
The foreshadowing of my story is when Jesse comes home to find that the television is off which was extremely unlikely at his house. Then he was told about the climax, which was when Lesley was trying to cross the bridge to Terabithia and she slipped and fell off in the rain.
Jesse was at the Art Museum with his teacher when this happened. Jesse goes through many phases of denial. He has flashbacks of all the great times he and Lesley had together. This is a major conflict for Jesse because of how much Lesley meant to him and how she had become his only best friend. .
The tone of my book has now changed from exciting, fun, and adventurous to sad and very teary. The mood now is very depressing. Jesse starts to have trouble concentrating in school and is depressed all the time. He doesn't even care if he's bullied anymore.
When he goes to school for the first day or two after the incident, the children were asking lots of questions. The next day there were fewer questions and then they stopped. The irony of this was that Jesse still knew where their special place was, the one that nobody else knew about. .
Jesse still could not go back it was too painful.
Katherine Paterson's novel, "The Bridge to Terabithia" takes a magnificent look at the true bond in a close friendship. ... Jess" and Leslie's bond of friendship gets stronger than ever before when they start their own little kingdom, deep inside the woods called Terabithia. ...
