The majority of literature courses at the high-school level (and college, for that matter) are one semester in length, which makes it difficult to teach a novel. When curricula calls for the instructor to cover a certain number of authors and/or literary movements in a given course, devoting several weeks to one book is often impractical, if not impossible. Furthermore, the reluctancy of young readers to tackle a whole novel makes including one even more of a challenge. Yet the occasional longer work, something in between the short story and short novel, can be worthwhile for both teacher and student. Often, these in-between texts offer the concentrated plot line of the story coupled with increased character development and use of imagery/symbolism. These length fictions frequently have what novelist and scholar John Gardner called "an almost oriental purity. . . [an] elegant tracing of an emotional line" (183). There are several excellent pieces of writing which fall into this literary no-man's land -- some well-known, others not -- but finding them is often made difficult by book publishers who masquerade these briefer works as full-blown novels.
Rather interesting story that suffers a lot from poor writing quality. Story would benefit a lot if it followed the standard dialogue format instead of this abomination that it currently has. It also has wrong spelled names and misused pronouns that is pretty common in this platform. Anyway if you can get past those story has potential.
I thought it was great. Actually, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! It's just the beginning, I know, but the author does an excellent job with visualization. Plus, the story itself is intriguing. Please, Author, give us longer chapters. That's all I ask.
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