The Bone Cage is a great fiction book that can be classified as a realistic fiction. Since the story revolves around two athletes training for the Olympics while having to overcome emotionally experiences a long the way; this can easily be something that could have actually happened. There are Canadian athletes all around Canada that with no doubt went through the same routines of intense training as Sadie and Digger did. Although the story isn’t true, it is defiantly a story that can compare to most Olympic athletes. Many people wonder how Olympic athletes become so great and so fit so after reading this story it kind of sets what these athletes do, to reality. I noticed even on the back of the book an associated professor of Angie Abdou wrote, “The Bone Cage immerses the reader in a passionate plot that is all the more compelling because of its realism.” I agree with this. All the readers know this is a fiction book but the way she created the characters and the description she made of their lives made it seem so realistic and close to reality for most elite athletes.
Grade 12 English
Thursday, June 9, 2011
The Bone Cage- Literary Criticism/ Likeable Author
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
The Bone Cage- Setting
The Bone Cage- Theme
The Bone Cage- Turning point
The Bone Cage- Conflict
Since Sadie and Digger are two athletes training for the Olympics, any type of conflict that enters their life will affect them drastically. Although the accident Digger and Sadie get into while on their way back from a small weekend vacation, changed both their lives forever. Sadie was so badly injured that her dream of winning a gold medal at the Olympics was history. The entire book has been based on her training and goals for the Olympics, until near the end her dreams were crushed. The entire plot of the book was changed because as a reader I assumed the ending would be of her accomplishment at the Games. This not only conflicted with Sadie physically and emotional but conflicted with Digger physiologically. Sadie did finally realize that her dream was gone and becoming better was her knew goal, but since Digger was the driver at the time of the accident, he brought it all upon himself. He felt like it was his fault she wasn’t able to go to the Olympics and was guilty about even training. This affected his performance in practice because he just couldn’t stop thinking about how he crushed the dreams of someone he loves and also the fact that the dream was the same as his own. They both wanted to go to the Olympics but in reality Digger was the only one capable of doing so.
The Bone Cage- Change in Character
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