Ultimately, Cummings's careful pacing makes this story work she helps readers to empathize with the heroine, to follow her from her post-trauma confusion to her rage and withdrawal from the world, and ultimately to her discovery of inner strength. Sentenced to a juvenile detention camp and eager to escape, Digger has a plan that sends him on a journey that is both a survival story and a lesson in trust. wondered if she wasn't subconsciously-or maybe consciously-punishing her mother for something that maybe she didn't even do!""). The mystery surrounding her mother's responsibility, on the other hand, seems like an unnecessary complication, and some of the descriptions of Kelley's emotions are clich d (e.g., when the heroine opts for the silent treatment, ""Kelley. ""It's called debridement""), and while these passages are sometimes clunky, readers learn a great deal about burn recovery. She is in physical pain, and her mental anguish grows throughout the novel, as she wonders why this happened to her, and who she is now that her appearance has been dramatically altered. Cummings (Autumn Journey) incorporates medical vocabulary and treatments into her narrative (""Twice a day they come in and pull the dead skin off my leg with tweezers and Q-tips,"" Kelley explains to a visiting friend. Her anger and confusion intensify when she suspects that her own mother may have been at fault in the accident. She is in physical pain, and her mental anguish grows throughout the novel, as she wonders why this happened to her, and who she is now that her appearance has been dramatically altered. Digger seemed to do everything for these people and the only reason why Digger is alive. The character is motivated by his mom, Nora, and Luke. Three words to describe the main character are brave, caring, and Helpful. Nora, a serious student, worries about the disadvantages of repeatedly transferring schools.When sixth-grader Kelley and her mother get into a car accident, Kelley is rushed to the hospital with a broken leg and severe burns, especially to her face. In this fast-paced novel, two college students experience life, death, heartbreak, and hope over the course of one night in a hospital ER. Character Analysis The main character is Digger. For example, Digger’s friend Nora and her mother live at a campground because her mother’s relationship troubles keep them on the move and financially strapped. It’s heartrending at times to observe how parents’ poor choices affect their children. Priscilla Cummings frankly portrays people living on the margin. Read two additional books from the reading list or the Reading Olympics book list.But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the DiAngelos, his. When injuries stop him, Digger hides at a riverside campground, where he befriends a young boy and a girl his own age. Use the tabs below to explore Trollopes books and characters and the relationships between them. Brady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. Natalie is her name and she lives on a farm with her mother, father, and younger brother. Born in 1951, Priscilla Cummings grew up on a dairy farm in Massachusetts. Search our directory of Trollopes novels and characters. His new friendships and sense of responsibility to Luke, a young boy whom he helps, are touching and reveal his growing maturity. As I continued reading the book, things began to become clear to me. Red Kayak is a novel told from the perspective of its main character, Brady, who becomes involved in a heart-wrenching accident involving his neighbors and a. Digger is a complex character, who is increasingly easy to sympathize with over the course of his ultimately redemptive journey.Background information on the mid-Atlantic region is smoothly woven into the narrative and further enhances the novel’s strong sense of place. This is the sequel to Red Kayak, and I think is the better written story at least I enjoyed it more and it had better pacing.Digger faces dangerous situations, such as canoeing down the Potomac River and encountering dams, while trying to evade the authorities.
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