Posted: January 6th, 2014

Responses

This is another quote taken from the same New York Times review of Peace Like a River. Read it carefully and then write a response to the reviewer detailing your agreement/disagreement with his statement. BE SPECIFIC in your answer by using details from the novel.

“While it’s true that this is a tale told in retrospect, the heightened, present-tense feeling serves to make Reuben come off as improbably, annoyingly wise when he says things like: ”You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine.’ In fact, this book would be far more compelling and convincing if Swede, a burgeoning young poet, were at its center, the sole girl in a male-dominated family, refreshingly cool and no-nonsense as she struggles toward creative self-definition. But Enger’s fusty traditionalism demands that this be a boy’s own story.”

The following is taken from a New York Times review of Peace Like a River. Read it carefully and then write a response to the reviewer detailing your agreement/disagreement with his statement. BE SPECIFIC in your answer by using details from the novel.

“Peace Like a River” mostly traces the Lands’ travails along the inevitable path to the lost son. There are myriad problems with this approach, the chief being that Davy never really comes alive as a character or seems particularly worthy of this dogged pursuit, beyond the obvious motivation of blood ties.”

I need really good answer on these questions like one good paragraph for each one

so two nice paragraphs