Here is my post for this week,
TOY STORY 3
The Novel ‘Toy Story 3 – The Junior Novelisation’ adapted by
Jasmine Jones is the next book I analysed. This book is the written form of the
movie and it follows the very familiar characters through their journey.
I chose this book because I think it would be interesting to
see children read it and watch them movie, and then see what they absorb from
them. The children may enjoy the movie more but understand the book better or
vice versa. The novel offers more insight to what the characters are thinking
and feeling through thorough descriptions and detailed expressive phrases.
The only pictures to provide images of the characters are on
the front cover. To fond out more about the characters, children need to read
and understand the text. This novel is written in third person point of view so
it can jump between scenes with different characters and situations instead of
following one single character through a journey.
EYES KNOWS
I chose the novel ‘Uncollected’ by Paul Jennings. This is a
novel made up of short stories that are written to entertain. The story I
focused on in this book is called ‘Eyes Knows’. It is a story about a boy named
Harry who is told by his parents that they are getting a divorce. They want him
to choose who he wants to stay with and he doesn’t want to choose one parent
over the other. Harry finds a small robot toy with a set of red eyes and a set
of green eyes that light up. Throughout the day, Harry asks the little robot
questions and the robot responds to it either positively, with green eyes, or
negatively, with red eyes. In the end, Harry gets into trouble and gets so
frustrated that he throws the robot out the window. His parents decide to live
close to each other and he spends time with both of them. Later on, the robot
is found with one red eye and one green eye glowing.
‘Eyes Knows’ is written in first person point of view. This
allows the reader to understand what the character is thinking and feeling.
Because it is written through a character’s point of view, only language that
suits the character can be used. Also, this means that the story is restricted
to only that characters experiences and emotions.
Although it is a fairly short story, ‘Eyes Knows’ is still
structured with an introduction, complication and resolution. The introduction
is fairly short as there is only one main character. The main body, the
complication, takes up most of the story and the resolution is short and
simple.
RUN, KID, RUN!
‘Run, Kid, Run!’ by Andrew Daddo is set during the school
holidays in the local TV station. The two main characters, Harrison and Jess,
who are brother and sister, are spending the day there while their mother is
working. There are no kids allowed at the station so they had to sneak in and
avoid being seen by the security guards. They meet some celebrities, get chased
by security guards and get lost back stage while their Mum is working. To stay
away from security guards they find themselves in the prop room and they dress
up in disguise. After being chased by the security guards through many rooms,
they end up in the producer office. The put on a giant act, pretending that
they were meant to be there and the producer liked their characters so much he
wanted to make a TV show with them in it.
The scenes in this book are set very well through the tone
of the characters and the descriptions of the backgrounds. Throughout the
course of the story the two main characters, Harrison and Jess, meet many
characters and every character is provided with a detailed description so that
the reader can visualise them well. This is a long picture book wit many
sentences per page. The images on every page offer only a glimpse into the
story line. To understand the story the reader cannot just look at the images. ‘Run,
Kid, Run!’ is a great book for children who want to escape into a world with
celebrities, chases and disguises.
That's it for me this week!
Laura
Do you think the novel of Toy Story had more to offer in terms of the story than the movie did?
ReplyDeleteRyan