The Truth in Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Where the Forest Meets the Stars—Blog 4 When we read, we adapt to become the addressee of the narrative. Authors construct a story with an ideal audience in mind and write to those people directly. However, we aren’t always that audience immediately. As we read we become the reader the author wants us to be,…
The Intertextuality and Codes of Where the Forest Meets the Stars
By: Rhys Ancheta When examining Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah through an intertextual perspective, a reader who hopes to be a writer can notice many cultural and symbolic codes, along with some controlling values. Looking at the intertextuality of a text helps readers begin to understand how societal conditioning has influenced…
Blog 2
Where the Forest Meets the Stars is considered to be domestic fiction. This means that it is a fictional book that focuses on family and home life. The book starts off with the reader asking many questions. The book’s opening scene is the main character, Jo, meets a little girl, Ursa, outside the cabin she…
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
By: Anna Keefe Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah is a mystery about a girl who showed up to a stranger’s doorstep one night looking homeless. The girl kept telling Joeanna the stranger that she was from another planet and that she was an alien. The alien girl’s name was Ursa and…
How Writers Read - Fall 2021 - Group 5 