This is a very entertaining story. Miss Bobbit, a ten-year-old, precocious, clever girl, attracts every boy, especially Billy Bob and Preacher, in the town. On the day she was leaving for Hollywood, a bus runs over her, finishing all the fuss around her suddenly.
This story entertains the reader with a lot of humorous episodes: fight over Miss Bobbit between Bob and Preacher; Sister Rosalba’s rescue, Manny Fox’s scam (The Fan Dancer without the Fan) followed by Miss Bobbit’s similar scheme to collect money to go to Hollywood.
The first sentence of the story makes the reader want to read to the last page where Miss Bobbit is run over by a bus. The reader is under a constant pressure because he or she wants to know when the girl will be run over. After all, she is killed at the end of the story. The last sentence of the story is almost the same with the first one, an excellent way to hook the reader. It goes: “Yesterday afternoon the six-o’clock bus ran over Miss Bobbit. (the first); That is when the six-o’clock bus ran over her.(the last)
The writing style of this fiction and that of “In Cold Blood” are quite different. The former is casual, light-hearted, humorous, but the latter is formal, rigid, newspaper reporting style with a lot of legal jargons. “In Cold Blood” gave me a strong impact because this is a non-fiction novel while “Children on Their Birthdays” is a fiction.
This story entertains the reader with a lot of humorous episodes: fight over Miss Bobbit between Bob and Preacher; Sister Rosalba’s rescue, Manny Fox’s scam (The Fan Dancer without the Fan) followed by Miss Bobbit’s similar scheme to collect money to go to Hollywood.
The first sentence of the story makes the reader want to read to the last page where Miss Bobbit is run over by a bus. The reader is under a constant pressure because he or she wants to know when the girl will be run over. After all, she is killed at the end of the story. The last sentence of the story is almost the same with the first one, an excellent way to hook the reader. It goes: “Yesterday afternoon the six-o’clock bus ran over Miss Bobbit. (the first); That is when the six-o’clock bus ran over her.(the last)
The writing style of this fiction and that of “In Cold Blood” are quite different. The former is casual, light-hearted, humorous, but the latter is formal, rigid, newspaper reporting style with a lot of legal jargons. “In Cold Blood” gave me a strong impact because this is a non-fiction novel while “Children on Their Birthdays” is a fiction.
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