Skip to main content

What do you think is the best event that happened in the story Bridge to Terabithia?

Take your pick.  The book is filled with wonderful moments.  Your job is going to be to explain why you picked the event that you picked.  


I like the revenge scheme against Janice Avery.  Janice is a bully, and I don't like bullies.  Reading about Jess and Leslie getting sweet revenge by embarrassing Janice with a fake love letter is a great sequence in the book.  Their plot is creative.  It's effective, and they get away with it.  


I also really like the Christmas gift exchange between Jess and Leslie.  Each gave the other person a gift that the other person appreciated deeply.  They were heartfelt gifts of love.  Not meaningless gifts that will soon be forgotten.  


Lastly, I really like the school running competitions.  I like that part for personal reasons.  I'm a runner, and I like running.  I also really like that part because Leslie enters the competition and beats all of the boys.  I like the way that she enters and leaves the competition. She doesn't come in super cocky about it, and she never stuffs her wins in anybody's face.  She simply lets her running speak for itself. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Is 'efficate' a word in English?

I routinely hear the word "efficate" being used. For example, "The most powerful way to efficate a change in the system is to participate." I do not find entries for this word in common English dictionaries, but I do not have an unabridged dictionary. I have checked the OED (I'm not sure if it is considered unabridged), and it has no entry for "efficate". It does have an entry for "efficiate", which is used in the same way. Wordnik has an entry for "efficate" with over 1800 hits, thus providing some evidence for the frequency of use. I personally like the word and find the meaning very clear and obvious when others use it. If it's not currently an "officially documented" word, perhaps its continued use will result in it being better documented.
Post a Comment
Read more