The teenage drama “Paranoid Park” is written by the US-author Blake Nelson. It was published in 2006 an first published in the United States of America by Viking, a member of the Penguin Group (USA).
At first I will tell you the story of the “no-name narrator”. He used to be a normal teenager. His parents get divorced and his girlfriend Jennifer doesn’t really love him, although. One evening the narrator planned an evening with his mate Jared. They want to go out but then Jared cancelled their meeting and so the narrator goes to the so called “Paranoid Park”. It is a park, where only the best skaters drive around. There he meets “Downtown children” and starts to talk with one guy named “Scratch”. They make out to do “train hopping” and so it happens. A police man catches them and starts to beat them up. The narrator defends himself and killed the police man. And then he decides not to tell anyone about what happened. Only at the end of the book he writes a letter to his friend Macy McLaughlin.
In my opinion the story is good because it is exciting until the end, whether the narrator tells the police what he has done or not. I also think that there are many youngsters who relate to the main character because they have similar problems.
The message of the book is that if you made something wrong or get in troubles, it makes it even worse not to speak about it and therefore it would be great if many teenagers read the meaningful book.
Rate 8/10
At first I will tell you the story of the “no-name narrator”. He used to be a normal teenager. His parents get divorced and his girlfriend Jennifer doesn’t really love him, although. One evening the narrator planned an evening with his mate Jared. They want to go out but then Jared cancelled their meeting and so the narrator goes to the so called “Paranoid Park”. It is a park, where only the best skaters drive around. There he meets “Downtown children” and starts to talk with one guy named “Scratch”. They make out to do “train hopping” and so it happens. A police man catches them and starts to beat them up. The narrator defends himself and killed the police man. And then he decides not to tell anyone about what happened. Only at the end of the book he writes a letter to his friend Macy McLaughlin.
In my opinion the story is good because it is exciting until the end, whether the narrator tells the police what he has done or not. I also think that there are many youngsters who relate to the main character because they have similar problems.
The message of the book is that if you made something wrong or get in troubles, it makes it even worse not to speak about it and therefore it would be great if many teenagers read the meaningful book.
Rate 8/10
1 Kommentar:
Drama somehow creates the idea that this is a play, but it's a novel.
... and first published
Don't tell the reader what you want to do (e.g. At first I will tell you ...)
Use present simple for summaries, character descriptions, ...
although = obwohl (You use the expression incorrectly.)
The way you introduce Jennifer you create an impression that is not in keeping with the content of the novel.
He plans an evening out with ...
Jared cancels / calls off (... 'cancel' is not right really)
'meeting' is not really right either
where only the best skaters skate / meet / show their skills / ...
they decide to go train hopping
Exp: "and so it happens"
It's not a policeman. It's a guard.
exp: "and starts to beat them up" - That's not really true.
not to tell anyone what happened
exp: The story is good (gripping, exciting, ...) because as a reader you're curious until the very end whether the narrator will tell ...
... if you did something wrong ...
it gets even worse if you don't ...
... this meaningful / thought-provoking book
Rating: ...
Fairly weak with regard to structures used and with regard to vocabulary. Partly the sentences are too loosely connected.
Try to make this sound more like a real review.
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