The Trial Blog #2

3/9/2016

Prompts: 1. If you could talk to the author, what questions would you ask? Why?, 2. List the personality characteristics of the main character (feelings, interests, behaviors, etc.) 3. Write the biography for one character.

The question I would ask to Jen Bryant would be, why she wrote the book similar to stanzas in a poem. This is something I've been wondering throughout reading the book and I am not sure what it is trying to symbolize or if it even is trying to symbolize anything at all. Does the form of writing help get straight to the major parts or points? The book doesn't go by chapter's because each different event has a title, so my best guess she had an interest in poetry in one point of her life. That is why I need it straight from her because something like that in a book is really unique, and you would want the purpose for someone doing that.

The main character, Jen is very energetic about what she does. When she gets the news that something major happened she got right on it. She prepared for it her whole life and stuck news headlines on her walls aspiring for one to be her's one day. She was finally at the trial she wrote down every single detail she could about what was happening. Even if it was small, meticulous thing she would jot it down just in case or maybe to improve her entry.

Jen Bryant at a young age was committed to be a journalist. Once she got to any magazine with a major headline she would add that to her collection, hoping one day she would get a headline of her own. A when a major trial for a kidnapping came to her town it was her chance to start as a journalist. She wrote down as many notes as she could no matter who it came from. Every single detail was important to her, knowing this could be a entry into her town's newspaper. As the trial went on she felt as if her entry was getting better and better. She would then, become a writer as she grew up.