Essay in english

In English, we are writing essays about book children of blood and bone.

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Children of Blood and Bone

Introduction

Different. This word is used a lot to describe people who are, well, different from you. But is it an excuse to wipe out nearly an entire race of people? Children of Blood and Bone discusses this idea throughout the whole book. Through the twists and turns that bring it together, the author, Tomi Adeyemi, uses different techniques. I will be talking about the methods and techniques the author uses such as the use of multiple perspectives, the way the novel is structured, and the use of symbolism.

Body 1

Zelie, Amari and Inan. These are the three main characters of the book. They are the characters that you see the points of view from. You spend a chapter in each character viewpoint and see what they are thinking at a certain point in time. The use of multiple perspectives allows the reader to see the progression of a character as they evolve throughout the book. You see that Amari and Inan have come from the same background, but because of the people they became friends with and revolved around, they had different ideas of what was good and bad. It also shows how those beliefs led them to different people, with Amari coming to Zelie, and with Inan struggling to find right from wrong, coming to Zelie and Amari, but ultimately choosing the opposing side. The use of multiple perspectives helps us understand how this switch to the opposing side affects the characters in the book.

Body 2

The structuring of the book also has an impact on the way that we see the events happen. Often when the book changes the character that we see the POV from, we see an event happen again. This happened notably when The trio ( Zelie, Amari and Zelie’s brother Tzain) did the sea battle in Ibeji when it was Zelie’s POV for the start of the battle when she tried to summon ghost people, then it switched to Amari’s POV and it restarted the battle and then got up to when Zelie successfully summoned ghost people. It then carried on the battle from Amari’s POV. This helped us understand the way characters were feeling and reacting in their heads at the exact same moment.

Body 3

Symbolism is another way we see the story get pieced together by the author. There a few things that symbolise something in the story, but they have major impacts on it. One of the ways something gets symbolised is a sênet pawn that Inan takes with him on his journey. It is similar to a chess piece and is used in a strategy game that Inan used to play with his father. He uses it as a sort of physical form of his father's teachings. He holds it when he needs to be reminded of what he is fighting for, to be a good king. This plays a major role in the book because when Inan figures out what his father is doing is wrong, he drops it and leaves it behind, symbolising that he is forgetting his father and moving on. It starts the path of him becoming maji, which he ultimately stops in its tracks, and takes a sword from his father and basically replacing the sênet pawn with the sword.

Conclusion

Children of Blood and Bone was a book written by Tomi Adeyemi and contained some unique technique that helped put the story together. These were the uses of Multiple perspectives, allowing us to see each person's POV to help us understand how they felt about the current event, the structuring of the book, with it going back to the same event so we could see how everyone felt about the thing at the same time, and the use of symbolism, seeing how people saw certain objects in the story and used them to help comprehend the events happening, as well as how the character changed with the idea for that object. That’s how I believe the techniques in Children of Blood and Bone affected the way the story happened. Do you think the same, you probably don’t. But hey, we’re all different.

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