Wednesday, March 4, 2009 @ 6:51 PM
Overshadowing.
The Evil Spell:
It is named as the Evil Spell as it is raining , And they are unable to get to Terabithia, they feel that it is a curse.
It has been raining for a week, and Jess and Leslie are going crazy. Finally Jess suggests that they go to Terabithia anyway, and Leslie agrees. When they get there, they find that the creek has swollen enormously. Jess, who has always been somewhat afraid of the water, does not really want to go, but Leslie persuades him. It continues to rain, and with each day that the creek gets higher, Jess's fear mounts, until he ends up lying awake at nights worrying about it. He doesn't feel that he can tell Leslie of his fears, but each day it gets harder and harder for him to swing across the creek.
This probably is showing that something terrible might happen further on.
The Perfect Day:
It is named as The Perfect Day as Jess gets to go out with Miss Edmunds to the city.
The chapter is focused around one central area, the beauty of Jess's day with Miss Edmunds to the total opposite of Brenda telling Jess that Leslie is dead. The two sides of the life is shown: the world in which everything is right, and the world that silently drops away without a moment's notice, and also how the most perfect moment can turn with absolute suddenness to pain and fear. There is a notable lack of foreshadowing in this chapter, too, there is some sort of sign of what is going to happen, hints dropped here and there which soften the blow. Jess was having a good day with Miss Edmunds but came home to realise that Leslie is dead, this
roughly tells us what will happen in the next chapter ..
