Conversation with Jeremy Marsh

If i were to talk to the main character of True Believer, Jeremy Marsh, the conversation would probably mention his job and his family. If i were to as about his family he would probably respond with “Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.” Jeremy Marsh was born into a very large Italian family, but loved them with everything. To Jeremy his job taught him a lot like “I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” It would be about those two things since those are the main things in hos life and in the book.

Best thing about True Believer

The best thing about True Believer is that throughout they whole book , something unexpected will happen to the main character. Another would be the different vocabulary and use of diction from page to page. Also so far in the book the setting has changed many times varying from the city, country, and the suburbs. The characterization is really said all at once it shows how the main character is changing over time.The conflict is also many different kind, person to person, person to world, and person vs fate. The story is continually just great and keeps you interested. The theme really has been developed in many ways. True Believer is just over a really good book all together.

Vocab Post

"For the last twenty minutes, he'd been directing the traffic into the parking spots and watching in disbelief at the procession excitedly making his way towards the door." ( Sparks 145). In this quote there is a word that isn't familiar to me which is procession. But by looking at the quote I'm guessing it means the way the cars are moving. When I looked up the definition it means a number of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly fashion, as of part of a ceremony or festival. 

When it says "Scores of cars, parked haphazardly, noses pointing in every direction as if planning a getaway." (Sparks 148). In this quote haphazardly is the word that I've never heard before. But I think it means at an angle. When I look up the definition it actually means randomly: in a random manner. 

The vocabulary varies very much throughout the whole book, those are just some examples. True Believer has a strong sense of vocabulary in it.

Why did i ChooseTrue Believer?

The reason I started reading True Believer by Nicholas Sparks because I have always been interested in reading a book by Nicholas Sparks for awhile but i never got the chance. Now for our independent reading novel, I thought this would be the time to start reading his books.Also since I have begun this book it started out by describing the main character like his appearance and what he currently does. The first page also starts by using a descriptive way to say where the book starts off and where the main character lives. I also chose this book because the story line and just by reading the first page and the summary given by the author. True Believer really seemed like something i could possibly start to get into reading. This book helped me sort of figure out the things i enjoy while reading. Also, so far in this book i'm getting into it, it is full of surprises on each page.

Reason Behind True Believer

I think that Nicholas Sparks wrote True Believer because so many of his stories or books have been based of love stories between two very different people who find a way to fall in love. But True Believer is based on the theme of ghost, and different legends in the western North Carolina area. Also since he wrote so many love stories, he had to think of something different to keep people interested in reading his books. Nicholas Sparks also probably wrote this to keep from always writing cliche love stories and wanted this book to be more unusual and divergent from his current books. True Believer is almost completely differs from his many other books, the plot, characterization, the way it's written, the vocabulary, and mostly the setting are different from what he would usually write.

     

About Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 89 million copies in print worldwide, in over 50 languages, including over 50 million copies in the United States alone, and his popularity continues to soar.

Nicholas Sparks lives in North Carolina with his family. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. 

Summer Reading Project

The Theme of In the Darkness was  would be that  life is full of obstacles, it just takes time to reach what you intended to before, and reaching that goal should mean more to you than anything. The quote from the book that supports this would be “We understand what Boukman said in Bois Caimen; we understand it for the first time. Behind the mountain is another mountain; behind the fire is another fire; behind all of this is another thing, another mass, and it does not correspond of this world; it is everything that is here in the world, but it is so much more, too (Lake 326)." This quote explains the theme because it's showing that in the book Bois Caimen  the many obstacles he had to go through, and no matter how many he made it through there was always another one he has to face. The book was about the struggle a little Haitian boy had to go through to stay alive while under a crumbled hospital after the Haiti Earthquake. Also the story of  Toussaint l’Ouverture and his fight to get equal rights for the slaves and slave women.

This article is about the basics of what the books mainly about, not in detail but mostly an overall summary of the book.In the Darkness Article