Flower Garden

• Book title

Flower Garden

• Author

Eve Bunting

• Analysis of the Story

Flat characters

Protagonist  The little girl

Antagonist  None

Foil character  None

Supporting character  The little girl's father

Setting  integral

Narrative point of view  internal narrator

Plot  sequential

Theme  

The whole story focus on the flowers.  The little girl bought the flowers from the supermarket, took it home and finally settled it down, using different description to describe the flowers like a poem.  In the end, the reader would eventually realized that the flowers were the birthday gift for her mother.

Style  

Simple word choice, short sentence length like poem,  and easy dialogue in the story. 

Tone

Peaceful feeling through the whole story, from the first stop supermarket to the end, celebrating the mother's birthday.  Readers would feel a little bit surprised when the story came to the end because those flowers were the birthday gift.

• Reflection

At first, I love this book because there was a beautiful cover with it.  However after I read it, I found more in it.  In the beginning, I though it was just a picture book with colorful picture, telling the story about a little girl buying flowers from the supermarket.  It used different ways to describe the flowers, where they were, what did people feel about them.  It was interesting!  All the language and sentences in this picture book were simple and short.  When we read it, it like reading a poem or singing a song.  I think it was a great way to attract children's attention for a child book.  And they would be surely surprised when they found out those flowers that they kept reading, were actually a birthday gift for the little girl's mother.  This is the reason I love picture book a lot.  It will always give you a little surprise without complex and long story.

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