The First Starry Night

• Book title

The First Starry Night

• Author

Joan Shaddox Jsom

• Analysis of the Story

Flat characters

Protagonist  The little boy, Jacques

Antagonist  None

Foil character  Madame Rouel

Supporting character  Vincent, the painter (Vincent van Gogh)  

Setting  backdrop

Narrative point of view  internal narrator

Plot  sequential

Theme  

Jacques was a boy worked in a little restaurant and lived there.  Upstairs there was a weird man named Vincent, who was afraid by others, lived and drew his own paints.  Jacques was so curious about Vincent and his paints that he sneaked up to peek him.  He was caught.  However, Vincent was not angry.  Instead, they became best friends and as Vincent told, they were brothers of the hearts.

Style  

Beautitul words choices, clear story structure, warm plots with colorful illustration.

Tone

Warm atmosphere when the two characters became friends.  Thoughtful and joyful feelings between their dialouges.  A little bit sad and regret when Vincent left the city in the end . 

• Reflection

It was a story that really amazed me.  Although it was just a little fiction about Vincent van Gogh, I felt like I can vividly imagine this story happen in the year he lived in Arles, France, where the background of the story.  All of us had seen and remembered the well-known painting of Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night.  In the end of the book, Jacques mentioned about this work as he put it on the ceiling.  The illustration style of this book was similar to Vincent van Gogh's, warm and color oil painting style, reminded me about him from the first page of the book.  As I leaved over the page of the book, it liked I was admiring the work pieces of Vincent van Gogh.  In the story, the little boy Jacques kept asking Vincent to sell his paints for money since he lived in a small attic.  He rejected because he thought that he was not paint for it.  I couldn't help but thought of those who only work for paying, almost most of people, honestly.  Will we be happy if we only work for a living and complain everything everyday about our job?  We work so hard in order to earn a lot and gain a better life.  However, we mainly forget what we truly want initially.  Vincent van Gogh painted because we wanted to paint even though it could not offer him a rich life.  I wish I could be a person just like him, work for myself and my desiration.

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