Blog 13(half complete)

As I said in Blog 11 the book I have chosen was Fallen by Lauren Kate. The approach I plan on using is Archetypal Criticism. The main characters, Luce Price deals with shadows haunting her since she was 7 years old, while Daniel Grigori deals with falling for the same woman every 17 years. Both deal with Archetypal Criticism in there own way, but both deal with the same Archetypal, the death-rebirth myth. Daniel is doomed to fall in love with the same girl every 17 years and with a kiss she dies. Luce doesn't know about it yet but she's the woman that Daniel falls in love with every 17 years. With a kiss from him Luce dies, and is then reborn as a new person, and 17 years later she meets Daniel again. The reason why they're both doomed to this life is because one is a fallen angel while the other one is immortal. The death-rebirth myth was discovered by James G. Frazer, a Scottish anthropologist. Fallen follows Frazer's theory, death(Fall), rebirth(Srping). Basically Frazer theory is: the death stage comes around the fall when the final crops are havest while the rebirth stage comes around when you see the first sign of crops blooming. In the prologue, just by the way of the words, the author describes the setting of the place and weather.

Blog 12 Pre-writing

As I said in Blog 11 the book I have chosen was Fallen by Lauren Kate. The approach I plan on using is Archetypal Criticism. The main characters, Luce Price deals with shadows haunting her since she was 7 years old, while Daniel Grigori deals with falling for the same woman every 17 years. Both deal with Archetypal Criticism in there own way, but both deal with the same Archetypal, the death-rebirth myth. Daniel is doomed to fall in love with the same girl every 17 years and with a kiss she dies. Luce doesn't know about it yet but she's the woman that Daniel falls in love with every 17 years. With a kiss from him Luce dies, and is then reborn,and she meets up with him again 17 years later. The reason why they're both doomed to this life is because one is a fallen angel while the other one is immortal.

Blog 11

The book I chosen was Fallen by Lauren Kate(Angel novel). The reason why I chosen this book because I never read a book about angel and I thought the plot was interesting.

The plot for Fallen is: Seventeen-Year-Old Luce is a new student at Sword & Cross, an unwelcoming boarding/reform school in Savannah, Georgia. Luce’s boyfriend died under suspicious circumstances, and now she carries the guilt over his death with her as she navigates the unfriendly halls at Sword & Cross, WHERE every student seems to have an unpleasant—even evil—history.It’s only when she sees Daniel, a gorgeous fellow student, that Luce feels there’s a reason to be here—though she does not know what it is. And Daniel’s frosty cold demeanor toward her? It’s really a protective device that he’s used again . . . and again. For Daniel is a fallen angel, doomed to fall in love with the same girl every 17 years . . . and watch her die. And Luce is a fellow immortal, cursed to be reincarnated again and again as a mortal girl who has no idea of who she really is.

Fallen has a Wikipedia Fallen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Kate#Fallen
The critical approach I plan on using is Jungian psychology, or shadow aspect. The reason why I'm choosing this approach is because all in the book it talks about Luce seeing shallows around her.

Fallen website: http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/fallen/home.html

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