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Thursday, August 16, 2012

'The Bridge to Terabitha' by Katherine Paterson

One of the novels I read in English back in high school was Katherine Paterson’s novel Bridge to Terabitha. I revisited reading this book as it is filled with imagination and adventure and it was my favourite until the movie destoryed the whole concept of it.
The story is about two children named Jess and Leslie who create a magical forest kingdom with their use of imagination – the only people who can see, feel what is going on is them two. They call this place Terabitha, and is a place where they can run away from their troubles from home or from school. The novel is based upon teaching children how to face their real-world fears as well as teaches them to use their imagination to escape reality and also about friendship.
Katherine Paterson’s book The Bridge to Terabitha is now a film. I suggest English teachers should allow the students to read the novel and then watch the movie and discuss the differences between the two different forms of multimodal text and how that played a part in telling the story line. As a result of this task, a majority of students should find that the novel is much better than the film as it describes more detail of what happens and it allows students to use their imagination to make sense of what the author is trying to portray in the book.

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