Genre Project

1. Genre Project English 10 Monica Miles

2. The Blue MirrorKathe Koja Monica Miles

3. What is it? This book is about a girl with a mother that’s doesn’t really take care of her like she should. The girl falls in love and then it eventually turns out not to be love its just a lie. Attribute:The main character is on her own and is only a young girl. Attribute:The young girl visits new places and that she had never been before and meets new people. Title:The Blue Mirror What is your book’s genre? Write it here: Adventure/survival Attribute:The young girl has new and exciting events in her life because her mother doesn’t take care of her and she has grown up on her own. Example:Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Example: Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer Example:Lost In The Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg

4. Attribute: The main character is on her own and is only a young girl. She does everything for her mom and other people. “Square apartment box, cruddy carpet and bent plastic lamp shade, rain down the windows in jagged silver lines. On top of the TV, Paz curls in a ball. And Monica, lumped on the plaid sofa, her slack face in TV light: sugar-frosted hair and a million wrinkles, twenty years of Winston's and Vodka”(3). “Maggy? Fully vertical now, a coaxing smile, like a little girl who never grew up and never will. I’m almost out of cigarettes. Run and get me some.”(4) “Make some tea?” she croaks, blinking and squinting like some troll out of its hole. “Maggy? Tea?”(56) “It’s not time for her doctors appointment, did she go to the liquor store? She tidied up the living room, newspaper in a little pile, ashtrays wiped clean, some kind of air freshener sprayed around or maybe it’s perfume, too sweet , like a ten-foot plastic flower but at least it’s better than the vomit smell.”(59)

5. Attribute:falls in love easy and doesn’t notice anything odd or out of place when the boy she has met does something odd. “I’m ready this time, I look with all my might, I see: frayed green jacket, black hair snow damp, those perfect blue lips, and up this close I can see his eyes are clack, too, no brown at all but pure dark, like deep water, deep as a shadow at noon-and he’s smiling through the window, he’s smiling at me.”(17) “I just hate it when up say no to me, I can’t stand to hear you say no. it’s like you’re keeping yourself from me. Keep myself from him? “(41) “It’s her eyes that scare me, wild cat with its back to the wall, kill or die, like paz last night as “Where is he?” gripping my wrist, her fingers licking like a handcuff, “Where-” “I don’t know- stop it, you’re hurting me! Marianne, what hap-” “You liar,” “squeezing tighter, nails sharp against my skin. I know you know, you better tell me-.”(85)

6. Attribute: The young girl has new and exciting events in her life because her mother doesn’t take care of her and she has grown up on her own. “Most of the kids at my school have their own cars already; all of them have driver’s licenses. Except me. Maggy the exception.”(5) “Morning light in my face, and still the smell, like nasty memory, the sour odor of vodka and vomit. Last night I cleaned as best I could- I had to exhausted or not, had to change her shirt and prop her up with pillows, make sure she wouldn’t fall over and choke- but now she’s done it again.”(55) “Cigarette smoke and a startled smile, she’s woozy but not technically drunk: shifting on the sofa, turning the TV down.”(70)