Summary:
In the book Burned, Ellen Hopkins book shows the life of Pattyn Scarlet Von Stratten. She is tired of the Mormon lifestyle and rebels against her family and the rules of her home and church. Her Dad spends most of his time drinking and being abusive towards his wife and children, while leaving her mother to take care of the household, like a servant. After she experiences a fight and breaks the girl’s nose along with a glass window, her family has had enough of her rebelling so they send her to live with her Aunt, out in the middle of nowhere, for the summer. While staying with her Aunt, she learns a ton of new things such as how to drive and also how to ride a horse. Also while there she meets the boy of her dreams named Ethan. And they fall in love. But when the summer ends all hell is raised loose. Pattyn is forced to go back to her old home. Leaving her with nothing but the locket Ethan leaves for her that represents there love. During her first week back her father shows aggression towards her and while this was all happening she had noticed a change in her menstruation pattern, which than she realized that she was pregnant. She calls up her man and tells him the news and they make plans to runaway together. While attempting to do so, they get into a car accident, when she wakes up; Pattyn finds out that both her lover and her developing baby both died tragically in the crash. In the end she says that "God could not be love because love was a corpse, and because she lost the love of her life, and the only thing remnant of him."(quote from book). She makes arrangements to kill the ones who made her life miserable, and also to kill herself.
Review:
In the book Burned I read by Ellen Hopkins. I thought it was a very good book and it caught my attention very quickly. The book was very interesting and I did not want to put it down. I also like the book because I could relate to the main character Pattyn. I think this book would be good for readers between the ages of 13 to 16, because in the book the character faces problems that teenagers between those ages can relate to. I also like this book because you can feel for the character and understand what she is feeling and going through. My favorite character was Ethan because he sounded like he would be a babe and a nice guy that I could fall for. I also liked him because he was kind hearted and truly loved Pattyn. I also liked that even though the book was fiction, it felt really real because in real life everything doesn’t always turn out like a fairy tail like the end of this book. The book itself was an excellent read and because of the book Burned I would like to read more of Ellen Hopkins books. The text of this book was very interesting. I liked how each page was written in a different style of poetry. This story has everything a book needs Happiness, Love, and Tragedy. I would love to see every reader read this wonderful pick.
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I chose this picture because Ethan gave Pattyn a her a gold locket which represent their love.
