Genre Project
By : Brandy Satterfield
Looks
Madeleine
George
Brandy Satterfield
What is it?
Takes place in a recent time
(08) in a little town and at the
school “Valley Regional High
School”. Meghan and Aimee
get bullied everyday and
plans for revenge.
Title: Looks
What is your book’s genre?
Write it here: Realistic
Fiction
"The
Hundred
Dresses" by
Eleanor Estes
and Louis
Slobodkin
"Freckle Juice"
by Judy Blume
"Because of
Winn-Dixie" by
Kate DiCamillo
Attribute: Setting
makes this book a
Realistic Fiction novel.
Attribute: Things happen in the
novel that actually happen in real
life today. It’s actually a big issue
that people are looking to try and
find a end to.
Attribute: The characters
explained in this novel are very
realistic people and the
descriptions are just like people
now a days, how they look, feel
and think.
Tag galaxy
Attribute: Setting makes my novel a
realistic fiction novel.
“Start in the sky.
Look down at the
valley. Green, plush,
peaceful landscape.
Drop down a little,
toward the town,
then skim over it,
past the low beige
buildings of the
university, the clean
white spires of the
Congregational
churches, the flat
green welcome mat
of the town common,
out toward Valley
Regional High
School, a rambling,
one-story brick
building surrounded
by soccer fields, field
hockey fields, football fields, parking
lots. ” (1)
“A white
farmhouse
sitting flat on a
wide green
lawn, no visible
foundation,
with a low,
open porch
wrapping all
the way around
it, and on the
porch thirty
forest-green
plastic chairs
lined up one
right next to
other with
their backs
against the
house, facing
out as if
waiting for
thirty strangers
to come sit in
them and stare
out, not
speaking to
each other, at
the road.” (124125)
“First real cold
morning of fall.
Silvery coating of
frost over the
whole town, the
whole school. Kids
still in their skimpy
early fall clothes,
chattering on their
hurried way
between the
bushes and the
front doors. The
drop-off road
billowing with
smoky bus exhaust
and the frozen
breath of
teenagers. Meghan
is shivering inside
her windbreaker
on her bench, on
the lookout for bus
12.” (223)
Things that happen like bullying occur in real
life citations today and a problem many
people are trying to stop.
“Freedoms chiseled
face burns, little
muscles jumping
along his jaw like
plucked strings, his
eyes boring deep into
the carpet. Then he
lifts his head and looks
directly at Mr.
Handlsey. “I said
faggot”. “out of here”,
Mr. Handsley hisses.
Then he roars: “Go!”
with one rugby-shirted
swipe of his arm
Freedom sweeps up
the floppy folder and
battered book from
the top of his desk,
crosses the back of the
temporary classroom
in the three strides,
yanks open the door,
ducks his curly head to
clear the transom, and
slams the door behind
him with muffled
thud. “ (59)
Picture from springdale.turnbow.schoolfusion.us.
“ Her mother
waits for more,
then asks, “what
did they serve
you over there ?”
“Danish,” Aimee
says dreamily.
“Pancakes.
Eggs.” “and no
reactions?”
Aimee shrugs
and shakes her
head no. she
doesn’t mention
being served
Danish and
actually eating
Danish aren’t
the same thing.
“Well that is just
wonderful
news,” Aimee's
mother says, a
tiny bit tearful.
“Honey, that’s
just the best
news I’ve heard
all week.” (112)
“This student
claims that you
manhandled
him-”
“Manhandled !”
Mr.Handsley
cries, aghast.
“Manhandled,
that is a
ridiculous
allegation! I
have never
manhandled a
student in my
thirty-eight
years of
teaching, nor do
I intend to
manhandle a
single student in
however many
years I may have
left. That is a
preposterous
allegation. I
barely touched
the boy. “But
you did touch
him.” A pause.
Meghan feels her
heart sick. No ,
Mr. Handsley,
she thinks, say
no !” (206-207)
The Characters in this novel are explained to be just like real
people now a days. By their looks, feelings and things they do
/say.
“Red Sox
caps, their
Abercrombie
shirts, the
spiky bangs
jutting out
over their
grinning,
Cape Codtanned faces.”
(6)
“The girl is
extremely thin. She
looks like a refuge
from a faminestricken nation
whose American
host family just
bought her new
clothes at the mall.
Her shoulders,
round and knobby,
stand out like newel
posts inside her
black turtleneck. Her
legs are thin as arms
in her jeans, and her
arms are folded
squarely across the
empty space of her
chest: the anorexic’s
classic posture of
self-defense. On her
head is a floppy back
velvet hat- kind of
like a cross between
an Abraham Lincoln
stovepipe hat and a
beret- and between
two beige wedges of
hair. The narrow line
of her lipsticked
mouth is so dark it
looks black. Her
pointy chin juts out
at a go-ahead-makemy-day angle.” (16)
“Creamy girl, a
sweet concoction
of freckled skin
and pink haltered
top and red, curly
hair. The girl
blazes in
Meghan’s vision
like a burn spot
on a frame of
film. She unfurls
a creamy,
freckled forearm
onto Aimee
Zorn’s desk- pink
leather
watchband, pink
beaded braceletsand lets her rosy
fingertips brush
Aimee’s black
spider arm. “
(42)
Evaluation
My book “Looks” is a very good example of
Realistic Fiction. One good reason for why I think
this is because now a days there is so much trying to
be done to prevent bullying against people. Specially
in school and this book’s main conflict is all about
bullying, so it’s definitely a realistic book. Another
good reason for why this book is a good example of
this genre is it’s not only a drama and kind of sad
book, but also funny and sort of helpful, or
inspirational to help deal with getting bullied or
being over weight or too skinny.