How does the Author use craft

    The Running Dream Response                                                                        Skyla Lowe 707

        In the book The Running Dream the author uses alot of crafting to describe/reveal the character also showing whats going on in the book. In this book the author Wendelin Van Draanen uses dialogue,internal thinking, and physical to describe what is happening with the character. In this book internal thinking is a big part of showing how the main character feels about her lifestyle after a change.
I think physical and dialogue play an important part but not as much as internal thinking to describe the character or the book.

       In this book some good examples of internal thinking is when Jessica says But im not sick . Im crippled. This goes to show that the Jessica doesn't have so much hope or self reliance in herself showing that she is still going to have a life. An example of dialogue is when she says " Do people think I'm special-needs now? Is that how they see me ? " This shows me that Jessica is having doubts on how people look at her everyday and how will she be categorized, which is important. An example of a physical is when the author describes jessica on her way home and rethinking of her neighbors and her sorroundings and how she feels things are going to change now. All of these examples help me think that Jessica is happy but she still needs to improve on self reliance and how well others think of her on the outside.