Green+Angel

[[image:green_angel.jpg width="109" height="175" align="left"]] //Green Angel// by Alice Hoffman []
__Green Angel__ is a book about a girl in her mid- teens (15 to 16 years old) who is transformed from one way of living, thinking, and going about her daily life to another darker side with little light in between the cracks. Her family is very normal consisting of her mom, dad, and little sister. The main character or protagonist names are Green and Ash. I will explain in a second why she has two names throughout the book. At the beggining she is always reffered to as Green. Green loved to take care of the family garden and was always outside doing activities in nature. She did not like to be indoors, but rather outside doing something productive. Green's personality could be described in two broad interpretations of these words calm and shy. She did not associate or socialize with people besides her family members usually. She had much patience, slow to anger, and had a skilled hand in the garden. Then there was her little sibling sister. Full of energy and life, this rascal was very impatient, carefree, rampant in all she did. Green and her sister were exactly opposite in almost everyway. Green and her family live on the outside edge of a nearby city. On one ordinary day while Green was working in the garden her family went to the nearby city to sell goods on the streets. What was about to happen to Green next would change her and her lifestyle for a long time. That day her family did not return. They disintegrated in the colossal fire that enveloped a portion of the city. Leaving many childern parentless, parents childernless, and not to mention leaving Green blind and hairless. The emotional distraught that plagues Green makes her body, mind, and spirit take a full three hundred and sixty degree turn after the fatal incident. She changes her name to Ash because of the ashes of the fire that burned her eyes and hair. She covers herself in tatoos from head to toe and makes radical outward and inward changes to try to cover up the pain that she feels inside. Nothing seems to help right after the fire, but as time goes on she finds herself interacting with animals of all sorts and Diamond, a mute boy. These two outside sources make the whole difference in Green's life by rebuilding her confidence and finally on her sixteenth birthday she takes back her old name Green and starts to live life again as she once knew it.

By: Larson Cook

Opinion: At first i did not very much enjoy this book because it is very deep and emotional in the text. I do not read much, but when I do read I am use to a story line with a plot and characters whose inner most feelings and expressions are not seen, but are kept on the surface and never brought out. That is why at first I did not like it, but as it went on and got deeper into Green's emotions and struggles, I started to like it because it was a change of pace. It was something I was not use to but grew to like in the end. I would recommend it to almost anyone because her struggles are faced by people everyday in the world that learn and teach from them even though the actual book is fiction.