Summary Of Imperfect Spiral

Summary:

The book I just finished reading was called "Imperfect Spiral". This book was so good. It was really deep and had a lot of bigger insights. So the book is about this girl called Danielle but everyone calls her Danny, anyway Danny was babysitting the Danker's 5 years old boy during the summer instead of going to camp and becoming a CIT. Danny falls in love with Humphrey By the end of the summer going to the park with Danny to practice throwing a perfect spiral is natural to Humphrey but one day while walking home the football falls from Danny's arms and Humphrey goes running into the street to get it. By the time he realizes that he has made a mistake there is a speeding car coming done the street. Humphrey runs to the opposite side, into traffic and is hit by a minivan. Humphrey is rushed to the hospital were doctors  try and save his life but Humphrey dies. Through out the story Danny blames herself for what happened. Also people from the neighborhood make it there life purpose to try and improve the safety of Curry Road but the bigger problem is that people start to complain about illegal immigrants in the United States making the accident about something completely different.

Character Analysis:

The main characters are Danny and Humphrey

Humphrey is someone that is really smart and uses words like personification just because he likes to learn about "p" words. Humphrey would rather play with an artistic doll house with its many small details than play fight with a bunch of action figures. One time Humphrey got ran over by a kid on a bike and ran into a wall causing him to go to the emergency room and didn't cry but he did cry when he thought Danny had gone home without saying a proper goodnight. Although Humphrey dies at the beginning of the story his presence in the story is major so really he is one of the main characters.

Danny is a sophomore now were she goes to school with a friend she doesn't really know if she really is her "best friend". In fact throughout the story she has trouble disci ding on weather or not to take of the quotation marks off of "best friend".  Danny wants to becomes a lawyer but not just a lawyer she wants to be "the" lawyer but she has an incredible fear for public speaking which holds her back from doing the things she really enjoys doing. By the end of the story Danny uses the love she had with Humphrey to overcome her fears and step up for the illegal immigrants and the safety on Curry Road in front of the whole town, over 3,000 people.

The story is written in first person point of view. In the book the narrator, Danny is the one telling the story. She uses words like I and me which are huge clues telling the reader that it is written in first person. I think that the story being first person was a bonus because the story is about the experiences that Danny went through and it really helped to now exactly who she was and what she was thinking. What would be even better would be that the story was a part of a series because there are smaller characters in the story that aren't really important but the author kind of foreshadows that there is a greater story to their life.