Giving my opinion

Night Vision

14/11/18

Ella west

Giving my opinion

Short Summary: Viola is a 14 year old girl who is born with Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) which means that sunlight is deadly to her. She lives on a farm outside of Ashburton and one night she is running through the forestry at night time, the only time she can go outside, and she comes upon something she shouldn’t. A man, Geoff Harris, is lighting a car on fire with a man in it and then Geoff buries $1,000,000 million dollars in the ground. Viola goes and digs up the money then sends it to her parents anonymously so they can pay of the mortgage on the farm. But one night Viola is tailing lambs and she looks over and see Geoff Harris watching her. Later in the story Geoff kidnaps Viola and and forces her to tell him were she has kept the money or he will make her sit in the sunlight. But thanks to a sow (female pig) with a piglet who charges at Geoff and makes him fall down a cliff into a river Viola is safe.

Why I chose this text: It was a stand alone story which is really good to write about because it will not end in a cliffhanger. But if I had already read this book I would have chosen it for this category because it has so many different points of view in the story that you can look at and it is such an amazing book written with passion

Quote: A quote in this text that I really like is at the end of the book when it says “I think a spotlight will be okay”. Even though this is not a big part of the story I thought that that was a good way to end the book because it shows us the viola is coming out of her shell and making what is left of her life count as she does not know how long she will live.

Quote: “I am my father's daughter” is another quote in this story that I think is not a big part in the story line but is just a interesting sentence. I think this because Viola to us is not, as we may view it, a normal human and this condition she has makes her sound like an alien. But to her she is, like she said, her father’s daughter and even though she knows that she is a bit weird she is still a 14 year old living a life.

Ideas in this text: An idea in this text that I think is really big is to keep on going even if things get hard. Viola had such a tough life with XP and when it was made even worse by seeing Geoff Harris murder another person it would have been so easy for her to give up. Yet she persisted and she defeated Geoff, if you can call it that, and she made so much progress in her emotional life. She is now more open and this was all because she kept on going and never gave up on herself or others.

Langue features: In this story the author has told the story in first person which is a really clever way of writing a story that has quite a lot of emotions or opinions. For example, Viola does not know what to do with the $1,000,000 that she has come across until she realises that she should give it to her parents. Using first person we can clearly see what Viola is thinking and how she is feeling.

Links: This story could just be linked to the children who have XP and what they go through. Even though Viola in in a position where she has a house and curtains to protect her from the sun others do not and it is really sad to think that kids with this condition have to go through with it.