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Book Title: I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato
Author: Lauren Child
●Summary
Charlie has little sister, Lola. Sometimes Charlie has to give Lola her dinner. It’s very hard for him because Lola is a very fussy eater. She doesn’t like peas, carrots or potatos etc. especially hates tomatos. Charlie wants to let his sister eat what she doesn’t like, so he uses imagination to encourage her to eat. Finally, he successes and even Lola asks her brother to give her tomatos.
●Analysis
Characters
Protagonist: Charlie and Lola
Setting
Backdrop setting
Narrative Point of View
First-person narrator (Charlie)
Plot
Dramatic plot
Conflict
The protagonist against self (Lola is too picky that almost everything she doesn't eat.)
Theme
"Children are teachable, but they need a suitable way to be educated."
Style
Exposition and dialogue
Tone
Didacticism
●Reflection
When I finish reading this book, I feel the same as Lola. Actually, I’m a very picky about the food since I was a child. Charles is smart that he use many interested imagination to encourage Lola to eat whatever she hates. My mom also uses the same methods on me. If we don’t consider those hateful foods terrible, we can think them as other adorable things that we like more. Because of it, we will try to have a bite and we will usually fall in love with those foods after tasting them. This is a very great book to educate children never be fussy and children can also learn the vocabularies of fruits and vegetables. In the book, we can see the illustration and the real picture of the food. Also, every kind of food name is used different printer characters. Moreover, the style of illustration in this book is different than any other book I’ve seen before. It’s like a book which is drawn by children so that children might feel friendly when reading it.