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1Author: Ellen Hopkins
This website tells about my author Ellen Hopkins. It tells you what books she had wrote and also some things about her personal life. I learned she is a descriptive writer. I also learned she likes writing about teenage problems. I think she also likes making the reader worry/wonder. And she is very good at that. Almost though out the whole book she made me wonder or worry what will be coming next. I think she is a mysterious person; she loves to make the reader worry a little bit. I can tell by the way she wrote it she likes writing about teenage problems because she gets so in detail, and also I can tell because as I read it and think about my life I could see some connections. She is also known for her great writing. I don’t think Ellen is like any other author I have read a book by besides Sonya Sones. She is like her because they both write their books not like a normal book. They wrote it like a poem. Some people think it is hard to read a book like this but it really isn’t. You just read it like a book but it’s in the form of a poem. I also think its cool that she makes the words form something that relates to what is happening at the point in the book. I think that is why she is a unique writer. Ellen seems to keep me guessing when I am reading this book. For example when Pattyn and Derek got caught out in the desert and as a reader we know her dad is not someone to mess with we had to wonder what was going to happen to her. I don’t think she uses a lot of figurative language. She just uses a lot of descripted writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hopkins
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2Setting
This website is about Eastern Nevada which is where Aunt J lives and where Pattyn lives during most of the book. My book takes place when Pattyn is 17 years old and in her junior year. It takes place in many different places. There is Pattyn’s school, Pattyn’s house, Aunt J’s farm/house, and the dessert (where Pattyn shoots her guns). I think the setting has a major part in the plot. There is one problem in the middle of the book that proves that the setting has a lot to deal with the plot. So I think the setting is very important.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.)
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3Main Characters
The main character was Pattyn; she was a 16-17 year old girl that had to deal with many siblings in a Mormon household. She also has to deal with a father that was abusive, and a mother that later in the book got pregnant. She wants to find love but with a father like she has she cannot do anything beside stay at home and help her mother. In the beginning of the book she was always scared of her father, she was not popular, nor loved in her household. Her father always beat her. She once fell in love with a guy, named Derek from her school that totally messes up her life. After Derek came into her life she was always disobeying her beliefs with religion. In the end she was still disobeying her religious beliefs, and she still continued to be beat by her father and was acted like a servant to her mother, but in the beginning she thought she was in love in the end she knows she was in love..with Ethan. She was different from the others because she actually fell in love with a guy and she acted liked a responsible mother, because she was always taking care of the kids while she was home. Aunt Jeanette was Pattyn’s father’s sister. She was in love with a guy in high school but her father forced her brother to tell her she could not see the boy she was in love with anymore. As both Aunt J and the guys she was in love went their separate ways once they got out of school they both got married and both of their spouses had dies. Her bother and her did not get alone very well because of what her father forced him to do to her. At first when Pattyn moved there Aunt J acted like she has never meant Pattyn before, but in the end she acted like Pattyn’s mother. She did anything for her and wanted to know everything that was going on in her life when she lived with her. I thought Aunt J was unique because she just took Pattyn into her life and acted like she was her real biological mother but she was only her aunt. Ethan was Pattyn’s boyfriend, Aunt J’s neighbor, and Aunt J’s first love of her life’s son. When Pattyn’s father brought her to live with her aunt she met him at the store. He had no idea who she was or if they would ever see each other again. But sure enough they did. Ethan had always helped Aunt J on her farm, ever since her husband died. In the beginning of the book he had no clue who Pattyn was, but by the end he knew her more then she knew herself. They had fallen in love and spent almost their whole summer together.
http://bookstove.com/children/book-review-burned-by-ellen-hopkins/
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4Other Charaters
This website talks about how her father was one of the reasons of her screwed up like. Her dad was a very abusive dad. He always was drunk and always abusing her, her sisters, and her mom (when she wasn’t pregnant). Her Aunt J and her father do not get along because of there past and it seems like he is always seems like he is trying to get Pattyn in trouble or catching her with another guy. The most important thing was he was always beating and abusing her.
http://www.ellenhopkins.com/Burned.html
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5Plot
This website tells you the plot but this plot has to do with religion my plot is what happens. There were several different important events in the book, for instance when Pattyn met a non-Mormon guy named Derek, and her dad caught them in the desert. Since her father caught her with a guy in the desert, she was forced to move to Nevada with her Aunt J. While with her aunt she fell in love with a non-Mormon named Ethan. She ended up being pregnant with his son and they get in a car accident driving away form her father and killing Ethan and their son.
http://yabookreads.com/blog/2011/08/24/burned-ellen-hopkins/
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6Conflict
This shows what Pattyn is talking about during the whole book. It is against the Mormon religion to date a non-mormon. Pattyn had to live with her father abusing her, and her family. Everyday Pattyn woke up hoping today no one in this house will be beaten, but not everyday god could help her. She turned everything she did to her self against her religion or her dad. She blamed everything on her father, but mostly her religion. There are many more incidents in the book that she used the fact that she is Mormon and whatever she is doing is against the Mormon religion. But when she lives with Aunt J she disobeys her religion horribly.
http://whymormonism.org/
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7Theme
This website gives you a reason why she was always saying she is not acting like a good mormon child. These are most of the rules she broke during her life. I think the main message was religion and love. I think religion because Ellen based this book in the Mormon religion and everything Pattyn did she related it to religion and how she is not a good Mormon girl because she did something a Mormon girl should not have done. I also think love because she found what love really was. And she used what happened between her and Derek and related that to her and Ethan. She knew what her and Derek had was not love, it was just a way to get out of the house and get some stress off of her shoulders. But Ethan was her true love and they truly loved each other. Another one could be abuse, because during the whole book her dad was always abusing her or her family. Her dad did all of this because of his past. He took all of his stress out on his family.
http://www.mormonrules.com/
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8Connections
There are many connections I could make while I was reading this book, but the most important one I think I could connect to would be the religion part. I say this because as I was a child and I still do go to church every Sunday or Saturday and if we ever acted badly my parents would say something like you guys are not acting like you are catholic, catholic children don’t do that kind of stuff! I have to say I cannot relate to the abusing part. I can say I have never seen anyone being physically beat. But when my siblings and i were younger we fought and pulled each others hair but it never lead to something that severe.I will admit though I have made some wrong decisions with boys but not as bad as Pattyn did. What Pattyn did effected her life forever.