The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

       The setting in "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost hints that the man in the poem is middle aged, and deciding at a later point in his life between two life paths.
        The first line in the poem, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" made me think of fall, and that the narrator was caught between a decision at mid-age. The rest of the poem describes the man taking one path and thinking about trying the other, and never getting around to it, but in the end, both roads are the same. To me, the author is trying to say that the man is stuck in a kind of minor mid-life crisis.
      In the last stanza, it says "I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence" making it clear that he's looking back on his choice years later, and maybe feeling some regret. This isn't completely clear- but the poem clues toward the narrator being somewhere in the middle of his life.
     

Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

      I've recently started reading "Bridge To Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson and I love the way the book opens.
       Sometimes books open EXTREMELY boringly and you have to wait till the middle of the book for it to get interesting ((((Andromeda Klein)))) but this one really showed a lot about the boy's life;  his family dynamic in a few short sentences, his town, his desire for running. I've only read a few pages and I already am interested.
      It also makes me excited to see where the book will turn, because I know something interesting is supposed to happen where him and a girl end up in woods. With that in mind, I have a much better time reading this than Andromeda Klein; (which, as it turns out, is interesting but is still too hard to understand.)

Andromeda Klein

      I have officially decided that I hate the book Andromeda Klein. Which is sad, because other than a few reasons, it could be a really interesting book.
      For one, its eXTREMELY boring. There is literally a page about wicker furniture, like no, no one needs to know that. I barely know what the storyline is-if the book is made for kids, at least make it compelling enough to enjoy.
      Second of all, the book uses hundreds of confusing terms in every sentence, and I don have time to look them up. It doesn't make it seem smart or intellectual either, it just frustrates me.
       So basically I'm never reading this again.