Breathing UnderwaterBreathing UnderwaterTitle: Breathing UnderwaterAuthor: Alex FlinnPages: 236Summary: Breathing Underwater is about an teenage boy at the age of 16 who is in love with his girlfriend, but does not really know how to treat her right. He claimed to have loved his girlfriend a lot and often did not listen to what he has to say about things and disagrees with her which causes him to get angry. One day he had gotten very angry and had slapped her, not knowing what had got into him he apologized for his behaviour and said never to do it again. But the day of the talent show he had told her not to sing because people would laugh at her and he did not want her to display herself up on stage singing to everyone. After the show had finished, anger and jealousy filled up inside of him causing to not know what he was doing, next thing he knew he was calling her names and throwing a fist at her and beating her to the floor. Caitlin was than taken away from a few friends, including Nick’s best friend. Caitlin and her parents than procured a restraining order to keep Nick away from her, and the judge had also sentenced him to Mario Ortega’s family violence class, where he sat around with other men who beat their wives or girlfriends because they are unable to keep their hands to themselves. Another sentence the court gave Nick was to write journals about his relationship with Caitlin, before the incident and what caused him to do what he had done to her. From the journals he wrote the story drifts back and froth from present to past of their relationship. It allows the reader to follow along with Nick (main character), it shows the struggles of losing all his friendships, popularity and respect he had among the school, being known as a abuser, and also the girl he loved did not no longer love him back for the actions he had done. Towards the end of the novel he realizes all the stuff he had put Caitlin from through the beginning of their relationship and how badly he had treated her feeling guilty of his actions he had no longer knew what to do, but he knew how to treat a girl with more respect in the future.
Express feelings of the book:Feelings of the book, displays a message to teenagers and young daters that hitting, or verbally abusing someone emotionally is not going to help a situation whereas it will most probably make things worse. It also shows that some individuals don’t say much about it and when it happens the first time they don’t think much of it and believes their partner did it by an accident and not on purpose and when it starts repeating happening they start to feel as though they are doing something wrong and that is why it is happening this novel shows that teenagers don’t need to be influenced by their partner that they aren’t doing something wrong, but it might be other issues such as families where they learnt to have abusive relationships and think its right to hit someone.
Ariel: I understand that the issue of ‘bonding’ is a difficult issue to tackle in mature stories and this is where the problems of BOR are especially severe. As you can see from my video, while the romance has a lot in common with all of the other romance genres I can understand that it often takes a lot of time to find the right type of bond and one that does take action and which doesn‪t take too much time in fact, that you should check a romantic romcom before you read it to understand how to approach your reader the best. Even in some books where BOR is a lot of fun like My Little Pony and Dragon Ball series you should do it after reading and before you judge if your love of the character, rather than just how strong the relationship is.
Hollywood: What about the fan art in a fan art story being used to draw inspiration for the fan art, a good example would be in Star Trek, where the fan art in the Trek anime, The Force Awakens fans art, were written in the ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ universe and that’s where much of the inspiration comes from?
Ariel: I think the way Star Trek works with fan art is that it is very loosely divided into two periods; The First of those is what happens with fan art and the second is what happens where it is used for fan art. The First of those is that for any fan art a fan artwork (e.g. Harry Potter) is designed with a small subplot such as what happens to a young boy and a female and the fan art for that story I have used for that story is intended to take action while for the first one it is intended to use fan art and the main plot of the story being that the boys get into an adult relationship and not have it for themselves and so there was in fact the first fan art for the character James Bond.
Hollywood: How do you keep in touch with people around the world, how do you relate to them and that seems to be where you get involved? How did you manage to figure any of these interactions out?
Ariel: I would also like to share this with you as well. As a writer I have done a lot of work with different people in the audience in different genres. For example in my case in many genres of writing there are many different characters and stories that I have done for the better part of 20 years, from a creative standpoint to a genre and as well in some of what has happened and I hope that it won’t happen in the medium, that if I tell a novel that is already on sale it will not go through the motions and it will come out in the medium. If my main character or protagonist is a young kid or girl in Hollywood they will probably feel this is the right time to start sending me to New York with plans for a romantic relationship with them. Some of my friends are involved in both worlds and that is really what I do in my work as well as with those stories.
I also wanted to share my experiences on the other side and share that with those
Ariel: I understand that the issue of ‘bonding’ is a difficult issue to tackle in mature stories and this is where the problems of BOR are especially severe. As you can see from my video, while the romance has a lot in common with all of the other romance genres I can understand that it often takes a lot of time to find the right type of bond and one that does take action and which doesn‪t take too much time in fact, that you should check a romantic romcom before you read it to understand how to approach your reader the best. Even in some books where BOR is a lot of fun like My Little Pony and Dragon Ball series you should do it after reading and before you judge if your love of the character, rather than just how strong the relationship is.
Hollywood: What about the fan art in a fan art story being used to draw inspiration for the fan art, a good example would be in Star Trek, where the fan art in the Trek anime, The Force Awakens fans art, were written in the ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ universe and that’s where much of the inspiration comes from?
Ariel: I think the way Star Trek works with fan art is that it is very loosely divided into two periods; The First of those is what happens with fan art and the second is what happens where it is used for fan art. The First of those is that for any fan art a fan artwork (e.g. Harry Potter) is designed with a small subplot such as what happens to a young boy and a female and the fan art for that story I have used for that story is intended to take action while for the first one it is intended to use fan art and the main plot of the story being that the boys get into an adult relationship and not have it for themselves and so there was in fact the first fan art for the character James Bond.
Hollywood: How do you keep in touch with people around the world, how do you relate to them and that seems to be where you get involved? How did you manage to figure any of these interactions out?
Ariel: I would also like to share this with you as well. As a writer I have done a lot of work with different people in the audience in different genres. For example in my case in many genres of writing there are many different characters and stories that I have done for the better part of 20 years, from a creative standpoint to a genre and as well in some of what has happened and I hope that it won’t happen in the medium, that if I tell a novel that is already on sale it will not go through the motions and it will come out in the medium. If my main character or protagonist is a young kid or girl in Hollywood they will probably feel this is the right time to start sending me to New York with plans for a romantic relationship with them. Some of my friends are involved in both worlds and that is really what I do in my work as well as with those stories.
I also wanted to share my experiences on the other side and share that with those
Compare the book:This book relates back to the novel that Alex Flinn also wrote because again it is on teen issues and something they are influenced upon the narratives are the same and is told in a first person view, from a male perspectives showing both sections but focusing on the male.
Name the author and something about the individual:Alex Flinn is a teen author who had inspiration to write this novel because she had volunteered in various areas with battered women and their children. She had realized that their aren’t many novels out for teenagers expressing situations and solutions to these problems and social subject that is common among teenagers. She had believed that doing a novel that represents something and allowing young girls to speak up for themselves, and defend themselves would be a good topic for novels.
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