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| Plot Summary of Small Steps |
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"In the book Small Steps a thirteen year old girl, Peg, gets polio, and has to go to a hospital called Unniversity Hospital for the first half of her recovering and for the second part she goes to Sheltering Arms. At Sheltering Arm Peg meets her new roomates Alice, Renee, Dorothy, and Shirley were she makes friendships she doesn't want to leave.
Peg has to go through stages like getting hot packs and then using hot baths instead, or how she got a bed, then a wheelchair, then walking sticks, and then started walking on her own.
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Emily Laughlin, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Small Steps |
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Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1960's-1970's
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Brain/Body disability?
- physical disability
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- physically sick
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- physically sick
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 (a significant amount)
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
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