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Sam And Grace In Shiver Analysis
Wolves. Humans changing into wolves. A high school girl who was attacked. A wolf boy. The Minnesota winter. These things are all very important to the story of Sam and Grace in Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. Grace is a high school girl who has an obsession with the wolves in the woods behind her house, even though she is attacked by them when she as a young girl. This only made her interest in the wolves grow. There is one wolf in particular who she remembers clearly and who she is very found of. The wolf with yellow eyes “my wolf” (13) as she fondly calls him. What she does not know until later in the story, is that her wolf is infatuated with her as well. Six years later, after Grace’s incident she meets a boy named Sam after he shows up on her back porch naked, with a gun shot in his neck. She realizes this is her wolf when she sees his yellow eyes. This is the start of a sad, action …show more content…
Maggie Stiefvater is effective in conveying the themes of love and loss in Shiver. First of all, the most notable theme in Shiver is love. The night that Sam and Grace meet, the night Sam shows up on Grace’s porch, the two are instantly drawn to each other. Sam admits to being able to shift into a wolf, but only during the winter or when it is cold. That night, Sam stays with Grace in her house, not wanting to shift
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