The Cave Of Time Analysis
The book I chose to analyze is Choose your own adventure: The Cave of Time, which was the first book of the choose your own adventure series. On its own, the book stands as a rebel among normal books, presenting itself as an interactive book, where one must discontinuously read to harvest all the possible endings. On a personal level, the book's significance emerges as I delve into the past. Growing up in poor neighborhood in Venezuela, not many books were available to me, and thus reading for fun was never a consideration until I moved to Canada at eight years of age and my quality of education increased.
Flash forward to a cramped elementary school library, a place that wouldn’t impress the average person. Yet a fifth grade me stood awestruck …show more content…
Quickly plucking The Cave of Time from the library and opening it, I became enthralled with the book and would quickly flip back and forth between pages, curious to find all the different endings. This book was different, it was interactive and it was the bright light that illuminated my love of reading. By putting me directly into the story and essentially making me the main character, it felt like there was stakes to the choices I made and made the book harder to drop. To me, this book was a stepping stone to reading for fun, and revealed the beauty of the story that books hold for me. Not only that, but it allowed me to hone my English skills, as I had only been accustomed to reading small sentences from magazines or bulletins in my daily life. The Cave of Time, a book that impacted me so much, emerged all thanks to a simple idea that was originally not …show more content…
However, it can be seen that the books published after 1998 have Edward Packard as the author, but further research explained this issue. This name switch occurred because near 1999, Random House, who had acquired Bantam, seized the publishing of books in the series and abandoned the Choose your Own Adventure trademark. Montgomery realized this sooner than Packard and formed his own company called Chooseco, and registered the choose your own adventure trademark under his name and wrote his books under that banner
Flash forward to a cramped elementary school library, a place that wouldn’t impress the average person. Yet a fifth grade me stood awestruck …show more content…
Quickly plucking The Cave of Time from the library and opening it, I became enthralled with the book and would quickly flip back and forth between pages, curious to find all the different endings. This book was different, it was interactive and it was the bright light that illuminated my love of reading. By putting me directly into the story and essentially making me the main character, it felt like there was stakes to the choices I made and made the book harder to drop. To me, this book was a stepping stone to reading for fun, and revealed the beauty of the story that books hold for me. Not only that, but it allowed me to hone my English skills, as I had only been accustomed to reading small sentences from magazines or bulletins in my daily life. The Cave of Time, a book that impacted me so much, emerged all thanks to a simple idea that was originally not …show more content…
However, it can be seen that the books published after 1998 have Edward Packard as the author, but further research explained this issue. This name switch occurred because near 1999, Random House, who had acquired Bantam, seized the publishing of books in the series and abandoned the Choose your Own Adventure trademark. Montgomery realized this sooner than Packard and formed his own company called Chooseco, and registered the choose your own adventure trademark under his name and wrote his books under that banner