Where Things Come Back John Corey Whaley
The book Where things come back by John Corey Whaley is a book about how everything seems to go down at some point, but all ended up coming into the right place at the end. The story starts off in a small town called Lily—a small town in Arkansan. Cullen Witter’s cousin Oslo died; his aunt went crazy while Cullen finished his last year of high school. After school, he went on a date with a girl his best friend Lucas Cader had to introduce him to—Alma, who had a failed marriage and came back to her hometown. After he came back from the date, he found his brother Gabriel Witter missing, no signs of him anywhere. While Lucas and Cullen searches for their brother and Cullen’s parent went insane, a man named John Barling proclaimed that he saw
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“When Benton Sage found out that he would be going on a mission for his church that year, he was overwhelmed with excitement and panic.” (Pg. 16) This time, we are looking at a different story told by a third person. We can tell by the usage of ‘he’. This third person view gave the audience a feeling like reading a story.
This is the tone of the author “People dreamed. People left. And they all came back. It was like Arkansas's version of a black hole; nothing could escape it.” (g.35) since this book is mostly written from Cullen’s point of view, we can see that Cullen’s visions of things are pretty gray. So author used Cullen’s tone of words to tell us what is his idea and his disappointment in the town people.
There is also a quote that is an allegory “It was on this same Thursday that John Barling appeared on the national television to talk about the Lazarus woodpecker and how it had come back from the dead.”( Pg.54-55) this book based on many biblical references, this one about the Lazarus bird might as well refer to the Lazarus in the Bible who is a good friend of Jesus. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, so maybe Barling’s believe of the bird being alive can be related …show more content…
My dad had stayed at the house every night, refusing to go on any out-of-town runs or to stay away from my mother for more than a couple of hours at a time.” Pg.57 When Cullen’s brother went missing, his parents must suddenly found the missing part of the meaning of family, they were missing the time spent together, but haven’t realized it until one of their sons is gone. It might seem like they lost something, but that is exactly when the missing part of the family came back.
“Benton Sage had since he was a young boy, one ultimate goal in mind at all times: to make his father proud of him.” Pg.65 this son must really obey his father, which we can identify because of his goal, he loves his family that is why his final goal is to make his father proud. However, he never reached his father’s goal.
“Now, with Oslo gone, my mother had taken to visiting her sister on a daily basis, usually right after she left the salon, and would most often take Julia a sandwich or burger from somewhere, knowing she probably hadn't eaten that day.”Pg.147 This family isn’t the main family on the story, it’s Cullen’s mom’s family after her sister went miserable, she did what she as a sister should do. The book only described her as someone who brings food, but she must’ve done more than that to tack care of her sister. That is the meaning of
“When Benton Sage found out that he would be going on a mission for his church that year, he was overwhelmed with excitement and panic.” (Pg. 16) This time, we are looking at a different story told by a third person. We can tell by the usage of ‘he’. This third person view gave the audience a feeling like reading a story.
This is the tone of the author “People dreamed. People left. And they all came back. It was like Arkansas's version of a black hole; nothing could escape it.” (g.35) since this book is mostly written from Cullen’s point of view, we can see that Cullen’s visions of things are pretty gray. So author used Cullen’s tone of words to tell us what is his idea and his disappointment in the town people.
There is also a quote that is an allegory “It was on this same Thursday that John Barling appeared on the national television to talk about the Lazarus woodpecker and how it had come back from the dead.”( Pg.54-55) this book based on many biblical references, this one about the Lazarus bird might as well refer to the Lazarus in the Bible who is a good friend of Jesus. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, so maybe Barling’s believe of the bird being alive can be related …show more content…
My dad had stayed at the house every night, refusing to go on any out-of-town runs or to stay away from my mother for more than a couple of hours at a time.” Pg.57 When Cullen’s brother went missing, his parents must suddenly found the missing part of the meaning of family, they were missing the time spent together, but haven’t realized it until one of their sons is gone. It might seem like they lost something, but that is exactly when the missing part of the family came back.
“Benton Sage had since he was a young boy, one ultimate goal in mind at all times: to make his father proud of him.” Pg.65 this son must really obey his father, which we can identify because of his goal, he loves his family that is why his final goal is to make his father proud. However, he never reached his father’s goal.
“Now, with Oslo gone, my mother had taken to visiting her sister on a daily basis, usually right after she left the salon, and would most often take Julia a sandwich or burger from somewhere, knowing she probably hadn't eaten that day.”Pg.147 This family isn’t the main family on the story, it’s Cullen’s mom’s family after her sister went miserable, she did what she as a sister should do. The book only described her as someone who brings food, but she must’ve done more than that to tack care of her sister. That is the meaning of