Chapter 12

In Chapter 12, a lot happens to Ralph.  He becomes (theoretically) a pig, and most of all, gets rescued.  Ralph tries to make peace with Jack, but Jack is stubborn, and won't change his ways to accommodate everyone.

Ralph tried to make peace with Jack.  THis shows that Ralph is a calm person that sees that everyone would die if Jack was leader, because Jack acts without thinking.  He doesn't always think what is for the best, only what people want the most and what would be best for him.  Ralph realizes that everyone would die if Jack was leader for to long, so he sets out to try to save them.  Instead of saving them, he ends up running for his life because Jack wants to kill him, and therefore, so does everyone else.  Ralph has to relay on his natural survival instincts to find the best hiding sports and to get out of being killed without killing anyone himself.  This is harder said then done.  He ends up running into a naval soldier and gets everyone rescued because he was right about the fire.

Reading Minutes

The Hobbit: JRR Tolking
153 pages; close to 2 hours


Literary Anaylasis:
2-2.5 hous

LOTF:
close to 2 hours

Reading

The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordain

The Serpent's Shadow, by Rick Riordain

The Gift, by James Patterson

Witch and Wizard, by James Patterson

The Fire, by James Patterson

Torn, by Margaret Petterson Haddix

Caught, by Margaret Petterson Haddix

Alanna: The First Adventure, Tamora Pierce

In the Hand of the Goddess, Tamora Pierce

The Woman Who Rides Like A Man, Tamora Pierce

Lioness Rampant, by Tamora Pierce

Maze Runner, by James Dashner

The Scorch Trials, by James Dashner

The Death Cure, by James Dashner

The Clockwork Angel, by Cassandra Claire

The Clockwork Prince, by Cassandra Claire

City of Bones, by Cassandra Claire

City of Ashes, by Cassandra Claire

City of Glass, by Cassandra Claire

City of Fallen Angels, by Cassandra Claire

City of Lost Souls, by Cassandra Claire

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

The Alchemist, by Michael Scott

The Magician, by Michael Scott

The Sorceress, by Michael Scott

The Necromancer, by Michael Scott

The Warlock, by Michael Scott

The Enchantress, by Michael Scott

Graceling, by Kristin Cashore

Bitterblue, by Kristin Cashore

Fire, by Kristin Cashorebnnk

The Last Child, by John Heart

The Princess Bride, by Wiellam Golding

Palace Walk

I learned that I really, really, really enjoy fantasy and adventure books.  I also like it when there is  little bit of romance in between too.  I also like realistic fiction books that have a lesson at the end.  I also enjoy survival books.  I like to read these because they entertain me and keep me on the edge of my seat.  

Next semester, I would like to read more books and expand my reading horizon.  

Ralph

Ralph has been an easy character to follow, and has changed a lot over the course of the book.  He started out as a lost, scared little boy, who had no idea what to do.  He quickly turns into a leader of many boys, and as those boys break up, he becomes the leader of a side in the middle of a war.  He ends up running for his life from the people that used to respect him.

In chapter 6 when Sam and Eric see the beast, Ralph takes control over the situation.  When Jack wants to go on a fun hunt, Ralph realizes that this is bigger than just "boys with sticks" (101).  He convinces Jack to take a few more people along and actually be careful.  They end up finding a place that all of the boys want to make their fort.  Ralph is the only one who actually stays focused on the hunt,and he is not technically a hunter.

In chapter 6 again, the boys are on a quest to find the beast.  When they have to go to the big rock, nobody wants to go out of the safety of the forest, so Ralph volunteers himself because he realizes that he is the leader and is responsible for the safety of everyone.  This shows how much he really cares for everyone, even Jack, and how much they all respect him and see him as a leader. It shows how he thinks and his judgment.  He says, "I'm chief.  I'll go. No arguments," (105)

In chapter 11, Ralph uses the conch to call an assembly of both tribes of boys.  He tells Jack "You voted for me for chief.  Didn't you hear the conch? You played a dirty trick-we would have given you fire if you'd asked for it-" (176).  This shows that the boys really respect Ralph more than they do Jack. They are more scared of Jack than they are of Ralph, so they choose to follow Jack instead.  This quote shows that Ralph has a kind heart and would like it if everyone survived and got off the island.  He is not a selfish person and has grown immensely as a leader and his learned to use his instincts to survive and make the best choices  for the tribe.

Chapter 11

In Chapter 11 of Lord of the Flies, Ralph looses everything...literally.  He goes with Piggy, and Sam and Eric to confront Jack and his tribe to achieve peace and get Piggie's glasses back.  This doesn't go as planed.  People end up dying and Ralph ends up being hunted.

Ralph has the one pure symbol that everyone on the island, including Jack's tribe, respects: the conch.  This has been a symbol of power sense the beginning of the book and it represents a lot of things.  It represents the boys all coming together.  It represents survival.  It represents unity among everyone, with no fighting or hatred between boys.  It is the one thing that everyone respects and would treasure.

When Jack's tribe kills Piggie, Ralph has no idea what to think.  At first he is in shock, then he is furious, and then he tells himself that it is an accident.  This shows that Jack and his tribe are truly barbarians.  They would kill without hesitation.  Some would cause pain to their own people and enjoy it.  They have lost almost all of their humanity.  Some it still probably remains, but it is deep inside them, and would only come out on the rarest of occasions.  I wonder if they will succeed in killing Ralph, who is the only sane one left on the island, or if Ralph will use his mind and outwit  the animals and get off the island.

Chapter 10

In chapter 10 of Lord of the Flies, Ralph knows that they will have to work really hard to keep a small fire going.  He is left with Sam and Eric and Piggie and the little kids.  They get a small fire going, but then at night, Jack and his tribe come and sabotage the hut that Piggy, Ralph, and Sam and Eric are in and take Piggy's glasses.  Piggie thought that they were coming for the conch, but he quickly learns otherwise.

Ralph and Jack were fairly equal and either could survive.  But when Jack gets Piggy's glasses, Ralph is at an immediate disadvantage.  The glasses were the only thing that could get them off the island, and the one thing that Ralph really had that made him better than Jack.  Jack's tribe realizes that the fire is important once they don't have Ralph.  Jack especially realizes that Ralph was right in that that was the only way that they could survive.  Ralph says that he would have willingly given Jack fire without Jack having to take Piggy's glasses.  Jack always goes for the violent approach and doesn't think about anybody but himself.

Chapter 9

In chapter 9 or Lord of the Flies, Ralph really changes and finds himself in a bad situation.  Previously, Jack and Ralph had split up and the group of boys had split up too.   Jack invites Ralph's tribe to a feast.  During the feat, they talk about killing pigs, and then it eventually evolved into a chant about killing the beast.  Simon then choses to stumble into the clearing on his hands and knees.  The boys think he is the beast and beat him until he is barley alive.  He ends up dying on the sand and washed away into the ocean.

In this chapter, Ralph has to compete with Jack for the most people.  He ends up getting Sam and Eric, Piggie, and the little kids.  Ralph know that they will really have to work hard to survive, and is worried that more people will leave, because originally, he has more.  When Jack invites them to the feast, lots of them leave his tribe.  Ralph realizes that the people that go with Jack probably will not survive, because Jack acts without thinking, and doesn't care about survival.  Basically, it is survival of the fittest.  Whoever has the most will to live and strategic skill with outwit the others and survive and find a way off the island, that it slowly turning into heaven vs hell.

Chapter 8

In Chapter 8 of Lord of the Flies, Jack and Ralph have had enough of each other.  They split up and Jack goes with 4 other boys and makes his own "tribe".  He catches a giant pig and puts it's head on a stick and invites the other tribe for a feast.  Ralph has some of the older boys and all of the little kids.  He starts a fire down at the beach and tries to come up with a new method to survive.  Simon finds what everyone thought was the beast and cuts him out of his binds.

Jack and Ralph have a very interesting situation.  They are both competing for more of the big kids and tying to survive.  Jack uses trickery to get the thinks that Ralph has and Ralph is just trying to survive and help others do the same.  I am very interested to see what happens to the two groups and see who comes out on top.

Simon is a very interesting character.  I personally can't decide if I like him or not.  He is so secretive, but he seems also to be very helpful and supportive to Ralph. I am extremely interested to see what he will do with the Lord of the Flies and how that will affect his decisions.  I am also interested to see what side he will chose, and whether or not he will end up surviving.

Chapters 6 and 7

In chapters 6 and 7 of Lord of the Flies, there is a lot of conflict between Jack and Ralph.  In the beginning, the reader sees the parachute man falling from the sky and then where he ends up laying.  Then the readers go to the twins' point of view when they first encounter the beast.  As soon as Ralph hears of this, he realizes that it is bigger than just the hunters and their game.  He goes with them leaving Piggie behind to "guard" the little kids.  Throughout their travels, Jack and Ralph have conflicting leadership problems.

Ralph's decisions and how he copes with the problems he and the tribe (would yo call them a tribe?) show what type of leader he is and what he values the most.  Ralph is a leader who values everything he has a realizes what the more important things are, like survival and shelter.  He looks at all sides of situations to help decide what he thinks that the best solution would be.  Ralph doesn't worry as much about self pride and pigs, like Jack does.  Ralph has started to feel the responsibility of being a leader.  He doesn't really want to be chief anymore, but realizes that if Jack were chief then they would all die, and so he remains chief for everyone else and himself.

Jack would be a terrible leader and is just supporting that statement throughout these two chapters.  He doesn't see the more important side of situations and values the wrong things.  He doesn't think about consequences before he acts and only worries about himself and proving himself the best.  So far throughout the whole book, he never says once that he cares about survival or rescue.

reading minutes

The Autobiography of Santa Clause by Jeff Guinn
11/30: 95 pages; 1.5 hours
12/1: 90 pages; 1.5 hours
12/2: 93 pages; 1.5 hours

Review in class

I understand everything that we have been over so far.  I would like to go briefly back over the literary elements so that I will remember to mark them in LOTF, and so that as we get closer to exams, there will be less to have to go over, so I am not in a rush.  I understand all of them, I would just like to review them again.

I would also like to review literacy narratives and traits of writing.  I think that if we review those, it would really help everybody on papers.  I think that is we review the thesis again, it would have a huge affect on our papers.  I think that if the thesis is good, the paper would essentially be good, because that paper is based off of the thesis.

I really understood everything.  I think that they were all explained very well, but if would probably be beneficial to everyone to review some of the bigger topics again, just to make sure we completely understand them and use them in our annotations in LOTF.


Reading Minutes:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
11/12- 22: Chapters 1-5; 95 pages; 1.5 hours

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
11/14: 194 pages; close to 3 hours
11/15: 122 pages; 2.5 hours approx.
11/16: 109 pages; 2.15 hours
11/17: 175 pages; close to 3 hours

Chapter 5

In Chapter 5 of Lord of the Flies, Ralph calls an assembly.  He plans to have complete control over what goes on during the meeting and achieve order that can be used throughout their stay on the island. The meeting starts off as planned, but as it continues and the kids get tired of all the talking, things start to get out of hand. They get less and less accomplished as people start of fight and argue.  Eventually, the meeting ends and everyone runs off to do their own thing.

This chapter really shows how much power Ralph actually has and how much Jack really dislikes him. Ralph has more power than any other single person.  His has little control over everyone else though, which minimizes his power.  They respect him enough to listen for a few minutes and do what he says for a minute or so.  But after a while, they get restless or bored and they don't do what they were told to.  Ralph makes it so that if they do something wrong, nothing happens.  Piggie knows that Ralph needs to show his power but making the others listen to what he has to say and actually do it.  His power has been "thwarted" when he built the shelters and nobody helped, when nobody was caring for the fire, and when even something as simple as to where they should go to the bathroom.  Ralph gets aggravated easily and would like help, but realizes that nobody will help him other than a select few.  He wants to use the assembly to make things work more smoothly and get people to help him, and therefore have a better, happier life.  Things don't work as easily as he hopes because nobody is really willing to listen to him for long, let alone carry out their tasks.

Jack really hate Ralph.  He wants Ralph's place and power and respect.  He sees himself as the ultimate best.  He thinks that he is perfect and is better than everyone else in everything.  He values singing over the best ways to survive and get rescued.  He believes that he should be chief because he can sing.  This would not ever help anybody get off the island.  The big difference between Jack and Ralph and what makes Ralph a better leader is that Jack acts without thinking and doesn't think of the big picture.  He only thinks about what he wants to do and how to achieve it, whether it would help them survive or not.  He values killing a pig more than the fire and the ship that could have gotten them off the island.  Jack doesn't really seem to realize that that might have been the only ship that would every come by there, and therefore their only chance of being rescued.  Ralph seems to realize this.  He sees what a problem this is and wants to fix it.  This shows that Ralph thinks more of the big picture rather than the individual actions and problems.  Ralph acts more like the adult rather than Jack, who acts more like a kid. THis gains Ralph respect, but also makes people not as keen to have him as their leader, like Jack.  Jack want to have fun and not worry about every little thing.

Chapter 4

In Chapter 4 of Lord of the Flies, the kids catch sight of a ship and realize to late that that might be their ticket off the island.  Ralph runs up to the top of the mountain because the fire isn't producing smoke.  He realizes that the fire tenders have forgotten to keep the fire going and it went out.  He is extremely annoyed with Jack and his men because they were supposed to keep it going.  When Jack apologies and Ralph doesn't except that apology, the boys start second-guessing themselves about whether Jack or Ralph would be the better leader.

Ralph seems to be immature and unforgiving when he doesn't accept Jacks apology about the fire to the boys.  They start thinking that Jack might be the better leader because when he apologizes, he shows that he is mature and forgiving.  In the boys's eyes, this would be better.  Ralph does not forgive Jack for letting the fire die because he knows that that ship might be the only one that ever goes that close to the island.  He knows that that might have been their only chance at being rescued.  Just saying "I'm sorry" doesn't change the fact that that was a terrible mistake that cannot happen again.  In the younger boys' eyes, this is being mean and unfair, which would make them not at sure about their choice of a leader.

Lord of the Flies Chapter 2 and 3

In chapters 2 and 3, the characters change drastically.  In the beginning, they are all terrified and had no idea what to do, so they elect a leader on his looks, his height, and his horn.  Then throughout the story, the boys realize the things they need to survive, like food, clean water, and shelter.  They start to prioritize those and try to gather meat.  They also turn more animal like.  They don't wear shirts or shoes and they are tan with long, light colored hair.

Jack and Ralph change the most.  They both feel the pressure of leadership and the challenges the island sends at them.  Jack especially changes.  When the plane first crashed, Jack was a civilized young boy who was snobby and thought he was the best at everything.  After a few weeks, he is tan and almost animal like.  He crawls on the ground and and sniffs everything.  He uses his senses more than he originally did, and he has trouble with his self esteem.  Jack is extremely focused on killing a pig.  This focus had blinded him from seeing anything else.  He was not able to see the other things needed to survive and was so focused on the pig he neglected to think clearly and was sometimes unkind to Ralph.  Ralph was more human than Jack was. He realized that they really need shelter, but his is also blind to other needs.  He is extremely uptight about his leadership and realizes that nobody is helping get the things for surviving other than Simon and Jack.  Both of the boys are blind to other things that are needed to survive because they are so caught up in their own tasks.  They are also in a love hate relationship with each other.  Jack really wants to be the powerful figure that Ralph is.  Ralph and Jack are almost competing with each other for the position.  At times, they remember the things they did together in the beginning, and they get along for a few seconds.  Both boys also have to deal with the younger kids and their fears.  They are all scared of the "beasty".  They have heard these fears so many times that sometimes, Jack says he feels like he is being watched.  This is said numerous times throughout the chapter by different characters.  They all feel like they are being watched, and it freaks them out.

Lord of the Flies chapter 1

In Chapter 1of Lord of the Flies, Piggie and Ralph find each other on a deserted island.  They had crashed on a plane filled with other kids.  They knew all the adults were dead, but didn't know about the rest of the kids.  They find a shell and try to call other survivors to them.  It works.  The other survivors all come to the beach, and they elect a leader.  Ralph is elected and him and two other boys go to explore the area and see if they are actually on an island.  They find they are, and on their way back, the find a pig, but don't have the heart of kill it.  They return with no food only information that they are on an island.

I think that the fact that a boy's name is Piggie, and in the first chapter there is a pig that they almost killed foreshadows a death.  Piggie will probably die.  I think that Jack will kill him.  When Jack says that next time there will be no mercy towards a pig, I think it foreshadows Jack killing Piggie for food when they are desperate.

I think that at first, the boys will have fun playing survivor, but once they start to face the challenges the island throws at them, they will realize that it is not as much fun as it seems.  All the boys seem to think that they will only be there for a few days, and that it won't be to hard to play survivor for those days.  I think that they will end up being stuck on the island for weeks and maybe even months.  The fact that they don't realize this shows that the book is written in 3rd person omniscient because the reader doesn't really know any more than the characters know.  I am only making logical guesses.

I think that this will turn out to be a very good book with a good lesson tied into it.  The author seems to be a "survival of the fittest" type of person rather than a "everyone helps everyone to survive" type of person.  This will influence the outcome of the book, which will most likely result in the death of a loved character.

Surviving

As soon as our class got the assignment to try to "survive" with no grownups after our plane crashed, we all got really excited.  We had no grown ups to tell us what to do and no rules that we had to follow.  We all started talking about what we should do and how we should function.  We split unintentionally into thirds.  One third was a monarchy, one third was a democracy, and one third was a "kingdom" with four rulers.  Everyone was talking at once.  It was hard to know what was really going on.  Nobody had complete control over everybody else, and no official disision were made.  Also, we never thought about what we needed.  We fist started thinking about what type of government we would have, then we started thinking about rulers, and then we started thinking about fantasy football.  None of us ever even thought about food or water or shelter.  We never thought about what we would need to survive.  At the moment, that was ok, but in the long run, that could become a problem and cause us to have trouble surviving.  We really needed to think more about the essentials to survival rather than football and take care of those first, and then we could worry about entertainment.



Gracleling by Kristin Cashore
11/5/12- 184 pages; 2.15 hours (approx)
11/6/12- 103 pages; 1.5 hours (approx)
11/7/12-102 pages; 1.5 hours
11/8/12-60 pages; 1.15 hours (approx)

Reading Minutes

The City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Claire

10/29/12-196 pages; 2 hours

10/30/12-152 pages; 1.5 hours

10/31/12-194 pages; 2 hours

The Things

This Halloween, my family had a theme.  We have started having themes each year.  Last year, we were Greek gods and goddesses.  I was Artemis.  This year, we were the Things.  I was Thing 1, Richard was Thing 2, and so on.  We had red sweat pants and red shirts with our number on them.  The thing that really brought the whole costume together though was the bright red spikey wigs.  We all looked like giant red sticks.  It was pretty funny.  The wigs were extremely itchy, but eventually we all got used to it.

            After a series of what felt like 10,000,000 pictures, we finally started walking.  First, we went to Mrs. Spaht’s house.  It was really funny because she had been in Mrs. Harper’s classroom earlier that day and she knew my brother and me.  It was kind of embarrassing to see a teacher looking like that.  She seemed to like our costumes though, so it wasn’t that bad.  Then we went to my grandmother’s house.  When we walked up, she called me Richard and Richard Aimee Claire.  It was really funny!!  Then later on when we were walking to another house, my mom said that she couldn’t tell Richie and me apart very easily.  It was really weird that they couldn’t tell us apart, but really funny too. 

            I got a lot of candy that night.  Every house we went to, the candy hander outers could always complement us on our giant family costume.  When we would walk in the streets, every family we passed would say, “Look!!  They’re from Dr. Seuss!” or “Look!! Thing 1,2, and 3!”  It was really weird that that many people noticed our costumes.  It was really cool though.  We all had a lot of fun that night I love Halloween and look forward to our costume themes every year.  

The City of the Lost Souls

In The City of the Lost Souls, Clary Morgenstern’s boyfriend, Jace, is possessed by Jonathan Morgenstern.  Jonathan is part demon part shadowhunter, and is the most wanted person in the shadowhunting world.  Clary wants to save Jace before the rulers of the shadowhunter world can kill him, so she goes to join their cause.  This book is the last in a series by Cassandra Claire. 

Most people love their brother.  They would give their life for their brother and do absolutely anything for him.  Clary is the exact opposite of that.  She HATES her brother.  Jonathan has killed people and laughed about it.  He is out to destroy the world with fire and ice, and leave nobody alive but Clary and Jace, who have sided with him.  Clary wants to kill her brother.  She has only known that she had a brother for a few months, and cares nothing for him.  This shows that just because someone is blood related does not mean you have to love him or her.  The people who are really your family and who really love you are the ones that are always with you supporting you in what you do and not trying to tear you down, or in Clary’s case, destroy the world.  In a more realistic view, sometimes a stepfather or stepmother can be more of a real father or mother than the blood related one.  The parent that is always around and helps you with sports and goes to all the things that parents do are the real parents.  They show their love for you and don’t try to bribe you into loving them.  They bring out the best in a you and always encourage you to do your best.  

Sucker, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and The Sniper

            I have read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Sucker, and The Sniper.  Each of these stories talks a lot about death or something life changing and how it affects people in different situations.  This would vary depending on the time period and the situation that people are in. 

            The time period greatly affects the reactions to life changing events and how life-changing events occur.  During the civil war, death and life changing things would happen much more often than in a setting that is not as violent and unpredictable.  In a modern time when there is always the question of who you killed and how they relate to you.  In The Sniper, the young man wonders who he has killed and risks his life just to see who he killed. He ended up finding that he killed his brother, so it may just be in that situation.  In modern areas where there is no war, there is still a way to harm people with words and actions, rather than guns and weapons.  In Sucker, the boy and his cousin were best friends until they got in a fight and they said things that were so hurtful that they damaged the relationship they had forever. 

            The way people accept life changing events and death vary according to the situation that they are in.  In really bad situations where there is war or diseases, death is not as uncommon as it would be in a peaceful community where there is not a lot of fighting or death.  In An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Sniper, the main characters that have occurrences with death or near death are both during times of civil war and get caught at the wrong place at the wrong time.  In An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, the man had been tricked and caught by the enemy soldiers during the Civil War.  In The Sniper, the young man is on “guard duty” and was in a one-on-one gunfight with a man on the enemy side.  The man turned out to be his brother.  In both situations, both men accepted death pretty well.  One had a flashback/ fantasy of himself getting away to his wife and children, where as the other just looked down into the face of his brother.  Both were sad events, but taken well.  In Sucker, the boys get into a fight that leaves one of them wanting to kill the other.  When someone you love makes this kind of wound, just saying, “I’ m sorry” doesn’t fix it. 

            The situations and the time periods of life changing events effect the reaction of people that they happened to and the overall community of a family or group of people.  

Reading Minutes

The Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Claire
10/15- 148 pages; 2 hours 15 minutes
10/16- 130 pages; 2 hours
10/17- 143 pages; 2 hours 5 minutes (approx.)
10/18- 85 pages; 1.5 hours

The City of Bones by Cassandra Claire
10/19-176 pages; 2.5 hours
10/20- 208 pages; 3 hours
10/21-140 pages; 2 hours 5 minutes (approx.)

Reading Minutes

The Clockwork Angel, by Cassandra Clare
10/11-155 pages; 2.5 hours
10/12- 192 pages; 3 hours
10/13-102 pages; 2 hours

Characterization

In To Da-duh, in Memoriam, the reader can see a lot of characterization.  The reader quickly learns that the story is told from the 1^st person perspective.  Almost immediately after the introductions of the characters, there is a series of indirect statements describing the grandmother.  The narrator describes the grandmother as having “an ugly rolled-brim brown felt hat, her back was beginning to bend, old-fashioned white dress” etc. All of those descriptions are indirect, showing the appearance of the grandmother when she first saw her.  The narrator then continues to describe the grandmother’s face saying “it was as stark and fleshless as a death mask, ruined skin and deep wells, and her eyes were alive.” These are also indirect statements about the appearance of the grandmother.  The narrator then observes her grandmothers actions towards her and her family.  Her mother was reduced to the narrators status when they grandmother calls her child, showing characterization in an indirect way through the grandmother’s interactions between her and her daughter.  The grandmother then turns and interacts with the granddaughters, saying that she wishes they were white boys.  This is also an indirect characterization through the grandmother’s interactions.  Later on throughout story, the grandmother is constantly interacting with the youngest granddaughter by “competing” with her.  The grandmother challenges the thing is New York and asks the girl if they have anything as tall as or a great as something in the grandmother’s world.  The grandmother continuously shows her curiosity about New York, but at the same time, doesn’t seem to completely believe everything the girl is telling her.  This is indirect characterization because it shows the grandmothers interactions with the granddaughter.  Indirect characterization is important in any story because it helps bring the characters to life, and it lets you have more freedom with how you imagine the characters. Without indirect characterization, books and stories would be badly written and not as flowey.  Characterization is important in any story to help bring the characters to life in the readers mind and mesmerize them with the actions and experiences characters have in books and stories