Experiences

While I was reading this book, a lot of my past experiences came into my head.The Gorgon came up in the book and it reminded me in English class when we were reading a story and talking about her. It was a shock that that happen to come up. There was this one scene in the book where it describes Gemma being in a blissful meadow. It was about in grade 6 where I was with one of my friends and we were rolling down my hill in my backyard. It was summertime, the wind was blowing and you could hear every sound it was so quite. We ended up just lying on my grass and it was the most peaceful moment ever for me.

Some books that I have read remind me of The Sweet Far Thing. One of the books was Charlie Bone. It had the essence of magic and abnormality. In Charlie bone they had the sort of groups like the Spence girls had. The Sweet Far Thing reminds of all the books I have read that deal with balls, big dresses, not a high respect for women, unusual magic, and academies. Among the Impostors really reminded me about this book because it dealt with a boy being sent to an academy he didn’t know anything about or what he would encounter there. Reading the Royal Diaries novels also dealt with a lot of olden day living and customs, like the big dresses and having a man escort you everywhere. These are some similar things that these books are related to The Sweet Far Thing.

Books that were alike in the novel I read were also different. In Charlie Bone, it was focussed on a teenage boy and him having magic powers that his whole family knew of and tried to educate. Charlie’s Dad was also missing for a great deal of the series unlike Gemma’s dad who was there, but an alcoholic. The difference between Among the Impostors was that again, the novel was about a boy. His name was Luke and hid his real identity with a fear of the outside world. Gemma never had to hide at Spence in fact she was never really afraid of it. She liked living there but Luke just couldn’t get the idea out of his head the he could be caught as a fraud any moment. These books automatically came to my head when I thought of The Sweet Far Thing because they are so similar but have their differences from each other.