High School Reading Grades 9 10 Quiz
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The novel is divided into three parts, each titled with a season.
"Summer" is 240 pages long. In it, almost nothing happens. Two brothers work on their uncle's farm. They argue about a girl. They swim in the reservoir. They lie on the roof and watch satellites cross the sky.
"Autumn" is 18 pages long. The uncle dies. The farm is sold. The girl marries someone else. The older brother enlists. The younger brother is left alone in a rented room in a city he does not know.
"Winter" is a single page. It contains one sentence: "He learned, that year, to be a person no one was waiting for."
Critics have complained about the imbalance. I think the imbalance is the point. Youth is long because we do not yet know it will end. What comes after is short because, by then, we are only counting.
The commentator suggests that the novel's uneven section lengths function primarily to:
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