Claire

=The Third Angel​ = = By: Alice Hoffman = = "With her glorious prose and extraordinaryeyes...Alice Hoffman seems to know what it means to be ahuman being." = - Susan Isaacs, //Newsdays.// = "Alice Hoffman takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things." = - Amy tan = " A reader is in good hands with Alice Hoffman, able to count on many pleasures. She is one of out quirkiest and most interesting novelist, and her skills increase with every new book." = - Jane Smiley, //USA Today.// =media type="youtube" key="pKBZFXi9CyE" height="344" width="425" align="left"=  // “When Maddy pressed the buzzer to unlock the door to the downstairs vestibule, she could feel the vibration through the bones of her hand, up along her arm, into her shoulder. She had a breathless, giddy feeling, as though she was about to dive off the high dive into a pool.” //

//"what she didn't say was that she'd also come because she felt lucky, and her luck had filled her with gilt."//  //"The cemetary was a mile down the road from lialic house. Everyone in the Rice and Lewis families had been buried there."//

- This passage starts to give a glimpse of how Maddy’s life was to be from here on out. Maddy is about to enter the apartment of her sister’s fiancé, and could ruin her sister’s wedding. Maddy can’t help the feeling she is having and all the emotions over whelm Maddy as she enters the apartment. This is a major turning point in the book. Maddy soon realizes that she is in love with her sister’s soon to be husband. She has never had luck with men, and the ‘love of her life’ happens to be engaged to her //sister.// Maddy decides to keep her secret from her sister and let her sister be happy. Maddy’s emotions mean nothing at this point in the story.This disasterous event occurs days before the wedding, and Maddy has to dash from her sister's fiance's apartment to her //made of honor// dress  fitting. Maddy decides that she is a horrible made of honor. 

- This passage displays the heart break and then the utter despair throughout the book. This book is not full of heart break and pain, but i believe this quote shows that the world and love is not all pretty and fluffy. Many of us personally go through pain. Without the pain, there would be no happiness and love with smiles. In this book Maddy felt like she was lucky because she had found the man she loved and was willing to do anything for her. Her happiness and luck soon ran out and was replaced by guilt when she realized that she had caused her sister's fiancé to cheat on her. The guilt was eating away at Maddy and she could take it no longer. Instead of telling her sister she told her best friend and some of the stress was relieved from her concious. Soon Maddy's sister, Allie married her fiancé and they were married on the spot with many tears, not because the obvious problems weren't visible, but because the pain that was tugging at their marriage.

 - This passage shows a lot. Throughout the book there are many cute and loveable portions, but when the time comes for rough times, many of us only see the obvious pain. If you look deep within the pain and struggle you can see the good. This passage shows that the family will be together forever. Sure, they won't be together on earth, but they will be together in spirit and even buried by one another. With this quote comes the danger of not completing the wishes of the loved one. This book shows that half of the //equation// is what you do with your life. The other half of you like is who you do it with. Live your life to the fullest and surround yourself with the ones that mean the most to you. The characters in this story do this very well. Close friends and family are all you truly need to be happy. Maddy and her sister kept on being sisters, through thick and thin. Love someone even after they are gone, they can and will have a great effet on you. In this book you learn many life lessons by simply reading a segment of the book like up above . ​ The you tube video in my wiki is pretty explanitory. The main character falls in love with a man that is not suitable for in more way than one. The man maddy falls in love with is her sister's fiance. That is bad enough in it's self, but Maddy's sister's fiance is also sick with cancer. This You tube video explains that you can't help who you fall in love with. Love hits you unexpectidly and is very unpredictable. Your heart jumps to conclusions, and you can't seem to help it. Many times your heart overrides your brain. Your mind might be telling you one thing, but your heart is telling you another. Listen to your heart. Maddy took this to heart, and listened to her heart even though she shouldn't and she will/did have to suffer consequences for her actions. Love was worth it in her mind.

The blue Heron plays a rather large role in the book. Allie, Maddy's sister, is a novelist and a writer. Her main character of her novels are blue herons. Allie becomes very creative to with her novels and almost allows the blue heron to come alive with her words. Allie learned how to write from her child hood, and her many adventures. When Maddy and Allie were younger they believed the blue heron to be alive and often visited him. He was believed to help you out if you were in any kind of trouble or in dire need af assistance. The problem was the blue heron could choose only one person from each family. Allie later decided that the blue heron had chosen her and she was the chosen one. Although the blue heron helped Allie, it tore the sisters apart. They were not nearly as close as they were when they were younger. The blue heron both brought the sisters together as best friends when they were young, and then tore them apart as time went on. Allie recieved a great benefit from the blue heron. Her stories of her child hood had made her famous. The blue heron however made Maddy a no body, she wasn't even a key part of her family anymore. Maddy became a loner.

The journal represent a large portion of the book. The journal doesn't necessarily sybolize the events or stories whithin the book, but the book itself. The book in essence is written backwards through time. This style of writing is much like reading a journal. The book starts out with the present and what is going on around the main characters. As the book progresses, the author begins to give back ground information on all the events leading up to what has just occured. Each main characters lives and past are explained, and you soon realize why certain things happened. This allows you to actually be in the characters lives and experience what it is that they are going through. This also shows you and gives you the feeling that the characters are real, they go through every day problems that many of the readers can relate to. If you are someone that likes to keep record of the past, and believes everything happens for a reason then you can strongly relate.