Thursday, July 15, 2010

my babe -Bridge to terabithia

SPOILERS Jesse (aka Jess) Aarons the only boy in a family of five children, is a middle child, living in rural southwest Virginia. His mother favors his sisters Brenda, Ellie, May Belle, and Joyce Ann, while his father works in Washington DC and therefore spends little time with his children. May Belle, the second youngest sister, adores Jesse and admires him. Leslie Burke is an only child who moves from Arlington, VA to the same area as Jesse, along with her wealthy parents, who are both writers. Jess and Leslie soon become close friends. Jess shares his secret love of drawing with Leslie, where as Leslie shares with Jess her love of fantasy stories. With this new friendship, the two children create an imaginary kingdom in the woods near their homes, accessible only by a rope swing over a creek. They create the imaginary kingdom of Terabithia of which they name themselves King and Queen, and they spend every day after school there. In Terabithia, they are able to face their fears of the real world, such as of the seventh grade bully Janice Avery. Leslie gives Jess a drawing pad and a set of watercolors as a Christmas present and Jess gives Leslie a dog whom she named Prince Terrien, or "PT" for short, as a Christmas present. They consider PT to be the royal clown of Terabithia. Jesse has a crush on his young music teacher, Miss Edmunds, and would do anything to be with her. The central crisis occurs when Jesse accompanies Miss Edmunds to the National Gallery of Art in ...

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