A wonderfully depicted book by John Marsden depicting the life of a 14-yr old girl named Marina, trying to live up to her mother's expectations, her friends expectations and also her attempts to live despite her disfigurement accidentally caused by her father. She is sensitive and afraid to face up to other people though she has a kind heart. She is weary of her mother and has a false relationship between both of them. Her mother had given up on her and made her self-conscious. But with the help of her English teacher, she has a speedy recovery from her "scared of communication e.g. talking" condition...A girl who is 14 years old writes in her journal every day and tells us about her life in boarding school and people around her. It is based on a true story of a girl growing up with many problems and challenges. I chose this book because it is a short listed book for Book of the Year for the Children's Book Council of Australia in 1988. The author, John Marsden uses interesting words and it is easy to understand and follow the story. This book is very good and interesting because the story has some real meaning to it. My favourite part of the story is at the end when she meets her dad again. She writes in her journal because she dislikes talking, and she has chosen not to talk to show her anger, but she is improving more day by day. This is a story about a teenage girl trying to deal with the divorce of her parents and the difficulties of growing up in a boarding school. In the book we learn that her father has hurt her in more than one way, and the lack of love and affection from her mother has scarred her in such a way that she has led to be silent.
Read this book and you will never forget it!! The book So Much to Tell You was not that interesting to me. It was a bit short and also a bit boring in some parts but otherwise it was OK. This book is the story of a young girl (15 years old) who is trying to fit into life like everyone else. She lives in an all girl?s school and she can not speak. The girl can?t talk so she keeps a journal and she adds a new story about her day every night. In it are her personal points about life and the people around her. I read the book So Much to Tell You in school as part of my English lessons. I really enjoyed reading this book and since then I have began to read other books written by John Marsden. I loved the way that the book was written as a diary because it made the book more interesting and easy to follow. There is a lot of tension in the story, and it ends happily which I liked. If I were to give this book a grade I would give it 10/10 because I enjoyed it so much. A young girl must come to terms with the impact of traumatic family events on her life, and how she deals with those feelings. The novel explores the fragile nature of the young adult and their desires and hopes in friendship and the future. It leaves us asking ourselves as readers how many of our younger population actually are silent, even when they speak. I loved it. Couldn't put it down, read it when I had other places to be, other things to be reading. Marina is in every single one of us. All of us wish at times that we would never have to explain ourselves, but our voices betray us. She deals bravely with the horror she has experienced at the hands of divorcing parents and copes admirably with the ignorance of doctors, teachers and mother as she attempts to reconcile her past and her father with her silence and her future. When young men and women can be caught up in a novel based on the diary of one girl who doesn't talk, and they are captivated, surely we have hit on a piece of literature that touches a part in every person, regardless of age? Read it; you'll remember it, and in the end, you'll be thinking you were in Warrington, at the Lindell's home, and inside the hospital at the end. I wonder how many students would like to add something to 'I have so much to tell you...?. This is the story of troubled teenager trying to find her place in life. I thought it was ok but kind of slow moving and boring in some parts. The problem is (of course, there must be a problem for there to be a book) that this girl, fourteen years of age, a boarder at an all girls school, will not speak. We learn throughout the course of the book that her father has hurt her in some way, not only mentally, but also physically, drastically scarring her face for life, which has forced her to lead a silent existence. She has a false relationship with her mother and we see how uncaring she is towards her daughter. If you read this book, i don't think you're likely to forget it. This book is about a girl with some serious problems with her family and life. Her father threw photographic acid at her mother but missed and got Marina and has scarred her psychologically and physically. She will no longer communicate with anyone after the incident. Her mother has no love for her and can't stand her presence so she sends her to boarding school to "supposably" learn to talk again but really her mother just wants her out of the way to make room for her new partner. Her father is in prison for assault and marina thinks about him a lot and realises she no longer hates him and forgives him and then builds up the courage to go and see him with the help of Cathy. Cathy is a girls she meets at school and wants to be her friend and wants nothing in return and has unconditional love and friendship for her and welcomes her into her family and so do the lindell family (one of her teachers). These two families show that not all families are like her and they teach her to trust people again and forgiveness. Overall this book is a great book and is a good read and you will learn from it.
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