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    This document provides a literary analysis of the contemporary realistic fiction book "Pie" by Sarah Weeks. It summarizes the plot in five parts: exposition introduces the characters Alice and her aunt Polly; rising action details Polly's pie making skills and her bequeathing of her pie crust recipe to Alice; climax reveals Lardo the cat has gone missing; falling action shows Alice doubting herself; resolution finds the thief and teaches Alice to love herself. The setting is the fictional town of Ipswich. The theme is simply to be yourself. The characters are described as either one-dimensional supporting characters or dynamic characters who change or have multiple attributes, with Alice and Polly as the dynamic characters. The style uses realistic

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    This document provides a literary analysis of the contemporary realistic fiction book "Pie" by Sarah Weeks. It summarizes the plot in five parts: exposition introduces the characters Alice and her aunt Polly; rising action details Polly's pie making skills and her bequeathing of her pie crust recipe to Alice; climax reveals Lardo the cat has gone missing; falling action shows Alice doubting herself; resolution finds the thief and teaches Alice to love herself. The setting is the fictional town of Ipswich. The theme is simply to be yourself. The characters are described as either one-dimensional supporting characters or dynamic characters who change or have multiple attributes, with Alice and Polly as the dynamic characters. The style uses realistic

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    Savannah Holtz

    October 13, 2015


    LAE 4424
    Dr. Meadows
    Literary Analysis
    Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction Books
    Pie by Sarah Weeks

    Bibliographic Information
    Weeks, S. (2011). Pie. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.
    Plot
    The plot of a story can be separated into five distinct sections; the exposition, the rising
    action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution.
    Exposition: The characters Alice and her aunt Polly are intruced.

    Rising Action: Polly is a pie making champion but when she passed away no one was making
    her wonderful pies anymore. When she died she left Alice her cat Lardo and then the cat was left
    her award winning pie crust recipe.
    Climax: Everyone is making pies now trying to become the new number one but then Lardo goes
    missing!
    Falling Action: Alice begins to try to solve the mystery but begins to doubt herself.
    Resolution: She finally finds out who was the thief and learns to love herself for who she is.
    Setting
    The setting of this book is a fictional town called Ipswitch.
    Theme
    The theme of this book is simply to be yourself.
    Characters
    Within this story there are two different types of characters the one dimensional characters (the
    supporting characters) and dynamic characters (those who move the story along). The dynamic
    character are those who change in some way or have multiple attributes to them. For this story
    the dynamic characters are as fallows.
    Alice- Loves peach pie and is the neice of Polly.
    The other characters in this book ate one dimensional characters and mainly just support
    the book; they are as fallows.
    Polly Portman- The best pie maker in town who is kind and gives her pie away to other
    people.
    Charlie- Pollys assistant and Alices best friend.
    Style

    This book is written in a realistic, mystery style with great sentence variation and text
    structure.
    Point of View
    This book is written in third person.
    Reflections
    I really loved this book and I cant wait to perform a read aloud in the future with this
    book with middle range grade students.

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