After the Death of Anna Gonzales

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Summary: Poet Reactions To Suicide
Review: "After the Death of Anna Gonzales" by Terri Fields is a great book. Terri Fields is a great author. I haven't found any other books by her, but I sure hope I do. The book has a lot of poems that make you mad and some are also very sad.The principal and her friends tell their reactions to the suicide of her death. If I rated this book on a scale from 1-5, I'd give it a 10!!! This book would be good for an audience that likes to show emotions in their reading. I would also recommend this book to people who love poems! Once I picked up this book I knew I couldn't put it down. While you're reading this book, think about what you would do if someone committed suicide in your school.

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Summary: Poet Reactions To Suicide
Review: "After the Death of Anna Gonzales" by Terri Fields is a great book. Terri Fields is a great author. I haven't found any other books by her, but I sure hope I do. The book has a lot of poems that make you mad and some are also very sad.The principal and her friends tell their reactions to the suicide of her death. If I rated this book on a scale from 1-5, I'd give it a 10!!! This book would be good for an audience that likes to show emotions in their reading. I would also recommend this book to people who love poems! Once I picked up this book I knew I couldn't put it down. While you're reading this book, think about what you would do if someone committed suicide in your school.

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Summary: Review
Review: "After the death of Anna Gonzales" By Terri Fields. Everyone can realte to the death of Anna. It is a book full of poems sayin how they feel about her death. Some of the poem's made me angry because they were mad she died because it might intrupt with Homecoming, or a tst. Others were truly sad, and made me see that its the ones you leave behind that get hurt the most. At the end you read Anna's 'goodbye' letter. Its a great ending to the book, its juss depressing. It really makes you think about life, and others who just gave up hope.

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Summary: Death That Doesn't Matter
Review: AFTER THE DEATH OF ANNA GONAZLES

A Girl's Suicide Causes Anger and Questions to a School of "Everyone"

By Terri Fields

Henry Holt and Company, 100 pp. $16.95

A girl's death, a school in uproar, frantic parents, this is what After the Death of Anna Gonzales entails. The story involves a series of forty-seven confessions from various people throughout her school. Teachers, students, security guards; they all have thoughts about why Anna took her life. The confessions appear chronologically, starting at the beginning of the day, then progressing through the day, and ending with her much-hyped suicide note.

Though the confessions prove to be surprisingly interesting, the book starts off a bit slow. The confessions reveal many people's opinions and reactions. Some people in the story do not even know of Anna's suicide, or have their minds elsewhere. Other people are haunted by her death and find it cowardly and wrong. Some of these confessions could shake a reader up to no end, but do not let this intimidate you. Confessions share personal experiences of disease and hardship and show anger towards her death; while others wish they had the "courage" to take their lives as well.

The confessions prove to be an enticing treat, but then once the page has turned and the long awaited "note" is shown, there is excitement like no other. This triggers various questions through your mind. Will there be a twist? Why did she do it? Is there a reason that condones her actions or was it just to attract attention? Diving into the two-page note, read carefully or you may find yourself asking if that was it. If you read it slowly and carefully, your disappointment might not be as great. Either way, that was it. The long awaited question has been answered, but not with a twist or startling secret. It is answered with a letdown.

The author states she wrote the book because of her strong feelings over teen suicide. Of course that is a touching characteristic, but is that why the note was a letdown? Even if she was trying to let people know that this is why some troubled teens end their lives, the note does not hold up. If a person is as troubled as Anna was they may be able to understand her reasons. However, for the rest of the sane, non-suicidal people the end of this story could lead to frustration with the sympathetic author.


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Summary: Great Book
Review: After the Death of Anna Gonzales by Terri Fields is a story about a girl who has commited suicide. In the book, other characters tell you about what they felt about her death. I think that the reason the author wrote this is to talk about teens and suicide. This is definaltly a must-read for any teen.

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Summary: After the Death of Anna Gonzales by Terri Fields
Review: After The Death of Anna Gonzales is by Terri Fields

I recommend for grades 6 & up.

The book is an amazing book. It is very interesting and the excitement never ends. Once you start you can't put the book down.

It is about a girl named Anna. She committed suicide. Everyone is trying to figure out what to do. Like one boy, wants to take Anna's seat in class. A cheerleader doesn't want Anna's death to interrupt with homecoming. Everyone is finding a way, one way or another, that might affect Anna's death.

The point the author is trying to make is that, never take something that happens and make it work towards you or just because something bad happens doesn't mean something else bad is going to happen

The book is definitely worth reading. If you don't take your time you won't be able to understand the book. I'd give it 5 stars because of the amazing content.

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Summary: After the Death of Anna Gonzales by Terri Fields
Review: After The Death of Anna Gonzales is by Terri Fields

I recommend for grades 6 & up.

The book is an amazing book. It is very interesting and the excitement never ends. Once you start you can't put the book down.

It is about a girl named Anna. She committed suicide. Everyone is trying to figure out what to do. Like one boy, wants to take Anna's seat in class. A cheerleader doesn't want Anna's death to interrupt with homecoming. Everyone is finding a way, one way or another, that might affect Anna's death.

The point the author is trying to make is that, never take something that happens and make it work towards you or just because something bad happens doesn't mean something else bad is going to happen

The book is definitely worth reading. If you don't take your time you won't be able to understand the book. I'd give it 5 stars because of the amazing content.

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Summary: A Fantastic Book
Review: Grades 6 & up.
The book is an amazing book. It is very interesting and the excitement never ends. Once you start you can???t put the book down.

It is about a girl named Anna. She committed suicide. Everyone is trying to figure out what to do. Like one boy, wants to take Anna seat in class. A cheerleader doesn't want Anna's death to interrupt with homecoming. Everyone is finding a way, one way or another, that might affect Anna???s death.

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Summary: A Fantastic Book
Review: Grades 6 & up.
The book is an amazing book. It is very interesting and the excitement never ends. Once you start you can't put the book down.

It is about a girl named Anna. She committed suicide. Everyone is trying to figure out what to do. Like one boy, wants to take Anna seat in class. A cheerleader doesn't want Anna's death to interrupt with homecoming. Everyone is finding a way, one way or another, that might affect Anna's death.

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Summary: Give it a chance
Review: okay, after the death of anna gonzales was one of the greatest books i have ever read. not just because of the unbelievably shocking and true poems, but because we used the book as our winter play at my high school. the director was unbelievable, each actors character was made up of three of the original characters in the book. i played lynn helter, a bitchy cheerleader thats worried the suicide will interfear with the pep assembly. and not just reading but acting out the emotions and issues that this girl had was unbelievable. terri feilds has incredable currage and power to write about such an important issue that impacts american teenagers everyday. many people in my school had problems with a high school doing a play about this topic, but i was overjoyed to do a play about this. its better to do a play like anna gonzales that effects the life of people, than a play like lion king or a christmas carol and get 400 people to come see it a night, but it doesnt offect anyone.