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Summary: It was ok.
Review: Green Angel is a very lovley book. It brings you into the mind of a 15, soon to be 16, year old girl.
Green, who is very shy, and quiet, loves to plant,and is very beautiful, loses her family. Green loses, her mother, who taught her everything about planting, her father, to whome she loved, and most of all, her younger sister,aurora, who never forgot about Green, and always thought of her older sister. Green goes mad, she slowly rips her old self apart. She sews thorns on her jacket, and nails on her shoes,tatoos herself with ink, and chops her beautiful hair off. she slowly transforms into another person, but doesn't regognize her own self. You'll have to read the book to see the the ending. This is a must read, you wont be able to take your eyes of the pages!
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Summary: Green Angel is a great book!
Review: Green Angel is the story of a girl, Green, who loses her parents and sister in a fire. She is left with only her sister's terrier, Onion. She inks tattoos of bats, ravens, and roses into her skin, wears her father's heavy jacket and boots, and begins to call herself "Ash". It takes an experience with a ghostly white dog, a mute boy, and an old neighbor to turn her back into Green.Green Angel is an excellent book and has a good moral to trust in you. You should read it!
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Summary: Green Angel
Review: Green Angel. What a way to tell you that your life is only a gift. This girl named Green is a really shy person who thinks that life is just a gift. She looses her family a catostraphic city fire and she changes her personality in many ways. Her life is then changed. Green thinks that she is safer if she sleeps under the table. Green decides that she was going to try to forget that her family was taken in the city fire. Green then thinks that sewing thorns into her clothing and cutting her beautiful hair into a mans cut will help her bring her family back.. Green then finds her fathers old boots and hammers a half of a dozen nails into each boot. She thinks that painting with ink and pins, rose vines, black roses and bats will make her forget about this disaster. During the disaster, ash is accidentally flown into Green's eye. She tried many times to get it out, but she failed. Due to this, she turns half blind but if she can feel someone, she can tell if they are hungry. (Etc.) She also can tell by the feel of the wind what direction she is heading. Later on in the story, she finds many kinds of animals that she decides she will take care of. She feeds and waters them but also helps to give them a great shelter and an overall better life. In the end, Green feels safer and becomes more of herself. She goes back to the usual gardening and playing around with others. She almost changes back to what she was before the fire in her city. This story takes place in Green's house and in the city. (Didn't give a name).I thought that this was an excellent book and would recommend it to young adults. It sends great messages. I would also recommend it to people who like mysteries and plot changes because this book has many.
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Summary: Dark and mystical
Review: Green is fifteen. Her father is strong and honest. Her mother collects blue jay feathers, preferring them to pearls. Her little sister, Aurora, is as wild as she is beautiful. Then one day her father and mother and sister go into the city to sell vegetables, leaving Green at home to take care of the gardens. While they are there, a terrible disaster destroys the city. Ashes rain down on Green's home. Her family never returns. As she attempts to survive with burned eyes and looters raiding the abandoned homes, Green sews thorns into her clothes, drives nails into her boots, and covers herself with black tattoos. She becomes Ash. But despite everything she has lost, she has gained the talent to tell good from bad simply by touching, by feeling. She feels the sorrow of the pure white Greyhound she finds in the woods and names her Ghost. She feels the light in the mute boy in the black hood who appears on her doorstep and names him Diamond. But it takes the insight of the starving elderly woman next door to feel the changes in Ash and rename her Green. Hints dropped in the last third of GREEN ANGEL imply that the city (and thus Green's family) was destroyed not by a natural accident, but by malevolent people. For me, this turned an already darkly powerful story into a tale that packed quite a punch. The first half was good, albeit slightly simple, but the second half made me cry. Alice Hoffman's way with words is both subtle and piercing. And the book's covers (with Green on the front and Ash on the back) add compellingly real images to the word portraits already painted inside. This tiny novel (116 pages) is sometimes confusing about time and place, but I felt the mystery added to the overall impression: In many places GREEN ANGEL reads like a fairytale. While I can see where this story might not appeal to readers not easily able to suspend disbelief, GREEN ANGEL is still a mystical and haunting tale of one girl's search for healing that I could not recommend more highly.
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Summary: Magical resonance resounding!
Review: Hoffman's third short novel marketed to the young adult audience has appeal far beyond the angstful teen readers for whom it was likely written. This is more prose poem than novel, although there is a typically twisty-turny-quirky Hoffman plot that satisfies deeply. The deft use of archetypal/fairy tale/mythological concepts resonate the text on many levels. But language is the essence here: pure, poetic, lyrically luminous and unnervingly numinous. A sensual delight; a sweet and succulent literary morsel; simple lovely reading pleasure.
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Summary: Wonderfully written and conveyed
Review: I first read Green Angel on a spur of the moment decision to find a book for the day's 45 minute reading session for the entire middle school. My friend pulled this out of her locker. Combined with a comfy couch in my English teacher's room, I was set.
Green Angel starts by introducing a small countryside villa, in which lives 15 year old Green and her family. The book is told as Green sees it. Green talks about her life and how she is unlike her sister, who is bright and happy.
On the day that Green does not get to go to town, her life changes. An event that is vague yet important occurs, and Green loses everything except a small dog named Onion and her home.
While Green struggles to cope with life alone, I struggled to keep back myself from crying in the middle of class. The emotion alone is just enough to bring a tear to your eye. As Green and Hoffman describe what is left of Green's small town, as she leads you through the brambles and through the pain of hand-done tattoos, you feel only what could be the crying suffer of a young girl.
The book's grammar is simple and powerful beyond reaches of your imagination. I reccommend this to anyone in 7th or 8th grade. The words are beautiful and the overall story is inspirational. Reading this book will spark your interest from the first sentence. It's hard to put down.
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Summary: green angel
Review: I just read this book today and absolutely loved it. I really like the writing because it's so descriptive and beautiful. I really liked how there are contrasts of what Green was before her family died and after. When her family dies it reminded me of 9/11.
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Summary: Very, Very Good...
Review: I loved this book! It's about a girl who loses her family. She is very shy, so I could relate to her. I strongly reccomend this book!
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Summary: Beautifully written, depressingly tragic: Green Angel
Review: I read the UNCORRECTED PROOF version of this, so some things may not be completely accurate.
Green, the paitent and observative fifteen- year- old girl with a green thumb and a calm heart is given a horrible taste of death one day when her parents and sister go into town to trade and buy with thier produce and never return due to a horrible, smoky fire that wiped out all of the city. Green was too stubborn and proud to say good- bye when they left, and is now left to wander in the shadows of her own mind. Desperate to keep all her memories of her family and being very defensive, Graan sews thorns onto her father's leather jacket, sticks nails into her shoes, hackes off her beautiful black hair and tattos ravens and roses onto herself with needles and ink. When she journeys into town, everyone thinks she is dead and is scared by this gloomy stranger who claims to be Green, however she soons changes her name to ash. Other children who have also lost thier families drown it away by getting drunk and dancing around a fire; most noteable of thease is Heather Jones, of whom is part of a band of looters who come in and trample Green's garden, stealing its contents. Green helps many creatures, such as a grayhound, (Ghost), a falcon, and a boy, Daimond, who does not show his face and paints beautiful watercolour pictures. Daimond in convinced that the ashy wasteland can return to its previous luch garden state, and doesn't give up hope in Green, even when she does. The neighbor, whom Green and her sister Aurora used to bother childishly, becomes another subject of Green's healing... and perhaps the cure to Green's own depression. This is a depressing story, just a warning. Green looses her parents, and it is sad, however not enough to reduce me to tears. This book is beautifully written in a soft, flowing poetic style in a world where the forgetting children are ghostly and the most ignored of people break through. Green takes her Slef- torment a little too far, and is quite a bit overdramatic when she goes into her deep, dark state of brooding. She's kind at heart, the characterizations are very god, and while you don' get to know her family very well, you can still feel her pain, vaugely. Her younger sister seems to be her favourite member. This makes no sense to me, but it culd be one of those Smothers Brothers effect things, you know what I mean? Aurora (the younger sister) is described to be like moonlight, impatient and practicing happiness. Wheather this story is aligorical or no, it is a lovely peice of literature. Not to be read by the lighthearted. The only reason I did not like it was because it was depressing. It seems to go along with the Evanescence song "My Immortal" quite well ;).
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I read this book last year and I am still incapeable of putting it down. I give this book as gifts to many of my friends. Green shows her innerturmoil as she shifts from Green to Ash. The book really made me reflect on my life and look at the areas in my life that were shadowed. I had to read the book twice to catch all of the references to things around us. I was even capeable of writing a term paper on the book. My teacher was so stunded with the report that she had to read the book. It is absolutely fantastic. I have read many books and this one is still my all time favorite! This is a must read for teenagers and adults.
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