Heidi

     I am currently reading the novel Heidi, by Johanna Spyri. The reason I am reading it is because I am trying to improve my knowledge of classics, and Heidi is a very famous classic. It is about a young girl who goes and lives with her 'harsh' and 'mean' grandfather in the mountains. Heidi immediately falls in love with the mountains and her uncle, who proves to be a very kind and loving person. But later in the story. Heidi gets taken away back to the city, where she hates being penned up in and starts sleepwalking and becomes ill. This is as far as I have gotten so far.

     So far, I have enjoyed this book. The author's descriptive of the setting is very detailed and beautiful. "She stared joyfully at the mountains. During the night the wind had blown away all the clouds; the dark blue sky was spreading overhead, and in its midst was the bright sun shining down on the green slopes of the mountain, where the flowers opened little blue and yellow cups, and looked up to him smiling" (Spyri 23).

      Heidi is a humorous character and I enjoy reading about her. The plot is very unique, and I have never read a book like this one. I would recommend it to teens or children with advanced reading skills because although it seems like a childish book, the vocabulary is sometimdial officials and a child would find it hard to understand. For example: "She was surprised at what she had been told about Heidi's incapacity for learning, and determined to find out more concerning this matter, not by inquiries from the tutor, however, although she esteemed him highly for his uprightness of character; she had always a friendly greeting for him, but always avoided being drawn into conversation with him, for she found his style of talk somewhat wearisome" (Spyri 97).

 The only complaint I have about the story so far is sometimes the characters are too flat or static. I am excitd to see how the story ends
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