Missing May | Literary Qualities
By now it is almost a cliche to note Rylant's simple, elegantly straightforward style. Another cliche is the rationale Rylant provides for Summer being able to write an elegant book: Summer has the talent to become a writer. There are countless young adult books with first-person narrators who are aspiring writers, so that they are able to write the book one is reading. In any case, Summer is an engaging storyteller; her lack of self-pity and hardheaded determination to get on with living enhance her appeal. As for the prose style, it very much what readers expect from Rylant. For...
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