Diamond's Lake The Maclead Cottage example essay topic

'The Loons' Piquette Tonnerre was daughter of Lazarus. She had long black hair and her broad coarse-featured face bore on expression Piquette was thirteen years old. She was older than Vanessa, but they were together in the same grade. Piquette failed several grades, because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork was negligible. She missed a lot of school because she had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent months in hospital Piquette's voice was hoarse and she was limping when she was walking.

She wore grimy cotton dresses that were always miles too long. Jules Tonnerre built a small square cabin which was made of poplar poles and chinked with mud. He Built it about fifty years before, when he came back from Batoche with a bullet in his thigh. Jules had only intended to stay the winter in the Wachakwa Valley. The cottage on Diamond Lake had a sign on the roadway bore in austere letters name MacLead. It was a large cottage; it was on the lakefront.

Everything around the cottage were ferns, and sharp-branched raspberry bushes, and moss that had grown over fallen tree trunks. Above the backdoor there was the broad moose antlers that hung there. Vanessa loved the summer at Diamond Lake because she loved to listen to the loons all night. She also loved because she would go swimming in the lake. Vanessa also loved to go there because she could spent more time with her father. For example; they would go at night to the lake to listen to the loons carefully because some day they can just disappear.

She also loved it because she got to see her best friend Marv is. Piquette wasn't actually interested in the surrounding and the loons or the lake. Most of her time she spent on the cottage with Beth helping to do the dishes or with Roadie. Every time when Vanessa asked her about the nantes she sounded like she didn't care about it or she didn't that she didn't know anything about nature.

Piquette reacted this way because she never used to go places like Diamond's Lake. She always had to do all the work at home; for example, she had to clean. Vanessa Piquette four years later, one Saturday night when Mavis and her were having Cokes in the Regal Cafe. Piquette was seventeen but Vanessa thought she looked like twenty. She also noticed that Piquette have changed so much. Her face so stolid and expressionless before animated now with a gaiety that was almost violet.

She was laughing and talking very loudly with the boys around her. Her lipstick was bright carmine and her hair was cut short and tizzy permed. Her dark eyes were beautiful and she had a slender body. Piquette attitude also have changed because of the way she was talking to Vanessa. She was really nice to her. She told her about herself and what she did during those four years.

Piquette felt really good about Dr. MacLead. She thought that he was a really good man. She even told Vanessa that Dr. MacLead was the only person in Manawaka that ever has done anything good to her. Piquette's hope was very big. She planned to get married and more away from Manawaka. She was getting married in the fall; her boyfriend was an English fella, who works in the stockyard in the city, Alvin Gerald Gumming's.

At Diamond's Lake the MacLead cottage had been sold after Vanessa father's death. The small pier which her father had built was gone. Instead there was a large and solid pier built by the government. Galloping Mountain was how a National Park was named, and Diamond Lake had been re-named to Lake Wapo bata. The one store had become a several dozen store, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flinching resort-hotels, a dance hall cafes with neon signs. At night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon.

All around, the spruce trees grew tall, branches blankly sharp against the sky. The loons rose like phantom birds from the nest on the shove, and flew out onto the dark still surface of the water. This book is not very humorous. In my opinion this is a very interesting book, I enjoyed reading it a lot. Although the ending wasn't very nice, I think this book was suspenseful until the end. I would recommend this book to young people who like being kept in suspense.

I don't think this book would be good for a movie because there are a lot of movies out there with similar plots. This book would be hard to turn into a movie because there aren't enough characters and the movie would be very dull and boring. This book is mainly about one matter and I don't think the audience would find it interesting. I don't think the movie would work out unless there would be changes made.