Is there a turning point in the story, a point after which the story takes a different course? Describe:Ī turning point in the story could be the point when he left the hospital. I would call a story like this a family novel. What would you call a story like this? You can choose more than one name: Conrad gets well very slowly, but at the end of the book he is almost completely recovered.

Music is his only escape and for a long time he sees Dr Berger as the only person he can really talk to. At first Conrad feels like an outcast, a quitter and he is very lonely. Conrad thinks that his mother doesn’t really care about him, because she has never visited him when he was in hospital for eight months. After he came out of the hospital he is very afraid to lose balance again. He also used to be one of the best swimmers at school, but when he goes back to school he notices that the others are a lot better then him now. Before the accident he used to be a straight-A student, but after the accident it’s harder for him to study. Then he had to go to a hospital for 8 months. Had he/she changed? Had he/she achieved or learned something? Explain:Ĭonrad Jarrett is the main character in this book. His mother decided to leave to Europe without saying goodbye to Con.Ĭompare the main character(s) from the beginning of the story with the same persons at the end of it. Surprisingly is the broken connection with one’s parents. The fright that Con couldn’t find any junction and fall back into his illness won’t become the truth. The book is acquainted with an unexspected end. I was very satisfied with the ending of the book. It doesn’t really matter to know in what period the story takes place, because it could set in every period.Įxplain why you were or were not satisfied with the ending of the book: The story is set in the period when it is published. In what period is the story set? Does it really matter to know in what period the story takes place? Why is that? She thinks that Conrad tried to kill himself to manipulate her and she can’t forgive him for that. She doesn’t really know how to show her feelings. Name one character from the book whom you hated or could hate, explain:

We also want to help people like Conrad, Calvin and so on. If we could choose whom to be, we would like to be Berger. If you could choose, what person from this story would you like to be? Why?

Ordinary People by Judith Guest