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Literary Analysis of Crispin: The Cross

1) Crispin lives with his mother in medieval England but his house burns down, killing his mother. 2) He then joins a group of people as he struggles to fit in and searches to find his real father. 3) The setting is England during the medieval times and the story is told from Crispin's first person point of view.

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Literary Analysis of Crispin: The Cross

1) Crispin lives with his mother in medieval England but his house burns down, killing his mother. 2) He then joins a group of people as he struggles to fit in and searches to find his real father. 3) The setting is England during the medieval times and the story is told from Crispin's first person point of view.

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Savannah Holtz

October 11, 2015


LAE 4424
Dr. Meadows
Literary Analysis
Genre: Historical Fiction Books
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

Bibliographic Information
Avi. (2002). Crispin: The cross of lead. New York: Hyperion Books.
Plot
Crispin lives with him mother and hates it. Then one day someone burns his house down
and kills his mother. After this he joins a groups of people and struggle to fit in with them as he
tries to find his real father.
Setting
The setting of the England during the medieval times.
Theme

Characters
The main character in this book is multi dimensional since he under goes changes and is as
fallows.
Crispin- A young boy on his journey to find his real father.
He is also joined by some one dimensional characters that dont change at all which are as
fallows.
Mother- Dirty, mean, and is not liked by Crispin
Style
The style of the book is okay with great sentence variation but it does not have many
interesting imagery use.
Point of View
This book is written in a first person view from the main character.
Reflections
This book was okay. I liked the language of it but I found the story to not really be that
exciting.

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