The story is told from four first-person perspectives: Claire, Tomás, Sylvia, and Autumn. Claire, Tyler's ex-girlfriend, is outside the school when the shooting begins.
This gripping novel is woven together by a set of 4 diverse and compelling alternating narrators: Claire, the school's track star and former girlfriend of the shooter, Autumn, the shooter's sister, Sylv, Autumn's girlfriend, and Tomas, a notoriously rough and tumble student.
Change, Uncertainty, and Growing Up
As seniors in high school, all four narrators of This Is Where It Ends face significant anxiety about leaving high school and beginning new lives as adults.
At the same time, of course, This Is Where It Ends is still fiction. The story isn't about the technicalities of a shooting; it's about four teens in a harrowing situation whose world is being turned upside down.
Harrowing and heartbreaking story of a school shooting.
The book, This is Where it Ends, by Marieke Nijkamp is a book I would highly recommend to people from the age of 15 and above.
The story is told from four first-person perspectives: Claire, Tomás, Sylvia, and Autumn.
Sequel. In February 2022, it was announced that Atria Books would publish a sequel to It Ends with Us in October 2022. The follow-up, titled It Starts with Us, was published on October 18, 2022. The sequel continues from where It Ends with Us ended and centers on the relationship between Lily and Atlas.
The main conflict of this book is the students of Opportunity VS. Tyler.
Furthermore, Sylvia is recovering after being raped by Tyler last summer as “punishment” for her illicit relationship; her refusal to share this trauma with anyone else makes her withdrawn and anxious, and strains her formerly close relationship with Tomás until she finally confesses her secret to him.
However, Tomás knows that Sylvia is in the auditorium and refuses to leave her there. The two boys decide to stay and run to the janitor's office to arm themselves with tools against the shooter; there, they find that the kindly janitor, Neil, has been strangled.
One of the biggest issues that is actually somewhat problematic for this novel is the character of Tyler, who *SPOILER* is the shooter and Autumn's brother. Obviously, Tyler's character is the main antagonist and a huge part of the novel.
Autumn's older brother and the shooter who murders dozens of students and teachers over the course of the novel before killing himself. Tyler's character emerges chiefly through flashbacks of the four narrators.
She's also grappling with the consequences of this tragedy on her family: her Dad has descended into alcoholism and is increasingly hostile towards Autumn, who reminds him of his dead wife, while her older brother Tyler is given to disturbing mood swings, alternately loving and violent.
But there are actually three types of perspective you should know about. Those are atmospheric, color, and linear. Most great madshots will show all three of these types of perspective. And they're are valuable part of any mad-artist palette for giving a picture depth.
Fourth Person Point of View
Fourth person is a newer POV that only recently started to be recognized as a distinct POV. It involves a collective perspective, using the plural pronouns we and us. This POV allows you to tell a story from the perspective of a group, rather than an individual.
No. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover is not appropriate for children or Young Adults. It is only appropriate for Mature Adults aged 17 and over. It contains adult themes, including domestic violence, and explicit romantic content.
Colleen Hoover That entirely depends on the book. Some I wouldn't recommend for teens at all. But books like Slammed, Heart Bones, Regretting You, Hopeless, I think are okay for older teens. But books like Verity, Too Late and Ugly Love I'd definitely NOT recommend for teens.
Some children learn to read at 4 or 5 years of age. But most will get the hang of it by age 6 or 7. It's important to remember that all children learn at their own pace, and the key to reading success is to make it an enjoyable process.
This book is one that is for readers above the age of 18, as it contains a lot of adult material. There is a ton of sexual content within the novel (detailed below), and the book centers around the topic of domestic abuse. Abuse scenes are graphically described and can be disturbing at times.
Let me say this loud and clear: Colleen Hoover's novels are NOT for high schoolers. There are incredibly dark themes and examples of relationships that are not healthy for young people who probably can't yet see the shades of gray in these areas.