I Have A Bad Feeling About This 10/13/17 Pages 1-167
Strand B Question 2: The author made a conscious decision to choose a specific genre to tell this story. Why did the author choose this genre? In the Humorous fiction novel, I Have A Bad Feeling About This by Jeff Strand writes about Henry Lambert funny adventures with others at Strongwoods Survival Camp and the problems and situations they go though. The protagonist Henry Lambert is a kid who spends most of his time indoors being lazy but when it becomes summertime, Henry’s dad makes him go to Strongwoods Survival Camp. When he arrives, with his friend Randy who is happy to be at the camp they find there are only five people who signed up for the camp, Erik, Stu, Jackie, Randy, and Henry. …show more content…
For example, the text has a good example of taking a situation and using author's craft to add more to the story “The branch felt like it split Henry’s skull in half, though fortunately, it didn’t really do that. His bellow of pain caused seven different species of birds to flee their nests. He squeezed his eyes shut and clutched at his forehead with both hands “Ow!” he said. “Ow!” he repeated. “Ow!” he added “Ow!” he added, for clarification.”(Strand, 73) This shows a reason why he made the book humorous fiction, a book that is not humored fiction would just have the words ow, but, use humor fiction and Jeff Strand’s author's craft he can add more to the
Strand B Question 2: The author made a conscious decision to choose a specific genre to tell this story. Why did the author choose this genre? In the Humorous fiction novel, I Have A Bad Feeling About This by Jeff Strand writes about Henry Lambert funny adventures with others at Strongwoods Survival Camp and the problems and situations they go though. The protagonist Henry Lambert is a kid who spends most of his time indoors being lazy but when it becomes summertime, Henry’s dad makes him go to Strongwoods Survival Camp. When he arrives, with his friend Randy who is happy to be at the camp they find there are only five people who signed up for the camp, Erik, Stu, Jackie, Randy, and Henry. …show more content…
For example, the text has a good example of taking a situation and using author's craft to add more to the story “The branch felt like it split Henry’s skull in half, though fortunately, it didn’t really do that. His bellow of pain caused seven different species of birds to flee their nests. He squeezed his eyes shut and clutched at his forehead with both hands “Ow!” he said. “Ow!” he repeated. “Ow!” he added “Ow!” he added, for clarification.”(Strand, 73) This shows a reason why he made the book humorous fiction, a book that is not humored fiction would just have the words ow, but, use humor fiction and Jeff Strand’s author's craft he can add more to the