Intensely Alice By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

When I read this book I thought to myself that the choice of words is some of the words that I would use to write with. When I got further into the book I started to notice that the words were getting more advanced. Anyway, after I read this book I sat down and analyzed the whole plot. I looked to see if I could find the rising and falling actions and if I could find the climax. I did find all of these things too.

There are many rising and falling actions,as in any book, that I was able to identify.Most of the rising actions were very noticable and they weren"t hidden in the story. As for the falling action, it was really short because the climax was so far into the book. The falling action was after Alices' friend Mark died and that was towards the end of the book so the falling action was all about Marks' death. The rising action that leads to climax was really long though.

Now this book is about an older teenager whose name is Alice, which would be found out in the title. The book just basically goes through her life experience over her last summer of her high school career. During the summer she gets to go be a bridesmaid for her cousins wedding all the way in Chicago and from there she goes to visit her boyfriend a town away. She has to have a long distance relationship with him because he goes to college out of state. She was actually planning on spending an intament night with him because that was the first night she would be spending alone with a guy, particulary her boyfriend. Her plans were ruined when she found out that he couldn't because he had a roomate and the next morning he had to be to class at nine a.m.

After this she spends the rest of the summer just gossiping with her friends, one of which was a boy named Mark. She wasn't the closest with him but she was still always around him so she started to become close to him, like best friend close. They had actually known eachother since the fourth grade actually most of their "crew" had know him that long. Well one day one of her friends calls her up crying. As you can guess she was calling to tell Alice that Mark had died. HE was killed in a car accident. There was an eighteen wheeler coming up behind him when he was waiting for a light to change to turn left. The eighteen wheeler plowed into his car and Mark slammed into the SUV that was in fron of him. No one died or had serios injuries in the accident, except for Mark.

So the remainder of the book is spent talking about how Alice and her friends greive over her friends death.