Kate Marino This Is Our Story by Ashley Elston 2016 Book Analysis Report

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Book: This Is Our Story by Ashley Elston (use any online sources)!

Make sure you have an introduction with a thesis, body paragraphs with clear topic sentences, and a conclusion where you summarize your key points. Successful finals utilize direct quotes from the text.

Questions for This Is Our Story:

1. Kate Marino, the main character of This Is Our Story, plays a role of the amateur detective in the novel. Was this successful? Were you intrigued by the elements of the murder mystery within the text? Was the use of Kate as a detective successful?

2. Were you surprised by the ending of This Is Our Story? Was the ending of the novel successful or not?

3.This Is Our Story has a lot to say about privilege, especially surrounding the River Point Boys at the center of the mystery. What might the author be saying about our society and how privilege works? Consider that the group of boys are young, white, male, and rich, and they have access to firearms.

4. Towards the end of the novel, Shep is named as the murderer, falsely, and the community turns on him. What might the author be saying about mob mentality or the willingness to believe one’s guilt or innocence despite no evidence of guilt be revealed? Consider that by this time Shep has isolated himself away from the other River Point boys.

5. This Is Our Story has a lot to say about peer pressure. What might the author be saying about how peer pressure works in society? Consider the pressure that the River Point boys put on each other to keep quiet about what actually happened to Grant.

6. The romance between Kate and Shep is a central part to most of the last part of the novel. Did this work for you as a reader? Was the romantic subplot successful? Why or why not?

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Running head: THIS IS OUR STORY BY ASHLEY ELSTON

Book Final paper: This Is Our Story by Ashley Elston

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THIS IS OUR STORY BY ASHLEY ELSTON

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The novel, “This is our story” by Ashley Elston provide provides a thrilling story of an
amateur detective who is willing to go against all possible challenges including endangering her
life to bring out the truth about one of the most complicated murder cases in the history of her
small town. In the story, none of the characters knows what had happened in the morning when
one of five boys was shot dead (Elston, 2016). In an effort to analyze the story, this paper
attempts to figure out the use of characters and other literary aspects that contributes towards the
author’s motive and message. Typically, the story is both thrilling and interesting with careful
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