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Marley has lived in Heaven since she was two years old, when her mother found a postcard postmarked HEAVEN, OH on a park bench and decided that was where she wanted to raise her family.
And for twelve years, Marley's hometown has lived up to its name. She lives in a house by the river, has loving parents, a funny younger brother, good friends, and receives frequent letters from her mysterious Uncle Jack. Then one day a letter arrives form Alabama, and Marley's life is turned upside down. Marley doesn't even know who she is anymore -- but where can she go for answers, when she's been deceived by the very people she should be able to trust the most?
As in her Gone from Home, Johnson here explores the themes of what makes a place home and which people family. Fourteen-year-old Marley's tranquil life in Heaven, Ohio, turns hellish the day her family receives a letter from Alabama. The note (from the pastor of a church that was destroyed by arson) requests a replacement for Marley's baptismal record, and reveals that "Momma" and "Pops" are really Marley's aunt and uncle, and mysterious Jack (an alleged "uncle" with whom Marley has corresponded but doesn't remember) is her true father. In this montage of Marley's changing perceptions, Johnson presents fragments of the whole picture a little at a time: images of people, places (the Western Union building "1637" steps away from Marley's house) and artifacts (a box filled with love letters between her birth parents) gain significance as Marley begins to make sense of the past and integrate her perceptions into her new identity. The author's poetic metaphors describe a child grasping desperately for a hold on her reality ("It was one of those nights that started to go down before the sun did," she says of the evening the fateful letter arrives). The melding of flashbacks and present-day story line may be confusing initially, but readers who follow Marley's winding path toward revelation will be well rewarded.
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thomas garrera
reviewed Heaven on October 17, 2013 Heaven
Heaven
By: Angela Johnson
Report by: Gracie S.
Q1 #4
Overall main character: Marley
Supporting characters: Uncle Jack, Momma, Poppa, and Butchy
Butchy- Main Characters younger brother,
Protagonist: Marley
Antagonist: Uncle jack
Setting: Heaven, OH
Plot:
Marley the main character in the book "Heaven" has always had an easy life you could say. She has a securing, nice lovable family in Heaven, OH, where she lived with momma, Pops and her brother Butchy. Marley has an uncle Jack who she receives and writes letters back to all the time. Marley had always been writing letters and receiving letters from Uncle Jack, but one day a letter came, a letter unlike any others. The letter turned her smile upside down and her life in a completely new direction. The letter from uncle jack said that he was her real father, her mother had died in a car crash, and the people that are so called "Momma and Pops" aren't really her real parents. I know I wouldn't be happy if someone else told I that they have been hiding it from me all along that my uncle is my ACTUAL dad. So either was she, Marley had a hard time wrapping her mind around all the lies, and the life she was meant to live. She doesnt know where she belongs in the world after a life-changing event like that. But after all those lies should she even believe that? After knowing a summary what happened in the start of the book don't you want to know the rest of the book of how she deals with an extremely dramatic life-changing event? Tensions will grow, in times like this who will she turn to, the person that sent her off to like with her aunt at a very young age having no remembrance of her parents and the life she was suppose to live or the person the lied to her for quite some time and tricked her into believing they were her biological parents? Obviously no boom just stops there, will she live in Heaven or will she go with her dad, I know but I'm not a spoiler, so I guess you will just have to read to find out!
Star Rating:***** out of *****
Conclusion:
Like I said I would rate this book high, five out of five stars. I really enjoyed the book Heaven because it's easy to feel bad for the main character Marley, because of the life-changing event. You know how hard it would be on you to be told that your perfect like wasn't so perfect at all. That the people you called family, the people that you called mommy and daddy were just a lie to make you feel like every thing was ok. This is why I find it easy to feel bad for her and connect with the story, not just that because I know someone who was told that they were adopted at a late age and how it was hard on them. I would recommend it to just about anyone that is old enough to read a chapter book. I think that there is a good chance they would find it relatable too. I think over all this was definitely a good choice my favorite thing about this book is how the author builds the suspense.
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