Liturature Analysis #2

Sharayah Martinez

Block 2

12/6/13

Literature Analysis “Space Station Seventh Grade”

1: In Jerry Spinelli’s non-fiction entitled “Space Station Seventh Grade”, he tells how hard the seventh grade is for Jason Herkimer, the main character. Jason struggles to get his crush Debbie Breen to love him back. He also struggles with family problems and friend problems. After Kippy Kim dies he learns to appreciate his little brother Timmy.

2: The theme would be love for Debbie Breen and later a girl he made fun of, Marceline McAlister. Devastation for his best friend, Peter Kim and his little brother Kippy, who had died in a Car Accident.

3: I like that it’s very funny and completely real! It describes the life of a teenager and other problems we may have. It even talks about pimples!!

4: Like I said it describes a teen so well & it also in a way describes life as a seventh grader. It does capture the drama in seventh grade with bullies, jocks, cheerleaders, etc.

5: The author has many different tones. At certain parts the author sounds happy, worried, annoyed, angry, and depressed.

6: Jason Herkimer is a very round character. In the end you know his whole personality and how his beliefs have changed since the beginning. Another character, Debbie Breen,  is a flat, static character. You don’t really here from her much in the second half of the book & she hasn’t really changed.

7: I Feel like I have met Jason Herkimer, but I don’t think I would be too fond of him. He seems very annoying and sexist at the comments he makes when he gets beat by a girl. At some points he just irritates me.