Replay by Sharon Creech

In the beginning of the school year, I read a realistic fiction book called Replay by Sharon Creech. This book is about a boy named Leo, and how no one pays attention to what he says, or does. Leo is a very imaginative person, he day dreams when he think he is the hero of the situation. When in reality he isn’t, he is mostly the cause, of the situation. That why his sibling, family members, and sometimes teachers call him sardine or fog boy, but one day his drama teacher called him the dreamer. Which made Leo very proud of himself because he the only one who doesn’t care what around him

Leo’s main external conflict is that he and his whole family don’t get along together. He always in the middle, of something like when his brother and sister fight, or when his mother or father can’t find something, they accept him to know where it is. When he asks about Rosaria he should know who she is, and what happened to her. The main internal conflict that Leo has is that he feels invisible to the people around him, and he feels his talents are no good to people.

I think the author’s overall message is if you are good at something you should follow your dream, even if you think no one thinks you up for the challenge. The story was mostly about Leo, and the love he has to tap dance and act. This makes the reader think, that Leo was more like his father, when he was a child. But his father hates tap dancing and acting because it reminds him of his childhood. The unique thing about the author’s writing style is when the characters have a long dialogue; the author would make it into a script type of way. When Leo reads his father autobiography he wrote when he was 13 years old, the things that happened to his father would be in italic, so the reader knows who is speaking Leo. The literary devices the author used were mood/tone to describe the daydreams Leo had. Also ambiguity, so the reader wouldn’t know why the family was sad when Leo said the name Rosaria.

My overall opinion, of the book is the meaning ,of the book, which is to never give up on your dreams. It’s good to be very imaginative because you have an open mind of everything you want ,or dream to do. I would recommend it to kids or teenagers, who feel that they aren’t good at anything. When you find something your good at go for it, and don’t let no one stop you from achieving your goal.