bridge to terabithia by katherine paterson a novel study guide

The following year, we had to refugee a second time because war between Japan and the United States seemed inevitable. I missed him very much, and in telling him so, I managed a piece of writing I am not ashamed of to this day.Ī lot has happened to me since I wrote that letter. We were living in Shanghai, and my father was working in our old home territory, which at the time was across various battle lines. I say fortunately, because the samples that did manage to survive are terrible, with the single exception of a rather nice letter I wrote to my father when I was seven. Fortunately, very few samples of my early writing survived the eighteen moves I made before I was eighteen years old. I must have tried writing soon afterward. I know I began reading when I was four or five, because I couldn't stand not being able to. When I was twenty, I wanted to get married and have lots of children.Īnother question I can't answer is, 'When did you begin writing?' I can't remember. But when I was ten, I wanted to be either a movie star or a missionary. One is, 'When did you first know that you wanted to become a writer?' The fact is that I never wanted to be a writer, at least not when I was a child, or even a young woman. People are always asking me questions I don't have answers for.

Bridge to terabithia by katherine paterson a novel study guide