Review by Alyssa Malkin -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch
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Review by Alyssa Malkin -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Expelled" by Mois Benarroch.]
1 out of 4 stars
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The Expelled, by Mois Benarroch, is a book about a man who meets a woman, who seems like a young version of his wife, and they strike up an adulterous relationship, which leads the protagonist to share a story he wrote with her. His story is about a bus hijacked by terrorists, separating the passengers into two castes: the superior front and the inferior back. The book touches on many important subjects, like racism and segregation.
While the messages presented throughout the story are good, the method of communicating them to the reader was lacking. The story was very confusing, and its majority would need to be reread multiple times in order to be completely understood. Overall, the story seems inconsistent, which makes it difficult for your average reader to understand.
The sudden change in the plot made it confusing for the reader to understand as it starts out as a romance, between a middle-aged writer and young woman, and abruptly turns into a story about segregation and discrimination, which had an entirely different plot and set of characters. The themes don’t seem to match throughout the different parts of the book, which makes it hard for the reader to understand what underlying message the author was trying to convey.
Additionally, the author provides a minimal description of the setting which makes it difficult to understand what is going on until the middle of a scene, forcing you to then go back and reread the passage over again. However, the vague details also allow the reader to be creative and create their own setting to go along with the scene. But, while there are benefits to the lack of detail, I’d say the detractors greatly outweigh them as they prevent the reader from completely understanding the scene as if the author added a little more description, the reader could still reap the benefits of a vague description but they wouldn’t be forced to reread passages over again to gain comprehension.
On the other hand, The Expelled is a very powerful book with an extremely powerful message. It makes no attempt to hide the themes conveyed throughout the story, making them easy for the reader to understand, even while the plot and passages may be difficult to comprehend. The book makes you question what you are reading, making you think over the plot and messages presented throughout the story; however, in some cases it just makes you sit there wondering what you read.
Overall, I’d give The Expelled 1 out of 4 stars because of its inconsistent plot and difficulty to understand. However, if it was written better and the plot was less confusing, it could easily be given a higher rating because of the powerful themes presented throughout the story.
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1 out of 4 stars
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The Expelled, by Mois Benarroch, is a book about a man who meets a woman, who seems like a young version of his wife, and they strike up an adulterous relationship, which leads the protagonist to share a story he wrote with her. His story is about a bus hijacked by terrorists, separating the passengers into two castes: the superior front and the inferior back. The book touches on many important subjects, like racism and segregation.
While the messages presented throughout the story are good, the method of communicating them to the reader was lacking. The story was very confusing, and its majority would need to be reread multiple times in order to be completely understood. Overall, the story seems inconsistent, which makes it difficult for your average reader to understand.
The sudden change in the plot made it confusing for the reader to understand as it starts out as a romance, between a middle-aged writer and young woman, and abruptly turns into a story about segregation and discrimination, which had an entirely different plot and set of characters. The themes don’t seem to match throughout the different parts of the book, which makes it hard for the reader to understand what underlying message the author was trying to convey.
Additionally, the author provides a minimal description of the setting which makes it difficult to understand what is going on until the middle of a scene, forcing you to then go back and reread the passage over again. However, the vague details also allow the reader to be creative and create their own setting to go along with the scene. But, while there are benefits to the lack of detail, I’d say the detractors greatly outweigh them as they prevent the reader from completely understanding the scene as if the author added a little more description, the reader could still reap the benefits of a vague description but they wouldn’t be forced to reread passages over again to gain comprehension.
On the other hand, The Expelled is a very powerful book with an extremely powerful message. It makes no attempt to hide the themes conveyed throughout the story, making them easy for the reader to understand, even while the plot and passages may be difficult to comprehend. The book makes you question what you are reading, making you think over the plot and messages presented throughout the story; however, in some cases it just makes you sit there wondering what you read.
Overall, I’d give The Expelled 1 out of 4 stars because of its inconsistent plot and difficulty to understand. However, if it was written better and the plot was less confusing, it could easily be given a higher rating because of the powerful themes presented throughout the story.
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