Art Essay # 4

I am a book nerd and I just finished an excellent book called Night Road by Kristen Hannah. This book is a great work of art because it appeals to all ages of readers and makes the readers feel as though they are in the story.

The book is about a foster child girl named Lexi. She moves from foster home to foster home, but then finally finds out that she has a living relative, her great aunt. She is a little skeptical at first because she is worried that her aunt will not love her and throw her back out on the street, but instead, her aunt shows her what real love is. On Lexi’s first day of high school she meets Mia. Mia is an outsider just like Lexi. They become best friends very quickly and Lexi is over at Mia’s house almost everyday. Mia has a twin brother Zack who is the most popular boy in school. Of course, Lexi falls in love at first site, but she is afraid to say anything because she doesn’t want Mia to find out. Zack and Mia come from a very wealthy family and their mom, Jude, is very protective. However, she is a great mom, and is kind of the mom that Lexi never experienced. Jude wants to be a great mom because her own mother was a terrible mother. Anyways, three years pass by and soon it is their senior year. Lexi and Mia are inseparable, and Lexi still has hidden feelings for Zack. However, they start wanting to do things that high schoolers do such as go to parties and drink, but Jude is very skeptical. She lets them go anyways, and Zack and Lexi finally admit their feelings for each other. Mia gets over it, and Zack and Lexi become a couple. One night, they all go to a party. Zack volunteers to be the designated driver, but he quickly becomes pressured into drinking. Soon, all three of them become drunk and realize they are way past curfew. Lexi volunteers to drive because she is the least intoxicated, and the three of them get into Zack’s car. Mia and Zack live off a windy road, and Lexi gets distracted for a split second and she crashes his car into a tree! Jude awakes to realize her children still aren’t home, and answers her door for the policemen in front of her house. They travel to the hospital where they learn that Mia is brain dead. Jude slips into depression and decide to press charges against Lexi. Lexi has to go to the prison where she finds out she is pregnant with Zack’s baby. She gives the baby to Zack, but when she gets out of prison, she realizes she wants to be a great mother to her girl, Gracie. While in her depression, Jude becomes a terrible mother. She can barely look at Grace because Grace looks exactly like Mia. Jude and her husband go through some hard times, and she has to turn to her mother for help. This isn’t easy for her because of their bad relationship. However, Jude figures out what she needs to and changes her life ways. Zack goes to medical school and reunites with Lexi. They get over their problems, fall back in love, and create a family with Gracie.

Some reasons this book is a great work of art is because it appeals to every age reader. It appeals to high schoolers because that is what age Zack, Mia, and Lexi were in the beginning. The readers read about them going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing sex for the first times. The book appeals to middle age people because of Jude and her husband. The readers read about parenting and struggles of losing a child. The book also appeals to older people because of Jude when she is older and Lexi’s great aunt. The readers read about Jude’s reunion with her mother and the joys of becoming a grandmother.

Another reason that this book is a great work of art is because the readers feels as though they are in the story and evokes emotion. Personally, I know I have read a good book when it makes me cry. When I read about the car accident, I could not stop crying. I could relate to this book because I have had friends who have made the decision to drink and to drive. Just like in the book, the consequences were awful. This book is excellent because it teaches many lessons, live life to the fullest because you never know when it will end, cherish great friends forever, and do not be afraid to fall in love.

This book is great because it inspires its readers. I highly recommended this book to anyone!