Jodi Picoult, acclaimed author and excellent mentor...

    Jodi Picoult, acclaimed author of novels such as My Sister's Keeper, and The Pact, enthralls readers in many traumatic stories about life, love, and the importance of family and complex relationships. In most of her books, the story follows a criminal trial and ends with an unexpected twist. Picoult's style of writing consists of vivid diction, similes, metaphors, and humor and syntax to illustrate elaborate and emotional scenes. Picoult integrates small details of her own life into her work and utilizes multiple points of view allowing the audience to grasp every angle of the story and understand each character fully. Through her emotionally webbed plots, Picoult grabs the attention of readers from the start of the novel to the finish. 

    Picoult creates novels that plant deep emotions in the heart of readers, and that is what I hope to achieve in my writing. She writes about events that are highly possible in society, and creates characters that real peple can relate to. By telling her stories from multiple characters, Picoult develops a relationship between characters and her audience in order to evoke emotion at the character's situation. I hope to master this her style someday in my writing.

    Here are some excerpts from the first chapter of Jodi Picoult's novel The Pact.   

"He [James] had hypothetically wondered what would happen if a phone call came in the middle of the night; a phone call that had the power to render one speechless and disbelieving. He had expected deep down that he’d be a basket case. And yet here he was, backing carefully out of his driveway, holding up well, the only betraying panic a tiny tic in his cheek."

"'I’m very sorry,' the doctor began, the only words that Melanie could not rework into anything but what they signified. She crumpled further, her body folding into itself, until her head was so deeply buried beneath her arms that she could not hear what the man was saying."

"Gus had run the whole way to Bainbridge Memorial holding hope to her chest, a package that grew heavier and more unwieldy with every step."

"Detective Marrone stared at Gus. “Maybe,” she said. “But he [Chris] also may have shot her.”