Nicola Yoon "The sun is also a star"

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BY NICOLA
YOON

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NICOLA YOON
She grew up in Jamaica and
in Brooklyn, New York. She majored
in electrica-engineering as an
undergraduate at Cornell University.
Taking a creative writing class as an
elective got her "hooked on writing".
After graduation, she atteneded the
Master of Creative Writing program at
Emerson College.
The author of the #1 New York Times
bestsellers - "Everything, Everyrhing"
and "The sun is also a star"

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ABOUT
THE BOOK
Year of writing: 2016
Genre: romance novel
Categories: for teenagers, modern
foreign prose, tabloid prose
Film:
"The sun is also a star" by Ri RussoYoung
Year of filmimg: 2019
Genre: melodrama, music, drama.

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THE PLOT
The family of seventeen-year-old Natasha are
illegal immigrants from Jamaica, who should be
deported because of their father's mistake. The
girl only has time until 10 pm to somehow fix the
situation and stay in the country she considers
home. But fate disposes of her life a little
differently and confronts her with a young
guy named Daniel.

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DA N I E L
He is a good son, a good
student, living up to
his parents’ high
expectations. He is a poet
and a dreamer. He believes
in love, fate, destiny and also
he thinks that science cannot
explain everything in the
world.

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NATA S H A
She is a girl who believes in
science and facts. Not fate,
not destiny. She doesn't
believe in love at first sight
and thinks that absolutely
everything can be explained.
"I'm definitely not the kind
of girl who meets a cute boy
on a crowded New York City
street and falls in love with
him."

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And then one day these two
completely different people
run into each other in one of
the crowded streets of New
York. After realizing that
Natasha doesn't believe in
love, Daniel becomes
interested in her and wants to
change her mind about it.
And in order to somehow
hook her, he tells her about an
experiment that was once
conducted by a psychologist.

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THE
EXPERIMENT
(THE ARTICLE
F RO M N E W YO R K
TIMES)
A researcher put two people
in a lab and have them ask
each other a bunch of
questions about their
childhood, fears and so on.
After that they have to stare
into each other's eyes for four
minutes without talking.

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Daniel convinces Natasha to try
this experiment, to which she only
agrees with doubt and says that
it won't affect her opinion and
feelings in any way. Throughout
the book, we learn more and more
information about both the
families of the heroes and about
themselves. We also see all
Natasha's efforts to correct the
situation with deportation and
how her beliefs about love are
collapsing.

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THE MAIN IDEA
The main message of the author was
that for any purpose you need to do your
best - both in the case of Natasha and her
family deportation, and in the case of
Daniel and his desire to get to know
Natasha better.

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INTERES TING FACT
There are several interesting chapters in the
book that do not tell about the
circumstances of the plot, but are somehow
related to it.
• "Half-life. history of Decay."
• "Donald christiansen. History of
money."
• "Love. A chemical history."
• "Hair. An African American history."
• "Joy. A planned history."
And so on...

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THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION