Literary Analysis
In Jodi Picoult’s novel Perfect Match, she introduces a mother, who is a district attorney that handles child molestation cases, with a life that seems to be undeniably serene; but when the mother‘s world gets turned inside out, she is pressed to her limits. In Picoult’s novel, Perfect Match, the plot keeps your heart racing with suspense and your mind wanting more. The climax is heart wrenching with an unbelievable twist, but the storyline starts to drag towards the end when the twists and turns of the plot come to an end. Perfect Match is a captivating novel with a slow ending, but an absolute entertaining read. From the beginning of Perfect Match, Jodi Picoult captivates you with her life-like writing style. “Caleb‘s gaze is drawn to her, and he is shocked. His wife, the one who always looks crisp and fresh and coordinated, sits in bright orange scrubs. Her hair is cloud about her head; her eyes are shadowed with circles. There is a cut on the back of her hand and one of her shoelaces has come untied. Caleb has the unlikely urge to kneel before her, to double-knot it, to bury his head in her lap.”. There is never a problem not being able to picture what, who, where, or when the scene is taking place. “I have been moving in slow motion, waiting for an inevitable ax to fall, listening to testimony as if these witnesses are discussing the destiny of a stranger. But now, I feel myself waking. The future may unfold in and over. That‘s exactly the fate I didn‘t want for Nathaniel…so why should I want it for me?”. With Picoult’s descriptive scenes and her personable characters, her novel was one of the easier of novels to relate to and understand, even though most have not experienced what the main character has. In Perfect Match, you are introduced into Nina Frost’s calm life as a district attorney with her son, Nathaniel, and her husband, Caleb. The first half of Jodi Picoult’s novel is filled with twists and turns; the wrong DNA, a scandal with best friends, and faking craziness. Putting Jodi Picoult’s novel down to stop reading, was not an option that was I willing to take. An insane mother who knows how the U.S. legal system involving child molestation cases usually unfolds, is put to the ultimate test. Nina Frost works her knowledge to her advantage, which backfires her into a position in which can not talk herself out of. By Nina Frost fighting against her only help, keeps the plot of Perfect Match rolling in the fast lane. Reaching a screeching stop in Jodi Picoult’s novel, you reach the trial of century in Perfect Match. With a novel that has plot that is jam packed with characters full of mistakes, complicated interviews with the only life line that is available, and hours in a room filled with indecisive people, drags the plot to an end. The exciting climax drops off to predictable end.
