Exposition: This book is the story of a boy named Jimmy Hendrix.
Conflict: Jimmy was very poor growing up, but he had big dreams to paint with music.
Rising Action: He begins to hear different sounds such as a child laughing, a truck backfiring, a dog howling and wants to be able to put them in to words. Jimmy’s dad buys him a wooden guitar for five dollars and Jimmy begins to learn how to play the guitar. Eventually Jimmy can play good enough and joins a band. When the band plays Jimmy realizes that he is being drowned out by the other instruments. So, Jimmy’s dad buys him an electric guitar.
Climax: One day while playing the electric guitar Jimmy realizes that he can turn the knobs and stretch the strings on the guitar to make different noises. Now Jimmy was able to “paint” with sound.
Falling Action: Jimmy uses the knobs and strings on the guitar to make the music he has always wanted to.
Resolution: Jimmy accomplishes his dream of painting words with music.
Illustrations: The illustrations in this book are very colorful. This portrays the book well because Jimmy was a very colorful person. He wanted to be able to show these colors through sound, so I think it is appropriate that this book is so colorful.
Golio, G., & Steptoe, J. (2010). Jimi: sounds like a rainbow : a story of the young Jimi Hendrix. Boston: Clarion Books.
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