Lucky is an amazing novel containing many literary elements that make the story exciting and eventful. There are a variety of characters that had different backgrounds and characteristics. Which allow many different types of people to relate in their own unique ways. You have Lucky, Brigitte, Miles, HMS Beagle, and Lincoln. You always have "secondary" characters like the people in the AA meetings and Lucky's mother and father. These characters were dynamic, they grew and changed as they coped with events that happened throughout the book. Lucky coped with her mother's death which changed her, her father leaving, Brigitte coming into her life, Brigitte possibly leaving her life and so on. These characters bring the story to life. Language is a strong literary element that is present in this book. The descriptions of the setting, events and characters create vivid mental images in the readers mind. It feels as though you are actually in the story. You can picture yourself sitting in Lucky's rusty chair listening through a hole in the wall to the stories being told. The hot sun beating down on you and the sounds the chair and people in the scene make. Most of the book is from Lucky's point of view. The setting of this story is unique as well. Not many people know what it is like to live in the middle of the desert in a town with a population of 43. The author does an amazing job explaining the setting and the events that happen in the novel that allows readers who do not have the schema of a small town to understand what it is like. Another literary element featured frequently in this book is the theme of conflict. Lucky's whole life has been about horrible things happening to her and her trying to find that higher power to solve all of her problems in life.
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