After Lovettsville, I spent two years in graduate school in Richmond, Virginia, studying Bible and Christian education; then I went to Japan. My childhood dream was, of course, to be a missionary to China and eat Chinese food three times a day. But China was closed to Americans in 1957, and a Japanese friend urged me to go to Japan instead. I remembered the Japanese as the enemy. They were the ones who dropped the bombs and then occupied the towns where I had lived as a child. I was afraid of the Japanese, and so I hated them. But my friend persuaded me to put aside those childish feelings and give myself a chance to view the Japanese in a new way. I tell you that too, just to make you understand that if you want to read this book expecting something in the style of Harry Potter or Narnia, you will get a real disappointment, BUT if you are looking to read an amazing, coming-to-age story, you will read one of the best books in that area, genre and/or topic. Jess's character is amusing. He's that personality which says there's always sunshine after a rainy day. Zamiloval jsem se toho času do jedné slečny. Při jednom z našich rozhovorů tázal jsem se ji, kolikrát plakala u jedné své oblíbené knihy. Odpověděla, že ani jednou. Existuje podle ní pouze jedna kniha, u které se rozplakala. A tady je. Most do země Terabithia. Slečna mne donutila přečíst si hned několik knih. Ale k Mostu jsem se tenkrát tak nějak nedostal. Bylo mi ale jasné, že jednoho dne už nebudu moci odolávat, nu a ten den je zde.

The story developed fine and the writing style made it feel like life becomes better with a friend, a sweet younger sibling who looks up to you, an understanding teacher and it's best to avoid negative people be it your family or so called 'friends'. Zaujalo mě uchopení Jessových myšlenek na konci knihy, hlavně při jeho setkání s Lesliiným otcem. A pak také hrdinovo syrově střízlivé uvědomí, že strast, kterou ve svých deseti letech zažil, nebude v životě jediná: „Pokud jde o příští hrůzy a utrpení – nenamlouval si, že už má všechna za sebou –, člověk prostě musí čelit svému strachu a nedopustit, aby z něho byla padavka.“ Potřebujete postavu, která bude jasný záporak? Tak to je nechutně tlustá a odporná, je to slon, hroch, potřebuje na odtučňovací tábor kde bude zesměšňována. Tohle se dozvídáme od našich hlavních protagonistů, kteří mají být děti plné fantazie a laskavosti. This book broke my heart and left me in tears when I finished up reading it. And I was not expecting it to be this sad and devastating in the end as I went into this children's classic blindly. Someone unfamiliar with this book may think that these elements are too complex for younger readers; however, Paterson presents them expertly to a younger audience while engaging the students with a character they can relate to, Jess. He is constantly introspective, thinking not only about an issue, but on his thoughts on the issue too. He frequently wonders why he is thinking that way, leading him deeper and deeper into his mind. He has feelings for Ms. Edmund that he does not yet understand as well. The beginning of the book is hard focused on portraying Jess as having external suffering as well “Ever since he’d been in first grade he’d been that “ ‘crazy little kid that draws all the time’” (Paterson 4). The number of sentences used to portray this manner of suffering almost rivals his introspective lamentations, and establishes a character that many confused early adolescents can not help but identify with and cheer on. If this element commands girls’ attentions less, then Leslie’s charisma is more than enough to bridge the gap. The use of swear words helps to prevent children from resenting the book and closing their minds to it simply because children at that age are told not to swear. This book swears? Wow, that must be cool. I want to read on. And they do. And more importantly, they listen to what they are reading.Terabithia era il loro segreto, ed era un bene che fosse tale. Come avrebbe potuto, Jess, spiegarlo a un'altra persona?"

Also, you won't understand the reason for the title of this book until you read it, but please, don't do any research or investigation, since the impact of the story depends of that you don't know anything ahead. YOLi sa zameriava na literatúru v žánroch young adult a new adult, teda prevažne pre „mladých dospelých“ vo veku približne 13 - 21 rokov. Ponúka široké spektrum prekladov súčasnej tvorby, od dystopie či fantasy až po romance. Priestor tu dostáva veľa svetoznámych autorov a autoriek, medzi inými aj John Green, Jamie McGuirová, Lauren Kateová, Erica Johansenová, Anna Toddová či Rainbow Rowellová.Dalším aspektem je domácí násilí, je bráno jako norma, jako něco co se zkrátka děje a děti které "nekryjí" svoje násilné rodiče jsou vykreslované jako ty špatné. Čekala bych nějaké zaražení alespoň od Leslie, která má být osvícená životem ve městě. On the way to becoming a missionary, I spent a year teaching in a rural school in northern Virginia, where almost all my children were like Jesse Aarons. I'll never forget that wonderful class. A teacher I once met at a meeting in Virginia told me that when she read Bridge to Terabithia to her class, one of the girls told her that her mother had been in that Lovettsville sixth grade. I am very happy that those children, now grown up with children of their own, know about the book. I hope they can tell by reading it how much they meant to me. Another question I can't answer is, "When did you begin writing?" I can't remember. I know I began reading when I was four or five, because I couldn't stand not being able to. I must have tried writing soon afterward. Fortunately, very few samples of my early writing survived the eighteen moves I made before I was eighteen years old. I say fortunately, because the samples that did manage to survive are terrible, with the single exception of a rather nice letter I wrote to my father when I was seven. We were living in Shanghai, and my father was working in our old home territory, which at the time was across various battle lines. I missed him very much, and in telling him so, I managed a piece of writing I am not ashamed of to this day. Přes tento fakt absolutní nekouzelnosti však kniha pracuje s motivy fantasy a to velice elegantně. Obsahuje obry, zlé, i dobré duchy, paláce, i chrámy. Nejdůrazněji je však pracováno s jedním motivem. Motivem portálu. Letopisy Narnie, Harry Potter, Alenka v říši divů, ale ve své podstatě i některá Shakespearova dramata, stejně jako mnoho dalších obsahují tento motiv. Ať je jím skříň, ďoura, přepážka, nebo hranice lesa. Nebo také provaz a sráz. Portály otevírají cestu ro říše fantasie. A to někdy doslovněji a někdy méně. Jejich společným znakem je však také to, že vedle otevírání těchto cest, umí je také zavírat. A někoho v oněch říších uzamknout. S tímto motivem autorka pracuje precizně a já smekám. It made Jess ache inside to watch his dad grab the little ones to his shoulder, or lean down and hug them. It seemed to him that he had been thought too big for that since the day he was born.