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= = //Vision in White//: Written by Nora Roberts Project by Johanna Bernsdorf = =

__Content__
Published: April 28, 2009 Setting: Connecticut Situation:  Mackenzie must manage her life and her job as well as figure out what is happening with her and Carter. Her attention loving mother is always begging her for money and she feels obligated to give it to her. Mac must learn how to find a balance in her life, and decide just how far she will go with Carter.

__About the Author__

 * She was born October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, MD
 * She is the youngest of five, the only girl.
 * Her birth name is Elanor Marie Robertson[[image:english10honorsf11/nora_roberts.jpg align="right"]]
 * She has been married two times
 * Some of the other names she goes by as an author include: J.D. Robb; Sarah Hardesty; Jill March
 * She writes 8 hours a day, even on vacation

Major Works

 * She has written over 209 romance novels
 * <span style="color: #099f52; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Vision in White is part of a series of four, the other books being //Bed of Roses, Savor the Moment,// and //Happily Ever After//
 * <span style="color: #099f52; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">The Series is known as the bride quartet

<span style="color: #099f52; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Critical Reputation
[|For more information on Nora Roberts or her upcoming books see this link to her homepage!]
 * <span style="color: #099f52; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">//The New Yorker// called her "America's Favorite Novelist."
 * <span style="color: #099f52; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">She was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame
 * <span style="color: #099f52; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">In 2011, her novels altogether spent 861 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, and 176 weeks as number one.
 * <span style="color: #099f52; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">400 million books of hers are in print.

<span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">__Characters and Conflict__[[image:bride_quartet.png align="right"]]
<span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Situation: Mackenzie must help manage her life and her job as well as figure out what is happening with her and Carter. Her attention loving mother is always begging her for money and she feels obligated to give it to her. Mac must learn how to find a balance in her life, and decide just how far she will go with Carter.
 * <span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is a photographer at Vows and the stories protagonist
 * <span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Parker Brown, one of Mac's best friends and general director at Vows
 * <span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Emmaline "Emma" Grant, another friend of the four, flourist
 * <span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Laurel McBane, fourth friend, pastry chef
 * <span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Carter Maguire, an English Professor who Mac falls for
 * <span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Delaney Brown, Parkers brother, and an attorney
 * <span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Linda Elliot, Mac's mother
 * <span style="color: #770fa8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Corrine Melton, Carter's ex-girlfriend

<span style="color: #7c68de; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">__Theme__
<span style="color: #7c68de; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">In the book, //Vision in White//, author Nora Roberts uses the relationship between Mac and Carter to display how people should love a person regardless of the fear of losing him/her.

<span style="color: #0ababa; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">__Review__
<span style="color: #0ababa; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Mackenzie or "Mac Elliot" is a successful wedding photographer working with her three best friends, Parker, Laurel, and Elliot, at their own business called "Vows." After an odd encounter with one of her clients brothers, named Carter Maguire, Mac is nearly head-over-heels. On the contrary Carter is definitely not her type, an English teacher at their high school alma mater. Her reluctance to take her fling with Carter a little further poses the question, "What's holding her back?" For those who have read a Nicholas Sparks book, this one is very similar in plot. An easy and quick read, this book is relatively good. Towards the end, the book started to become dull, but had one worthy plot twist towards the end to keep you from yawning. As harsh as that may sound this was overall a good book and worth reading, especially if you have an empty weekend. Nicholas Sparks fans rejoice! This one has got everything you're looking for except this hunky guy lives in Connecticut, not North Carolina.

__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Analysis of Style __
<span style="color: #c437ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Nora Roberts implements her individual voice, and a contemporary tone to show her style in //Vision in White.//

<span style="color: #c437ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">By integrating abbrieviations such as, "FOB" and "MOH"(Roberts 9), Nora Roberts uses her own take on the lingo actual wedding planners use.This unique touch makes the book feel the reader is personally apart of the story. Another personal touch to the story is the frequent use of inappropriate language which shows how Roberts holds nothing back in her writing in order for the reader to understand the whole effect of a situation.

<span style="color: #c437ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">The contemporary tone is seen throughout the book in the way Roberts blends "paranormal and fantasy elements" in her "thoroughly charming contemporary romance."(Charles) Her "realistically complicated characters" (charles) adds to the books sophisticated tone. This polished tone throughout the book, which creates a more formal setting, fits the professionalism of the wedding company depicted in the book.