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Bloomability is a book written by Sharon Creech about a young girl who lives with her semi-nomadic family in the modern day United States of America. She is given the opportunity to attend a The American School In Switzerland, a boarding school in Lugano, Switzerland, where the majority of the storyline takes place. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Plot summary Dinnie (short for Domenica Santolina) Doone has spent most of her life travelling around the United States because her father feels the constant need to move around. Dinnie feels that she has settled into this routine of never having a permanent home until one night, her whole world changes. With her older brother in the army after ending up in jail again, her older sister pregnant and married, and her dad still on the road, Dinnie is taken away by her maternal aunt and her husband to Switzerland, where Uncle Max (her uncle) is the new headmaster of a boarding school. Dinnie is a student at the school, where she makes friends, sees new, exciting things, and has many adventures of her own.
Dinnie discovers herself while in the Swiss Alps, and, with her friends, she begins to realize the meaning of life itself. She undergoes a change and finally emerges from her bubble that had enclosed her for years. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Title The title, "Bloomability", comes from Keisuke, one of Dinnie's friends in the novel. Keisuke is a Japanese student at the school who is slowly learning English, so "bloomability" emerged as his linguistic concept of the word "possibility". i love this book so much!
Characters Dinnie: Domenica Santolina Doone, "Dinnie," is the protagonist of the story. She is a young American teenager who is thrust into a cultured, diverse environment when she attends the international school her uncle is headmaster of in Switzerland.
Guthrie: Peter Lombardy Guthrie the Third, is anything but shy. This character lies next to the heart of Creech's novel - preach the Bloomabilities, possibilities and to celebrate each moment of life. Guthrie often shouts, Sono Libero, and Dinnie finally understands it was in the celebration of being alive. He also recites in the novel Robert Frost's well known poem, The Road Not Taken in a speech to the student body as the school year closes. Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ...
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Lila: Lila King is another American Dinnie meets at the school. At first, Lila appears agreeable and quite friendly, but it isn't long before her true character is realized, and she becomes known for being pompous, hardheaded, and mean. Despite Lila's unfavorable qualities, Dinnie feels the need to stick by her as a friend and defend her. Guthrie refers to Lila as "the pistol".
Aunt Sandy: Dinnie's aunt and sister of Dinnie's mother. Aunt Sandy is also a teacher at the school.
Uncle Max: The husband of Aunt Sandy, he is the headmaster of Dinnie's school.
Belen: A girl who was a roommate with Lila, and is from Madrid, Spain.
Keisuke: A boy who came from Osaka, Japan. He is the cause of the title "Bloomability." He also says stupid, stewpod.
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