The Pact

The Pact, written by Jody Picoult, was published in 1998 by William Monrow & Co., in the United States of America. The six-hundred-page novel can be characterized as a drama, as well as a love story. The narrator of the story is a '' god-like'' narrator, which means that he knows all the thoughts of the characters, without taking an active part in the story. The story is about a suicide pact between two teenagers. The events …

…present makes the chapters about the present story more boring than the ones about the past story to read. The chapters about the present story of Chris and Emily are more uninteresting to read because they only take place in court or in prison, which can be a little bit annoying for the reader. In my opinion, the only aspect to improve in the novel The Pact is the chapters taking place in the past.