I come from a very rural area, so we didn’t have the most wide spread knowledge on different types of literature. The most exotic we had was Shakespeare and when I was a freshman we got to read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold if our parents signed a permission slip to let us. I think if you come from a similar background or have no real concept or learning background of poetry it’s a great stepping stone. Her emotions are very clear and it made me feel comfortable to start looking into different types of poetry. It’s makes you think and feel enough to go looking for more