Question

How does Karen Blumenthal’s use of plot help to develop the theme of her book? She based her book on three stories that Steve Jobs told in his Stanford University commencement address. She interviewed Steve Jobs numerous times to gather information for her book. As a writer for the Wall Street Journal, she had been researching Apple and Steve Jobs for years. Ms. Blumenthal conducted interviews with many of his close friends and associates.

Answer 1

Answer:

• She based her book on three stories that Steve Jobs told in his Stanford University commencement address
• Blumenthal conduziu entrevistas com muitos de seus amigos e associados próximos.

Explanation:

Karen Blumenthal is the author of the book "Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different". Inspired by the words of Steeve Jobs in his speech at Stanford University. Blumenthal believed that Jobs would have an inspiring and remarkable story for this generation and started a series of surveys and interviews with people who could inform important points in Jobs' life.

For Blumenthal, Jobs's promising tragedy could inspire young people to achieve their goals, as well as showing a successful man who was extremely human, full of failures and successes like anyone else.

Answer 2

Karen Blumenthal researched books written by Apple, interviewed Jobs’s workers and she tried to report sources the closest to the events.

She managed to keep on the plot because she thought that young people would be interested in Jobs and so she described a very adult life for teenagers  that haven’t his life experience to put his behavior in context