The reference's to other texts in the novel 'Bee Season' by Myla Goldberg shape the reading of the novel to understand and appreciate the text further. The novel is narrated in third person omniscient jumping from character to character, which allows the reader an insight on all the main characters. The text 'Star Wars' is made reference to in the novel alongside with, 'Rocky', Ghost busters and 'Jeopardy'. The intertextuality helps the reader appreciate characters …showed first 75 words of 1243 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1243 total…a greater understanding of the characters and than the novel. The intertexts are generally taken from extremely popular text which allows the reader to easily make reference with the characters referred to by the texts and make a valid comparison of the characters to that of the intertext and the novel. Myla Goldberg shaped my reading of 'Bee Season' by my appreciation of the intertextuality to further enhance the meaning and understanding of the novel.