Early Sunday Morning Book Summary

The way authors write books can make us feel certain emotions towards the events and characters in the story. The book Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows by Barry Denenberg had me almost in tears while I learned a lot about history. The facts that Barry Denenberg taught me are historically accurate on the event Pearl Harbor and you can tell that he did his research while writing.I enjoyed the book, Early Sunday Morning; The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows by Barry Denenberg, for a couple of reasons. This book is about Amber Billows moving to Oahu, Hawaii. While her family is in Hawaii the bombing of Pearl Harbor happens. The next day, Amber and her mother decide to go a local hospital to help out with all of the new patients that are coming in. …show more content…
Like the sinking of the USS Arizona. In addition, this book talks about the government issued gas masks, that people were required to carry with them. Later in the book, the main character ges to a hospital to help the injured people. The scene that she describes is very close the scene that an actual nurse from Pearl Harbor describes on the website www.voanews.com. They both go into detail about how people were bleeding out from their wounds and how they didn’t have time and supplies to save everyone, so they only helped the ones who had the best chance of surviving. In conclusion, the book Early Sunday Morning; The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, is an amazing, sad book to read that is almost completely historically accurate. Overall, Barry Denenberg’s book, Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, is historically accurate and an interesting book that pulls at your heartstrings. This book correctly portrays Pearl Harbor through the dates, events and scenes that the main character describes in the book. All in all, even a great book that causes you to tear up can actually teach you about