Analysis Of The Book The Burnt Stick And The Mama Lived In Gooligulch

In the book’s The Burnt Stick, and My Grandma lived in Gooligulch, I learned a lot about the people and animals of Australia. The reason I chose these books, is because I wanted to contrast the people and the animals. In the book The Burnt Stick, the information presented was very realistic. In the situation in the book it is told by a man who was actually taken from his family, his name is John Jagmarra. He was taken away at only the age of five. Although this story is only based on a true one, the pain presented is truly felt. Also, in the book My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch, there is a grandma who lived in Gooligulch Australia. She hangs out with all the animals and in the she gets lost at sea. Both of the Authors were very qualified to …show more content…
In The Burnt Stick I learned a lot about how people would do anything to keep their kids from getting taken away. It shows how one kid was taken away even with all this effort. I learned a lot about Australia's history just from this point of view. I did not learn a lot from My Grandma lied in Gooligulch because it was very imagined, but I did learn alot about what kinds of animals live in Australia. Both the pictures and words have many varying kinds of animals. Now, the reason I think that The Burnt Stick is exceeding because it really has more feeling and emotion than the other book. And the charcoal pictures really capture the emotion of sadness in the book. If the book was in color I think some of the emotion would be lost. I loved the pictures in My Grandma lived in Gooligulch because they were so fun and showed true pictures of what it might look like to be in Australia. The colors really make it seem fun and happy. In the other book I really like how much emotion was presented. These two books are very different in style and feeling, like one is very sad and the other is silly and fun, though they do both have very strong artistic