This book is called “Hatchet”, by Gary Paulsen. Brian’s mom gave him the hatchet to use it in the Canadian woods with his dad, because they are divorced. The unfortunate thing that happened to Brian occurred when he was flying to his dad. Brian’s parents are divorced. Brian knew that his mother was meeting another man, but he didn’t tell his father.…
Introduction : Have you ever imagined about that if you are alone in the whole island? Maybe almost everyone of you had thought about it once, at least. It was fun for me to think about that subject. It was interesting to think about what am I going to dop without no one's help. Completely alone.…
Imagine just imagine that one day your parents are divorced and during the summer you have to go and visit your dad in Canada where he now works, there are so many things going through your mind and you know a secret that your father doesn't about why they split up. But before you could even reach your dad the pilot of the small single engine plane, the pilot dies of a heart attack, the plane crash lands a little while later. You are stranded in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. That is the just the basic beginning of the book Hatchet. Do you think you or Brian Robeson will survive this disastrous situation?…
Hatchet does a better job of telling the story. It has more details and explains everything so the audience can understand what’s happening. In the movie, things just happened and I could barely tell what was happening. The book gave details and facts which help the reader know what’s going on. I feel the novel displays the components most effectively because it explains every little tiny detail that helps the reader catch up and figure out what’s happening in the book.…
Walter Johnson wrote Soul by Soul, Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market in 1999. The book contains 283 pages and was part of our required reading for American History 132. Johnson takes a unique approach to discussing and describing the slave trade in New Orleans. He doesn’t focus on famous people or try to tell a story, instead, he looks at the slave trade from three different perspectives; the slave trader, the buyer, and the slave. Johnson uses slave narratives, court records and bills of sales along with letters that were written by slaveholders to help with telling of the slave trade in the lower South.…
I found the plot quite slow-moving but simultaneously suspenseful and it completely…
Is human nature naturally good or evil? This is a question that I continually asked myself when reading Into the Woods and Lord of the Flies. Throughout the books, my answer swapped, but The Witch and Ralph showed me that human nature is naturally positive. In Into the Woods, The Witch is Rapunzel’s guardian who has many powers and cursed the Baker’s family with infertility.…
I would have also liked to known just a little bit more detail of the writer's personal life just to give insight of what he was going through at home while all of this was unfolding. I also think the ending was slightly rushed and wrapped up semi…
Walter Dean Myers' graphic novel Monster is about a sixteen-year-old African American boy named Steve Harmon, This graphic novel is written in a first person perspective from Steve's view. He shows himself through his journal entries and a screenplay. In this book, the protagonist’s are Kathy O’Brien, Mr. Sawicki, and Steve Harmon. The antagonists are the justice system, Richard Evans or more commonly known “bobo”, James King, the Assistant District Attorney (Sandra Petrocelli) and Steve King's lawyer Asa Briggs. The story takes place in Manhattan, Harlem, the courtroom in a city lockup, and sometimes in the neighborhood where Steve Harmon lives.…
The Red Tree (Shaun Tan, 2001) is a children’s picture book that is both written and illustrated by Shaun Tan. The Red Tree is a book about depression, despair and ultimately, hope. The book follows a girl struggling with depression who, at the end of the book, finds hope in the form of a red tree. For a picture book to be successful, both the illustrations and written text generally can exist independently, but complement each other. There is a strong marriage between the written and visual language in Tan’s book that creates a harmonious connection to powerfully and effectively represent depression.…
Stuck In Property It is time, at last to speak the truth about property and how if someone fall deep into tragedy there is no way out. The book “The Jungle” poverty is often described as wage slavery. These are the people that work in bad conditions for a bad wage, as well as being treated like animals. The people in packingtown we’re fighting for their life.…
They might also claim that the major and underlying theme remained the same throughout both stories. However, the minor details and character development is what makes this book unique. The storyline was the same in the book and movie, but the different characters emotions and physical looks help the story to progress and are vital to the underlying theme, uniqueness, and story of The…
Working as a professor and later joining the army, much of Golding’s inspiration for novels came from his occupation, and this can tell us a lot about the cover. The cover distinctively illustrates a white beheaded pig with a brown bloody stick or rod of some sort, most likely a branch, viciously stuck up the head from the neck area. Additionally, the head is expelling lavish red blood from the right eye, and furious or miserable tears from the left eye, along with more blood from the mouth and neck section. Since the phrase “Lord of the Flies” represents the devil, the pig’s head on the stick exorcising blood symbolizes the Beelzebub, or generally, the force of evil that may occur in the novel. The cover may also represent savagery such as…
In Allan Johnson’s book The Forest and the Trees, he notions that in order to understand the concept of social life, we have to not only look at the individual, but also at the environment the individual is placed and how they interact and create social systems. Johnson explains that “a forest is simply a collection of individual trees, but it is more than that. It is also a collection of trees that exist in a particular relation to one another, and you cannot tell what that relation is by looking at the individual trees.” (Johnson 2014) By using the imagery of the forest and trees, he shows how social systems and people influence each other.…
Everyone has heard the saying don’t judge a book by a cover. Sadly every minute of the day someone gets judged because of assumptions that are not correct. It happen to me a long long time ago when I was at a store buying shirts at the nike factory I was like 12 years old . I was buying some shoes and well I was looking at them and touching them and they were good shoes for running…