Cunningham's How To Fake A Moon Landing

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Have you ever thought about the different conspiracy theories? Something that exposed the myths of science denial? Well if you have, this book has conspiracy theories and just enough evidence to make you believe it! Darryl Cunningham’s book “How to Fake a Moon Landing” is a graphic novel that entices you with several different scientific facts and tries to cast a shadow of doubt. Darryl Cunningham uses symbolism throughout his drawings and just makes you want to keep reading. He is not a boring writer and comes up with great lines and evidence to support his beliefs. This book shows how you cannot believe everything you see on the news. This book is a sign of the times for today’s generation. The author shows symbolism prior to reading the book on the cover, by illustrating the title of the book hanging by puppet strings. This could symbolize that America wanted to beat China and Russia so badly to the moon that they decided to fake it, we were all puppets in thinking that we landed on the moon, and the government was pulling the strings. In addition, in the Chiropractic chapter the author uses The Thinker (a famous statue) to symbolize how Chiropractic’s are based on philosophical belief rather than scientific. The author, Darryl Cunningham, uses informative writing but …show more content…
I recommend this book to high schoolers, although it is a short read there are many big words that you should learn or already have learned for your vocabulary in high school. I also recommend this book to anyone over 12 since there are no curse words in it, although, it does have people dying, it just shows a big vocabulary and a lot of dark humor at points. So as I said before, the book is great and should be read by all ages above 12. It has everything you want in a book and more. So don’t wait to order this book or go to your local library/book store to find this book

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