This setting is located in Maine in the United States of America. The place of events are in Winter Harbor “Winter Haven” in the town where the protagonist Jill is spending time with her grandmother. The time setting in the book was in 1942, a year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The time period is when Germany declared war on the USA during the Holocaust, and the USA’s suspicions to Germany aiding Japan in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This was an actual worry of the United States during this time because of Japan’s activeness in the Germany vs USA war. Another direct correlation between this book and the real-life events is that in this story, the German boat ‘U-1230’ was found peeking out of the water on the shore of a beach. The actual year this boat was found was in November 1944,
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When a story is predictable, it ruins the rest of the storyline for the reader and they become bored, often times not even finishing the book. However, I would recommend this to students because it gradually teaches you things about the German-American war within the story’s elements. It was the little things of this story that taught so much, from as little to their lifestyles to their fear of travelling. A summary of my favorite part of this book was when Jill and Quarry were snooping on the people of the town to gather potential suspects of their theory, and they told their guardians that they needed binoculars because they were “bird-watching”.
As far as the students wanting to learn from this book I think that it would help them in small details not in writing a whole essay. This book would help you understand big things about this war because it gives you an insider to how the the people lived with the war going on. I would suggest if you are a student you shouldn’t try to get all of your information about this war from this book. Based on learning all of your information from this story, I would rate this story a
When a story is predictable, it ruins the rest of the storyline for the reader and they become bored, often times not even finishing the book. However, I would recommend this to students because it gradually teaches you things about the German-American war within the story’s elements. It was the little things of this story that taught so much, from as little to their lifestyles to their fear of travelling. A summary of my favorite part of this book was when Jill and Quarry were snooping on the people of the town to gather potential suspects of their theory, and they told their guardians that they needed binoculars because they were “bird-watching”.
As far as the students wanting to learn from this book I think that it would help them in small details not in writing a whole essay. This book would help you understand big things about this war because it gives you an insider to how the the people lived with the war going on. I would suggest if you are a student you shouldn’t try to get all of your information about this war from this book. Based on learning all of your information from this story, I would rate this story a