I Survived Pearl Harbor Summary

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Pearl Harbor, a terrible time in history where the japanese empire attacked the U.S naval base in hawaii. imagine sitting at home on December 7 1941 and all of a sudden see hundreds of loud birds fill the sky but wait there aren't birds but hundreds of japanese planes coming down, dropping bombs and blowing up ships, this is the day of infamy,this is horrible, this is……… The day of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

My group read the book about Pearl Harbor called I Survived Pearl Harbor by Lauren Tarshish. The book started with Danny’s mom and him are moving to the US naval base in Hawiwi called Pearl Harbor at the medical area called hickam air base.Than the warning is sent to the US but nobody thought that they could pull it off.Next the first wave hits and Danny is scared half to death(evn though he almost did die). Than the 2nd wave hits and Danny is running like he’s getting shot at (even
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First, the characters like Aki and Danny never existed, as stated by the author and i quote”the books i wrote are based off of historical events but my characters are fictional” Next, they used about 20 different jets and bombers like,b-18s,a-34 dive bombers,T.I.T.A.N.S,ext. last, there was actually a german U boat found but it was found 42 years earlier in 1899. That is the 3 reasons that we found that support why this book is historical fiction.

Overall i found that the book i survived the attack on pearl harbor is actually historical fiction. Laurin tarshish did a good job of explaining what actually happened on that day but did not give an actual story on what happened. the book was off about 3 things, the characters were fake, the german U boat was found but 42 years before in 1899, and they were off about the planes used. Now that you heard all of that i challenge you to read this book and tell me what you think is realistic or

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