Journey Of The Oceanauts Book Critique

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Lead-In/Hook:The process of walking across the ocean seems fake, but know it is real. It's not easy, though, because of constant avalanches, sea monsters as well as sharks and slimes that will make you fall off the edge of a cliff. Also not only did the ocean cause troubles, the characters experienced troubles as well, such as being stuck in a cave for 3 days or riding tsunami to the shore. Author: This all happened in Journey of the Oceanauts a science fiction book because of the use of science to implant gills. The author is my great great uncle Louise Wolfe. My experience was amazing because of the constant change in the story and the lovable characters. Protagonist: The Oceanauts are the protagonists. I can relate to these characters because …show more content…
I know this because of context clues and if it was first person it would say I but it says they. Conflict: Similar to the current world, a conflict that starts the oceanaut experiment and the whole book is that land is becoming more and more occupied, so a scientist is trying to find out a way to fix that problem. He thinks the answer lies in the ocean. Author’s Purpose: My great great uncle Louis Wolfe’s main profession was teaching, so he teaches the reader facts through the book’s storyline about the ocean to possibly use as a fun way to educate children. He also wrote many nonfiction books and Journey of the Oceanauts was his first and only fiction book. Moral/ The moral of the story is that teamwork can help accomplish many things in life and that even in the hardest situations, as long as you have a team, you can survive. I know this because when the oceanauts were taken away by a tsunami they stayed together and survived as a team. Setting: This book's setting is underwater in the ocean during 1938. and the condition of the ocean causes difficulties because the mosses and slimes grow on cliffs that they have to climb. This makes it easier for the oceanauts to fall to their

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