Selflessness In Roland Smith's Peak, Peak

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In the book Peak, Peak has been Selflessness in the beginning, but going to the end he was nice to everything and not selflessness care about people and wasted his money for Sun-jo.Care more about josh to his dad and mom.This book was written by Roland Smith and name is Peak.Peak in the beginning always want to climb the mountain and did not care what would happen, but at the end he did. Peak selflessness is the main topic for this summary.In the book it says that peak wasted his money for Sun-jo because Sun-jo’s father helped save peaks dad so peak was not selflessness at that time, But in the beginning peak did not care what will happen or what’s going to happen he just wanted to climb the mountain that all he care.This topic tells how Peak changess over the book and how he was in the beginning and how he was in the end.This is the main topic because selflessness is most things Peak did and changed Peak has been not being mean or selflessness to anyone in the end, but at the beginning he was but has I was reading it, he change a lot more than the beginning, so I think it’s a big difference change over the whole and change just because of Sun-jo.Sun-jo want’s peak to climb the whole mountain and be the first one but he completes it 97% but …show more content…
In the 4 paragraph I talk how Peak change and helped, but this own I am going to tell you how Peak was in the beginning and you could compare how Peak change over the whole book.In the beginning Peak was climbing the mountain right across their house and his mom told him not to go but he still did and hurt his foot.Peak got arrested for scaling a New York City Skyscraper.Then he goes to his father, Josh who run a climbing company and there he tries to climb.His father, Josh wants Peak to be the first one to climb the mountain all the way and since then they learn how to.After Peak went to climb the real and while going he meet new friend like Sun-jo, and helping everyone.Since then Peak was nice to everyone and not

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