Introduction In marking period 2, I read the novel Iron Thunder by Avi and the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. They are similar because they both are in different time periods, with kids who are in life-threatening situations for their family. Iron Thunder is about a little boy named Tom who is living during the civil war and has to support his family by going to work in that shipyard to build ships, when Tom gets there he finds out that he will be working on an iron ship that everyone thinks will sink. Eventually, the boy goes out to fight that southern Ironclad and becomes a hero. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about a dystopian society full of different districts that are forced to send two kids a boy and a girl to fight to the death in an arena. When the protagonist Katniss Everdeen’s sister gets picked she, volunteers. She goes on to win with the boy from her same district. Some similarities in both novels are that they are both about a kid who is forced to be in danger, pretty much literal war to protects and save their families.
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His father died in the war already, his sister is dangerously sick, his mother is stuck caring for his sister which makes them dirt poor. Tom has no choice of his family surviving if he doesn't get a good job so he heads to work at the shipyard, which lands him a job working in the Ironclad the Monitor which takes him into war with many life-threatening predicaments. “Tom, we just need more money. You’re going to have to take your pa’s place ... my pa had been killed fighting in some town in Maryland.” (Avi, 3) “... she’d ask me to take over for Pa… Getting a job was the first big change.” (Avi, 4) “We needed the money, and a private made thirteen dollars a month.” (Avi, 5) All of these quotes show how Tom’s family is in need and he will have to get a job and a really good job that will help his family is to go into the
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His father died in the war already, his sister is dangerously sick, his mother is stuck caring for his sister which makes them dirt poor. Tom has no choice of his family surviving if he doesn't get a good job so he heads to work at the shipyard, which lands him a job working in the Ironclad the Monitor which takes him into war with many life-threatening predicaments. “Tom, we just need more money. You’re going to have to take your pa’s place ... my pa had been killed fighting in some town in Maryland.” (Avi, 3) “... she’d ask me to take over for Pa… Getting a job was the first big change.” (Avi, 4) “We needed the money, and a private made thirteen dollars a month.” (Avi, 5) All of these quotes show how Tom’s family is in need and he will have to get a job and a really good job that will help his family is to go into the