Adventure novel

said that change can affect your life in a whole other way. In Christopher Paul Curtis’s historical fictional novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, the main character Kenny Watson goes to the dangerous and spooky Collier's Landing where no man has ever lived.The dynamic character Kenny Watson transforms after arriving in Birmingham. Kenny Watson’s change is so important to the novel because it shows that after an awful event, it can change someone’s perspective and how they see the world.…

One of the books I read this quarter was a novel named The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. This novel is 216 pages long and it took me a little over a week to read. This novel is told in 3rd Person Limited point of view. The setting takes place during World War Ⅱ in 1942 near a concentration camp in Germany. In a nutshell, this book is about a nine-year old boy named Bruno whose father is a Nazi officer who gets a job as the commander of a concentration camp and the whole family must…

explored. Friendship was the theme that linked the story together as it was developed for Harry Potter having adventures with his friends. The friendship between Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley intrigues the readers whereas it contains both genders. Furthermore, Rowling sets the characters with contrasting personality to be best friends. The novel is not only about adventures that Harry Potter had but also his friendship between his classmates. This study will explain the…

He wrote many great pieces, one of which is The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn in 1884. The novel was banned though due to being racially offensive. The setting for the book is the deep south in roughly 1840. Racism was very present in these times, so the book was certainty going to contain those themes. The book is said to contain racial slurs, but in that time, that was the vernacular, so I do not see a problem with it. The novel is more of a fictional window of the time period and the…

in Sabine’s and the reader’s heart had been torched. This novel provides a variety of different plot twists for IB students, which create an interesting conflict and plot, allowing readers to feel more engaged with the novel. On the contrary, “Wanting Mor” doesn’t provide many plot twists, and doesn’t include a variety of conflicts. The conflict is repetitive throughout the book, which disengages the reader from the novel. Though both novels provide the reader with an exceptional plot structure,…

can take your mind on astonishing journeys of imagination, or even through the real world. They can take you on adventures spiritually, emotionally, or even mentally. Books can affect people in many different ways, and it is all thanks to the authors and their unique styles of writing. Take for instance Kasie West. After reading her books, you will leave wanting more. Her latest novel “Lucky in Love”, is about a girl who has a couple of financial issues, but then, surprise-surprise, she wins the…

raining that day. Although the trip was planned weeks earlier, the trip was an anticipated adventure to see the elk and the beautiful vibrant color of the Autumn leaves. Walking down the stairs that day, being fashionable, after packing and changing clothes three times, I could barely contain the excitement when my "Ogre" (a fairytale monster) stated he didn 't think it was a good idea to take this adventure. Throwing a five year old temper tantrum, of course Colleen, the Aries, had to have…

current social and political change, reflecting and commenting on this upheaval in their works often through an adherence to or a divergence from genre. The novel experienced a lot of experimentation in this period, Scott’s Waverley being the bestselling example of this . The combination of a National tale and one of the first uses of the historical novel genres together worked allowed Scott to consider political and social issues of the day through the medium of the socio-political battles and…

Throughout the novel Cue For Treason, Geoffrey Trease captures and maintains the audience's attention. He uses multiple strategies to do so. Following a formula for each chapter, using a variety of characters, and literary devices are just a few out of those strategies. Each chapter of Cue For Treason follows a formula to create suspense. At the start of each chapter, Trease resolves the cliffhanger of the previous chapter. Next, he builds the action and suspense to lead us to the climax.…

In The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler describes the life of a man named Macon, and different occurrences that completely transform him. From the start of the novel, the reader learns about Macon’s dark past and the subsequent negative and positive repercussions that resound throughout his life. Tyler then displays how these changes have impacted his life in an unpredictable yet entirely positive way. For instance, only a few years before the book begins, Macon’s son had been killed while he was…