The title of my book is The Island by Gary Paulsen. The main character in this book is Wil Neuton. ... Wil said he didn't want to leave so his parents went home to call a shrink. ... This was a good book. ... Most of the book took place on the island. ...
Book Review Tomorrow when the war began is about two girls Ellie and Corrie, two bored teenagers planning a camping trip to a place behind Ellie's farm property, called Hell. ... Jokingly Lee and the others, Fi, Homer, and Kevin, suggest that it's the start of world war three, and that show day/comem day would be the perfect time to attack, cause everyone would be at the show and easy to catch and all that... So they set off home, back to civilization, but what's waiting for them at Ellie's is not what they'd expected. ... And all the livestock are dead or mal-nut...
Many of these moments are discovered through diary entries, allowing Kyle to expose his personal thoughts in conflicting situations, as well as enabling a clearer layout of the sequence of events that take place. ... In seeing this, Kyle starts to contact home more often. Discovering that he is living on the edge, and bearing in mind the reactions of his fellow soldiers, he begins to appreciate and value the comforts of home. The technique of fractured sentences is demonstrated in a call from Chris to his wife Taya. ... I'm on op, but I wanted to let you know that I've accepted some...
Introduction- The Red Badge of Courage is a book that takes place during the Civil War. ... At first, Henry was very eager to join the army even though his mother begged him not to, then when he was faced with the fact that he was witnessing real fighting and even death it didn't take him long to change his mind and to wish he was back home. The internal conflict in the story is really the main theme that is continuing through the book. ... Henry says to himself that he wishes he had a wound that he calls "a little red badge of courage", too. ... Probably the biggest reason why I wou...
Teenagers of every race, religion, and clique relate deeply to the words of the anonymous teenager within the book Go Ask Alice, by an anonymous girl whose life enters a place where, as most teenagers, she has no idea who to turn to, or where to go. ... In this book, she goes through many different so-called friends, or people who she thinks she likes. ... Her heavy drug use lead to her runaway from home to the streets, involvement in crime, her prostitution, and her visit to the insane asylum. ... This book was a good lesson for me to realize what some teenagers and even some of my friends ar...
Another block passed by, then another, then another, before I knew it I was in the middle of down town, my first experience of life outside of school and home. ... Yes I was picked up and finger printed, and my parents were called and I was in some deep stuff. I remember going home and all those people at my house, who had been looking for me and were all worried about me. ... You see I had what they called ADD, Attention Deficite Disorder, basically, I learned slower than the other kids, and I recall one time my mom telling me that the kindergarten teacher Mrs. ... It keeps us in a nice home ...
