Reckless The book I chose to read was Reckless by Cornelia Funke. The book’s genre is fantasy. When I first began reading this book I really did not enjoy it or understand it, but it soon started to get interesting. The characters became interesting and the plot started to grab my attention. Soon I had to finish reading it, but the end was really disappointing. The story centered around a boy named Jacob Reckless. His dad had just disappeared and was believed to be dead. The news of his missing father had a profound effect on him that made him want to know more about where his father had disappeared to. All his family he had left was his depressed mom and his brother named Will. He really cared for his brother and they were known to have …show more content…
Will is Jacob’s younger brother. He is kind and thoughtful. His personality that highly differs from Jacob’s makes people like him and he even has a girlfriend. Will’s girlfriend is Clara. Clara really loves Will and their relationship really could not be better. Clara first met Jacob in the mirror world after she went after Will. Fox is a girl who was born and raised in the mirror world. Her real name is Celeste, but she did not tell anyone except Clara what her real name was. She is a girl who has fair skin, and red hair. In the mirror world Jacob saved her. She was caught in a fox trap. Fox has the power to shapeshift into a fox and she rarely shifts into human form. Throughout the story Fox obviously has strong feelings of love toward Jacob. Jacob Reckless is the main character; his personality consists of bossy, hot headed, and reckless in all the things he does. He loves and cares for his brother Will but Will is the only connection his has to the world outside the mirror world. Throughout his life he became a very successful person in the mirror world. So successful in fact that he is well known and loved by multiple people. Many characters seem to have feelings for him in the story. Probably because of his brave and caring attitude. Which makes me feel like the character of Jacob was obviously a
The ending of the novel was inspiring. The author suggests the reader to look into great novels, and even supplies a list of novels a personally suggests. He ended with a very ...
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For my independent choice reading, I chose the book Rebel Belle. The main character, Harper, is the school’s it girl. She has the boyfriend everybody wants and a group of friends who will do anything for her. This all changes and suddenly she’s a Paladin, protecter of the Oracle. At first she can’t figure out who this is, or even what an Oracle or Paladin is, but once she does, things start to get complicated. She is sucked into this whole other world that involves car chases, murders, and trying to save her own life.
Plot Summary: A man, Tom Joad, is released from prison and returns home to find his family’s farm and all other nearby farms deserted. After finding his family he finds out they are planning to travel west to try to earn money picking fruit in California. It is a long and challenging road to travel in a weak, old pickup truck, for both Grampa Joad and a woman by the name of Sairy Wilson cannot complete the journey. California is not all the glamour they had expected because California has an enormous shortage of jobs. To make matters worse, Granma Joad dies. The family moves around looking for work, and unfortunately two of the older boys abandon the family out of frustra...
I spent a minimum of half an hour in full pondering about having to choose a book. Not only a book, but the right book. I wanted to take this project as an opportunity to learn something new by reading literature I would enjoy. I did not want
Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence's unique career has earned him a National Medal of Arts, election to the National Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design, a National Council of the Arts commisionership, and dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including the NAACP's Spingarn Medal. His paintings have been featured in several major art exhibitions and many different museums. Lawrence's parents came from the south, but they moved to Harlem, where Lawrence grew up. Lawrence was born in 1917 and grew up in Harlem during the Great Depression. He had many extraordinary educational opportunities as well as his first employment as an artist.
This story speaks of a married woman who fell in love with a man who was not her husband. She bore this man a child and realized that she could not live without him. In the event, she decides to leave her husband to be with the child’s father. However, there is only one problem and that is that she has two other children by her husband. She has a daughter who is 9 years old and is very mature for her age, and a darling son who is 5 years old. As she leaves to restart her life again with this other man, the 5 year old son is left behind to stay with his dad, and the little girl is tragically killed by a pack of wolves. The little boy is devastated by his mom’s decision to leave him behind. He is constantly haunted by dreams and images that come to his mind surrounding his mother’s...
I enjoyed the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was filled with adventure and I liked how both conflicts were resolved at the end. I chose this book because Mrs. Donius recommended it to me. She said she loved it and it was one of her favorites. I would recommend this book to a wide range of readers. Anyone from the age of thirteen and older could enjoy this novel.
A book that provides entertainment as well as life lessons is hard to come by in this day in age. The kind of books that should be on the summer reading list must have a large population appeal and deep character development that makes you feel like you are in the story. Veronica Roth’s book Divergent, which provides you with all the factors that make up good literature, should stay on the summer reading list. This book offers all these and more throughout its twists and turns. Divergent should stay on the summer reading list because of the life lessons taught in the story, the large population appeal and deep character development.
The impressions of Jacob are from many different types of characters in the book. There are random people that we don’t even get the name of, Jacob’s own mother, those that love Jacob and even those whom Jacob love. All these impressions are woven on a common thread, that all human being’s have a need to break isolation and cherish attention, love and concreteness.
The book that I give chosen to read is The Idiot by Elif Batuman. This book is centered around an 18-year-old woman named Selin, who is a freshman and is new to college, goes to Harvard where email and computers are becoming a common tool for communication. At first she has yet to get used to her new surroundings and make friends that she can look to for
This book is a very interesting read, if you have some self discipline. I mean that you need some self discipline because this book didn’t really captivate me in the sense that I couldn’t put it down. But after reading it for a while, I started to appreciate the author’s way of describing the characters and actions in this book.
Listing a Harry Potter book is admittedly cliché, but it was the first book I ever read with gusto. When I was in elementary school, like many kids my age, I had an aversion to reading; my grades suffered because of it. The only way to improve your literary skills is through practice, and the best way to practice is to read a topic of interest. So at a parent teacher conference, my fifth grade teacher suggested I try reading Harry Potter, which at the time was quickly becoming a world phenomenon. My parents forced me to pick up the book, and before I knew it, I was enthralled with the story.
I really enjoyed If I Stay by Gayle Forman, because It’s a story about a girl going through hard times and who just experienced an car crash with her family and is stuck in a out of body experience while in a coma. Each chapter in the book lead me to want to read more and never put it down to figure out whether or not Mia is going to stay or give up.I like how the author made the book in Mias perspective and made it feel like that is how someone would really think if they were able to see everything while in reality at a hospital unable to wake up because she is in a coma. I also like how the author shows how Mia is feeling about her parent’s death from the car crash and how she reacts to seeing her brother barely holding on. I absolutely loved how the book made me think to myself on
For my book I chose to read The Body by Stephen King. This novel is about four young boys taking a journey to find a body somewhere in the woods that is at the county line. This story is about more than just four boys going on an adventure its about them becoming closer to each other and learning real life lessons along the way. The four boys are all going into their first year of middle school so this is a time in their life when they learn things that will help them in life.