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Curiosity: Novel Book Report Curiosity is a book about a young, eight year old boy named Rufus who loves playing chess. This story took place in the year 1835 in Philadelphia. Rufus was a very rich, and well fed child before his father got sent to prison for outstanding debts. In this time in history, people could be released early from prison for good behavior. The only exception was your debt must be paid. Rufus’ father needed to pay his dues to be released. The prisoners also had to provide their own food. All that was provided was old bread and 2 ragged blankets. Anything else (such as a pillow or a bed, etc) would have to be brought to you. After his father got arrested, Rufus’ life just changed completely. He put his amazing chess techniques to use to attempt to pay his father’s debts. …show more content…
Rufus attempts to steal it but gets caught by an officer patrolling the street, and gets sent to the House of Refuge. In the 1800’s theft was one of the most common crimes that were committed. Pickpocketing was much more likely to happen back then than it is to happen now. Punishment for stealing included hanging or many years in prison, depending on if it was your first offense. Rufus got sent to the House of Refuge, which in today's time means youth detention center. Rufus then became a juvenile delinquent, which is a younger person who commits criminal acts. Some may think that, it would be crazy to send an eight year old to the youth detention center for what feels like (to me) a minor crime. But it is a fact that up until 1872, courts treated kids 7 and up like adults; they could be arrested, convicted, and tried. If they were convicted then they would receive and serve a prison sentence just like any adult would. I believe that this book in many ways could have been a true story of a young boy going through hard times in the
This is a story that is about ten soldier boys on an island left to fend for themselves even with many sacrifices. There were many similarities and differences between the book and the movie.
It is a fiction book. It is for young adults. I enjoy reading these types of books and typically read them more than other types of books.
year old, is a boy who most can relate to. The book explores most aspects of
This story had no fluff. It had no happy ending. It was in no way uplifting. It was a book about hopelessness, and how tragic life can be. None of the characters find happiness. No one is rescued from their misery. What makes this book powerful is that sometimes that is the way life is. Sometimes there is no happy ending, and sometimes there is no hope. It would be nice if that were not true, but it is. And this book shows the gritty side of life, the sad reality. Sometimes things do not work out the way we would like them to, and sometimes there is nothing we can do about it. As depressing as this may be as a theme, it is important to realize that it is true. While optimism is usually admirable, too much may be ignorant. Hopelessness exists. It can certainly be seen in real life, and it can certainly be seen in this book.
I think this book was really well written and the theme is a very good theme for kids to read. James writes a story that keeps you wanting more and gives put a good lesson.
Prior to the progressive era, Child offenders of age seven or higher would were imprisoned with adults of every age and color. Children were being trialed as adults. If a child would commit a crime, he/she would get the same sentence an adult would have gotten. Psychologist started to research in the 18th and 19th centuries which then shifted society’s views on juvenile delinquents. Early reformers wanted rehabilitating rather than punishment on chirldren so they built the New York house of refuge in 1824. This place housed juviniles who earlier would have been placed in
...ater appreciate and learn several lessons from its theme and historical content. Overall, the novel is valued by many writers and will continue to be inspirational to all throughout the many generations to come.
...uency. According to Document A, people did not know what to do with minors that committed a crime. “To confine these youthful criminals…where no, or scarcely any, distinction can be made between the young and old, or between the more and less vicious, where little can be learned but the ways of the wicked, and from whence they must be sent to encounter new wants, new temptations, and to commit new crimes, is to pursue a course, as little reconcilable with justice as humanity; yet, till the House of Refuge was established there was no alternative.” (Document A)
The author began the book with stories from his childhood. This specific story is one that stood out, “I was eleven years old, standing out in the parking lot in front of the 7-Eleven, watching a crew of older boys standing near the street” (18). They all yelled to him, he had done nothing wrong besides be an innocent young boy like he had always tried to be. Without reason, a boy will small eyes pulled a gun on him. Although, he did not
Recently, I readied the book called “The other Wes Moore”, the book is about two boys both raised by their single mother but raised up in two totally different environment, cause they went to two complete different schools, one went to a public school where most of the kids went there are poor and has a lot of problems; the other one went to a private school which is really nice most of b his peers are excellent. Their mother has totally different personality education levels and expectation to their children, one graduate from a community collage and the other one graduate from a famous four collage. After all, than they become two extremely different people, after all, one Wes becomes a successful well-know author, and the other Wes end
This book teaches the importance of self-expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful of what is going on. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
The injustices of the events presented in this novel are infuriating and unfair, and the perspective of the narrator allows this to happen TOO PERSONAL???
Children have a natural inclination to play, alongside a natural instinct to learn and to be curious and inventive, which are characteristics of the human race in general. This quote taken from Janet Moyles is a good starting point for this essay. It is well known that children love to play. If a child were to be left to his/her own devices they would happily play and create new worlds anywhere they were left. It has been well documented and researched that children learn excellently through play. However they are not always given the opportunity to do so, instead being told to, ‘finish your work and then you can go play’. Obviously this is not always the case, but the fact that it is a common practice shows that we do not all fully appreciate the importance of play to children’s learning. This essay will attempt to show how children learn through play, making reference to current theory and practice. I will also give examples from my own first-hand experience of how children learn and develop as people through play.
The memories I remembered from my childhood when I read this story were the times I never valued reading, and I knew that I will regret that later in my future. I knew reading is one of the most important lead to a very educated brain, but I never read a book in my life and finished it all to the end unless it was a very short and easy