Essay On The Green Glass Sea

Garvit Gupta The Green Glass Sea, a book written by Ellen Klages, is a great historical fiction novel that I read for my reading Book Talk. The Green Glass Sea takes place during the “The war against the Nazis” (Klages 76) or World War 2. Specifically, near the end of the war because in a subheading, it says “1944” (Klages 42). Another way we know the time this book is taken is by taking a look at the technologies of the time period described. On page 88, Suze’s mother is describing her day at work and she says “Tedious, one of our IBMs broke down again”(Klages 88). Here it is easy to see that people in The Green Glass Sea still use giant computers that would take up rooms. We know this because she uses the word IBM. which stands for International Business Machine. Back when computers were just beginning IBMs were giant computers that would be a size of a small room. Also, today we generally use the word computer, not IBMs. The place this story takes place on “The Hill” (Klages 46). The Hill is a military town that is secret to the rest of the world. Dewey does not know the exact location of “The Hill” because she is not

I liked how Suze and Dewey overcame their problems, but there were many things I didn’t like. One thing is that this is not my type of book. If you don’t like sad stories about dads dying (like me) then I would not recommend this book to you. Another thing is that this book had a lack of action. There is no action in this story whatsoever. The most this book gets to action is kids playing red rover. So if you love reading action-packed novels about people actually fighting in World War 2, then I would also not recommend this book to you. I would, however, recommend this to people who like to read about people overcoming personal problems and what they do to solve them. All in all, this is a 6 rated book for me, but the book definitely is