Essay On The Mouse Rap

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The book that I choose to read for the second quarter was The Mouse Rap. This book was written by Walter Dean Myers which was published in the year of 1990. The genre of The Mouse Rap is general fiction. I could not find a sub-genre, for this book. There are five main characters in this book and they are Mouse, Styx, Omega, Sheri, and also there is Beverly. Mouse is the main character in the story he is a guy that likes to play basketball, listen to music, and hang out with all of his friends. Styx is Mouse's best friend and he is a guy that also likes to play basketball, listen to music, and hang out with all of his friends just like mouse that's why they get along. Then there is Omega he is another friend of Mouse he likes to do the same things as Mouse and that Styx does, but he also likes to dance which he is good at it. Sheri, is just a girl that likes to hang out with her friends and also likes to dance just like Omega. Beverly likes to do the same things that Sheri likes to do.

I choose this book
Because in the way that first person point of view it really feels like someone is telling me mouse's. Another reason that I really like first person point of view is because you get that one on one action with the main character and you know what he is thinking and how he feels about some of the opinions that the main character has. In the first person point of view, it also makes a clear picture of what the story is trying to tell the reader and the reader is able to take out facts from the book and paint a picture in their head with the words from the characters. Also, in this point of view, it also helps get a character out of the words that Walter Dean Myers Explains in The Mouse Rap. In the first person you can really relate to the person that is talking in the story like in this story I really felt that I could relate to Mouse, the main character in the

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