Book Report on Fallen Angels

    

 This week I read Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. The book is about a teenager named Perry who goes off to fight in Vietnam. When he gets there, he meets four other Americans and they become his best friends. Throughout the book they see horrible things and save each others' lives. In the end, Perry and his friend Peewee get wounded and they get to go home. A main idea of the book is that war is a terrible thing.

     An example of this is in the beginning when Perry just met this 15 year old named Jenkins. Later that day, Jenkins was just walking back to base when he stepped on a mine and got a piece of metal stuck through his chest. This shows that war is terrible because it causes unnecessary deaths such as Jenkins's.

     Another piece of evidence is when a Vietnamese family was walking outside near the army base and one of the kids steps on a mine, while the kid's mom and the sibling were also shot in the same moment. The only reason they were killed was to show that the Vietnamese army could kill the same people that the Americans were trying to save. This also shows that war is terrible because it causes innocent people to die.

     In conclusion, Fallen Angels was a good book and showed me how life is during war. It showed me that war is a terrible thing and it gave me many example of it with Jenkins and the Vietnamese family. There is still more evidence that war is a terrible thing in this book. This is why I think that the theory of the book is that war is a terrible thing.

Book Report on Gods of Manhattan - Part II

   

     This week I finished Gods of Manhattan. I still believe that the main idea is that you can't trust everyone. In the end of the book, Rory goes to tries successfully to get the key but when he gets into the vault, he questions Hex, the magician. After that, everything goes crazy, Hex escapes and Rory is caught and has to lie about his name until his sister saves him. Then they meet the Rattle Watch and try to save each other. After that, the Rattle Watch all go to a bar but then Albert, a Rattle Watch member tries to kill them. Albert tells them that he is going to kill them so they trapped him and brrought him back to jail. Then Hex wants Rory to turn the key again but when he gets there he gets the truth out of Hex and doesn't turn the key. Instead of helping the Indians as Hex said, he wants to kill them. I think the main idea is that you can't trust everyone.

    This is the main idea because when the Rattle Watch was getting close Albert tricked them so they would die and become a God of Manhattan. If the Rattle Watch trusted Albert then they would have died and then the evil gods would win and take over Mannahatta. But they didn't and they put him in jail and the evil God didn't take over and the Rattle Watch helped a lot with that.

    Another example of this is when Hex wanted Rory to turn the key because he said he wanted to save all the Indians. Rory knew that once the Indians were freed they would try to kill the mayor but would get killed trying to do it. If Rory trusted Hex then instead of saving the Indians he would kill all of the Indians forever.

    All in all, Gods of Manhattan was a great book and showed me many examples of the main idea, which is that you can't trust everyone. In the second half of the book, it showed me this with Albert when he turned his back on the Rattle Watch and when Hex wanted all of the Indians killed. There were also many more examples in the first half of the book. This them continued throughout the book.

Book Report on Gods of Manhattan - Part I

   

  
    This week I read the first half of Gods of Manhattan. The book was about a boy named Rory and his sister. In the beginning, we found out that Rory didn't fall for any magic tricks untill Hex, a new  magician did an impossible trick. After seeing Hex, he went to his house to try to see how he did the trick. On the way there, they ran into a stranger. The stranger was only about six years old but then out of the blue the stranger came and attacked Rory. The stranger bit Rory with his razor sharp teeth, making him unconscious. When he woke up, he was with Hex and he told Rory that there was a place called Mannahatta where if you were remembered enough, you were reborn there. Right now in the book Rory is trying to set Indian spirits free in Mannahatta. I think the main idea so far is that you can't trust everyone.

    One example of this is when they met the stranger. He kept saying "come" and he looked so harmless, but Rory learned that if you followed him he will bite you with his razor sharp teeth and eat you. If Rory had followed him or if Toy, Hex's son didn't save him he would have died. If Rory trusted the stranger he would have died. This shows that a main idea of the book is not to trust everyone.

    Another piece of evidence from the book is when the Munsee Indians made a deal with the mayor in Mannahatta. The deal was that they wouldn't fight if the Indians had lived in Central park. When the Indians stepped into Central park, a blue force field came up and trapped the Indians in forever. If the Indians hadn't trusted the mayor then they wouldn't be stuck in Central Park for eternity. This is more evidence from the first half of the book that the main idea is that you shouldn't trust everyone.

     In conclusion, Gods of Manhattan has been a great book so far. It gave me lots of examples of the book's thesis which is that you should never trust everyone. If Rory trusted the stranger he would have died. The Indians already trusted the mayor and got stuck in Central park for an eternity. This is why I think the main idea is that you shouldn't trust everyone.

Book Report on Key to Rondo Part 2

     Now that I've finished Key to Rondo, I realized that the main idea wasn't actually about not trusting anyone as I thought last week. The main idea was in fact about never giving up.

    In the end of the book Mimi and Leo went to a cottage and found a hero who brought the them to Conker and Freda who were trying to get them earlier in the book. But they tell  him that they are trying to help them and give them a bed to sleep. But in the middle of the night, Conker locks them in and barricades the door. Leo thinks that they are locking them in so they can kill them but really they are going to get his dog without their help. They get out from the locked room to go save their dog by themselves. When they get there they get locked and stuck in the Queen's bedroom. When they are about to give the Queen power by giving them the ring, Conker and Freda come save them. In the end they survive and get the dog. I think that the main idea is that you should never give up.

     This is the main idea because when they were locked up in their room they thought they were going to die but still, they didn't give up and found a way out of their locked, boarded up room. If they had given up, they would probably not have gotten the dog back and never returned to Earth. This is why I believe the main idea is that one should never give up.

    Another reason why I think that the main idea is to never give up is when Mimi was stuck in the Queen's bedroom. Mimi was forced to give the key to the Queen which meant that they couldn't get back to Earth. Still in the tight situation Mimi stalled and waited for help. When help came she got her dog back and kept the key. This is again the theme of the book because throughout the book Mimi tried getting her dog back and never gave up on the goal.

    In conclusion, Key to Rondo was an interesting book with a very tense end. The main idea is to never to give up as shown when Mimi didn't give up when she was stuck in the Queen's castle or she and Leo were barricaded in their room. This is just some of the evidence that shows that the main idea is never to give up.