Book Title: Code Talker Author: Joseph Bruchac
Pages: 231 Publishers: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Why did you decide to read the book?
I decided to read this book because it seemed like a very interesting book. After being recommended to me3 by a friend, I deiced to look at it and my friend was right, this book was very good. When I opened the book and started reading it I was hooked.
Brief Summary of Book (6-8 sentences): The story of the sixteen year old boy who wants to join the army when he find out that the Navajos are being recruited. When young Ned Begay breezes through his boot camp and other training, only to find himself involved in a secret task only performed by the Navajos. Now this young boy must fight the fight of his life against the Japanese and help send code back to the camp of the Navajos because he is now a code talker. During his experiences in the battles, he learns to talk in code better and better and helps out the Navajos. The many battles that he has to encounter are very life threatening, but still continues to help out as best as he can. In the end the young teenager returns a man to his native tribe. He is given the highest honors and is revered a young many. This is a truly good book that keeps you reading page after page.
Audience: the audience of this book is directed toward people who are interested in war. Also it may be directed to people who are older, and may have experienced war and can relate to these instances like these. The one other type of people that would like to read a story like this is perhaps older teenagers. All of these people can relate to this story in some way because they have either experienced similar events, or like the extreme amount of action within the book.
Writing Style: The writing style of this book is written in limited third person. The author narrates the story of the book while there are moments of they young boy telling the story himself. For the majority of the book however, it is told in limited third person.
Description – During moments of the book, the story is being told by ned, where in other moments of the story, it is told by the author narrating the story.
Passage - It was strange knowing that American blood had dark ended the surf of this island I was landing on so easily. (104)
Vocabulary:
Word – commissioned, sun Definition – A free pain agent, a star or bright astronomical object
Sentence & page it came from
Passage #1: Grand children a “nom-Com” is a non commissioned officer. (70)
Passage #2: A five mile hike in the sun carrying heavy packs. (61)
Theme: The them of this book is war because it is all about war, and what people do in war, and how they survive and can change.
Letter Grade: A
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I don't think this book sounds interesting at all. It sounds really boring... no offense. The plot doesn't catch my attention. I also think you could have described the book a little bit better. The passages weren't even interesting at all. Nothing seemed interesting about the book. I would give the book a F.
ReplyDeleteThis book seems to be pretty boring and not very exciting. It doesn't seem like a book i would like to read. it just isn't my type of book.
ReplyDeletewell, since i have read this book a while ago and i believe that it was a good book. You could have described it a little better and made it more interesting. However i do believe this book was a good war novel
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ReplyDeleteI have not read this book, but it does not seem like the kind of book that i would like to read. The passages that are written seem as though it is a book that is historical and one that i would not be able to read because i simply have no atention span. I do not think there is a lesson that could apply to South Hadley High School because there is simply no war going on in our high school..
to be honest i believe that this book sounds semi decent. i might want to potentialy read this book but i probably wont. i find it interesting that they worte a book about the navejo code system in the military.
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ReplyDeleteI think this book would be pretty interesting just because i am interested in war. I like books with a lot of action and this book sounds like one that will have some action in it.
Believe it or not I really enjoy reading stories or watching movies about wars. I think that they're very intriguing and this book sounds just like the movies and other books I've read.I love action books,but I think that I'd read a really heart felt American War tale. I probably will not read this but it sounds interesting!
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ReplyDeleteHaven't read this book or even heard of it but i love wartime novels and movies especially current ones. The main character having to learn a new code and being put into life threatening situations seems like a suspensful plot.