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 7th Grade 1st Trimester Review  __** The Hunger Games **__

 I thought that __The Hunger Games__ , by Suzanne Collin. This book is about a sixteen year old girl named Katniss in the ruins of North America, who is sent to The Hunger Games to battle to the death with other children for the Capitol’s amusement. __The Hunger Games__ is a very thrilling action adventure book that I just had to keep in my hands all night long. This blood-bath of a book is one of the most amazing novels ever! I believe that __The Hunger Games__  told an amazing story filled with romance, thrills, bloodbath, and even a bit of comedy. The plot is not believable, since it takes place in the ruins of the world, but the Capitol has hover cars and all of this future tech. I think that this book is very, very memorable because I cannot stop thinking of the action packed, and very dramatic scenes in this book. My mind did the complete opposite of wandering when I read __The Hunger Games__ . I was hooked the second I picked the book up. In __The Hunger Games__ , most of the time was spent in the arena. The arena is specially made by the Gamemakers to break the randomly selected children sent into the arena. For the year Katniss was in the story, The Hunger Games were held in a giant forest arena. The story takes place in the close future, too. I thought that the setting makes the story a lot more exciting. Don’t you think that it would be boring if the setting was in a desert or something? The setting also plays an important role to the characters because they would also die really quickly if it was in a desert, too. With the forest they have plenty of resources to survive. The problem in the novel __The Hunger Games__  is that the Capitol is sending kids to the arena to fight to the death, and Katniss is one of them. Her fake boyfriend also goes, too. So Katniss needs to fight to survive, while killing her friends and other children, while the Capitol bets on which one will survive. This book taught me an important lesson: be prepared for the Apocalypse. Just joking. I believe that the author definetly set out to what they wanted to do. I think this book is fifty times better then any __Harry Potter__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> book. As I draw to an end of this book review, I would like to thank the author for writing this book. It was a pleasure reading it. I believe that older age groups would enjoy this book because it is very intense and too action packed for little kids. I would overall rate this book and outstanding six out of five stars. This novel is truly amazing. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__**The Lightning Thief**__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**by Rick Riordan**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> One of the books I read this Summer was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Rick Riordan. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is book one in the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Percy Jackson and the Olympians__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> series. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lighting Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s genre is a mix of mystery and adventure. The book is about a 12 year old boy who seems particularly normal. He has ADHD and is about to fail out of school. He has a friend named Grover and a nice history teacher named Mr. Brunner. His world gets turned upside-down when he turns out to be a half-blood (half human, half god), his best friend Grover, a satyr (half human, half goat), and Mr. Brunner, a centaur (half human, half horse). It turns out Percy’s mom had a relationship with Poseidon, god of the sea. Grover and Mrs. Jackson insist that Percy should travel to Half-Blood Hill, a sanctuary to keep Greek monsters out, before the Kindly Ones (demons) come after Percy. Percy’s mother is kidnapped by an unknown god on the way to the hill. Percy and Grover barely make it. When they arrive at Half-Blood Hill, Mr. Brunner greets them with startling news; Zeus’ infamous lightning bolt has been stolen. Zeus blames the theft on Poseidon. Percy then goes on a quest to retrieve the lightning bolt and find his mother before a war of the gods takes place. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has a very exciting and adventurous feeling to it. This is because there are many cliffhangers, action scenes, and little bits of comedy throughout the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is one of my favorite books, it has an amazing storyline to it. At the end of every chapter there is a cliffhanger and I love the fact that <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an Ancient Greek conspiracy. I think that the plot is very, very memorable because it is so unique. I have never seen anything like <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in any other book. I could not take my eyes off of the page while I was reading this novel. It was jammed packed full of excitement and adventure. I would rate the plot of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a shining 5/5 stars. The problem in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is that Zeus’ lightning bolt is taken from Mt. Olympus. The god Poseidon is blamed by Zeus for the theft. Percy believes that the god of the underworld, Hades, stole it to start a war. Percy, Grover, and Percy’s new friend, Annabeth, set out to recover the bolt and battle monsters, such as the minotaur and Medusa on their way. The book taught me much about the ancient Greek culture and its gods. The author definitely did what he set out to do because he created an amazing book filling with modernized Greek monsters and gods. I never thought that Ancient Greece could be described this way in this book. I would rate the problem of the story a dazzling 5/5 stars. The characters in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> connected very well because of their humor. While Percy, Grover, and Annabeth were fighting monsters and trying to solve the mystery behind the quest, they would always add in a little bit of humor. For example, when Annabeth is about to leave the Underworld with Percy and Grover, she says, “It wouldn’t hurt to play with Cerberus once in a while. He likes red rubber balls.” to Hades (Cerberus is the three-headed-dog that guards the underworld). The characters definitely developed through the story. Annabeth became more heroic, Grover became a searcher (satyrs search for Pan, their leader, every day), and Percy turned out to be very brave, using his ADHD on his side for battles and adventures. I can identify with Grover, he is quiet, and yet adventurous at the same time. I would rate the characters in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Lightning Thief__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 4/5 stars. I think that anyone who loves adventure novels would fall in love with this book very easily. I also believe that any age group would enjoy this book. I love this book because it is adventurous, exciting, action packed, and humorous. I kept on reading and reading because it was so exciting! I would rate this book 6/5 stars if I could! The plot was unbelievable, the conflict was perfect, and the characters were hilarious! Anyone would be insane not to read this book! <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">http://www.amazon.com/Percy-Jackson-Olympians-Paperback-Boxed/dp/1423113497/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289312787&sr=1-3 <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__**The Wave**__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**by Todd Strasser**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This Summer, I read a novel entitled <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Todd Strasser. It is based on a true story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a dramatic book about a California high school in 1969 that experiences an experimental movement called “The Wave”. “The Wave” was designed by a history teacher at the high school named Mr. Ross. Mr. Ross was teaching his class about Germany in WWII, when the class started bombarding him with questions like, “But why would the Germans follow the Nazis if they did not want to?” In response, Mr. Ross designed an experiment to show them what life in Nazi Germany was like. He recruited numbers of students into “The Wave” and taught them discipline. Soon, people that did not want to join “The Wave”, had to. They were afraid they would be beaten up if they did not. “The Wave” started going too far.... Could it be stopped? The novel, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, had a storyline that flowed together. It seemed as if there were no chapters or breaks. It felt like you were part of the book and were one of the characters in a continuous situation. The plot of the story was slow, however. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a very believable story because all of the events at the high school could happen in real life. The story was a bit hard to concentrate on though, because of its lack of action. It was just like everyday life; no cliffhangers or crazy story changes. I would rate the plot of the story 2/5 stars. The problem in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is that the organization is sweeping all over the school. Members of “The Wave” start beating up other students and forcing them to join “The Wave”. Some students are very afraid and stop coming to school. I thought that the book taught me an important lesson; never join a mysterious group that you know very little about. I thought that the author accomplished what he set out to do because now I know about that incident and makes me wonder if it could ever happen again. I would rate the theme of the story 3/5 stars. People ages 10-14 may enjoy reading this book because that is when we start thinking about high school and wondering what it might be like. At times I felt like the only reason to continue reading was to find out how big “The Wave” would grow. To my surprise, it grew very, very big. In fact, huge. This book is the only one of its kind I have read. The overall rating for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> would be 3/5 stars. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">http://www.amazon.com/Wave-Laurel-Leaf-contemporary-fiction/dp/044099371 <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> __**The Outsiders**__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The book I read for the trimester was called <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Outsiders__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Outsiders__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is by S.E Hinton. The genre of this book is an action/adventure/drama mix. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Outsiders__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is about greasers in New York City in the 1950’s. The greasers that the author focuses on is the gang that Ponyboy is in. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Outsiders__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a dramatic book you would not want to miss reading. It's exciting and action packed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Outsiders__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> makes me feel as if I am part of a greaser’s gang. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The plot of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Outsiders__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was amazing. The story is very believable. S.E Hinton makes it feel like you are really there with Ponyboy, Johnny and the rest of the gang. It was very easy to concentrate on the book. In fact, I could not take my two eyes off the pages. My mind was set on the book for the entire time because the events in the story were so jaw-dropping. The story takes place in 1950’s New York. One of the parts of the story takes place in a church in the country. The setting definitely adds excitement to the story. Two greasers running away in 1950 New York is very exciting because you never know what kind of trouble they might get into! <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The problem in the story is that when Johnny and Ponyboy are jumped, Johnny, by mistake, killed one of the Socs, or Socialists, that jumped them. They had to run away. They ran to the country to flee the cops. They become heroes when they leave their secret hideout in a church and eat at Dairy Queen. When they come back, the church was on fire, with little kids inside. They went rushing in and help the little kids get out, but in the process Johnny gets hit by a falling beam. Johnny is rushed to the emergency room. He later dies in the hospital. The book showed me an age I have never thought about; the age of the greasers. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I liked this book a lot, and therefore I give it a four and a half out of five stars. I like it because it was so deep, action-packed, and yet so realistic. In conclusion, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Outsiders__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a thrill-packed novel that anyone could enjoy. It is dramatic and yet so thrilling and real. I do not see why anyone would not want to read this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Outsiders-SE-Hinton/dp/014240733X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297728050&sr=1-3

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Night__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Elie Wiesel <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Night__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Elie Wiesel is about the horrors of the Holocaust experienced by the author, Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish survivor of the holocaust who lost his entire family in a concentration camp. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Night__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a very dramatic book that made me keep on reading and reading. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Night__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a very fascinating book, while at the same time extremely gruesome. The thing that blows my mind the most is that all the events in the book happened to the author.

The plot of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Night__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was amazing. The book just paints a picture in your head of the darkest, most gruesome parts of the Holocaust you thought were not humanly possible. Even if the plot was real, it was unbelievable that Nazi SS would through living infants and small children into a flaming pit. I had to take breaks from this book a lot because it was so gruesome, dark, and horrifying. I couldn’t take my mind off of some of the things happening.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Night__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> takes place at the eve of World War II right to the end of the war. It takes place mainly in Jewish labor and concentration camps. The horrific acts in the book could of not happened if there were no concentration camps. The setting definitely makes the story more exciting, but if there were no concentration camps, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Night__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">would not be a true story. The setting plays an important role for the characters because if there were no concentration camps, then Elie Wiesel’s family would still be alive after WWII.

I would rate this book a three out of five stars. Yes, it deserves much more, but the book was much too gruesome and dark for me. I think that people ages 18 and up would like this the most because people under 18 could not handle the book as well. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">[]