Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer Choldenko

Significance

This work matters because it has very dangerous people and also some very loving people. The author is trying to say that anything can happen if you put your mind to it. I chose this book because I have been close to Alcatraz and was very interested when I went there. Well in this book the kid does a lot of things that could have a negative reflection like sneaking Al Capone a letter.

Perspective

Gennifer Choldenko wrote this in the time period of the baby boomers. Well if you don't know much about mentally retarded people then it might affect your interpretation of the book. This book would be very hard to explain to a third grader because it has things regarding mentally ill people.

Evidence

The author is not trying to argue anything but if he was, the topic would be that anything is possible. This author uses very descriptive words and is very good at panting a picture in my mind. This book doesn't have to be factual because it is not a non-fiction book.

Connection

There is no history to this event because it is not real. The knowledge from this book will help me when I ever don't believe in myself. This book will make me read more books about life and less books about peoples life because this book was kind of depressing.

Supposition

If this book took place in a different political system there wood be no alcatraz because all of the criminals would have been kill. If you changed one of the elements alcatraz would not be a prison because it would be on land. Life today wouldn't be any different if this never happened because it is fiction.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Eddie Would Go By Stuart Holmes

Significance

This piece of work is very valuable because it teaches the whole and very exiting life of Eddie Aikau. This book also teaches the reader many valuable hawaiin lessons about mahalo. This book also helps me with my surfing by learning how to charge big waves and to help me with correct moral choises.

Evidence

The arguement the author is trying to make is that eddie aiko had a very good moral and a very good sence of nationality to the hawaiian islands. The author is presenting very factual information I know this because my brother actually interviewed the author and he told us how he got all the facts. I'm looking at these facts in a non biased eye because I completly look up to eddie.

Connection

The knowledge that Eddie is talking about is very deep and almost always about his family or friends. This story would inspire me to learn more about eddie Aikau or more about the hawaiin history. This book talks so much about the north shore that I would like to learn more about it.

Supposition

I can base a prediction that no one will ever find eddies body. If eddie was alive in this time era he might not have died and if he did die we might have found his body. If there was never water in this story there would be no story because eddie is a water man. If these events never happened then big wave surfing would be in its earleist stages.

Perspective

This book was written about people in the 1960's-1980's. The author of this book must have had problems writing it because he had to interview Eddies family which must have had problems talking about eddies death.