A Life changing experience

Authors note: I wrote about this because I feel like everyone can be a good person.

Doing eighty miles per hour in the middle of a city trying to get away from a crime scene. That is where Gecko a fourteen year old boy finds himself on one afternoon. He is the getaway driver for his brother because they robbed a video game store. Changing from a criminal to a great citizen like Gecko did is nothing easy but very possible.

Throughout the story Gecko changes his view on everything. Gecko starts out as someone who doesn’t care about people or school. He actually has an interest in school now and does all of his home work. He respects people and even helps out an elderly neighbor. He wants to make a difference in a good way.  He finds ways to stay out of trouble even though it seems like trouble finds him. Trouble also finds another book character named Cole.

Gecko relates to Cole from Touching Spirit Bear in multiple ways. They both starts out as a criminal that looks hopeless in changing their  ways. But both had  life threatening accidents that changed them in a better way. A car crash for Gecko. For Cole it was getting mauled by a bear. Also the are related because they just wanted to feel loved by their families. Neither of their parents had time for them.  I think change can happen over a long time or a life threatening accident and it will cause you to change quickly.

All in all, these characters show us that change is possible no matter how bad it may be. People can change for either the good or the bad but it depends on what path they want to take. Although you don’t need to be almost killed to change.

Retelling

Authors Note: I wrote about this book because I enjoy this series of books.

A family with a long violent past, split into five groups. While Amy and Dan try to bring everyone together a mysterious prize for a clue hunt could split them farther apart. The family must learn, if they want true power they must all work together.  

Conflict Resolution

Author’s Note: I wrote this because it has a clear conflict and resolution

In the book Gender Blender by: Blake Nelson the main characters Tom and Emma get into a funny situation. The conflict is that Tom and Emma are in an accident together and when they wake up their minds are in each others bodies. They have to live someone else’s life. Later they find that if they stay in the wrong bodies for more than three days it will become permanent.

On the third day they still haven’t found a way to go back to normal. They are at a party and feel hopeless and might not ever get back their bodies. This gets resolved when they knock into each other at the party they go unconscious and wake back up in the right bodies! Tom and Emma can now live normal lives and be themselves.

White Fang Cause and effect

Author’s Note: I wrote this piece on this book because White Fang is an outcast and it’s sad to see outcasts in the world.

In the book “White Fang” by Jack London the main character, White Fang was going through some problems in this book. He was abandon when he was just a little half wolf half dog puppy. White Fang went to go find a new home but that didn’t work out the way he hoped. While hunting a rabbit he finds a tribe of native Americans. The young pup attempts to run away but he can’t help his curiosity to try to find a new family. This causes the him to not be accepted by the other dogs. This effected his life because he just wanted to have a family and be loved. This relates to Touching Spirit bear because I think that’s how Cole felt. He needed someone to really care for him and be there for him.

If everyone in White Fang’s life that hurt him or made fun of him he wouldn’t be as furious, strong and smart as he could. The book made the Native Americans look like bad people but what they really did is turn him into a great wolf. His family wasn’t there to teach him the native Americans were the ones to do that.