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Tittle: Lost In The Barrens
Author: Farley Mowat
Illustrated by: Charles Geer
Pages: 192
Rating: 7 out of 10 Stars
Intro: They must conquer the frozen North or die.
I really liked “Lost In The Barrens”. This book was very exciting and thrilling. I think that the problems and the adventure could happen in real life so the book would be realistic fiction. People could get lost in the North. They could survive or die it depends on if you have food, warm clothes and can hunt. The beginning of the book describes Jamie and tells what has happened in the past life. Now Jamie lives with his Uncle. His Uncle is his closest relative.
The climax in the book is when the boys get rescued, because they get found by the Eskimo people and they get nourished back to health. Then after that the Eskimo people brought them back to their home. But if they didn't get saved by the Eskimo people they would have died out there so they are very lucky to have been found. The climax is exciting!
The book ends with a good resolution. The questions of the plot are all answered and Jamie and Awasin make make it home safely with the help of their new Eskimo friends
I think the characters do change during the story if I was talking about Jamie then I say that when he first came to the north, he was a city boy. But during the story he gets less and less city boyish. How Jamie changes through the story is he learns the skills his Uncle taught him. He got better at life in the wilderness during the story. He learned from Awasin, who guided him and helped him with survival skills, so they could survive the North. I really like the characters. Jamie can be stubborn and can cooperate. Awasin is very nice, I can’t think of anything that would not make him a unhelpful and nice person.
I can’t see me being the main character of the book. But I can compare myself to Jamie, I can relate myself to him by one thing, that I can be stubborn sometimes.
I think that the author creates clear and neat images and is very good at writing the story. In parts of the story he uses big words and he is very good at using the big words. The author does very good dramatic life and death sentences. He does very good wording and it makes me want to read on and never stop until I find out what happens next.
Posted by 24134 on 4/12/07; 1:32:28 PM
from the Casey dept.
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