Book Project #4

    The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a book about a dog named Buck thats living a good life in California and then gets stolen and put into dog slavery. He ends up having to pull a heavy sled in the freezing snow for many miles. Throughout the book Buck has to adapt to his new life and in order to that he faced many challenges. He has to learn from other dogs and do what they do. If he screws up he gets whipped and punished. As Buck gets better and better at his new job he decides to fight for power against another dog. The fight was violent but in the end Buck pulled it off.

Now that Buck was in power he had everything he needed and the other dogs would not challenge him now. He thought he had everything until the sled got new people and these people were bad. They beat the dogs and planned poorly. Half way through the journey they ran out of food and everyone started going hungry. When they got to ice it was melting and Buck refused to to go. They start beating him and then the other guys knife falls and cuts Buck free. They left without Buck but before they even got a quarter mile the ice collapsed swallowing everyone including the dogs.

After that Buck is saved by a man named John Thornton. He becomes attached to him and saves his life many times. Buck now sets off on journey with his new owner and other men loving his life. At the end Thornton is killed by the Yeehat tribe and Buck wants vengeance. But for now Buck is free to run the wild with wild packs of dogs. Only if he’s the leader.

English Reading Project #3

To Kill A Mockingbird 

        To kill a mockingbird is about a girl Scout Finch who lives with her brother Jim and widowed father, Atticus in Maycomb Alabama. Everything is going good until her dad takes a case defending a black guy, Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white girl. After that times got pretty rough because no one liked that they were helping a black guy because it was the time of civil rights still. They were pretty much treated like blacks were at that time. 

       Throughout the story her dad is trying to protect Tom Robinson and times were really hard. On the trial day Atticus was really good because he said that she was beaten by a left handed man and her dad was left handed. But at the end Tom was found guilty. Then later when Tom was in prison he tried to escape and was shot and killed. Throughout all that hate and hard times one good thing happened and that was that Scout got lead role in a play at school. 

        On the day of the play when Scout was performing and the white girls racist dad tried to stab her. But before he could Boo Radley saved her. When people wanted to make him famous or interview him her dad would protect him because he was more private. At the end of the story the main point was that Boo Radley was like a Mockingbird because he didn't hurt anybody that didn't deserve it.