Right now, I'm reading the second book of the gone series, Hunger. In this series, the main characters are trying to survive in an isolated community, with immature children running around and playing rather than working to provide a decent amount of food to help feed every one. Outside of the story, I'm taking World History AP, which involves characteristics of civilizations, and much more information about the workings of a civilization. So, I feel a little obligated to critique the works of the children as they build their own civilization.
The characters in my book have the structure of a civilization in their midst, however, the structure is more communist with certain job positions where less people work than not, and everybody gets the same amount of food. This becomes a growing problem as kids have a lot of free time where they go and burn things down. There's also a lack of control. The teenager in charge of the city is very stressed and deals with as much possible, but these kids are used to being under control and think they can do whatever they want whenever they're aren't being as closely watched. Although, I can see a future for this city as the kids try to work things out, and become a better community.
Hunger, Michael Grant
9/17-45 minutes, 9/19-20 minutes, 9/22-2 hours
total- 3 hours and 5 minutes, 113 pages
I really like how you incorporated another class into your book and English class and that you were able to find these connections between the book and AP World History.
ReplyDeleteNice work incorporating AP world history into English class.
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