I am Found

Author's Note: This is a piece about me responding to the book Found.  This piece talks about bravery and why and when we need to use it.

“Nine-one-one, Jonah thought, of course.  His knees almost gave way at the thought that a bunch of police officers in dark uniforms would soon come swarming the cave, saving them all, saving Jonah from having to make any more choices, any more mistakes.” (272)  Found, by Margret Peterson Haddix, is a thrilling mystery that begins with an unidentified airplane filled with babies landing at an airport.  The story describes how two kids from the plane try to find the truth about their past. The author teaches readers you have to be brave when times are hard.

In the story the characters need to be really brave because they encounter some really scary things like ghost, crazy janitors, and a bunch of other weird people who try to stop them from finding out who they really are.   Also, in a different book called Among the Hidden by Margret Peterson Haddix the main character has to be very  brave too  because he shouldn’t even be alive.  Another example of bravery in the book Found is when the two main characters ,Johan and Catherine, have to fight off the wicked JB from sending them back in time.

Even though the characters in the story have to be very brave people in real life have to be brave too.  A few people who have to be very brave are anybody who has a disease.  If someone in your family has cancer or that is really sick you have to be very brave.  Plus, in the book the kids have to be brave because if they try to get back to their normal time it might break the future making everything a lot different.  Lastly, people have to be brave because if they were afraid of planes and they had to do a business trip they would have to brave and go on the plane.

In your life you always need to be brave and the Margret Peterson Haddix teaches reader why.  All of us need to be more brave in life.

Team Work is Key

Author's Note: This is a piece about the book Into the Ravine is about three characters.  Their names are  Jules the smart one, Chris the athletic one, and Cory the weird one.  They go on a thrilling adventure encountering snakes, water rides, and zombies.

Into the Ravine by Richard Scrimger is a mischievous tale about three boys and their journey down a ravine.  The trip requires a lot of team work to overcome all the obstacles thrown at them.   Into the Ravine teaches readers that team work is a skill you will need for your whole life.

There are so many things you need team work to do for instance, if you were on a basketball team and there were seconds left and you were swinging the ball around.  If someone on your team wasn’t paying attention they could lose the game because they dropped the ball or let the other team steal it. But if you had teamwork and everyone was paying attention you could win the game.

Even though sports is something you really need teamwork for, you also need some teamwork when you are in a job.  In a job you might have to work together with someone to write a paper. If you don’t do it together it could be really hard to do.  But if you did it together you if would be easier than spreading butter on toast. Also, if your boss sees you have teamwork you would likely get a raise. 

That’s not all; everyone uses teamwork in their daily life.  When I am folding cloths and my sister helps me and we get the job done faster.  In addition if I were making a project for school, I would likely have a friend help therefore we would get the work done twice as fast.  Finally if I needed to unload groceries from the car it would be a lot easier with a buddy to help me carry the bags in.

A skill you need your whole life is teamwork and the book Into the Ravine teaches reader why.  We all need teamwork in our lives to succeed.