Among The Hidden Part 1: Among the Hidden is about a boy named Luke. He is what you would call a shadow child. Lukes mom was NOT supposed to have more than two kids because of government rules. She already has had two boys. Luke was a mistake, he has never had a birthday. Has never had to go to schools or make any friends. There was no one like him… or so he thought. One day he was home alone and he snuck outside. He noticed large mansions that were being built so more people could move next door. This meant that luke could probably never go outside without being seen. If he was seen this would mean that he would have to be killed. If this happened it would not be a good thing. Time skips ahead and all of the houses are built. He’s up in …show more content…
Something that I really liked was when luke felt all alone and one day he was just sitting in his room and seen someone and they became the best of friends. Another part of the booked I thought was nice was the relationship between Jen and Luke, they didn't know about it at first, but then their friendship grew stronger and stronger. Something else I liked was how they had to hide away from everyone because of the population police. How he had to survive without any light, sneaking outside and being stuck inside without having a real life. It was very interesting. Although, there was something I didn't like. I didn’t really like how sometimes in the book there was something I thought was interesting and it didn’t really last long enough or didn’t give much detail. For example, when Luke found out that Jen could do things he couldn’t . The author didn’t really explain it very much. But, other than those types of things, I thought that it was a really good book and I would recommend it to lower level readers and or in the middle type of readers. Those are some things I thought that were good and some things I didn’t like about the
The book “Among the Hidden” is a great book about a kid name Luke who is a third child who is not allowed to be seen, so his parents hide him in the attic. The police and the people so they don’t kill Luke. So, they hide him in the attic for his own safety. Then Luke thinks his neighbor The Sports family have a third child Jen. In the book “Among the Hidden” Luke changes a lot from the beginning of the book to the end.
I really enjoyed the book because from the beginning it started giving background information about the characters, which really helped me see how they became the person we see in the book. Also the book does a wonderful job at painting pictures in your head. One part described the city as “… a ceaseless passage of carriages, trains, and grip cars all with iron clad wheels that struck the pavement like rolling hammers.” With that description I could see the cars and hear the wheels, plus it just helps me understand the book a little better.
It captured my attention from the beginning. I like how the Rand was descriptive words to help me have an image of what was happening in the novel. I like the story line. I like the idea of someone breaking way from everyone else and being different from others. That they are able to think for themselves and that it is ok to be different from others. I also liked how the novel had some romance because I do enjoy romance novels. The Language Police written by Diane Ravitch, I did not quit enjoy the book. I do not really like books like that. I do not recommend this book if you are not interested in how the bias panel chooses stories for children. I do recommend the novel, Anthem. It gives the reader a sense of individualism, there is a story behind
The book made me feel really engrossed until the very end. I was starting to get bored with Caleb being the new protagonist. I loved when Adam was the protagonist and he was against
The increase in world population, has resulted in many area’s referring back to the population law. Among the hidden, By Margaret Peterson Haddix tells a story about an illegal third named Luke. In the beginning, Luke is clueless about why he’s the only kid in his family that has to hide, he just goes by his parents orders. In the middle, Luke meets another illegal child named jen who feels differently about hiding and shows Luke the world he has been missing out on for twelve years. In the end, Luke get’s a fake I-D in the name of Lee Grant and attends private school.
In his article, Hidden Intellectualism, Graff argues that it is essential to educate students who do not realize their own intellectual talents for themselves and allow students who are street smart an advantage to put on their extracurricular skills in academic study. Graff explains that it is unfair to label students as having “book smarts or “street smart”, claiming that they may have one or the other as opposed to both contributing to a student’s success in the classroom. Graff states that schools are missing the chance to help “street smart” students succeed by taking away their nonacademic interests that could help them in school.
Among the Hidden , written by Margaret Haddix was about a boy named Luke who is hiding away from the public because he is a illegal child. He isn’t allowed to go anywhere as a 3rd child due to the population law. The population law prevents you from having more than 2 children, if you do not abide by this law, possible consequences are death. He is trying to live a boring miserable life due to the law by staying away from anybody that isn’t his family. How would you feel if you were trapped in a attic for days,months years doing nothing. In this essay I will explain why I wouldn't want Luke to help me in a crisis and Luke’s character development throughout the novel.
I really liked this book. I am really glad I read this book because I am interested in the situation between the rebels and the child soldiers. I really like the way the author wrote his book. It was sad, but there were also really happy parts. The way the author put his words together made reading the book really easy to read. For example, “ On the morning that we left for Mattru Jong, we loaded our backpacks with notebooks old lyrics we were working on, and stuffed our pockets with cassettes of rap albums.” The story is very believable. The book was easily understood as well. There were some words that he used in the book that were confusing because some of the words he uses are different from what we are used to. For example in the book, the word for sneakers is crapes. He also calls a porch, a
In the book Among the Hidden, the author uses a very selective choice of vocabulary to convey the mood of events in the story. The mood that the author described is one that is very depressing.
The sweet of the book was the action of reading about him fighting as werewolf against a storm of bullets, fists, and knives. The bitter being it was too in depth with Luke’s life. Honestly, It could have been a much better book if they just turned it down a little bit on the romanticism. The first nine chapters of the book are just about his his love for Meena. I like Luke’s story, he was a boy who lost his mother and was military trained since he could walk. I liked that part, but the problem occurs when I read about is he gonna ask out Meena today, Menna is so beautiful, what would his life be without her etc. Despite this it was still a good book I liked the plot especially the struggle between his humanity and killer instincts he obtains as a werewolf. Throughout the book he must hold on to his soul which is slowly being pulled away from him. Yet he needs the power, so he must conquer the temptation to to let out his inner beast. This reminded me of another story I liked, where some school boys get stranded on a
I enjoyed it for many reasons. The action was great and it felt that something was going on at every moment of the book. The book is somewhat confusing, so it is a must to go back and read, to fully comprehend the meaning. It is a pretty hard book to read so dont expect anything easy. My favorite thing about Cell is how it wasn’t to predictable as I didn't expect ending at all. It was different from most books. The author, Stephen King includes a variety of figurative language in his books so you should have an understanding of that before reading. He uses imagery in the book, so it feels like you are actually there. One example is “ sun-warmed stillness ” as King uses those words to describe the atmosphere of the office. The only thing I didn’t like about the novel is that the pacing felt a little too fast with little to none character development. So having the cliffhanger at the end really didn’t make sense. This book would be worth 4 out of 5 stars, as the ending felt
This book made me feel like I could relate with all of the characters and how they reacted to living in a new area. Also I enjoyed reading and seeing how relationships develop throughout the book. Like Bellamy´s relationship with Clarke ¨When he saw her running toward him, he lowered his ax to the ground and turned to face her with a grin, (Morgan 191). Although you could also feel the intensity of some of the situations, but on the other hand, you can really imagine the happy parts of the book because of the way the author writes with great amounts of
In the book Among the Hidden I Questioned what was happening and couldn’t believe that Luke stepped out of the house. I questioned How Luke was going to get out of his house to try to see who the face was in the window. Luke had not left his house in six months because of the woods coming down and his Dad forbid him from even looking out a window. I questioned What was going to happen when he got outside. Would he panic and run back or would he go for it and actually make it to the Sport’s families house. Questioning How and What was going on in Among the Hidden helped me understand what I was reading.In the book Among the Hidden I questioned Why are families only allowed to have two children. I thought that if there is enough room to build
The 2016 historical film, Hidden Figures directed by Theodore Melfi which explores the themes of racism and sexism in America during the 1960’s. Melfi uses visual and verbal features of dialogue, costume and symbolism to display that sexism and racism is hard to abolish. The messages that Melfi conveys to the audience is that unequal pay and expected sexist uniforms are still present, but if we do something about it, it can be removed.
In the novel, Behind Closed Doors written by B.A. Paris., power is the focal point of the text portrayed by the antagonist, Jack Angel, whom uses power to manipulate the protagonist, Grace. Paris uses Jack to shine a light on a societal issue dealt with on a daily basis. Paris is able to illustrate patriarchy through the power demonstrated by Jack and the position that he has on Grace which makes him the one always a few steps ahead of her. Power is illustrated through the language and dialogue between the characters as well as word choice. The author’s purpose of the work as a whole focuses on Paris’ concern about a social issue on male authority and inequality or feminism and patriarchy. Paris presents these beliefs she uses to convey the ultimate or the overall meaning of the text through the main characters as well as through tone, voice and the author’s writing style.