Three Seconds To Rush Book Reports

The book Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy tells the story of how Travis Roy’s hockey career ended in eleven seconds. Travis broke his neck at a C4 level and became a quadriplegic at the age of 20. Throughout the book you learn about the physical and mental journey he takes as he learns to change his perspective to adjust to the world he now lives in.

The book Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez is about a boy or guy named Luis and his family. This book takes place in gang infested cities in Los Angeles. The action begins when Luis talks about him and his family. Then, after talking about his family the story goes to talk about how he joined a gang and did a lot of bad things as a teenager. Next, Luis about what he was doing and starts to think about what he is doing wrong and tries to change it. After that, Luis joins a boxing team to stop thinking and stop being involved with gangs. The story ends talking about how he want to be an example to his kids and doesn't want them to follow the wrong footsteps he did. The authors theme to this story I think is to keep going and not give up.

The book How to save a life, written by Sara Zarr, is about two young woman, Amanda “Mandy” Kalinowski and Jill MacSweeny, and their 7 week journey together. When Jill’s mother chooses to adopt Mandy’s baby, she becomes apart of Jill’s life in unexpected ways. The story goes back and forth in each chapter as you see life happening through the eyes of both Jill and Mandy. The reader sees opinions of each other in incidents such as arguments between the girls, and even flashbacks into Mandy/Jill’s past life. During the seven weeks Mandy moves into Jill’s house as she wait for her baby to come, a change that is going to alter both young women's lives.

Eleanor and Park’s class not only affects their relationships with their families, but also with each other. Park’s way of expressing his love reflects the loving nature that his family shows him. Park and his father both have an interest in women who are different. Park thinks that his Korean mother “kept the accent on purpose, because his dad liked it” (Rowell 46). Just as his dad marries a Korean woman – someone of a different race, Park starts a relationship with Eleanor – someone different from others. Both women’s appearances are different from their community, and both Park and his father come to love these differences. Park’s love for Eleanor is also expressed more greatly because Park knows love from his family. Unlike Park, Eleanor’s family expresses very minimal love (if any) towards her, which results in Eleanor’s held back love. Eleanor abandons Park at the end of the story like her mother abandoned her. Also, Eleanor keeps her love hidden even at the end when she writes a letter

Forge is the second novel in the Seeds of America Trilogy, a historical novel series by Laurie Halse Anderson. Geared towards middle-grade readers, the trilogy focuses on the story of Isabel, a 13-year-old African-American slave as she fights for her freedom and that of her younger sister as the events of the American Revolution rage around them. Praised for its historical accuracy and exploring themes of family, race relations in colonial America, and the intersection of major historical events with the lives of its historical characters, the series explores lesser-known moments in the era and incorporates actual quotes and documents from the period. These include the Declaration of Independence and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. The first book

Eleanor & Park gives us interesting concept of two entirely different kinds of families: Park's loving, solid family life is in dissimilarity to Eleanor's desperate, poorly broken home. Not only that, we learn a lot about our two main characters because of the way they fit in or don' with their own families. Eleanor's been abandoned by her family, leaving her as an outsider even in her own house, and Park doesn't always share the same interests with his dad. Families make all the difference in the world in this book; Park's family brings Eleanor and Park together, but Eleanor's family tears them

This novel is full of chance and hope. Eleanor and Park is not your typical love story. For starters, Eleanor likes to wear baggy men's shirts and too big mommy jeans. Eleanor has crazy, out of control, fire red, curly hair and is always bullied because of her appearance. Being covered in freckles from head to toe doesn't exactly help the situation either.

Everyone has their own beliefs on how God handles sinners, some people believe that He is doing his own version of ‘Karma’ or ‘Payback’ to a wrong choice that we made as humans. Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God, is a story that has some truth and also some exaggeration to it as well. In my opinion, God is teaching us right from wrong like a dad would teach his children not to stick their hand in the cookie jar before dinner. In this story, Jonathon Edwards is portraying what God is thinking when he sees sinners on the world by using: Imagery, Tone and Repetition.

He's also scaring people by telling them that they could go to Hell by the end of this year if they didn't come back to God. In order to scare people, he says things like: "How dreadful is the state of those that are daily and hourly in danger of this great wrath and infinite misery!" By using his choice of words, he's telling the people if you don’t believe in God you will be in misery forever. He uses the phrase 'wrath of God' to emphasize how evil God can be if you don't trust in Him or love him.

Eleanor dynamically changes as she spends time with Park because he accepts her for the person she is. Eleanor's first ride on the school bus is awkward. Nobody lets her sit with them and she knows why. They won’t let her

That was a tradition they had, and it was how they came to be. Everyday on the bus Park would either give Eleanor a comic book, or a song to listen to. Then, the next day he would wait for her to tell him how she felt about it. This song also covers another part of the book though, a part where Park’s ex becomes a part of the story again. Although they had been broken up for awhile, Eleanor was rather odd and she was very insecure, and didn't think she deserved park. It was true Park had never dating someone like Eleanor and took every possible opportunity to talk about it. Park’s ex tina came into the picture and eleanor was scared he would leave her, not an uncommon fear. They way Park responded to this dilemma does remind me of this song a lot, he says this song, but with different words to Eleanor to show he was serious about her, and would always be

A -17 -year old boy named Ethan Palmer that lives in Halifax Nova Scotia, has finally saved up enough money for his new ride. Until one day Ethan by accidently crashed his dad’s Volvo into his dad ’garage. Even know his father could easily repair all the damages with all his insurance but instead, his father is using this, as one of his chance‘s to teach Ethan another one of his life lessons. Also, with all of Ethan’s money now going into the damages he caused. Ethan is now struggling to make some quick cash as a server, for his dream car. Ethan is not going to let anything get in his path, not school, friends or family. Will Ethan be making the right decisions?

The book After, written by Amy Efaw, is an addictive, action-packed book. The fiction story is about a girl named Devon Sky Davenport who was pregnant, but in denial. She wakes up one morning, sick, and stays home from school that day. That night, she gives birth at home by herself, and throws the baby in the trash after putting it in a garbage bag. Devon goes to jail where she makes friends and has to cooperate with her lawyer. Devon can’t remember anything from the night when she gave birth but as things start clicking into place, Devon realizes what she has done, and starts having suicidal thoughts. Devon must tell her lawyer the details, although it is hard, so she can be tried in a juvenile court and only get 5 years, but if she doesn’t

13 Minutes was a very action-packed book. It changed the point of view each chapter. It was about a girl named Natasha Howland. She was the most popular girl in school and was part of a group of three girls called the “Barbies”. She was pulled out of a river after being dead for thirteen minutes. When Tasha gets to the hospital, she is in a coma. Her two other Barbies, Hayley and Jenny, and her ex-best friend, Becca, have gone to visit her. When Tasha finally wakes up, everyone is in a panic, but she only asks if Becca had been there. When she had gotten a little better, she started to go through therapy. Tasha had said she had

In contrast to Romeo and Juliet’s rather quick process to falling in love, Eleanor and Park took a while to develop feelings for one another. When Park first saw Eleanor he thought of how embarrassing she looks and prays she won’t sit next to him. Their love for each other grows over a few days after Park starts letting her read his comics. Another difference between the play and novel is their situations. Romeo and Juliet have the same social status and the only thing between them is a family feud while Eleanor is of a lower class than Park in some ways and he’s slightly more privileged.