End of the Line

What would you do if you and your twin brother had just saw the first telephone in town and you wanted to call someone, then noticed that it was five cents a call and you don’t have any money? This is what happens in the story End of the Line by Alison L. Randall. When I read this I thought that it was a very good western story because I like western and all the horses that they rode on and the old guns. Although we are way past western time this western story was very good and exciting because of the action that happened in the story and the wanted man who didn’t like other people in his mining area.

With all the action that happened with the Western time I believe that this was a great story to show that. The story End of the Line was good because the action that happened during the sight of the telephone because Liza wanted to make a phone call and she had no money. When Liza and her brother Frank were walking home they saw rocks for sale and that gave Liza the idea to find crystals and sell them to use on the phone. When she goes to find a rock she went into a mining area of a wanted man. He didn’t like that so he tied them up and left them in a cave. Frank got out and then helped Liza out, and they turned in the wanted man for money and got enough for the phone. While the action was great the wanted man was a very well described person.

Zedekiah Smith was the mining man and a bank robber that was well described because the story stated that they were dressed for riding, with leather chaps and spurs and had a mustache that hung past his jaw. Zed was very wanted for robbing banks and killing people. After Liza took a crystal rock he found Liza and Frank and tied them and put them in a cave then left. Liza and Frank got out and turned Zed in and got enough for the phone. Frank spent his half of the money on candy and Liza was going to spend it on the phone but she realized that everyone she knows doesn’t have a phone so she spent it on candy too.

That is why I believe that even though we are way past the old west I believe that this is a great story because of the action and the wanted man named Zedekiah Smith. The old west was a very long time again but there are still very good old west books and movies. While our time has a lot of electronics the old west is still told about today.