Authors Note: This is a comparative essay between On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor and April Morning. This is to help with my organization, sentence fluency and my conclusion score.
Many novels have the theme of choices that the main characters have to make. In April Morning by Howard Fast and On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor the main characters have to make big decisions. Some similarities that both of these novels have is that the main character(s) have to make choices that could get themselves killed while they are doing it. In April Morning Adam signs up to go into war, that could easily get him killed, and in On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor Adien and Meg have to go across the country to save their parents. There are many similarities in these two novels.
Fist of all both novels have the main character make choices that could kill/injure them very badly. In the novel April Morning Adam is tired of his dad telling him what to do and if he does it his dad thinks that he could do better. The way Adam sees his dad is mean so he goes to sign up for war. That could easily get him killed. But with On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor Adien and Meg’s parents get arrested for a crime that they didn’t do. They are put in prison on the other side of the country and Adien and Meg want to break them out. They travel across the country which could kill them because they are trying to get away from the police too.
Secondly they are also very different. April Morning is in the year 1775 and he is going into war. In with On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor Adien and Meg are younger than Adam from April Morning and the time period is in the 2000’s. These books may have the same theme of choices but they are very different because of the time periods and what really happens to the main characters per novel. If On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor was back in 1775 the choice that they made wouldn’t be so hard on them. And if April Morning was in modern time the military wouldn’t let him into war even if he lied about his age. They have to go through training that he probably couldn’t pass.
And lastly they make these choices to help something or somebody. In On The Run 2: The Fugitive Factor they go across the country to save somebody that they care deeply about because they are their parents. And in April Morning Adam wants to prove to his dad that he can do something and his dad won’t be disappointed. Adam also is doing this because he wants to help his country so he chose to go into war to both prove his dad wrong and help his country.
In conclusion even though these books are very different with the characters, time period and what they are trying to save they both fit in with the theme of choices. Although there choices are different they are quite the same for the reason that they are trying to help either some somebody or something. There are other novels that share the theme of choices but I thought that this was a very good choice for this.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
The Sign Up...
Authors Note: This is a cause and effect essay about the novel April Morning that will help my score with the cause and effect section for the text structure.
In April Morning, by Howard Fast is about Adam who is a young 15 year old boy that is tired of getting told what to do from his father. Finally Adam gives up with what his father has to say and goes to sign up for the military to go and fight against the Red Coasts. When he goes to sign up he sees his father, Adam thought that he would get in major trouble from him, but his dad let him sign up. Adam was surprised that his dad would let him go ahead and sign this. Before Adams father was a mean man to Adam because he thought that Adam couldn’t do anything, that he wasn’t good enough for anything, so that is why Adam went to sign up. To prove his father wrong, that he is good enough and that he can do something in his life.
The thing that made Adam want to go into war was his father. His father was always putting him down and Adam was sick of it. Adam wanted to sign up for the committee but his dad said no because he didn’t think that he was man enough. If Adams father would have been a little nicer to Adam maybe he wouldn’t have wanted to sign up for war. The climax to this novel is Adam signing up for war. The effects to this are that he will have to leave his family and the girl that he really likes, Ruth Simmons. If Adam were to go into the war he would have to leave everything behind and he could die in war. Because of his dad, Adam wants to leave and go into the war.
In April Morning, by Howard Fast is about Adam who is a young 15 year old boy that is tired of getting told what to do from his father. Finally Adam gives up with what his father has to say and goes to sign up for the military to go and fight against the Red Coasts. When he goes to sign up he sees his father, Adam thought that he would get in major trouble from him, but his dad let him sign up. Adam was surprised that his dad would let him go ahead and sign this. Before Adams father was a mean man to Adam because he thought that Adam couldn’t do anything, that he wasn’t good enough for anything, so that is why Adam went to sign up. To prove his father wrong, that he is good enough and that he can do something in his life.
The thing that made Adam want to go into war was his father. His father was always putting him down and Adam was sick of it. Adam wanted to sign up for the committee but his dad said no because he didn’t think that he was man enough. If Adams father would have been a little nicer to Adam maybe he wouldn’t have wanted to sign up for war. The climax to this novel is Adam signing up for war. The effects to this are that he will have to leave his family and the girl that he really likes, Ruth Simmons. If Adam were to go into the war he would have to leave everything behind and he could die in war. Because of his dad, Adam wants to leave and go into the war.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
The Committee
Authors Note: This POV essay is to tell a scene from the book April Morning from somebody else’s point of view.
In April Morning Adam is a young boy and the story is told in his point of view. From how he see’s everything is in a mad and a The scene where his father is going to the committee and Adam wants to go but his dad asks him: “Are you a man now, Adam?” Adam replies, “I’m tall, I’m strong and I’m only nine months away from my sixteenth birthday.” His dad says back, “The proof of a man is the will to work and the ability to use his mind and his judgment. Can you offer that proof, Adam?” Adam only stared at his dad. But his dad says, “Talk to me when you can, Adam.”(All on pages 22-23)
In the point of view of his dad in the scene would be a lot different than what Adam thought. Adam thought that he was mad that everything that he tries to do his dad won’t let him but he was also starting to get mad not only at his dad but his whole family because he has the temper span of a bomb with a short fuse. But what his dad felt was much different, in his dad’s point of view he was probably wondering if Adam could truly be a man and get into the committee. In his dads mind he was thinking that he knew Adam wasn’t a man and he would probably mess it up if he went.
For Adam he has a family that makes him mad all the time and he has a family that he thinks could care less about him. Adam doesn’t like how anybody in his family doesn’t love him. But in his dad’s point of view he is just trying to make him a man and he does love Adam but he doesn’t show it. Adam wants to join the army but he knows that you have to be 16, his dad knows that too. But his dad does think that he could be ready but Adam doesn’t choose to show that he is ready and he can show proof that he is a man.
In April Morning Adam is a young boy and the story is told in his point of view. From how he see’s everything is in a mad and a The scene where his father is going to the committee and Adam wants to go but his dad asks him: “Are you a man now, Adam?” Adam replies, “I’m tall, I’m strong and I’m only nine months away from my sixteenth birthday.” His dad says back, “The proof of a man is the will to work and the ability to use his mind and his judgment. Can you offer that proof, Adam?” Adam only stared at his dad. But his dad says, “Talk to me when you can, Adam.”(All on pages 22-23)
In the point of view of his dad in the scene would be a lot different than what Adam thought. Adam thought that he was mad that everything that he tries to do his dad won’t let him but he was also starting to get mad not only at his dad but his whole family because he has the temper span of a bomb with a short fuse. But what his dad felt was much different, in his dad’s point of view he was probably wondering if Adam could truly be a man and get into the committee. In his dads mind he was thinking that he knew Adam wasn’t a man and he would probably mess it up if he went.
For Adam he has a family that makes him mad all the time and he has a family that he thinks could care less about him. Adam doesn’t like how anybody in his family doesn’t love him. But in his dad’s point of view he is just trying to make him a man and he does love Adam but he doesn’t show it. Adam wants to join the army but he knows that you have to be 16, his dad knows that too. But his dad does think that he could be ready but Adam doesn’t choose to show that he is ready and he can show proof that he is a man.
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