Danger Zone

The main character in the book the Danger Zone is Jimmy Doyle. Jimmy is an average kid. Average grades, average looks, and average personality. Pretty much everything about him his average. Except for one thing. Basketball.  Jimmy is the best basketball player to come out of Graham, Minnesota. He’s probably the best player to come out Minnesota. Everybody knows it and he does to. For his high school basketball team, Jimmy is the team. Jimmy plays shooting guard for the team and is a three o’clock shooter. He can shoot from almost anywhere and make almost every time.  Sometimes when Jimmy is playing really well, he drifts off and goes into the zone. The zone for Jimmy is when he is almost untouchable. Nobody can stop him in the game and he just seems to make every shot, beat every person, and make every perfect pass. Jimmy is a hard working kid who is loyal to his family. His father had died when he was younger and throughout the years Jimmy had knew that it was going to happen. So when it did happen, Jimmy took charge and helped his mom take over the small hardware store that their father had owned. He didn’t run off and hang out with his friends. Instead he helped his mom out and did all of the work that he could to do to keep the store open. That shows that he cares about his family and has respect for them.

 In the book, Jimmy comes to many points where he is in trouble or something bad is about to happen. For example, when Jimmy went to Rome to play with the American “Dream Team” he meets Augustus LeMay, the point guard for the team and the star player. When Jimmy meets him, Augustus starts talking smack about Jimmy to his face, because Augustus has a cousin that played shooting guard also and was really good. The coaches had talked to his cousin to play the position, but they took Jimmy instead. Augustus was furious about it because he was very close with his cousin. So then him and Jimmy starting arguing about it. Then it turned into a shoving match and soon Jimmy lost control and took a punch at Augustus and hit him in the face. Even though Augustus was about two inches taller and way more built, Jimmy still took a punch. In the end he ended up getting knocked to the ground. It shows that Jimmy doesn’t back down from things and that he isn’t afraid. He knew that Augustus was stronger than him and he still tried fighting. It also shows that he is stubborn and doesn’t think before he acts.

Feed:Book Report

The main character in the book Feed is a teenager who lived in the future. His name is Titus. In the book, Titus tells the story from his point of view, so we don’t get to read much about what he looks like or what people say about his personality. We really only get to read about him telling about other people. So I have to dig deeper and look into what he says and how he talks to find out what he is like. In the book, Titus isn’t such a responsible person and is with his friends partying more than anything. He is always looking for fun and never really doing what he should be doing. He isn’t really close to his mom or his dad who don’t really know what he does and he thinks his brother is probably the most annoying person in the world.

            Titus isn’t really the outgoing type who tries to meet new people or talk to people he doesn’t know. He hangs out with the same group of friends all the time (Link, Marty, Calista, Loga, and Quendy). The way that Titus acts sends out different emotions towards people. His mood changes a lot. For example, right in the beginning of the book, Titus and his friends go on a vacation to the moon. When they’re on the way there, he is kind of getting annoyed by his friends and is really tired. But instead of telling his friends that, he puts on a show to try to hide how he is really feeling. In the book, Titus made a number of bad choices that made his life worse. For example, when him and his friends are on the trip going to the moon, Titus met a girl named Violet that he soon found out he loved. They did everything together and he brought her everywhere. Titus knew that his friends didn’t really like Violet because she tried to act smarter than everybody, and Violet knew that to. But instead of being smart and not bringing her to hang out with his friends he brought her every time, until Violet got mad at them and freaked out and started yelling. Another example is also about Violet. Later into the book, Titus and Violet went on a trip to an hotel where they were going to stay the night. It started out well until Violet said one thing wrong and then Titus yelled at her. That was also a big mistake because Titus knew that Violet did not deserve to be yelled at an yet he went ahead and did it. That same night they broke up. I think those are examples of how Titus made many wrong decisions. Also, I think that he is maybe just a little bit self-centered. The reason I think that is because there were a couple times when everybody else was having a good time and Titus was having a bad time so he had to make everybody else feel bad like him. That shows that he is self-centered and I also think it shows the ways that his emotions change.

            I think that Feed was a pretty good book. It had kind of a weird plot but it kept me reading. I thought that the book was somewhat complicated. It was told in the future future and there were a lot of weird things they did differently from the time were living in right now. For example, people talked really weird. Instead of saying something was really cool or sweet they would say that it was “meg” or instead of trying to get a person’s attention by saying “hey you” or “hey dude” they would say “hey Unit”. That kind of confused me when I started reading the book but, I understood it a lot better farther into the book.

            I would defiantly recommend this book to many people. I think that the kind of people that would like this book would be the people that don’t like books that are fast paced and have action. People that want to have a good read should read this book because even though there isn’t that much suspense, it kept me reading and wondering what was going to happen next. This book is about kind of about life and what happens when you make a wrong choice. That’s I think this book is about and if you like to read books that have a plot like that then this is a great book to read.