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Summary: Out of The...........
Review: The book Out of The Dust was OK. I felt that the plot was of this book was great. Karen Hesse filled this book with tons of simmiles that meant alot to the characters.(once you've analized them and realized what they mean. Although this book was the most boring book that I have ever read!
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Summary: Out of the Dust- An Adventurous Tale.
Review: Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust is an adventurous tale of a young girl and her family living in Oklahoma, during the dust bowl period. With her family's future blowing a away with the dust the young girl, Billie Jo, talks about her life in the dust bowl and adventures that she goes through that shows you what life was like during that period. These close to life experiences tell this adventurous tale and add to the suspenseful climax in the story. Billie Jo an eager young girl with ambition to play the piano like her mother some day. She enters in a series of talent shows and other performances to show every one that she can play the piano real good. With the birth of her newest son coming, Ma chooses to let Billie Jo go to only some of these performances, which gets Billie Jo angry at her Ma. Then something happens that changes every thing for their family and changes Billie Jo completely. Out of the Dust shows you what life was like during this time period, and how a young, ambitious girl gets through this life. I feel that this book is an excellent tale of what happened during this period of time and is a book of great historical facts and fiction put together.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: I thought Out of the Dust was a very well written novel. It brings the reader inside the life of the main character, Billy Jo. Billy Jo goes through many changes and hard times throughout the novel. She must learn to adapt and become familiar with changes in her life. The novel is very descriptive and makes it seem like the reader is right next to Billy Jo as she is walking through the dust storm trying to get home in time. Karen Hesse has a very unique way of writing this novel. Instead of the usual format for writing, Karen used poems to express the feelings of Billy Jo. I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to other readers that are searching for a great book to read.
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Summary: Critique of "Out Of the Dust"
Review: Overall, I thought "Out Of The Dust" was an outstanding, intriguing novel. Karen Hesse was excellent with the way she wrote the book. I think this was the thing I enjoyed most about it-the way it was written in poems. It was unique to me, because most other poems I have read were usually in rhyme. Hesse used such descriptive writing when she wrote this book. For example, in the entry called "Dust Storm" she uses metaphors and similies to describe the occurence. It reads, "Brown earth rained down from sky. I could not catch my breath the way the dust pressed on my chest and wouldn't stop...the dust made muddy tracks across my tongue." Her eloquent writing makes you feel like you are in the novel. That is one more thing I enjoyed about "Out Of The Dust" was how the reader felt apart of the story the entire time. Hesse used such expressive text in her literature, hence it made you picture yourself in the situations that were occuring. One situation was in the entry "Almost Rain" when Billie Jo says "The clouds hung low over the farm.The air felt thick. It smelled like rain." I can imagine myself in a situation like this, and I know how the characters in the novel are feeling. The only fault I found in "Out Of the Dust" by Karen Hesse was how there wasn't much dialogue in the text. Most of the novels I enjoy have conversations going on, and dialogue is in the text. In this book, there isn't much conversing happening. That is why I rate this book a 4 out of 5 stars. I enjoyed Hesse's literature and her expressive writing, but I wish there was more dialogue to read throughout the novel.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: The book had a great plot but some of the things Karen Hesse wrote left me thinking different things then it actually meant.I liked how she explained all the hard times that Billie Jo faced in a dairy form of writing.I wish though that she would have explained more on what happened to the characters that already left the dust bowl such as if Mad dog became famous or what happened to Billie Jo's best friend Livie.Overall this was a great book and i would definately read it again.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: Out of the Dust is a great book for anyone. It is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Billie Jo and her depressed life during the Dust Bowl time period. It shows how hard life was during this time and what it was like to experience a dust storm. You read about the struggles in Billie Jo's life and how she faces them. It was a wonderful book and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: I thought Out of the Dust was a very detailed and descriptive novel. It described the dust bowl with great detail. Billie Jo's thoughts that she put into her poems, gave you a feeling that you, as the reader, were really there. Her descriptions of the dust storms were very detailed, so it was easy to visualize what the dust storms were actually like. Billie Jo also described the everyday life in the dust bowl with great detail. This book gave a very detailed descripition of life in the dust bowl.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: In the beginning, the farms were covered with golden wheat, and the farmer's pockets swelled. In the years following, disaster struck. Billie Jo had been living through the drought for some time now. She was starting to get restless. The loss of her mother and her newborn baby brother, Franklin, made that feeling even greater. Daddy, Billie Jo's father, did not talk too much to anyone anymore, especially Billie Jo. Finally, Billie Jo wanted out. He got up in the middle of the night, took some food, and ran away to the train station. A train came, and she went. 3 days later, she changed her mind, and came back home. This book had a good ending, but the rest of the book was not as good as I expected. After a while, the free verse poems of Billie Jo's "diary" got annoying. Although this was one of the main downpoints, Karen Hesse can capture you in the book and make you feel like you were really there. The book is very descriptive of Billie Jo's life, and tells important parts of her life through her diary. This book is good for readers who want to find out how life was in the dust bowl, but also for those who just like to read. I would encourage everyone to read this book just to find out how they feel about it and write your own reviews.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: Out of the Dust, a heartfelt tale that vividly describes the tragic life of living in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Knowing that on any one day you could come home and your house could be covered in a drift of dust. Choking down food while you feel the sandy, grit slide down your throat. Billie Jo Kelby was comfortable living her life with her Mother and Father in the dust bowl until a horrible accident left her mother with mortal burns and her hands just stumps of what used to be able play a beautiful piano. With very little to live for, a distant relationship with her father and eventually the death of her mother while giving birth to her baby brother. Billie Jo had to get out. Leaving what was left of her life behind, searching to find out what really matters the most to her. Just to come home to find the faintest glimmer of hope in what used to be a plain of despair. This book really keeps the reader in suspense. All the hidden feelings of Billie Jo, can be seen through Karen Hesse's wonderful work of weaving an intricate personality for Billie Jo and still teaching the reader a great deal of the things endured by the people living in the Dust Bowl at this time.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: Out of the Dust is a great story that has that rare flaver to it givin by the many discriptive words used throughout the book. The discriptions givin by Karren Hesse make you feel as though dust is raging around you in a a giant cinder elemental. The plot of the story is also great since it tells the reader of the many harsh times in the dust bowl in the 1930's. My only bad point about the book is that it is written entirely in poetic verse. Not being a big fan of poems myself, I often found it hard to follow the words, and ideas strewn about the pages. I would indeed recomend this book unless you detest poems.
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