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Summary: A good book about art and self-discovery
Review: After you read the back cover of "The Monument," you might expect the book to be mainly about a monument. In a way it is, in other ways it's not. Rachael was adopted and she now works where her new father does and doesn't really know what she wants to do with her life. That is, until she meets an artist named Mick, who is supposed to make a monument for Bolton, Kansas, where 18 war veterans were killed during battle. Rachael finds out that she wants to be an artist just like Mick. She will learn from Mick and the monument what art is all about.I thought "The Monument" was a pretty good book for what it was. I like Gary Paulsen's books about survival and adventure a lot better, but this was a pretty good book. If you like art, you'll probably like "The Monument" a lot more than if you don't like art that much.
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Summary: The Monument
Review: Although it is a simple story, it is probably my favorite Gary Paulsen book so far. It talks a lot about art, but the real point of the book is a minority, handicapped girl who learns how to see life in a new way and discovers that she has a talent of her own. Along with that is a town that comes together to make one decision that will help it heal and then grow together. This book is short and easy to read, but makes a lasting impression.
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Summary: A book to remember
Review: Although it is a simple story, it is probably my favorite Gary Paulsen book so far. It talks a lot about art, but the real point of the book is a minority, handicapped girl who learns how to see life in a new way and discovers that she has a talent of her own. Along with that is a town that comes together to make one decision that will help it heal and then grow together. This book is short and easy to read, but makes a lasting impression.
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Summary: The Monument
Review: Gary Paulsen is an excellent writer of young adult novels. I'm am pleased with his other novels-TiltaWhirl John and The Car. He takes each character and make you feel their emotions by making his character come alive in various places and situations. However, He has done an excellent job with this book by putting his reader in the eyes of an artist. Mick and Rocky join together to share the need for art in a small town in Bolton, Kanas. Mick will produce a monument for the people of Bolton to last a life time!
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Summary: The Monument
Review: Gary Paulsen's book "The Monument", is about a small town in Kansas that wants to build a monument to honor the soliders who died in all of the wars. The artist they hire for the job, Mick, makes a special effort to get to know the towns people and he draws everything he sees about the town. Rocky, a young teen takes an interest in art and Mick. As she gets to know Mick, as well as art, she also discovers herself. This book presents an interesting view of art from the artist's point of view and gives the reader insight into human nature.
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Review: Gary Paulsen's The Monument is a very eccentric story of a young African American girl with a leg brace in an orphanage. Rocky (the young girl) feels as if no one will ever adopt her and one day a couple walked in and said that they wanted to adopt her and she fills with a magical feeling inside herself. Rocky lives the life she never thought she would have.In this magnificent book you go on with her through everything that is as new to her as it is to you. By Mackenzie
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Summary: The Monument
Review: I liked the book because it was set in an agricultural community. I would recommend this book to other people because it was a easy book to read and follow.
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Summary: The Monument
Review: I liked the book because it was set in an agricultural community. I would recommend this book to other people because it was a easy book to read and follow.
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Summary: one of the bestest books
Review: I really liked the book.it made me look in deeper to the way other people live like people who drink.They might look stupid but they do stuff like mike he drinks but he does something he loves art!
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Summary: A realistic look at the artistic process.
Review: Paulsen creates a very real picture of both the way an artist looks at life and how one can strive to become an artist. Mick as mentor and Rachel as student are well drawn. Underlying all of this are the townspeople who have various ideas on what their monument should look like. This is a good book for middle school students who are beginning to look at all the alternatives in life.
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