Whirligig

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Summary: whirligig
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This book has an aura of feeling, a good learning experience and gives a new love for life. It sets up good feeling without just saying it straight out what he is feeling. Also it portrays that the character has a new sense of need and wants to get away from his old life and start a new one. The character also learns a lot on his trip that he would not have learned otherwise. With all these things in the book it creates a good story.
A huge part of this book was Brent learning many lessons that he would not have learned otherwise. Brent learns to not take life for granted and that the only life isn't a social life. He gets out of the place he's used to living in and sees new people and new places and then realizes that he has a really good life. As in the quote towards the end of the book where he sees the world in a different perspective, "The world itself was a whirligig, its myriad parts invisibly linked, the hidden crankshafts and connecting rods carrying motion across the globe and over the centuries". He goes around the country and finds many good people that aren't mean and spiteful. He learns that there are many good things in life and that he needs to live life to the fullest. This adds a great learning expierience for the reader and really helps them further understand the character.
In Brent's quest he finds a new love for life and wants to live. In the end he has three more weeks on his bus pass and wants too go see more of the country before he goes back to his old life. He feels a new fire burn inside him even though he knows that Lea is gone and the whirligigs will not bring her back. Like the quote, "He felt like a bee, returning to a hive, accepted and greeted by all. He knows that because he screwed up once that his life isn't forever a mess and that he will be forgiven. The book shows this when he tells his problem to the painter and she tells him she does not think him a bad person. This gives a good sense of "want to live" and helps the reader understand more what the character is thinking and feeling.
The book gives off a great aura of feeling without just telling what he's feeling. This adds a great feeling to the book and helps you understand more what the character is feeling. Like the quote "The driver beside him honked when he drifted into his lane, Brent ignored him". This sentence shows that Brent is brooding without just saying it flat out. Also at the dance you can tell Brent is enjoying himself just by not saying anything straight out. This doesn't make the book choppy to read or uninteresting. So it makes for an easy read.
This book portrays an aura of feeling, learning and that life shouldn't be taken for granted. It is an easy to read book with an in depth story line. I think that everybody needs to read this book to fully appreciate life.


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Summary: Whirligig's
Review: I really didn't like this book it was really confusing and kind of boring. I thought that it would be a lot different than it is. The author really jumps from place to place and you have no clue what was going on. It has a really good theme and plot, but that authors writing syle wasn't what I really would put with this kind of theme/ book.

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Summary: Whirligig Review
Review: When Brent Bishop goes to a party his expectations are sky high, his crush is going to be there, and the party is thrown by one of the schools most popular guys. But, instead of the party being a blast, it was a bust. Brent is humiliated, and leaves the party with intentions of killing himself, but instead of killing himself he kills a girl he doesn't even know. The girls mother doesn't want revenge though, she wants Brent to set up whirligigs up in the four corners of the US. Washington, California, Flordia, and Maine. On the trip, Brent learns how to make wonderful whirligigs, and he also learns a lot about himself. I think this book was wonderful. There's really no other word to describe it. It's a book you can just sit down with and read until you're finished without putting it down. I suggest that anyone that can read, read this book.

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Summary: Whirligig
Review: When I read the book Whirligig, I realized how precious life is. Before I read it, I had a very narrow mind when it came to seeing the beauty of life. The author, Paul Fleischman, did a great job with his style of writing. He wrote the book so that you could easily pull one of the many lessons out. In the beginning of the story, you meet Brent. He seems to be an average teenager, but he has a lot of emotional issues. Because of the fact that his family is always moving, he has a hard time fitting in, so he is always trying to be cool. When Brent goes to a party dressed wrong, and gets put down by a girl he likes, he attempts suicide. However, Brent does not succeed in his quest. Instead, he does something much worse. His actions cause someone that he hurt to ask him of one request; he has to build a whirligig in each in each corner of the United States. Though the task seemed unusual, Brent set off to keep the memory of all that he had taken, alive. As you read on, you follow Brent on his journey across the country as he meets new friends, makes new whirligigs, and discovers the meaning of life. In a way, the author wrote this book as if it were a whirligig itself. Like a whirligig, it has many different parts to it. It is colorful, sad, and beautiful. It will, and has touched many lives, and like a whirligig, I am sure that it will never cease to live.

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Summary: THE STORY OF A TENAGE BOY
Review: WHIRLIGIG BOOK REVIEW

Whirligig by Paul Fleischman is a interesting short story about society and a teenager being reborn by a startling series of events. The author Paul Fleischman main themes in the book Whirligig was the life of a American teen Brent Bishop and his view of the world hand how it dramatically changed in a single night.
He awoke the next morning to find that his world had been turned up side down. Brent Bishop had gone to a party the night before and had gotten drunk this led to him following a school mate crush of hi until she burst out and yelled and him to stop harassing her. In his embarrassment he left the party and drove off. he decided to buy the farm,the cow, and the oxen but instead he had killed Lea a teen that happened to be taking her nightly stroll. In the wake of Lea her mother had asked not for money or labor but just for Brent Bishop to construct four whirligigs in each corner of the united states so Lea's spirit would live on for ever. This unusual task Brent Bishop set out to do armed only with a forty-five day bus pass and a back pack full of supplies he went under a extreme mental metamorphosis and reawakrning after the tragedy of his past life.
I have found this book to be very well written and effectively powerful for the beautiful short story. Over all I would have to say the Whirligig by Paul Fleischman is as interesting as it is compelling and would recommend the moving short story to any one who has a hunger for a well whiten story that encompasses the spectrum of Brent Bishops homage to right the wrongs he has done and start a fresh new life as a adult.

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Summary: Whirligig-One of those books
Review: Whirligig is one of those books that is a interesting, unique story in a confusing content. I would definately reccommend this book, to a good reader!

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Summary: Whirligig-One of those books
Review: WOW! I am a 14 year old male who loves to read. This book really sticks out when I think of all the books I've read, and trust me, I've read a lot. Although it is short (I read it in 3 3-4 hour incrimants) it still has a great plot and ends with no loose strings. Some other books I recommend are: Any book by Jack Weyland, Zel, Storyteller's Beads, Harry Potter series, The Hobbit, Holes, My Brother Sam is Dead, Small Steps, Shadow Spinner, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Lyddie.