Favorite Assigned Book

[Sarah]

what's your favorite book you've been assigned to read?
mine's The Outsiders

[Chelsie Olivia]

Oh boy.

 

Uhm.

 

I think it would have to be A Separate Piece by John Knowles.

I loved it so much that I bought it.

[Anthony O'Brien]

Have you read Hatchet? What is A Separate Piece about?

[Chelsie Olivia]

I actually have not.

 

A Separate Piece is about two boys, who I forgot the names of, that go to this academy for boys during the war. One of the boys, the charismatic one, ends up dying, and it brings out a lot of stuff in the other one that says not only a lot about HIM, but about humanity itself.

 

[Anthony O'Brien]

Oh, yeaaaaaah. I have read A Separate Piece, it is a good book; I liked it. Both of them, don't they get drafted and only one survives?

[Chelsie Olivia]

I don't think either get drafted.

 

I know the one who went crazy did.

The one who was all nature-obsessed?

(Leper, as SparkNotes just reminded me)

 

But *looks up names of characters* Gene never got drafted.

Finny fell from that tree and hurt his leg, so he couldn't go off to war anyhow.

Which he totally resented but acted like he didn't.

[Anthony O'Brien]

Ah ok, well in all honesty my favorite character in that book was Leper.

[Chelsie Olivia]

Mine was Finny, I think.

 

I kinda teared up when he died. :P

[Anthony O'Brien]

I didn't see that comming. I thought Gene was going to die, but I was shocked. It reminds me of Lord of the flies.

[Chelsie Olivia]

Which I also read, for the same class. 

 

Poor Piggy. </3

[Anthony O'Brien]

I know, and I was glad at the ending! (Of Lord of the Flies)

[Anna]

I was actually assingned to read The Lightning Thief in seventh grade. GO ME!

[Anthony O'Brien]

That was a really good book actually.