Magic By the Lake Book Report
Recently I read a book by Edward Eager called Magic By The Lake. There were two main reasons I liked this book.
First of all, I liked this book because it used scenes and summaries. Scenes are when you go into something in detail, while summaries are when you just provide a brief explanation of what happened. The author used these well, skipping over boring places in the story, like a long car drive, and going into detail in interesting parts of the story. For example, while the author used only half a page to describe the car drive, he used almost three full pages to describe them getting lost in the forest. Getting lost in the forest is obviously more interesting than a car drive, and so the author used more details to describe getting lost than the car drive. The details were rich and vivid, and they helped me to create a picture. For example, he described them going around and around in circles. He also describes how desperate they feel when they find that they are not any closer to the road home. He finally describes Martha being desperate and touching the lake-water and wishing to be somewhere else. These details make the story a lot more interesting and vivid.
Also, I liked this book because the ideas were fresh and interesting to me. I had not read anything yet about magical talking turtles or penguins. Nor have I read about jumping into a story like the Arabian Nights. One of the most surprising things was when the book introduced the turtle who could be anywhere at once - one moment he could be in the tropics, the next moment he could be in a northern lake!
Magic By The Lake was certainly a very magical book!
First of all, I liked this book because it used scenes and summaries. Scenes are when you go into something in detail, while summaries are when you just provide a brief explanation of what happened. The author used these well, skipping over boring places in the story, like a long car drive, and going into detail in interesting parts of the story. For example, while the author used only half a page to describe the car drive, he used almost three full pages to describe them getting lost in the forest. Getting lost in the forest is obviously more interesting than a car drive, and so the author used more details to describe getting lost than the car drive. The details were rich and vivid, and they helped me to create a picture. For example, he described them going around and around in circles. He also describes how desperate they feel when they find that they are not any closer to the road home. He finally describes Martha being desperate and touching the lake-water and wishing to be somewhere else. These details make the story a lot more interesting and vivid.
Also, I liked this book because the ideas were fresh and interesting to me. I had not read anything yet about magical talking turtles or penguins. Nor have I read about jumping into a story like the Arabian Nights. One of the most surprising things was when the book introduced the turtle who could be anywhere at once - one moment he could be in the tropics, the next moment he could be in a northern lake!
Magic By The Lake was certainly a very magical book!
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