Book Report Whirligigs By: Paul Fleischman After getting humiliated at a party‚ Brent drives away drunk and decides to kill himself. Letting go of the wheel on the highway‚ he ends up killing someone else. He killed a girl named Lea. Her mom asks Brent to put up 4 whirligigs‚ one in each corner of the US. Since they were Lea’s favorite toys‚ they’re meant to be monuments representing Lea’s ability to make people happy. With wood‚ sum tools‚ a book on whirligigs‚ and a bus pass‚ Brent leaves
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charge of ourselves. And in the book Whirligig‚ people may think that that this lesson does not apply but it does. Look at brent‚ he was given the option to not place the whirligigs on the four corners‚ but he did anyway. And over that trip‚ Brent changed. Which leads me to believe that every person is capable of changing no matter their past. First of‚ in the beginning of the book‚ Brent was a kid just worried about fitting in‚ and over the course of the book‚ those menial things don’t matter
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If one goes around beating helpless people up‚ then one will discover itself to be rude and mean. This relates to “Whirligig” because of Brent’s actions. Brent travels across the country constructing whirligigs to spread happiness throughout America. By him doing these kind deeds‚ he exposes his true self identity. Brent Bishop‚ a teenaged boy in Paul Fleischman’s novel Whirligig‚ undergoes a dramatic change in self-identity during his journey through America. Persistently apprehensive about
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Whirligig Do you think it’s possible to have a positive outcome after accidentally killing someone? It can happen‚ and this book shows you how. The message that the author sends is important‚ and the story is laid out in a unique way that makes it interesting to read. After being humiliated at a party‚ 16-year-old Brent drives away intoxicated and makes the last minute decision to kill himself. Letting go of the wheel on a busy highway‚ he ends up killing someone else. The victim is
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exact same time another girl he didn’t know did. Little did he realize‚ is that the effect of his choices would be a fatal car crash. Throughout the entire book‚ Brent’s perspective on Lea and his survival are shown through the whirligigs he builds. In the beginning of Whirligig‚ the author reveals Brent’s depression through his first whirligig. After the car crash‚ Brent is devastated and in shock at what he had committed. Eventually‚ that led to a depression which controlled all aspects of his mind
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In Whirligig by Paul Fleischman‚ Brent travels to the four corners of the United States of America and builds whirligigs on his mission of repentance. Each Whirligig has a unique appearance and meets the needs of it’s (observer?) in a different way. The first whirligig was put in a state park near Puget Sound. Being Brent’s first whirligig ‚ he had a little trouble creating it. Originally‚ it was supposed to be an angel playing a full sized orchestral harp‚ but he accidentally broke off it’s wing
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Whirligig Chapter 8 Jenny feels helpless as someone that she loves and close to is dying her grandmother. When the old woman tells Jenny to give her a ride around town‚ Jenny decides to help her because her mom wasn’t there‚ and she somehow desperately needed to see this place. So Jenny and her grandmother get into the car‚ and drive around the town. Her grandmother tells her to go places that don’t even make any sense‚ like a birch tree‚ and an old run down house. This old house was
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Whirligig Chapter 7 – “Apprentices” Response Notes Brent was thought to be a drug smuggler – proves that he isn’t because he doesn’t have a drivers license. (When he was checking into the motel) –Page 90 Trisha’s note – Why did it have such an impact on Brent? – Page 91-92 – I think it did because he basically made a friendship in a way‚ but didn’t want to face Trisha in the air-conditioned motel room‚ so he went somewhere else to build the Whirligig. Constellation repetitions Vocab: Gaggle
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different. We all know that. Every book is different too. As books travel along the path of their life‚ people gain new information in their heads about books. They may then use that to write more books. This is the road of literature. A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park‚ and Whirligig written by Paul Fleischman‚ both have similar story lines‚ but have totally different overall situations. As books travel the road of literature they pick up new aspects of the books that brings them closer together
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Whirligig Have you ever wondered who Brent Bishop is‚ continue reading and you will learn his multi personalities. The book “whirligig” is written by Paul Fleischman‚ the main character in the book is Brent Bishop‚ the new kid in school who just wants to fit in with everyone else. Brent is a determined and resourceful teenager who just wants to do well. Brent is a responsible teenager for many reasons. Whenever he killed lea he was determined to do whatever it took to make things right with
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