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Code Talkers
Code Talkers
By: Leilani Mondragon
May 22 2015

I think the book Code Talkers was a good book because it can teach you about how bad it was during the war. It teaches you that when you were about 6 you would be taken away from your parents and be sent 100 miles away into a boarding school. In boarding school you would be whipped or disrespected.

The first reason I really liked Code Talkers was because it shows how they lived. I found out that during war they would live in fox holes. The japanese would even spy on the navajos at night. The Navajos also traveled a lot like they went to Hawaii and Guam for examples.

The second reason I recommend Code Talkers is for teaching you that hard work pays off. Like when the navajos had to go to boarding school well that helped later in life when they went to boot camp and was in real war. In the end that hard work helped a lot because the
Navajos ended up winning the battle of Guam. Even though war made them tired and sick it was worth it.

The third reason I recommend it is because it shows that back then how harsh it was.
Captured americans, british, and australian soldiers were forced into slave, labor,starved, and beaten. Some were even used for medical experiments. Also twelve thousand men were either dead or missing. word. I also liked all the war and all it just seems better when you have action. Not to spoil it but
And the last reason I liked the book was the action. I liked how it explained every little word by one part in the book near the end Ned’s friend smitty ends up dieing.

Overall the book
Code Talkers was pretty interesting. And again I highly recommend this book. Mainly this book is for people who like war or just reading from the past. At first I thought it was gonna be boring but it's awesome. If I were you I would go and check out that book.

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