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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Personal Response: I read the book SeedFolks by Paul Fleischman. The book wasn’t really what I thought it was going to be. The book was pretty boring but it had a bigger meaning to it. There was an abandon lot full of junk that no one cared about and everyone forgot about. The crime filled community never communicated with one another ever‚ until the lot. The lot changed people and the way they looked at the community. Plot: The book started off about a young girl who didn’t know anything about
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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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Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork!(It does‚ just read the essay) The book Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman shows the whole WORLD the importance of teamwork‚ but he only needs just ONE street and ONE garden to do it. Seedfolks has a large lesson and theme all about being a team and working together as a team (teamwork). It is shown by many characters through simply helping out others who couldn’t work in the garden on their own‚ they would help keep each other’s gardens safe and maintained‚ and others would
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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. Most people call these the similarities. In both novels they have a very similar story outline. What I mean by story outline‚ is that while there is bumpy thing happening
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one of Steph’s best friends‚ thinks she needs to have a boyfriend‚ like everyone else in the eighth grade. They find a whirligig they believe has magical properties and try to wish for a boyfriend on it. Brent’s whirligig impacted the girls because it gave them hope that there was some magic out there working to help their "wishes" or desires come true. The girls believe the whirligig gives them luck and when they see it‚ they will be lucky. Brent is offered a penance by Lea’s mother‚ in order to
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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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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. Brent
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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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In life‚ we are the ones in 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
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