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Book Review

            · What was the author's purpose(s) in writing this book, and how can you tell? How well was this purpose achieved?

  For what audience(s) is this book intended, and how can you tell? (In other words, for whom would you recommend this book?)

The title of my book is “The Last Mission” and the author name is Harry Mazer. It is about a young boy who joins the army during world war two. He is only 15 years old and ran away from home. His name is Jack Rabb and he dreams of being a hero and this is the way he best could think of doing it by joining the United States air crops which Is kind of like the air force.  The author’s purpose in writing this book was to add a twist to the real world war two stories.

          The author's purpose in writing this story is to bring up a different way of what could have happen during world war two, almost as if he wanted to predict what would happen if this young 15 year old kid was a part of the air force. its a action filling what’s going to happen next type of book. I think that the author of this book must have been around during this world war two times otherwise he probably would have not had these strong details about the war and he would not be able to add that war like twist to his story with the young boy trying to be the hero.

In my opinion the strengths in this book are the fact that’s the kid is only 15 years of age yet he has a huge desire to be a guy that can say he help fight in the war. I think the weakest point in this book so far is when they kind of come up with this idea that because the parents are polish they are sending these care packages to Poland because of what is going on. I think that was really a weak point that the author put in this story. Yet overall this is a very interesting book and I feel like I am in for a surprising ending with this action filled book.

          The second part of the book is about Jack travel to Florida for a few weeks for relaxation before he gets shipped overseas soon. During that time he meets this girl that is from New York just like he is. So they talk for a while about small things and soon enough they go on a mini date where they hang out. They go to the beach, eat shaved ice and ride bikes. Her name is Dotty and she is from Brooklyn. So after the day was done and she had to leave she gave Jack her address so that way he could write her and she also gave him her phone number so that way they would be able to talk on the phone.        

          A few weeks later Jack had got moved to Louisiana and the crew was given a few days before heading overseas to go home. Before jack and his pals went home they had stopped in New Orleans to check out the place.  Hours pass and two of jack’s friends pick up a few girls and walked with them down a street and jack was all alone. So he ended up calling Dotty and they began to talk and that’s how their relationship grew.

          Now the authors purpose to adding a girl into 15 year old jacks life was to one give this story plot a twist and the other reason is because it shows how the author  wants to add some what of romance to a war book. I think when the author gives jack his age it makes the story really different because he is very young and left his family is more than likely home sick. Then he adds a girl into his life to try to help balance both the home sick load and also help jack fill in his shoes. So that is what I think the author second part of the book is about.

           The type of audience in which this book was written for was people who like to read about war times and the romance that can be involved in it. I feel like there is no set age group when it comes to a book such as the one like this.  Now the way in which I can tell is by reading this book and figuring out how the author in other books writes about the same general l topic.  So that is the audience I think in which this author was aiming for.