This book created one of my more embarrassing moments in high school english. I threw the book in my backpack and it floated to the bottom until the day we were supposed to review the story in class. I assumed incorrectly that because there were 30 or so kids in class that I wouldn't be asked a question without having a few previous comments to add my insight too. The teacher called on me to start the discussion and I started into a commentary on coal mines and canary's (the little yellow bird). The teacher let me go on for a few minutes before the someone in the class pointed out that it wasn't about canarys at all but about an industrial area made up of cannery's. I was shamed and graded accordingly.