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Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by Katherine PatersonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom was very hard to understand for me to read. It was pretty boring. Anyways this book is about a 15 year old chines boy named Wang Lee. He gets kidnapped and sold into slavery. He gets a new master named Mei Lee who is a 18 year old woman dressed up as a man. That was the first thing that confused me. Wang Lee is set free and decides to join his rescuers group, a christian rebellion group. There goal was to overthrow China's emperor and to spread christianity throughout the land.
He trains to become a soldier and learns how hard it is, and struggles to find his way back home. There group goes around fighting devils in villages, mountains, cities, and rivers. I think the main reason why i didnt really understand this book is because it was about religion and war and im not to clear with that.
This book ended kinda sad i didnt really like it. The leador dies and there is no more "Heavenly Kingdom". He dies and so does his family. All the kings died as well. I never really knew what they were talking about at the end of this story. It said that the long noses beat the Manchu emperor, then it said that they joined. Than it says that they were not destroyed by foreign devils, and it says that the Mandate of Heaven was taken from them.
I do not reccomend this book at all. It is a tough book to understand for me. Uses alot of emperors and religion vocab, and that confuses me as a reader. I will not be reading something like this next time I read a book of the reccomended list.
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
In this popular novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury demonstrates what one person could have an affect on everyone. This book really tought me to act on my own and be couragous. This book has many life lessons to teach. Bradbury intelligently illistrates that people need to be different and be thereselves. If you like a good story line and a good use of vocabulary this is a very good book. This was one of my favorite books because it appealed to me because it was futuristic and had a very good plot.
Basically the story is a futuristic setting in the city of St. Louis where they have band books. The main character Montag is a firemen where they burn book and burn houses down that contain books. This is a very harsh but they have no sense of taste. Montag meets this girl that is fairly young and she brightens his day untill a series of events occur to him. His wife tries to overdose of sleeping pills. This girl he met gets him by a speeding car and a women burns herself with her books. This resorts to Montag to read and he ends up getting more and more curious and next thing you know the authorites are looking for him because he likes to read. With the help of his friend he ends up getting away.
I really recommend this book to all readers becasuse it is a easy book to read and easy to follow with a good story line. It teaches many lessons dealing with just being yourself. If I did not have books to read in my opinion I think I would be very boring and I would not have any personality. In conclusion, you should read this book, Montag is a great character and it is in the future.
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