Early Sunday Morning

Early Sunday Morning talks about Pearl Harbor or as others prefer to refer to it as 7/11. ““It’s Pearl Harbor! It’s Pearl Harbor!” Andy was screaming. He was pointing to the column of black smoke that was rising up in the skies above Pearl Harbor. The smoke was mixing with the rays of the early morning sun, creating an eerie, blood red sky.”Pearl Harbor is a place right on the coast of hawaii. It is a military base that hosts a mass amount of artillery. On Sunday, 7, December, 1941 the Japanese performed a massive bombing of the coast and 188 U.S. aircrafts were destroyed, the Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah were ships that were completely sunk even though there were 98 ships present at the time of attack, 2,402 people died, 1,282 were wounded.

Amber Billows is a girl that goes to school with her brother, has a father as a journalist and a stay-at-home-and-loves-cooking mother. Because of her fathers job she travels all around the country (america). She is always introduced to new settings and never stays in one place for a long time (a year). She hates this but never complains because her mom is very strict. “When Daddy tapped his fork on his water glass last night and announced (in his usual, upbeat fashion) that he had “exciting news for the entire Billows family” (he always refers to us as “the Billows family”, as if we were one of his favorite radio shows), everyone knew what was coming next. We might as well start packing. We were moving - yet again - and the only question was where and when.”

The “Billows family” were going to Hawaii, and lets just say that what was supposed to be the first relaxing trip since the world fair in New York didn’t turn out as planned.

When they arrived at Hawaii they unpacked and got straight to school. The Billows family was happy for once and Amber’s father started to make friends (the librarian and an admiral who worked at Pearl Harbor). But things didn’t stay that way for long. Amber made a friend called Kame, she was Japanese, and they were going to the school dance on Sunday the seventh of December 1941. Right when Amber woke up, the bombs were coming down.

The entire library was bombed, and the admiral was killed. Kame and her family along with all the other Japanese families were taken into custody. Right when things were finally getting good, they got bad, real bad. What was that saying again? You give you take? Sometimes there not of equivalent value.

The Author wrote this book in the first person point of view of Amber Billows based on the quotes I have already stated from the book Early Sunday Morning.

I think the theme of this book is overcoming challenges because everything in Ambers life goes wrong and she has to overcome the challenges that were set before her because of Pearl Harbor.

I like this book because it talks about my favorite time in history (Pearl Harbor) (I watched the movie five times). I would rate this book 10/10 because it not only talked about the point in time, it also talked about a person living through all of the load and how they would have felt. Notice that I put “would have felt” because the emotions are so real.

One of the vocab words that I learned from Early Sunday Morning is “Futurama”, it means a display or fair of the future. Another word is “Polynesian”, it means that they are either Maori, Tahitian, Samoan, or Hawaiian.