Name: Nour Talal El Khalil                                                                          

Teacher: Mrs. Chalhoub                                                                                 

Class: 7-3

Due Date:  Friday, March 21, 2014

Historical Fiction Book Blog three

                                                                                                                         

Al Capone Does My shirt

By Gennifer Choldenko

 

     .Today 12year old Moose Flanagan and his family, have just moved to a place called Alcatraz island, In San Francisco. The date was Friday, January 4, 1935 Moose and his family came to Alcatraz for Moose’s sister Natalie to go to a special and advanced school. When they arrived his father had to work for a prison as an electrician witch was on the island. Moose had a hard time moving in; he was missing his baseball team and did not blend in with his other classmates. One day walking to school he met a girl named Piper, Moose also known as Moose, was attracted to her but when he started to know her better she could be very obnoxious .Natalie also had a trouble moving, she did not want to go to that school and felt sick. After a while Moose’s family discovered that Natalie had a severe case of autism witch is one of the causes of death, and was rejected from the special school for that, witch crushed his parent’s hopes. Moose had started taking care of Natalie after school because his mother, Helen, was a music teacher. Meanwhile, Moose and Piper grow closer together, and started to know each other more. The next day, Piper asked Moose for help by selling some clothes to people to get some money and he accepted. But sudden Mathew found out that Piper lured Moose to a scheme, she was taking their classmates laundry clothes and telling them that a made up person named Al Capone is the laundry men in the island and was going to clean their shirt, but instead she directly sold them to other people to get some money. Will Moose stop this conflict or will anything happen to Natalie, read the book to find out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E) The year is 1935 and it was the depression period where it was a bad time for people and it does not have a lot of difference from the book because Mathew lived at an island where there is a prison and how a lot of people have don bad things at that time of period:

Page 1: Moose:  “In Alcatraz Island there are ton of murders, rapists, hit men, conmen, stickup men, embezzlers, and kidnapers a time where everyone has gone mad”

 

 

F) Moose’s family traveled to San Francisco to a prison and we could see that the characters are very sad or mad the way they judges things because of the depression period and where they lived:

 Page 1 Moose: “Today I travel to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd md surrounded by water”

 

 

 

G1) The major characters are:

Moose Flanagan: Always ready to help

Page: 136,

 Piper “I thought you could pick one up for me”

Moose: “of course you’re a friend”

 

Natalie Flanagan: Smart and secretive

Page: 18

Piper: “How much is 28 times 478”

Natalie: “13,384”

 

Piper Williams: Obnoxious

Page: 19

Piper:” So she is good at math but I tell you something is wrong with her”

Moose: “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM”

 

Cameron Flanagan: Hard worker

Page 4

Mathew: “I could barely sit with my dad with his one job as an electrician now he is also a prison guard!”

 

Helen Flanagan: Very caring

Page: 27

Mathew: “My mother tries not to cry when Natalie is going and tries to sound cheerful again.”

 

G2)  The Author use Reflection in first person witch is Moose and also dialogue, we saw how the character act by how they talk.

 

h) The Al Capone does my shirts is in first person point of view by Moose. The point of view of Moose helps us visualize how he thinks of people on the island and also tells us more about them.

 

i) The theme of Al Capone does my shirts is overcoming challenges because Moose had a hard time going through his new school and getting used to the area he lives in.

Page 43: overcoming challenges:

Teacher: “Big for a seventh grade aren’t you Moose”

Moose: “Yes ma’am”

Teacher: “this wouldn’t be your second time in seventh grade would it:”

The class laughs

Moose: “No ma’am”

 

j) My book matters because it shows you no matter what you should never give up and you should always believe in yourself. This book also matters because you can solve and create everything right again and you always have a second

 

k) Vocabulary:

Wheezing: breathing with a husky or whistling sound

Page 60

 

Replicate: ditto, duplicate

Page 67

Rumble seat: a folding outside seat at the back of a car

Page 70

 

Shiv: a sharp object made from scraps meant to be used as a weapon in prison.

Page 73

 

Banshee: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death

Page 65

 

Diagnosis:  identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon

Page: 60                          

 

 

K)        Comment: I think that this book is a wonderful and enjoyable book because the imagination you can have while reading is very interesting. I also like the story of the book and how many things can happen more than one concept. Some may not agree that this is a good book, but I think Al Capone Does my shirt is a great book to read.

 

 

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Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone Me Lava La Ropa/ Al Capone Does My Shirts. New York: Santillana USA Pub Co Inc, 2008. Print.