Blog Post Due on the 17th

In the book Peak by Ronald Smith, the author started the book in an interesting way. He did that by having the main character write the story as if he is explaining what happened to him in the last couple of months. Peak, is a 14 year old, who loves mountain climbing and tries to climb a skyscraper in New York and gets caught. From there he goes to court and ends up getting parole and has to go live with his dad who he never sees. His dad brought Peak to Mount Everest where Josh, Peak’s dad, had to bring a climbing party up the mountain. That was not all Josh planned to do. He planned on getting Peak to the top so he could be the youngest person to the top which would get more business for Josh’s mountain climbing company.

            I thought the author’s way of starting the book was a good idea. It made you wonder why a kid was writing about what happened to him in the past year. It also made you wonder why he was writing about it in the back of a van driving away from Mount Everest. The best part was how the author explained why he was writing in the back of a van slowly. He did this by first explaining the why he was writing in the beginning. He first described what Peak’s teacher said he needed to do to pass 8^th grade, which ended up being a writing assignment on anything he wanted to write about. Then in the middle and end he explained why he was in a van driving away from Mount Everest. He did this by bringing Peak and his dad to Mount Everest. The way the author wrote the book was interesting.