Guest Reviewer - Bailey, Grade 7S
The genre of this book is historical fiction and it is good reading for middle school students.
The main character’s name is Margret Ann Brady. She is thirteen years old and has one brother, but no parents. This book is written in dairy form from day to day but sometimes she forgets to write. The story begins at an orphanage in London, then moves on to the Titanic, and ends in Chicago around 1912.
“Margret watches the sinking of the Titanic with other women and children crying and she says that it was a quiet time but men were swimming towards them and climbed into the boat and she gave one man her father’s coat. But they were watching around the area where the Titanic had sunk and they went to get some people who were still alive.” This book changed my thinking about the Titanic because I thought when the Titanic was sinking that everyone got into a life boat. But I learned that only women and children (with boys that had to be under the age of thirteen) could get on the lifeboats.
If you were on the Titanic, would you have stayed on the ship, gone on a life boat, or would you have stayed in the water until you died? Well, that was a decision Margret had to make. They say that the Titanic was supposed to be the strongest and biggest ship, but then why did it break in half?
The main character’s name is Margret Ann Brady. She is thirteen years old and has one brother, but no parents. This book is written in dairy form from day to day but sometimes she forgets to write. The story begins at an orphanage in London, then moves on to the Titanic, and ends in Chicago around 1912.
“Margret watches the sinking of the Titanic with other women and children crying and she says that it was a quiet time but men were swimming towards them and climbed into the boat and she gave one man her father’s coat. But they were watching around the area where the Titanic had sunk and they went to get some people who were still alive.” This book changed my thinking about the Titanic because I thought when the Titanic was sinking that everyone got into a life boat. But I learned that only women and children (with boys that had to be under the age of thirteen) could get on the lifeboats.
If you were on the Titanic, would you have stayed on the ship, gone on a life boat, or would you have stayed in the water until you died? Well, that was a decision Margret had to make. They say that the Titanic was supposed to be the strongest and biggest ship, but then why did it break in half?
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