Brian's Return by Gary Paulsen
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Book Reviews of Brian's Return
Book Review: Brian's Return
Summary: 4 Stars
The book I read is about a boy who came from the woods back to the city he lived in. After returning to school and his friends, he no longer likes the things he used to like. After being home for about a year, he can't stand being away from the Canadian woods. He tells his mom that he is going to see his dad, which she has no problem with. What she doesn't know is that he is getting dropped of in the woods about 100 miles away from where his dad lives so he can canoe there and get back in touch with nature. Brian is a quite kind of kid who doesn't like TV. Nothing makes sense to him accept the woods where it is just him.
The first day the plane dropped him of on a lake in the northern woods. The pilot gave him a detailed map of the lakes so he knows where he is. He started out with his canoe when he hears something in the bushes. The next thing he knows a deer jumps out and lands right in the middle of his boat. His boat flipped over and got all his stuff wet so he made a camp site to spend the night.
At the end of the book, he gets done packing up his canoe and says he has about 40 miles left to his dad's house. He gets in his boat and instead of heading to his dads place he turns around and heads further into the woods. He looks back and says "I can always go to my dad's."
I thought it was a good book and had a lot of good parts. I like that most of the book takes place in the woods. Some things I don't like about the book is at the end instead of going to his dads house, he goes further into the woods. If you like the woods then I would recommend this book.
Book Review: Brians Return
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this book because it was adventurous, exciting, and showed yyou the way man and nature have been for the earliest years of the humans. I also liked this book because it has a lot of desire to it. He was sick of the modern 'stuff', like ovens, guns, and money to get whatever you wanted. Insted of just making it and just wanted to go back and be a part of the woods.The best part of the book to me is when Brian is quitly and swiftly paddling along the edge of the lake. He is just trying to get reacuanted with the outdoors, when a deer jumps out of the bushes. The deer had been trying to get into the water because of the misquitoes. They were all over his eyes, and the deer had run to the water so they would leave. Instead of landind in hte water, the deer had jumped onto the canoe with Brian in it. The deer did not see the canoe or Brian becsause the misquitoes in his eyes made the deer temporarily blinded. That was the best and funniest part of the whole book.
The author did a good job in descirbing the setting and the conflict. The setting was descibed to as if you hadn't ever been outside your bedroom. He used words and phrases such as lush green forest, or the quietness of the lake broken by the sharp howl of the song sang by the wolf. The conflict was a boy who had been lost in hte woods for a year, but then luckily saved. He missed the woods so much that he had started to think he was in the woods again, fighting bears and mosses in self defense. That is why I think that the author did such a good job of describing the setting and the conflict.
Book Review: Brians Return
Summary: 4 Stars
Brian's Return is about a boy who has lived in the forest for a long time. He comes back into the city to tell his mom all about his trip. He starts school to see if he likes it or not. Brian tells his mom how much he hates it and he wants to go back. She first tells him to try it again to see if he likes it. After, school he goes and hangs out with his friends. Brian and this bullie both like the same girl. Brian beats the kid up really bad. After, his mom heres what happens she hires a counselerto help him. Every day Brian goes and see's him. He tells him about the experience he has with the forest. Brian tells his mom he is going back to the forest. She ask him to stay but he said he is going. Brian and his mom both start to pack all of his stuff he will need. He gets a ride from the pilot to the forest. Every now and then he writes letters to Caleb the counsler. Brian tells him how he has been, and how he is doing. If you wnat to know more just read the book.What I liked about this book is it deals with problems that we have right now. It relates to me because I do most of that stuff.
Book Review: Peace from Yokota
Summary: 4 Stars
I agree with A reader from Danville because from the reading that I have personally done with this book I can say that it is completely true. In the Beginning of the book he mentions that the things around him doesn't mean anything to him, or he doesn't care for it. He has a hard time because he fells that he doesn't belong there, as if that he what was once home is foreign to him. Also in the beginning of the book he gets into a fight and then is sent to go see counseling. Brian then becomes attach with the counselor and then is convinced that sense he feels that where he lives is so foreign to him then he is to return to "home"Ein witch in his case was the northern woods here his plane had crashed. He then gets prepared to go back for his summer between school. He also prepares some extra stuff to take with him to the trip (stuff that he didn't have when he was in the crash that could make struggles a little easier). He finalize his dates to go , discuss it with his mother , and then goes to come back when the summer ended to tell more stories to his counselor that help him so much.Book Review: last in the series
Summary: 4 Stars
You really should read this series in order to fully enjoy the books and understand Brians character. Mr. Paulsen declares in the back of this book that this is the 4th and last in the series that begin with Hatchet, then The River, then Brians Winter, and now Brians Return. The writer also explains how the comparisons in his own life lead him to write this book. The Brian books are very good, and this one is no exeption, except that it is much too short. That is common with this writer though, his books are short but packed with fast paced adventure, the beautiful outdoors, and appealing characters.It seems almost like the writer intended to return to the series for the purpose of finding closure for Brian. Some readers do not feel that closure is achieved though. We do know that Brian does not want to leave the woods ever again.