![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their group includes the four kids and their pastor. My Opinion: In this YA book we find Will Peterson and three other young volunteers who go to Central America with their church group to help rebuild the wall of a one room schoolhouse for the members of a small,very poor village. My favorite scene involves a gun, a waterfall and a maneating reptile. ![]() I think the messages would have been more profoundly received without the heavy hand. The narrator himself becomes less shallow and more introspective as the story develops.Although I enjoyed the introspection, I think the "God" talk in the book was overdone. It stands to reason that he might just view his experiences, at least initially, via his media riddled and cliche laden worldview. I wonder if this isn't a purposeful tool used by the author to make the narrator more realistic.After all, the narrator is 16 years old. In the beginning the characters all seem a little cliche and two dimensional but they acquire at least a little depth as the story climaxes and rolls toward its conclusion. I think the characters are developed via the worldview and perspective of the teenager who is telling us his story. My first instinct was to feel this was a result of bad character development. The only character I really like or connect to in this story is the narrator. ![]()
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