Steven Sierras
English per 7
Book Review
TITLE: Seekers AUTHOR: Erin Hunter PAGES: 300
“A long, long time ago, long before bears walked the earth, a frozen sea shattered into peaces, scattering tiny bits of ice across the sky. Each one of those pieces of ice contains the spirit of a bear, and if you are good, and brave, and strong, one day your spirit will join them.” I think this is the key quote of the story because before you even start reading the story you can tell that this story will be about how bears will some day make it to the spirits that they believe in and the journey they take before they get there.
The main characters of Seekers are Lusa, Kallik, and Tokolo. Tokolo is a grizzly bear that is on a journey by himself to find the bear spirits. His brother died when Tokolo was young and his mother was so upset with the loss that she left Tokolo to fend for himself in the wild when he was only a young cub. Lusa is a black bear that lived in a zoo until one day Tokolo’s mother came in to the zoo. Tokolo’s mother told Lusa the entire story of how she had left Tokolo in the wild to fend for himself and how terribly sorry she was for leaving. Lusa promised that she would escape from the zoo and let Tokolo know how sorry she was. The next day Tokolo’s mother attacked a keeper and she was killed. Lusa wanted to keep her promise so she escaped and met up with Tokolo. Kallik is a polar bear that was left to behind fend for herself, when her mother was eaten by orcas’ and her brother floated out to sea on a piece of ice. She traveled a long way searching for her brother. One day while traveling through a small town, she was captured and taken to a keeping place where they waited to return the bears to there natural habitat. There she met a friend named Nanuk. When they were on they were being returned to there natural habitat, the plane that was dropping them off crashed killing Nanuk. This once again left Kallik to fend for herself.
The plot of this story is about three bears that are left on their own on a long journey. It tells about each bear and the struggle that they have to go through in order to live on their own such as going through other bears territory, and learning how to catch their own prey so they would not starve.
The theme of this story is that if you do not have your parents or even somebody to help you along, life can be quite challenging. It also shows, how if you do not learn from your parents, then you have to teach yourself making it twice as hard to learn.
All in all, I think Erin Hunter did a terrific job writing this book. It shows how growing up on your own would be no walk in the park, and if you had to learn everything on your own, life would be very difficult to live. It also shows how losing someone close to you can make you very sad and just want to leave every thing you have and be on your own. I would give this story a five star rating. It was one of those stories that once you started reading you couldn’t put it down.
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March 19th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Great story! I really liked how well you went into detail, but you really need to add some diologue and stuff into your storry, you described thoughts and feelings well, but make him talk more and it could really improve your story!