Boston Harbor Of Shame Chapter Summary

A good way the book was presented was the fact it all happened within fifty four minutes, and the reader knows as some of the minutes pass. It was also presented out of four different eyes. This is both good and bad to me. I think it’s good because it shows how everyone is feeling in their own perspectives throughout the shooting. I also think it’s bad because it tends to get confusing, and it’s hard to keep it all in order. The clarity of the events get scrambled, but I think that was a way she wanted to write it because everyone felt so scrambled, and so were the thoughts they had. One thing I really enjoyed in the book was the fact that the language was a typical teenage language. It would be something my friends and I would say. It makes you really connect with the book. I think the authors attitude towards the subject is serious, she wants to show her readers how much of a problem this is and how important it is in today’s society. Nobody ever writes about the negative part of the world, and she did exactly that in a respectful way. I think the connection to the authors treatment to the subject was the research she did really helped her keep the book interesting, but also she wanted to remain respectful for those who actually have been involved in a tragic event like the one in the book. She treated the subject like she had been through it. The author made it feel like I have been through it, and that

An additional objection that I had for this book was that in some parts, it failed to narrow in on where the setting was. At some points, it would simply state an island, or maybe just a city name. As readers, we cannot be expected to know where these places are or what country they are in. As an author, she should have clarified these details better.

The author would jump from subject to subject in a confusing manner. For instance in chapter four, she was discussing jobs in one paragraph and in the next paragraph she started talking about crime pamphlets. She oftentimes repeated information from chapter to chapter which made one wonder if she was just trying to fill up space or did she think she need to remind us about the event? Also, the book spanned over three centuries (17th-19th), yet she only spent two chapters on the first one hundred and seventy-three years and concentrated seven chapters on the last sixty-four. Also, there were several typographical errors that I found while reading the book such as: on page 140, the word blacks was spelled “blaks;” on page 202, the word among was spelled “amog;” on page 261, the word poverty was spelled “proverty;” and on page 287, the word association was spelled

Throughout the book there were many grammatical errors as well as misspelled words. Even with the sources cited at the end of the book, it would have made a notable difference if Hawke had put footnotes within the pages of the text. At just 180 pages, this book is short, but does not leave a hunger for more. It had just enough detail within the short sections to satiate the curiosity, but it did not prove to be a very interesting book to read. It felt haphazardly organized and thrown together, and lacked at grabbing any

The organization and transitions take away from his actual writing. He jumps from one idea to another and it is not clear what the point is at that specific moment. One example of this is when he jumps from masculinity, to a short paragraph about femininity, then abruptly back to the problems with being a male.

The author's language is concrete, and for the most part pretty easy to understand. The reading is short, and very descriptive. The author uses descriptive adjective, she wants you to image exactly where the story takes place, and what is happening.

The book provides evidence and witness testimony to help the reader determine what might have happened the night of the Boston Massacre. The evidence given was from witnesses from the King and witnesses for Preston. This trial lasted for five days and ended with Preston being innocent (83). The story information given from the witnesses was different, although all the witnesses had the same amount of soldiers and they had the Captain at the site. A few of the witnesses’ stories went together and contained about the same information, all-resulting in Preston’s favor. Since the shooting took place around nine at night in the dark, it is unsure of what the Captain was wear making some of the witness not as reliable due to their description of the Captain. Some witnesses could have thought it was the Captain but it could have been one of their own citizens, no one knows for sure. One witness, Daniel Cornwall, said he was standing within 2 yards of the Captain and he claimed that the Captain standing to the right and facing the

The book was very well put together and organized with documented evidence and interviews from important people. A lot of research was put into this book and all the research used is cited in the back of the book. Since the topic is such a controversial topic I understand that all the information had to be correctly used which is why the research was so in-depth. The book was easy to read there was a few words I was unsure of and had to define in order to better understand them. The situation itself brought up other issues of that time such as: social, economic, and politics. The conclusion at the end really helps by summing up some main points considering there is a lot of information throughout the reading. The drawing and pictures included in the text are very interesting and it is really cool to get to see

Shankman discusses the view of the war, and the sinking of the Maine, from the perspective of the Methodist church. Throughout the church there was varying opinions of the explosion and the war itself. Some people believed that the war would be necessary, while others believed there was no need for a war. IN an editorial from a New York Methodist newspaper in April 1898: "Should we now go to war," insisted the Syracuse Northern Christian Advocate, "our cause will be just, and Methodism will be ready to do its full duty. Every Methodist preacher will be a recruiting officer” (Shankman, 1973). However, in the south, the Southern Christian Advocate pushed for people to help send aid to the Cubans that are refugees and on the island; some groups even set up soup kitchens and churches donated some money as charity. These opinions helped spread the divide after the attack on the Maine:

Even though the text is dense at times, the author does a compelling job of presenting the

The main idea of this article is how the a Bostonain was agruing with a boy named Malcom about how Malcom rough handling a boy off the street. The mood of image was detrimed, They were detrimed to push the things down the boy throat, they didnt care about what they was doing to the boy they just wanted him to feel pain how the boy off the street felt. The image support the text becaue the image show the Bostantains , the boy, and how they was shoving the things down his throat. Also, the image shows the rope being tied around his neck and the Stamp Act being on the Liberty Tree. What events does the broadside depict? Well, let me tell you some events that occured. It all started by this boy named Malcom and a Bostonian named George, George didnt like how Malcom was treating this boy off the street so George decdiced to to confront Malcom about it.

First, I found it hard to follow at times. I think it would have been easier to understand if the chapters were shorter and more broke up. Although this book included lots of details like the thesis was proving about the sex scandal, I feel that some details were unnecessary and not needed. The book also jumped back and forth between people and topics which made the book harder for me to understand. Improvements could have been made in the layout and structure of this book. In my opinion, I think the author included more background information at the beginning of the book. To me, this book seemed hard to understand and follow. It skips back and forth between years and events that make it hard to

There are countless critics with countless opinions of this writing. Different takes and different flavors but all with the same base thought. The story told is masterful, tragic and lauded for it’s bringing to light what few can. It hits home as fiction, something that never fully happened as told. With the same force it strikes that a version of this account played out countless times. Certainly more times than there are people still living to tell of

Knaut again leaves the audience with unexplained content that makes the reader curious. Although his novel had some negatives, Knaut deserves sort of a break because of the limitations of sources. All in all, this novel was very well written, but had some errors due to

The book itself was hard to comprehend for me because it was so detailed I didn’t remember the important parts. It was a good story with a good moral but I never was excited or eager to read it. In other words it never put me on the edge of my seat. So basically what i’m saying is that this story was boring. Yes there was some action but it wasn’t intense in my opinion. To make this book better I would say don't depict the details on what doesnt matter and focus more on the moral or the lesson of the story. But the book did very well putting the lesson out there, but adding more detail would make it that much easier to