Varying Chapter Summary

The plot of this book is about the journey of discovering their own identities, and the journey starts because of the main characters’ friendships. Jonah, the main character, has been loved and cared for by his family his entire life and has never thought seriously about the fact that he is adopted until he gets two mysterious letters in the mail, both with no return address. Jonah thinks that these are just a prank letter, but his friend Chip gets panicked when he gets the same letters. Jonah finds out that Chip’s parents had never told him that he was adopted as well. Jonah thinks “He’d never met Chip’s dad, just seen him drive by. Jonah probably couldn’t have picked Chip’s dad out in a line-up. However, right now Jonah wanted to stolk over to Chip’s house, swing his best punch, and hit Chip’s dad right in the mouth.” (Peterson 35) Jonah feels angry towards Chip’s parents because they refuse to tell him anything else about his adoption. Later Jonah says “I swear, I’ll do everything I can to help you.” (Peterson 35) This quote suggests that Jonah cares deeply about his friend and wants to support him, and he promises he will do everything he can to help Chip. Jonah, Chip, and Jonah’s younger sister, Katherine begin the journey to find the truth about their past. Their friendship pushes them into a wild adventure for seeking their identity.

One of the traits jonah shares with mrs. Hodge is the ability to think under pressure. Mr. Hodge shows this trait when he was trapped by the kids in the cave he was calm in saying “ you can come to the future it is better and you don’t have to be split from your family members.” pg. 268 This actually made jonah think twice about his decision. Jonah has this trait also when he was trapped in the cave except, when mr. Hodge had the control. He was tied up and any normal kid would have gave up but not him. He knew he had soe allies on the inside of their group so he asked “can I please speak with only one person maybe her” pg. 278 she was his allie.

In the book, “found” by Margaret Peterson, the Protagonist Jonah Skidmore is an ordinary, adventurous, young 13 year old boy. Jonah is an ambitious, young boy who when sets his mind on a task, will do absolutely everything he can to accomplish it. “Don’t worry chip, I promise I will find out why we are receiving these strange letters”. Jonah is very considerate and caring for his best friend. When in situations these two responsible young men will stick together. Jonah is also a polite, hones man, who is very considerate of his encouraging parents. In fact also knowing they are not his birth parents. “I hope you guys don’t mind but can you tell me a little more about my actual parents?” Jonah questioned. Jonah finds himself extremely fortunate

Jonah may be the messiest, but he cares for the boys and wants to make sure, they are always safe.

Although, in “Throwing up Childhood” by Leonard Kress, he describes how his parents often tried to act like they didn’t care about his bulimic behavior. Kress described how his parents knew very well of what was happening yet they didn’t say anything, of course he thought they did, just very much in private. "Well, whatever I did can't be as gross and disgusting as THAT,' I can hear them repeating over and over until they got what they wanted." (pg number!) It seems that describes parent’s role in not only my life but also many others. I'm sure it happened to them to, that their grandparents and other elders told them that their generation was the reason for all the world’s problems, or that they were "so much better" behavior wise. I wish that for once my father would look at the fact for one: I don't have a drug or alcohol addiction; and two: I never once traded my lunch money in the 6th grade for cigarettes. Back to being a journalist, parents don’t look at the good, and they also will never agree the opposing argument has some good points, or is even right, like a politician or

Starting out with the differences between the characters in the book and their parents relationships is very different both have only one parent, Amir has his dad ,which he calls Buba, and Taylor has her mom which she calls Mama. Both parents have very different ways of parenting. Taylor’s mom she shows so much affection and pride in her daughter like whenever she did maybe even the littlest thing her mom would make it seem like it the best thing in the world. “ There were two things about Mama. One is that she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she

Before he went to the island of San Lorenzo, Jonah was floating on a cloud, not really paying attention to too much detail. However, as he met more people on the island things started to click for him, and he was able to make sense out of some of the puzzle that would eventually become his book. Jonah also makes some dumb mistakes, just like humans do. I don't think that his agreeing to become the president of San Lorenzo was a smart move, but at the time all he could think about was marrying Mona, and that in itself was enough motivation for him. "Love is blind" is a very popular saying, and it rings true in most humans, and in this case, Jonah.

Also an example of him instilling Jonah with confidence, as a Rebel does to form their army Archetype Two Jonah is the Conscience, a character who acts as a mediator between the protagonists original ideas and how they are translated into the outside world. Much like Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio or Tinkerbell from Peter, these characters are the moral compass that pushes the hero onto the right path (Screencraft: 99 Archetypes and Stock Characters). Characters with this archetype seem to be far more common in literature and entertainment that have a child protagonist because by the time a person develops into an adult, they’re expected to have mastered their conscience and know right from wrong with a magical sidekick. Quote

In multiple cases involving young teenagers, they talk about how finding their birth parents helps them to know who they are. Even though many adoptees do not want to find their birth parents because of they fear rejection, that could just show their commitment to actually finding their birth parents. To start, “three years ago, Florence Ladden Fisher was in an automobile accident. Her last thought before the crash, ‘I am going to die and I do not know who I am.’ Mrs. Fisher, a wife and mother now in her early 40’s, had spent almost 20 years searching for what she called her ‘true identity.’ She was an adopted child. She has found that ‘most people, especially adoptive parents’ cannot understand the compelling need for identity experienced by many of the adopted children” (Nemy). This was from the New York Times article, “Adopted Children Who Wonder 'What Was Mother Like?'”, and it shows exactly how much finding your birth parents can impact your identity. Also, stories like Tom McGee show some of the real reasons people try and find their birth parents. Later in the same article about Carol Barbieri, it said, “Adoptees like Tom McGee of Oceanport said the fight to obtain access to their original birth records is more about finding their identity--knowing who they are and their medical history--than it is about reuniting with their biological family” (Cervenka). So, Tom McGee wasn’t

During the present, Jonah is completely good. When Jonah reveives a letter in the mail saying “You are one of the Missing” he soon found out that his best friend Chip had received the same letter. Jonah helped Chip to try and find out about their pasts and also why both of them would receive a letter like this. Later in the book, time travelers came to try and send Jonah and all the other

The purpose of the book of Jonah is to show God’s people that His plan is exceedingly compassionate (God is gracious) and exceedingly certain (God is sovereign). The central theme of the book of Jonah is the God who loves in freedom. We should desire to understand, accept, and love God’s sovereign grace, rather than oppose it or be resentful of it. The book of Jonah stresses the freedom and primacy of God and God’s initiative and grace toward humanity. Christians, applying the theology of Jonah to the person and work of Jesus, could claim that Jesus Christ is the freedom of God acting in love toward humanity

Jesse’s home life consists of living on a farm with his mother. At the age of 3, jesses father left him and his mother and never came back. Although Jesse’s father not in the picture, he does see him around town often. Even though his father notices him, he usually turns the other way and pretends he doesn’t see him. Jesse’s mother tries to be carrying and supportive but she says jesses still has a difficult time because

Jonah’s message teaches us that God is a Just God, that he is willing to give everyone a second chance to change. It also informs the reader that evil has consequences and deserves punishment, but also that God is very merciful and always has mercy and compassion upon those turn back to him, no matter who they are (even our enemies), and that what God really wants is not people's destruction, but their turning back to Him and knowing his love and mercy in their lives.

By refraining from making the clear connection between Jonah and the elder son, Jesus may be yet again be extending one more kindness to Jonah. Now, some additional observations on Jesus’ comments concerning Jonah: Jesus is silent regarding Jonah’s aberrant behavior and salvation, probably because, at this point, this was not His purpose in citing Jonah. The issue addressed by Jesus was the failure of His Jewish listeners to hear, repent and believe God as the pagan Ninevites had done.

The book of Jonah just like other religious texts demonstrates the significance of God’s mercy to mankind. The similarity in concept is quite evident with other religious texts which have also demonstrated God’s grace. However, there exist some notable differences with the other religious texts. For example, the disobedience of Jonah to God’s calling is quite different from other texts where we have seen men called by God demonstrate total obedience and submission to God’s