I Had Seen Castles
by Cynthia Rylant
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Author: Cynthia RylantEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-01
ISBN: 0152053123
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Graphia
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- ISBN13: 9780152053123
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Differing Opinions of War
Summary: 3 Stars
When John is seventeen and living in Pittsburgh, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. He, like almost everyone else living in the United States at that time, is caught up in the hype of the war. Many of his classmates are joining the military as soon as possible, and John is anxious to get in line with them so he doesn't have to think of himself as a coward. His older sister is busy entertaining young men who are desperate for female company before they go away, possibly never to return again. John's father is a scientist and has gone off to California to work on new military technology, and John's mother is working in a factory making weapons.
Shortly before he plans on joining the army, John meets Ginny. She is a beautiful Irish girl who has moved with her family to Pittsburgh to take advantage of the abundance of jobs in the city. Ginny is the most amazing girl John has ever met, and the two of them are almost immediately inseparable. The big problem is that Ginny is completely against war and she hates the idea of John enlisting. He can't make her understand why joining is so important to him, and she can't make him understand why he is so against this war.
I liked the personal story of how one person dealt with World War II. I also liked that things didn't work out perfectly for John after the war; his romanticized idea of how things would be was completely incorrect.
I would have liked to have found out more what John's life was like after the war. There was a lot of time that was skipped in the book; most of the focus was on the time just before John went to war.
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