Learning Tree by Gordon Parks Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Learning Tree
Book Review: The Dragon and Kings
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is also a continuation of the book "Dragon Quest." This time Darek is in a real adventure. Darek's dad, the real Cheif Elder, and Darek's brother and other villagers are captured by the fake Cheif Elder and put in a prison in Krad. Rowena, and Pola finds two more dragonlings that are abandoned by the parents. So Pola and Rowena gets the dragons and start nursing them like Darek did with Zantor. Now, the dragons are fully grown, they can go to Krad and save the innocent villagers but when they get there, there are hundreds of red fang dragons... To see what Rowena, Pola, and Darek's strategy is, you'll have to read the book yourself!!!Book Review: The Dragonling
Summary: 4 Stars
This book i read is really exciting. Every page i read, i wonder what's going to happen. This book is about a boy (called Darek) he lives in a village that hunts dragons. One day, his dad and his brother came back for a dragon quest and had killed a blue dragon (one of the rarest dragons). Darek finds a dragonling in a dragon's pouch. Now he has to protect the dragon from the other villagers.Book Review: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
Summary: 4 Stars
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks shows the difficult life a black boy named Newton Winger goes through. At a young age, Newton learns how to deal with racism and prejudice, the attitude of cruelty against and individual. Growing up during the segregation period, Newt faces a lot of challenges a boy our age would not experience. Parks' attitude toward being prejudice about individuals keeps the reader to feel the anger by seeing the injustice done to his characters. He also shows that it is hard to change a point of view of an individual. During solitary confinement, a lot of misunderstandings happen and Gordon Parks shows how his characters deal with situation dealing with social issues and religion. Parks also wants the reader to understand that we live in a good world now and that everything is in peace, there are no such worries about life. Newt does a lot of activities that young teenager his age would do such as fight, argue, and on top of that go to school- which he succeeds in. By reading this book, one can understand the cruelty and injustice done to the characters and one can realize how precious life is today and we should be thankful to everyone. The Learning Tree is an outstanding book to read because it can make one think about life in the early 20th century and the 21st century today.Book Review: The Price of Knowledge
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was a great read. The "picture taking man," as Parks was often called, crafted a finely layered novel about coming of age in the years prior to integration and the civil rights movement. The book is sad, funny, and painfully true. It is a must for anyone who wants to understand the extent to which racism dehumanizes and destroys; and for anyone who wants to understand the meaning of courage and the unbreakable will of the human spirit.Book Review: gordon parks, the learning tree
Summary: 5 Stars
brings us into the inner lives of a Negro family as they struggle to understand and accept -- without malice -- the bitter challenge of their special world...