Review:Someone Like Me (Book)

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Review on Someone Like Me By Elaine Forrestal
Reviewed by Yash, Akash, Luther and Mihir
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Settings
This story is set in many places including
Thomass house, Enyas house, the school, the
hospital, the creek and the music academy. The
places that this story is most frequently set is
in the school and Thomass house. This book is
most likely to be set in the early twenty- first
century. The reason we think this is because
there are.
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Setting
Timeline of the events in chronological order
Enyas house
School
Thomass house
Creek
So as you can see there are 5 different settings
in the book
Music academy
Hospital
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Setting (cont.)
SMALL MAP OF SOME OF THE PLACES
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Plot
Timeline of events
Beginning In the beginning of the book we are
introduced to a character named Thomas Alexander
St John Kennedy aka tas, hes a boy whos growing
up in a town called Frankston with his family, he
normally likes getting in to trouble by getting
into fights or replying rudely to teachers, which
either result in a detention or a
suspension. Middle Thomas gets shot by one of
Enyas family members and gets sent to the
hospital, in the hospital he meets his principal
Mr Mac who suffered heart strokes, from there he
changes his attitude from being a bad boy to a
good boy because of Mr Macs way of life. End
In the End a tragedy happens, Reebok dies while
the person who tried killing Thomas and killed
Reebok gets arrested, he was Enyas Uncle. Later
Thomas discovers his talents in music and tries
for the scholarship exam. he passes the exam and
gets accepted in the music academy.
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Plot
The principal passed out (event 3)
Plot of the story in a graph
A thief steals Thomass chickens (event 2)
Thomas gets shot in the chest (climax)
Thomas meets a new friend, Enya (event 1)
Thomas passes a music scholarship program
(conclusion)
Thomas going to school and coming back
home (Orientation)
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Plot (cont.)

• The Main understanding of this novel is that
  Thomas is a kid who gets in trouble a lot,
  normally for fighting or bad behavior but after
  Mr. Mac leaves school cause of his heart strokes
  Thomas gets sad but it gets worsen when Thomas
  gets shot and sent to the hospital, when he
  arrives there he sees Mr. Mac and he tells Thomas
  that there is no point getting in to trouble,
  this made him change and try to find his talents,
  he did it was music
• Main understanding of this novel is that, Thomas
  is facing encounters of bad things in his life
  which he overcomes with his talents.

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Themes
The different themes in Someone like me

• There are many types of themes in the book,
  Someone Like me.
• Getting used to new school
• Family
• Friendships
• Growing up
• Conflict between characters
• Bullying
• Braveness
• Fear
• Achievements
• Success
• Accomplishment
• Tragedy
• Survival

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Themes
REASON WE CHOSE THESE THEMES

• Family- We picked family because most of the book
  has Thomass family mentioned. There is always
  some humour going on or sibling squabbling with
  each other.
• Bullying- We picked bullying because there are
  lots of incidents where a bully in Thomass
  school kept on picking on him. One day Thomas got
  so mad that he put dog turd in his bag.
• Achievement- We picked achievement because Thomas
  passes music scholarship test towards the end of
  the book.
• Friendship- We picked friendship because Thomas
  makes lots of friends during the book especially
  a girl called Enya. Enya is also another main
  character in the book

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Themes (cont.)
Major Themes Minor Themes
Friendship Getting used to new school
Family Conflict
Growing up Bravery
Bullying Fear
Achievements Sorrow
Tragedy Survival
Success Accomplishments
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Characters

• Thomas
• Enya
• Darren
• Mr Mac
• Mr and Mrs Kennedy

All Characters
Main Characters

• Thomas
• Enya
• Darren a.m. Dreadlock
• Mr Mac
• Mr and Mrs Kenned (parents)
• Granny Anne
• Mr McKinley
• Mrs Watson
• Charlotte
• Philippa

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Characters (cont.)
Brief outline of the main characters
Thomas Enya Darren Mr Mac Mr and
Mrs Kennedy
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Characters
Brief outline of some other characters
Charlotte Philippa Mr McKinley Mrs
Watson Granny Anne
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Characters
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Quotes
In the book there are various types of quotes
which represent the themes of this novel such as

• Im not going to grow up. I like the way I am.
  (Growing up)
• delighted to inform you that you have been
  awarded a Special Music Scholarship
  (Accomplishments)
• I wake up in the early morning. The birds are
  singing. The stove has gone cold. Reebok is dead
  (Tragedy)

There are many more Quotes in the novel but we
chose these quotes because these quotes were
mainly relating on our themes.
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Use of literary devices
This book contains a various amounts of literary
devices, which make the novel interesting
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Evidence of literary devices
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Recommendation
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