Island is by Gordan Korman. It is a bout six teenagers on a sailing trip but get hits by a terrifying storm and later the boat is destroyed by a fire accident and sinks to the ocean. They were on a cabin top and luckily float to a small island with no name.
Luke, Will, Lyssa, Charla, J.J. and Lan, six crew members of the boat Phoenix are the main characters of Island. Luke is a smart imperturbable 16 year-old boy. His friend Will, a husky boy with a rounded face and seldom left the deck and the job at hand. Lyssa, the opposite of her brother Will, she is skinny and has an angular face, a bright girl who is fascinated by everything going on around her. The brother and sister have never got along in their entire lives since they are born. Another girl member, Charla, the best sport player overall and will possibly become an Olympic champion as she grow up. The son of a famous Hollywood actor, J.J., is so rich to own a personal jet which brings him to where ever he wants to be, he is a typical trouble maker who is definitely going to kill somebody one day. And Lan, an amazing younger boy who knows everything, as well as the biggest fan of National Geographic and Discovery channel. The other two characters are Captain James Cascadden and the first mate Mr. Radford. The Captain has a rugged face that looks like it had been rubbed against coral reef in the seven seas, he is six-foot-tall, so he has to duck through tight hatches and companionway of Phoenix but the movements are so natural, make him look like a man is born to be a sailor. Mr. Radford, he is as well as the cook of Phoenix, you can describe bullying children as he main hobby. He is so him that everyone calls him “Rat-face” in private. Everything begins in the hot summer at Guam, none of them six wants to be on boat in then first place, but no one knows the trip will become a suck terrible disaster. The story is about these four boys and two girls reluctantly sign up for a three-week-long sailing trip. A terrifying storm hits them on their way, the Captain is dead and “Rat-face” fled away on a life raft with all the foods and the GPS. Later on, the ship scorches into pieces and sinks to the deep ocean. Two of them are missing and the rest four were stuck in the middle of the Pacific on a cabin top trying to find a way out. Eventually, they ground on a desert island stands in the middle of nowhere. It is quite obvious that the theme of this story is “teamwork” and “survival.” Gordan Korman really teaches me a lesson on how important these two things are.
Island is one of my favorite books. Yet I have never been on any special sailing trips like the one describes in the story but after the reading I feel like I am another crew member on Phoenix and working almost dying from swimming across the ocean with no food and supply, others and I might be eaten by any monsters in any minutes. Finally reach a desert island but is just facing another difficult task of our survival. I strongly recommend that who ever is reading this line must read Island and find out what happens in the end of the story.
Luke, Will, Lyssa, Charla, J.J. and Lan, six crew members of the boat Phoenix are the main characters of Island. Luke is a smart imperturbable 16 year-old boy. His friend Will, a husky boy with a rounded face and seldom left the deck and the job at hand. Lyssa, the opposite of her brother Will, she is skinny and has an angular face, a bright girl who is fascinated by everything going on around her. The brother and sister have never got along in their entire lives since they are born. Another girl member, Charla, the best sport player overall and will possibly become an Olympic champion as she grow up. The son of a famous Hollywood actor, J.J., is so rich to own a personal jet which brings him to where ever he wants to be, he is a typical trouble maker who is definitely going to kill somebody one day. And Lan, an amazing younger boy who knows everything, as well as the biggest fan of National Geographic and Discovery channel. The other two characters are Captain James Cascadden and the first mate Mr. Radford. The Captain has a rugged face that looks like it had been rubbed against coral reef in the seven seas, he is six-foot-tall, so he has to duck through tight hatches and companionway of Phoenix but the movements are so natural, make him look like a man is born to be a sailor. Mr. Radford, he is as well as the cook of Phoenix, you can describe bullying children as he main hobby. He is so him that everyone calls him “Rat-face” in private. Everything begins in the hot summer at Guam, none of them six wants to be on boat in then first place, but no one knows the trip will become a suck terrible disaster. The story is about these four boys and two girls reluctantly sign up for a three-week-long sailing trip. A terrifying storm hits them on their way, the Captain is dead and “Rat-face” fled away on a life raft with all the foods and the GPS. Later on, the ship scorches into pieces and sinks to the deep ocean. Two of them are missing and the rest four were stuck in the middle of the Pacific on a cabin top trying to find a way out. Eventually, they ground on a desert island stands in the middle of nowhere. It is quite obvious that the theme of this story is “teamwork” and “survival.” Gordan Korman really teaches me a lesson on how important these two things are.
Island is one of my favorite books. Yet I have never been on any special sailing trips like the one describes in the story but after the reading I feel like I am another crew member on Phoenix and working almost dying from swimming across the ocean with no food and supply, others and I might be eaten by any monsters in any minutes. Finally reach a desert island but is just facing another difficult task of our survival. I strongly recommend that who ever is reading this line must read Island and find out what happens in the end of the story.
- David Chen
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