2009-06-04 19:44:30 UTC
William Halloway and James Nightshade are thirteen-year-old boys living in the wonderful Green Town. Both of them will turn fourteen within a week. Later on, a lightning-rod salesman comes into town and warns the boys that a very big storm is coming soon, so he gives Jim a lighting rod to put on his roof. Then the boys went to the library, to see Charles Halloway, which he is also Will’s father. Charles Holloway although he is only fifty-four, and unhappy with his age because he thinks his very old and he can’t to as much as he wants too, he wishes that he can go back to a kid, for that reason he goes to the library and that brings him back memory. Wills father sees a sign in a store window that advertises Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show, the boys are exited that a carnival has come so late in the year. The boys run out to watch the corrival arrive at three in the morning, the next day the go to explore the corrival and help their 7th grade teacher Miss. Foly, who panic inside the Mirror Maze. A huge man grabs Will and Jim and tells them that the merry-go-round is broken. Another man tells him to at them down, and he introduces himself as Mr. Dark and tells the t others man’s name is Mr. Cooger, Mr. Dark is the Illustrated man, covered in tattoos and pays attention only to Jim. Inside the tents he is jet up as a new act, Mr. Electico, a man they run electricity through. At the carnival Charles Holloway outsmarts Mr. Dark finds his son, kills the witch and desirous the mirror Maze. Both boys at the end go up couple years older.
The theme of this book I would say is you have to accept who you are and be happy that way. Charles Halloway is not a happy man; the important is that at the beginning of the book he does not accept himself. His fifty-four years drag on him, and he is not sure of himself as a father. But at the critical moment in the book, when the Witch is about to stop his heart, he suddenly looks up and realizes that there is no need to be afraid of what he is or is not. This is kind of sad, because I think a fifty-four man should be happy with the family he has and try to understand the world better but at the being he doesn’t accept any of that, but at the end he changes all of that and he accepts himself, and finds out that Will loves him exactly the way he is.
I would recommend this book to other, but I would say it still be people that are in high school not any younger than that. All people in high school and older would find this book interesting and they might enjoy the book the most. They would enjoy this book because you actually learn something about your self, and accept who you are, and no matter what you family loves you that way. This book is special, because on your mind you think a totally different things would happened and different people would die, but is the opposite of that. The exciting part for me was that Charles Holloway finally accepted who he is.