Alabama Moon by Watt Key

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Soapstone: Alabama Moon

Characters:
In the novel Alabama Moon a boy named Moon is the main character. Moon is very independent because throughout the story he does a lot of things on his own including living alone. On page 3 I found out that he was ten years old because it said “I was ten years old and he’d taught me everything I needed to know about living out in the forest.” So this showed me that he knew how to live in his own out in the forest and that he was ten years old which was pretty young to be living on his own out in the forest. At first when Moon was scared and lonely without his dad he was aggressive with the other characters. On page 27 Moon really showed his anger toward Mr.Abroscotto
“I felt anger flash through my head. I jumped up on the seat of my chair and leaped across the counter to land on Mr.Abroscotto. He fell back into the shelves behind, and I started hitting him with my one hand that wasn’t holding on to him. I pounded him on the cheek over and over as fast as I could. Once he got his balance, he clamped his arms around me so that I couldn’t move my fists.” Moon get’s angry when anyone talked bad about his father so he decided to try to beat them up. Also Moon is willing to do what he thought his father wanted him to do. Like when he wanted to go to Alaska because that’s where his father told him to go after he died. On page 25 and 26 Moon was talking to Mr.Abroscotto and asked him where his was going to go, “Where are you headed when you leave here? Alaska. How you plan on gettin’ to Alaska? Sell the watch and things in this box. And I’ve got the money left over from last time we were here. I see. What are you gonna do when you get there? Pap said there’s other people like us there. He said you c...

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Why did the author do this?
The author of the story Alabama Moon did this because they wanted to make the story have all of those things. The author wanted to make it in first person because they wanted the main character to tell the story through their point of view. The author wanted the conflict to go from very much to very little because they wanted to make it interesting. The author made all of those vocabulary words in the story so the reader wouldn’t be too hard but not to easy to where they would get lost too. The author put the story in paragraph form so the reader could read the book easily and follow along like every other book. The author also made all of the textual evidence in the story so the reader could follow along really well and get all the information that they needed to know. That is why the author did all of these things.

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