Kerosene

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I would definitely recommend this book to someone else. I would recommend this book because it has action,excitement, and drama. It has action in the book like the epic chase when the drug dealers were chasing Cal and Rob around the neighborhood. It has excitement when Cal sets the school on fire and is trying to get out. Also it has a lot of drama between Cal and Emma. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate this book an 8.5. I would give it an 8.5 because it has all good things except the ending. The ending isn't good, Abby,Cal,and joel just run away from the school and that's it!!! I would like to here more about if Cal settled his pyro problem, if Emma and Cal got together, and if Joel stops dealing drugs and settled his problem with the drug dealers. None of those questions are answered and that's why the book has an 8.5. The exposition in the book is introducing the main characters which are Cal and Joel. The rising action is when Joel and Cal get attacked by the drug dealers a bunch of times. also, the climax is when Cal sets the school on fire with the drug dealers in it. The falling action is when Abby comes into the school and gets Cal out of it. The resolution is when the investigator knows cal is the arsonist but does not put him in jail. hence, I think the conflict is dealing with cal's fire problem. to sum up, the book was good and full of detail. I would of liked the ending to be a little more detailed though. Their were too many unanswered questions at the end. That is the plot of kerosene. The main characters in the book kerosoene, are cal, joel, and abby. surly My favorite character is Cal. for example, He helps people like Joel with his drug-dealing problem, and Abby becoming herself. He helps so many people he doesn't have time for himself and has to resort to fire. My least favorite character is Abby. due to an evil prank on Cal then expects him to still like her. That's like the school bully coming up to you and asking for your friendship. If I was Cal i wouldn't be her boyfriend. But Cal accepts her friendship and it works out for the best. That's the min characters in kerosene. The setting to kerosene is a town in England. I definetly know this because on the back it tells you about the author living in England so I think that is where the plot would be. Also they use slightly different word choice than us. Rob says "mate" a lot to Cal. They also say "lads" when Joel is selling drugs to some people. Obviously, young people in our area don't say "mate" or "lads". That is why tI think the setting is in England. One last reason is when Joel is in Cal's house and the drug dealers come and beat him, Cal gets out a fake Colt 45. He said that they are illegal. It can't be in the U.S because Colts are legal over here. So it has to be somewhere else. That is why the plot of kerosene is england. I think the theme of the story was your good friends will help you with your problems. I think this because even though joel didn't know cal's problem was very severe, he tried to get him help. abby was worried about him and came to see him at his house. She also saved him from suicidal in the school. Also, Joel took him to clubs to loosen up. Those are good friends that cal will keep for the rest of his life. I would strongly recommend this book to other readers. I would recommend this book because it is full of action and drama. It is full of action throughout the book with the drug dealers, burning buildings,and Emma teasing cal. it also has drama between cal and abby, and joel and cal's relationship. that is the conclusion of the book.

Hey would you like to read a book to "BURN UP" for? Well if you do you should read the book Kerosene by Chris Wooding. This book is awesome. In fact this book has action, romance, things people our age can relate to, and finally the best thing of all it has fire! This book is so interesting. I would definitely recommend it to someone. I really think other people would enjoy this book as much as my group has. Like I said before it has a lot of good things that I assume people would really enjoy. If I had to give this book a rating from one to ten I would doubtlessly give it a ten. It was that amazing. This book was really hard to put down because it was so suspenseful you just wanted to keep reading. I also gave it this rating because a lot of the stuff in the book is stuff that I’m absolutely interested in.

In the really weird exposition Cal was walking home and he was staring at some guys shoes. The guy asked, "Do you want a picture it would last longer." And while the guy asked that he flipped Cal the bird. When Cal got home he was furious. He was so furious he punched his dresser all most breaking his hand. Right after the exposition the rising action occurred. Actually there were two rising actions. The first rising action was when Cal went outside to eat lunch and Rob asked him for his lighter. Cal being the she guy he is gave Rob his lighter and continued to eat his lunch. Cal sat where he was for the longest time waiting for Rob to return his lighter. Eventually he went to the spot Rob was smoking and found Rob and his girlfriend Emma making out. When they finally saw him Rob gave him his lighter. Cal said thanks them and is about to go but then a teacher (Mr.McLeader) caught them and they all got into eminent trouble. Remember how I told you about Rob’s girlfriend? Well when they all got into trouble, she was a prefect who got to stand by the heater, but when she got into trouble she went down a rank and she now has to stand out in the cold as a prefect. So now she wants to get revenge on cal because he got them all in trouble. But in my opinion I think Cal really did not do any thing. Rob and Emma brought all the trouble on themselves. The next rising action is when Emma starts to hang out with the new girl Abby. Emma and Abby were walking down the hall looking at who won the art contest. When they saw that Abby won second they decided to check to see who won first. To there surprise they saw Cal had won. Then they saw what Cal drew and were very upset. His drawing was a falcon coming in to kill a little helpless mouse. This made Abby so crazed she too wanted to get revenge on Cal. So together both Abby and Emma are going to try to get revenge on Cal. Next is the climax which is when Abby and Emma try to get revenge on Cal. The climax is really confusing at times because Cal doesn’t fall for the girls games at first but he then eventually he falls for them and he get’s so embericed. But what Cal did not know was that Abby actually liked him and she told Emma that she was done messing with cal. She did this because she and Cal actually made a relationship together. But Cal’s mind was thrown off about the girls plain then eventually he remember. He and Abby started fighting because he still thought she was playing him. So to get ride of all this he made a plain. Next is the falling action which is Cal’s plain. Cal’s plain is to comit suicide by burning down his school with him still inside because he just thinks every one is playing him anymore. But(this is the climax) when Abby sees Cal go into the school and it burst into flames she goes in right after him to show her love for him. But the hard thing about Cal is he still thinks Abby is playing him when she finds him and tells him that they need to get out of there. But eventually Abby talks him out of his suicidal stage and there relation ship grows stronger. After that Cal defiantly knows that Abby really loves him and is not playing him. In my opinion I thought the plot was really goodly set out and described very well. It also has good stuff we can all relate to. Next I will talk about the characters in this book.

The first main character is Cal. Cal is a boy of the age of about sixteen. He has addictions of drinking coffee and smoking. But his worst addiction of all is he finds delight in burning items and one day it goes too far. Next is Joel. Joel is Cal’s best friend and is really concerned about Cal when he one day finds him siting in his back yard burning stuff. He is also terrified for his friend by the way he is talking. Cal is talking really strangely. The next character is Abby. Abby is friends with Emma and they are good friends. Untill she sees that Cal is a really good person and she goes against what Emma says. The last character is Emma. She is a real brat. She had a plain of revenge for Cal and she got stood up by Abby. My favorite character is Cal. He is my favorite character because he is a teen going through tough times and so am I so we can both relate. It’s just nice to see that someone else is going through rough times other than my self. The most dreadful person in this book is EMMA! I really hate her. She would not just stop messing with Cal even when her friends stood her up. She is amazingly stupid. She is a really desperate bully like kids in our school. That’s the main character’s, and my favorite and least favorite characters. Next is the setting of the book.

The setting in this book is a small town located somewhere in England. This story is set in 1999. Cal attends school at Bishop Grove where a lot of his adventures occur. The next location is Cal’s house. Cal basically has the house to him self because his parents are always away. The last place is Club Poppy’s. This is where Cal and Joel go after a long tough day at school. The story is set in the Winter months. The usual time of day in this book is either mid afternoon or late at night. The mood in this book is very depressing and goth. The next part is the theme of this odd book.

The theme of this book is if there is a problem and you need help you should not be frighted to ask for help. I said this was the theme because when Cal was in the blazing school Abby told him that it was okay that he had some problems. This speech of Abby’s opened a new door in Cal’s head. I feel this was a very inspiring theme. It makes me have a better understanding with people that have problems. Finally the conclusion has come.

Like I said in the beginning this is a very good book. It is so good because it really intrigues readers to read on, there is stuff I can relate too and, it has action and adventure. I am so overjoyed that our group read this book. I pounder that all yong teens and adult’s alike should read this book. To sum it up I feel this book could help someone see the side of a troubled person from there point of view.

By Hunter

**__Kerosene__** By: Curtis Wooding Have you ever red a book that kept you on your feet and made you wonder what was going to happen next? Furthermore, that’s exactly how this book had me going. So yes I would really recommend this book. If I had to rate **__Kerosene__** on a scale of 1-10 it’d most likely be a, 8. Because it had a lot of tremendous scenes and parts, just the end left me hanging on so many things and I’m not a fan of that. I do like the way the author used the main character Cal I think it was very clever. The plot was set up well. It seemed as if it took place in England. There for we learned that they had an accent. The beginning of the book started off as a dream I’m pretty sure. As the days went on Cal was feeling more frustrated with himself. I like the scene where Cal lends his lighter to this guy and girl and he plans on him getting his lighter back but he doesn’t. So he heads over to the place he saw them go which was described as the “skip” which was behind a building that had trees and branches surrounding the dirt track. Next when he got there the two were making out. But then the principal caught them smoking and gave Emma a huge consequence. This consequence wasn’t humongous at all to Emma it was but she got so angry she was going to do whatever she could to get back with Cal. Later in the book she did and did it good. Because It made Cal so frustrated and very bad thing. Like in the one scene he accidentally set a barn on nervous he had to play with fire which if I did I’d be terrified. You see to Cal fire helps him calm down which is a fire. He stupidly stayed and watched the fire until the fire trucks were in sight. The falling action like wasn’t there at all it just like went from the exposition to the end. Furthermore, that was like the biggest negative for me. Consequently, the main character is Cal. The other characters are Emma Abby Joel Rob and Mr. Mcleder. My favorite character would have to be Cal. I’m not exactly sure why I like him the best I guess I just do. But I do like him because he has excellent drawing skills. He also is brave in many ways like when he set the school on fire and wasn’t even worried about getting into trouble. Also when he lit buildings on fire and would watch the fire until the ambulances would be in hearing distance. The character I dislike the most would have to be Emma. Even though she seems hot it still seems like she’s a brat. I think this only because she got this little consequence because of Cal and she tried to like ruin his life because of it. That’s really childish and bratty. She also played games with his head like when she told him she liked him just so he’d be thinking about her all the time, which would mess up his mind even more than it is right now. To me Cal is kind of like crazy and psycho The setting of our book seems to be a town in England. We know this because the back of the book talks about it being there but only in little sequences. Also in our book there is a poor district and a rich district. From what the book says Cal is in the poor district which might seem right because he dresses horrendously. From the other characters it doesn’t seem like it’d be the poor district because Emma seems like a flashy girl. Abby seems like she’s one of those innocent girls. In conclusion I think the Author didn’t explain the setting enough because we only have a brief memory about it. There for the setting is hard to write about. Rob, Emma’s boyfriend is just like one of those I don’t care guys so I’m not sure were her falls. But yeah it doesn’t really seem like a poor district. I think the theme of this story was probably that good friends will always be there for you. I think this is the theme because Cal had problems and Joel knew that. And that’s why he was there for him every time he was down. Even when Joel was hurt like after he got jumped he still was there for Cal. Another example is when Abby was messing with Cal and then found out he needed help. Then she jumped in and gave it her all which is what good and true friends do. I wish most of my friends would be as tremendous friends as them and show respect. Hence the reason why I would recommend this book. It has great qualities like the characters which have spectacular roles. The words and purpose are just as great. I think anyone out there could read this book and learn something from it.

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