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Summary: History and family situations
Review: This book was absolutely extraordinary. I read it from start to finish totally engrossed in the lifelike situation and plot of this book. So many events in this book were lifelike and a part of our history of the Great Depression. This was the first time I have ever read a free-verse poem though, and it changed my view on books I have never considered reading. Out of the Dust gave me a taste of what it was really like in that period of time. So many events in this book relate somehow to some families today. Sadly this is sometimes the case. With Billie Jo's adventure on the train, she realizes the true meaning of sticking close to family even in the rough times. She forms a closer relationship with her father and realizes the meaning of loving, respecting, and forgiving herself first. I think this book should be recommended for any individual that would like to experience a realistic time in history that was rough and unforgettable. I rate this book as superior.
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Summary: Out of the Dust Wrap-Up
Review: Out of the Dust is a relatively good book about the rough times in the dust bowl. It takes place in 1934-1935 in Oklahoma, when great dust storms swept the land. A girl named Billie Jo and her family are stuck in the midst of the dust bowl and have to battle the harsh environment. Some of the events include giant dust storms, floods, drought, and even grasshoppers. The only thing she likes to do with her time is play the piano. This helps her survive the roughness.
I thought it was a fine book because of the creative style of writing. It is a first person diary book. This may seem boring, but the way it is written is a treat. This is the first book I've seen that is written with all sorts of margins and formats. For example, one of the passages is about a piano and the sentences are written in the shape of piano keys. It is very much like a series of concrete poems that make up a story. I love the originality that Karen Hesse has and her creativity in writing with this style. Also, I love how she titles each passage and the extreme difference with each passage. There are some that just talk about a tiny bit of rain or snow that fell and then others are two or three pages long and include a whole series of event. That is why Karen Hesse is a very excellent and creative writer.
The only thing that I really don't like is the fact that the plot can get boring at times and sometimes there's too much information. Sometimes it seems like the plot is going off track or going nowhere at all. There are useless passages that I don't really care about reading. Also, the basic plot of the entire story really isn't that intriguing. Nothing really catches me and make me want to read more. I've read books that made me mad when I finished the book because I wanted more of it and this really didn't do that for me.
However, overall I thought this was a great book and I would recommend it to others just because of its pure uniqueness. I think Karen Hesse is a good writer and did a pretty nice job on this book. It is informative of what it was like in the dust bowl and it is creative, so I think this book is just good.
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Summary: Out Of the Dust Review
Review: This book is actually pretty good. It shows good detail and the plot seems rather okay. It also kept me in suspense. Some parts would sometimes make keep on reading. It makes me kind of feel what it was probably like in the dust storms. Everything all covered in dust and dirt. The main character seems rather interesting and strong. She was able to still play the piano while she had crippled hands. It's actually pretty amazing. Sometimes the book would make me just feel a little uncomfortable. Like the part of where the main character's mother got hurt and the way the author described how she looked after her incident was a little disturbing. Though it would make me feel sorry for the main character Billie Jo and her mother. I feel sorry for the main character because she really wants to get away from the dust storms. The book also makes me feel like I'm Billie Jo. Great details the book gives and that's how good it is, it makes me feel like I'm the character. The story will also cause me to feel happy for Billie Jo. Like when she is reunited with her father after she left. The author also knows how to create a character. She's very life like and the character and I have some things in common, so I kind of like Billie Jo. She's a pretty brave person. The author really knows how to write a story. She tells us what it was like back then in the time of the dust storm. It truly is a great book. Trust me. It can really grab your attention sometimes. It caught my attention, and it will catch yours as well. It will make you have all sorts of feelings. Happiness, sadness you name it. Again it truly is a great book.
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Summary: Out Of The Dust Review
Review: What I like about this book is that it is made up by poems. The book is not that long, that you can finish it in a day. To me, it is not that bad and it is a lesson history lesson for students at school. It talks about a family living on a farm and how they got though the Great Depression. It has many sad parts and more disgusting moments. I won't give away the good part but when you do, you would feel like you want to throw-up too. The family is made up of three. One mother, one father, and one daughter. The narrator of Out Of The Dust is the young daughter name Billie Josher father gave her that name. In the beginning, she talks about how she was born and talks about her family. a(the never told her really name),Daddy(that is what Billie Jo calls him),and some of her relatives. The middle part of the book is where it gets interesting. Many things happen here which I don't what to give away. All I can tell you is that Billie Jo's family gets a lot of bad luck. That also includes the strong dust storms in the Dust Bowl in which they live in. For all the people who don't know what the Dust Bowl is, let me tell you. It is the region with the most dangerous dust storms in America during the Great Depression. Maybe I can tell you a little bit. Billie Jo has a terrible accident that changes her and her family's life forever. Later on in the book, Billie Jo finally gets a brother that she and her father always wanted. Then something goes terribly wrong. They had to build a grave so early. They named him Franklin. Their farm isn't doing good and now this. The book starts getting boring after this. More like a book a sensitive girl would read. At the end it everything adds up ok. The end.
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Summary: Out Of The Dust Review
Review: I am a student of a school. I thought Out of the Dust was an ok book. The style they wrote the book was a first for me. Some of the poems had a lot of facts about the Depression. I know that because we have learned about it in our history class. I gave it three stars is because I don't like reading poems. I didn't like the book that much because, I also thought some of the poems were kind of dumb. I think some of the poems were not on topic or didn't make since. I thought some of the poems were run on and some were just way to long. I know I 'm not always going to read or write short sentences but when you have to read a poem that's dumb and it goes on forever, I get angry.
I think the author did good job and spent a lot of time and effort writing this book. I hope she liked how her book turned out and she liked the poems she wrote. If she made or will make sequel I would maybe read it but I know a lot of kids who would. I'm not really good at writing these so sorry but if you don't like it it's ok with me. If you do like it that's great be free to show anyone you like.
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Summary: Out Of The Dust Review
Review: I am student from a Fairfax County Schools and I have read the book Out Of The Dust. I would give it four stars because it wasn't the best book I have ever read and it is not my type of book. I usually don't read these kinds of books. It is not my style, well anyways it was a "ok" book.
This style of writing a book was a first for me . It was a book written in poem form . Some of the poem were had for me to understand since it was written that way. Some poem were good and some weren't . There were some parts that weren't really appropriate. There is a part when people get burned and many parts when people died. Gladly there were places when things were good. Like when it had rain long and hard after months with little or no rain at all.
Good things were that the author had describe every little thing. You could tell what had happen in the story like you were watching a movie, but that is not always good to it is also like watching a horror movie too. I had there were parts where people had been burned. Well the author had describes the person skin and how she/he looked like. It was very nasty and disturbing. Then the way the author had described the way Billie Jo had played the piano, you could imagine the music in your head. Then she would describe how her hands look and how the felt when she played the piano.
The author would also describe how it looked when dust storms had came and how it sounded when it hit against windows and wall and how the door flew open when the wind blew harder and harder. Then she described how the people had struggled when walking through storms and how when the sand blows into there eyes and how much its hurts when Billie Jo's hand is exposed in the storm. It says that it get stuck in her scabs and how she is in pain.
Even though it may sound interesting to you, it might not to others. Again it is still not my style of a book.
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Summary: Out Of The Dust Review
Review: Out of the Dust, was in my opinion, was a great book that teaches kids about live in the Great Depression. It makes me feel lucky to not have been born in the 1930's back then.This story takes place in Oklahoma and is about a girl named Billie Jo and her life in the depression with out her died mother that died giving birth to her son. Billie Jo loves apples and playing the piano. She says it helps her calm down when any thing bad happens, but after a terrible accident it's impossible with her wounds. In the dpression there were many dust storms that drove many farms and houses away exept Billie Jo and her family. They were stuck there with the terrible life style. Her father is a drinker and never wants to talk about the accident that caused he's wife to die. Out Of The Dust, I think, tells a very sad story.
This book helps readers to understand the challeges that the people had to go through. Dust storms. Many deaths. Stuff that people this days never really have to worry about. It helps you to think 'What if i was born during the depression?' That what i was thinking throughout the book. I had no idea that the world was like this once. I'm glad that I read the book to know.
Billie Jo tells her story by writing poems. Every page is a poem! Thats why i think i liked the book so much. I love poerty. Reading Out Of The Dust not only helped me learn about the 1930's but it also helped me with my poerty skills. The way the auther, Karen Hesse, writes the book in poetry makes it come alive. Like Billie Jo did write all the poems. Karen Hesse did a wonderful job on Out Of The Dust. The why she writes makes me feel like I'm living in the 1930's.
In Out Of The Dust there are surprices that surprise you. Never think that everything is going to get all better again because changes are that it's going to become worse. maybe by a dust storm. Or another death. Things that again people these days never really ever worry about.
That's why I like this book so much.
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Summary: out of the dust review
Review: If I were to personally review the novel out of the dust I would give it four stars. The reason that I would give it four stars is because it was a good book because it was related to history but I think it was bad because there was a lot of inappropriate material. What I mean by inappropriate material was like the part when she explains the doctor cutting off her burned skin. One of the good things about it was that it was like one long book it didn't seem over-whelmigly long. Some of the poems were really good while others were not so great.
I love the part about her feeling things through the piano. It was really interesting and I could really relate, especially because by the way she described I fell the same things through my flute! When Hesse talks about all these separate feelings I can feel them flow through me. I think that this book really makes people think and fell a lot luckier that they have what they do. This books detail is amazing. Hesse can paint a picture with words! Again though this isn't always good. I think the accuracy of her setting is pretty cool too. You can feel like your there suffering the dust storms and other bad things of the dust bowl.
I like it when Billie Jo describes the sound of the piano. Things like that you would have never noticed! When the dust storms came I got really scared because Karen Hesse was so descriptive! You'd feel like you were there! You'd want to jump and help clog the cracks with them! I would get really frustrated when Billie Jo's mother would seem to not really care about her state tests when she really did! When Billie Jo described her father wanting a boy I felt really bad for her! Even if my parents thought that they would never say that!
When you read Out Of the Dust you find out little things like I did. I discovered that actually my life's really good! At least I don't have dust storms like every day knocking around and having to walk home through a dust storm! So if and when you read this book I hope that you find it good or even better than I did. Maybe you'll make a review and give it a five! Hopefully you'll find life even better once you read this book!
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Summary: Out Of the Dust Review
Review: If I were critiquing this book, Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse, I would give it a four out of a five ranking. I would give it a four because it has a lot of "beautiful language" in it. This is definitely a page-turner. I always want to keep going. This book is like one long poem. In a free-verse style, it has a ring to it. You can tell, by the way you read the book, that it was written with a country accent.
When you read parts of the book where important things, dreadful things, beautiful things, or even confusing things, you get this feeling in side you like you feel sorry for the character, or item in the story. That's a sign that this book is painting a picture in your head, and in your heart.
There is so much detail in this book, it makes you want to just keep going, and keep reading. If you read this book, then you like it, and recommend it to one or two of your friends, then the book gets read by a lot more people. If you share knowledge like this, you are sharing the joy of reading fun, yet interesting books.
I love the detail in this book. I love how Billie Jo describes the sound of the piano, the ride in the car with Arley Wanderdale and his wife, Vera, the way the wind blows, the dust creeping down her throught and insides, the way the apple trees bloom. All this detail makes you want to read more and more.
When the dust storms come, I got this crazy feeling around me and in my stomach, like the dust storms were coming to me, to my area. That's how descriptive Karen Hesse was when she was writing this!
Out of the dust has so many crazy, confusing moments, but in the end, it all adds up. If you get frustrated or confused, don't throw the book down and say "I don't get it!", just keep going because in the end, all the crazy, confusing things will come together.
So, I recommend this book to all children and adults between the ages of three and one hundred and twelve years old! I hope you enjoyed my review on Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse! Bye~!~!
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: This book is about a little girl named Billy Jo. She live in the the dust bowl. Every night, the wind would blow dust onto the their house. In the morning the house would be covered with dust. Billy's father is always hoping for water. But after many years, there was still no water. Life was hard on Billy. Billy Jo had to tend for her mom and all, because her mom was pregnant. Their wheat couldn't grow because of lack of water. It was hard to sleep on an empty stomach. They do have food, but they needed to store all the food they can. This book is all right. It is not the best book I have ever read. . I especially love Billy Jo. She is very young. I admire her because she have gone through rough times in her life. I mean having to live in the dust bowl like that. Now I have been through many rough times when I was around 2-5 years old. But it was not as bad as Billy Jo.
This book is to the point. It doesn't go from one time period to the next without telling what the characters did during that time period.
I don't really like the book that much. This is because some of the words are confusing and I don't get some of the sentences. I would have liked it a lot more if it was more catching. I thought Karen Hesse should have ended the sentence in each chapter with something that would make the readers want to read more. I am suggesting this, is because when I first read the book, I didn't really want to move on. But we had to finish the book. In my opinion, the book needed some adjustment.Over all, the book was good.
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