Luke's Life In The Boarding School example essay topic

I have just read the book titled Among the Impostors. The author of this book is Margaret Peterson Had dix. This book is a sequel to Among the Hidden. In Among the Hidden, a boy named Luke is hiding from the world because he is an illegal third child. He shouldn't exist because the government limited the amount of children to each family to two because of the decreasing amounts of food. Luke gets sick of hiding and wants to make a difference, so he gets a fake I.D. with the help of a neighbor and goes to a boarding school.

Among the Impostors continues on with Luke's life in the boarding school, and shows that no matter how people act, they can be very different on the inside. At the boarding school, there is a boy named Jason who gives Luke a very hard time. He has him do push-ups and a bunch of other pointless tasks just in order to get into his bed. Luke is getting sick of it, and one day, he notices that a door is open in the school. It shows the outdoors, and Luke knows that's his only chance of escaping the wretched school. Once he gets outside, he notices that it's surrounded by a huge forest that stretches for miles.

He ventures outside and makes himself a pitiful garden, but he feels good about it anyway. That was the only thing that kept him there. Then one day he went outside and found that his garden was ruined by people who had stomped all over it. Luke cooks up a plan to bust the people that ruined his garden. He sneaks out during the night and waits for the people to arrive outside. He finds that one of them is Jason.

As he eavesdrops on their conversation, he finds out that they " re all third children too. Once I finished this book, I felt irritated that Luke chose to stay at the school even though he was told he could leave by a trusted neighbor and life-saver (p. 169). He wanted to stay at the school to help all of the third children there live their life without fear of being discovered. I don't see how he could help the world like he dreamed by having every boy in the school contribute to the garden out back (p. 172). I think he would have done better if he had accepted the offer to go to a real and good school instead of staying at the boarding school with a bunch of low-social boys that would give Luke a bad influence. I think he was ready to leave, just like Mr. Talbot thought, his neighbor (p. 161).

The most important lesson that I learned in this story was that you need to be grateful for what you have. Luke was a third child and spent his whole life hiding. Then he got sent to a boarding school where it took him a long time to get accustomed and make friends. When Luke did finally make a friend, it wasn't for long. He ended up eavesdropping on Jason making a phone call to the Population Police and revealing the real names of some third children that trusted him (p. 123). If I were Luke, I wouldn't have accepted the fake I.D. I wouldn't have been able to stand being taken away from my family, the only people I have ever known my whole life.

This showed that Luke was brave and that his dreams meant a lot to him. He also made a start to his dreams by helping every kid by letting them contribute to a big garden (p. 172). I also felt bad for Luke when he was trying to get the kids whose names Jason mentioned to listen and tell them that they were in danger. The word "annoying" makes me think of the character Jason. At first when Luke came to the school, Jason was very mean and always bullied him. He would make Luke say bad things about himself.

He would also make him to a lot of pushups and other hard things just to get into bed (p. ). Then, when Luke found out that Jason was a third child (which he was posing as), Jason made up a lie as to why he was being so mean to Luke (p. ). He said it was to toughen him up so he wouldn't go crazy. I think that's really what did happen, though.

I don't think Jason meant to do it. The last reason that I think Jason is annoying is because he ended up betraying everybody. When the Population Police broke in at the end, they put him away instead of the real third children because Mr. Talbot proved to them with fake evidence that Jason was a third child. Jason denied it and tried to point out the real third children, but the Population Police thought that he was just going crazy (p. ). I wouldn't recommend this book unless you have read this book's prequel, Among the Hidden.

Then it would be much easier to understand. This book wasn't that interesting and I got bored a lot. There wasn't a lot of action at all. It was just about the boring school that Luke was staying at, and all he seemed to do in the book was complain.