Right now I am reading the book Avalanche. It is by Arthur Roth and I am on page 106. So far in the book the main character, Chris, Is stuck under feet of snow. Right now he is at day five. He is on his last half of his grouse left and then he is out of food. For water he is just eating snow. Then while digging in the snow he found a branch of a tree that is long enough to stick out of the top the snow cave. In one of his dreams he remembered that his old compass has a mirror on it. He then took out the mirror strapped it on the stick and stuck it through the top of the snow. He has to rotate it once and a while so that it makes a flash and maybe his rescuers might find him before he dies from starvation and the cold.
I think that this is a really good book because it has a faster pace to it. There is always something happening, which also helps the book move faster. Then when you start to get into action in any book then you can't set it down. So for me this is a hard book to set down each time I'm reading it.
The reason I think the author wrote this book is to show to show that brothers are really closer than they are. They will always love each other no matter how big of a fight they get in. Maybe he had these moment with his own brother. I think the theme of this book is survival because it is about a boy trying to survive under feet of snow. That here are some ways to survive if you were ever stuck in a situation that Chris is in. My favorite character in the book is Chris because he is the only character that I really been able to make connections to. Through the book he has grown a lot. He has had time to think about he little things in his life. Like that he and his brother, Terry, may fight ,but he will always wish the best for him. A question I have in this book is will Chris make it out of the snow before he dies so he may tell Terry how much he really admires him.
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