Wringer
In this realistic fiction book Wringer by Jerry Spinelli, a child named Palmer or ?Snots? is a child trying to escape the inevitable. Palmer does not want to be a wringer (a wringer is the one who wrings the pigeon?s neck after it is shot from the air). Four weeks after Palmer turns nine he will become a wringer. It?s a good book and is definitely worth your time.
The book does a great job, telling exactly how Palmer feels about becoming a wringer. The book kind of over-describes, but every time the book does describe, it?s amazing. For example in the book it says, ?But this thing did not like to be forgotten.
Like air escaping a punctured tire, it would spread out from his stomach and be everywhere. Inside and outside, up and down, day and night, just beyond the foot of his bed, in his sock drawer, on the porch steps, at the edges of lips of other boys, in a sudden flutter from a bush he had come too close to. Just to remind him. This thing, this not wanting to be a wringer, did it ever knock him from his bike? Unite his sneaker lace? Call him a name? Stand up and fight? No. It did nothing. It was simply, merely there, a whisper of featherwings, reminding him of the moment he dreaded above all others, the moment when the not wanting to be a wringer would turn into becoming one.?
Palmer has friends in the book who feel exactly the opposite about becoming a wringer, Beans, Mutto, and Henry. They just can?t wait to become wringers. Beans a ?Sneak and a troublemaker? who is the leader of the pack of friends has teeth that are ?all the colors of a Crayola crayon box.? Mutto basically is everything Beans is because all he does is follow him around and copy him. Henry, well, nobody really knows much about Henry his nickname is Henry along with his real name.
Overall I would rate this book an 8 out of 10, because it seems to just go away from the point sometimes, but still it remains a good book. I would recommend this book to people who like realistic fiction books. I would compare this book to Crash, another one of Jerry Spinelli?s books, because it is a realistic fiction book as well. I really think this book is worth reading. You should check it out. You won?t regret it.
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