summer hawk
I chose the option of interviewing a character in the book. Taylor is the main character in the story that is also telling the story from her point of view. Taylor is a 14-year-old girl who moved to Hunter's Gap from New York City to live with her father who is a sculptor. When she arrives in Hunter's Gap, she thinks that it's the end of her life because it's more or less a hillbilly town where everyone knows everyone else and it's a big change for Taylor from New York City.Q: Taylor, what was the first thing you disliked about coming to Hunter's Gap? A: The first thing that bothered me is that me and my mom were so close, it was hard leaving, and also that I didn't like small town life. Q: When you arrived in Hunter's Gap, was it what you expected or better or worse than what you thought it would be? A: I came into town when my mother drove me to my dads' house. When I first started to settle in, it was what I had expected from the stories that my father had told me from when he used to live there when he was my age. Q: Did you feel like you were out of place in school, in social life or any such things? A: Very much, when I started school, the grade I was in always had the same people, no one ever left, of came in. To
A: Rail tried to take care of it on his own but it didn't work. So we took it to the university where the "Hawk Lady" headed up research of Hawks, we knew she'd know what to do with it. Everyone was scared of the Hawk Lady because they though she was vicious or mean. A: He was always very quiet in school, him and I were always in a battle for top grades in the class, which I had always had before I came to this school. He was also the kid that everyone picked on because he never said anything. Q: What was the most memorable moment that you had in Hunter's Gap? A: Well I tried and tried to start a new newspaper for the town. They were pretty much stuck on the lame paper they had always had. A: When Rail and I took the hawk to her, there were two men standing there arguing about something to do with having the Hawk Lady needing an assistant to help her with things, I spoke up and said I'd do it. She agreed and I had my assignment started. Q: What happened to Rail. Did he have any part in this assignment? Q: What interest did you have in this "Hawk Lady"? Q: What was follow up on the report you did on her?
Some common words found in the essay are:
Hunter's Gap, Hawk Lady, Rail Bogart, Gap Eventually, York City, , Yes Eventually, hunter's gap, hawk lady, City Taylor, york city, Porter Phelps, assignment hawk, assignment hawk lady, trailer rail,
Approximate Word count = 1051
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
