Goin Fishin Review

  Authors Note: I wrote a Review on a book I read.  I wrote this after critically analogizing this book. 

      Lately I have read a book called athletic shorts. Inside that book are short stories written by Chris Crutcher. Goin Fishin talks about Lion and his dad who love to go fishin.  Later that day as the family was out on the boat a drunk captain of a large boat rammed into them and Lion was the only one to jump out of the boat and die.

    Thinking about this I think that the author did a great job of writing this story in Lion’s perspective. In the book he gave the readers a perspective of Lion and some of his friends and relatives.  The author also gave the reader what it would be like not having any parents or relatives to take care of him.  Thankfully he had money to live on with his life.

           When I first grabbed this book I thought it was going to be a book about some jock who thought he was great at every sport that he played.  I was wrong.  This kid was a courageous intelligent young man who took his parents and brother’s death very well and he was able to make a life out of him and money.  This made me think about what I would do if my parents and sister would die.  This took a lot of time for me to think about this.  I wrote this near thanksgiving time and that maybe what I’m thankful of.

           As I think about how the author wrote the story I finally figured that I think the author gave the readers what he needed to deliver the moral of the story. I would say the moral is to stay strong and thankful of what you have because you never know what’s going to happen, especially when you’re goin fishin.