i need to write a summary on a book?!?

1. Where is this book going? Who are the main characters? What is the subject matter?

2. What’s happening? Is it good or bad?

3. How are problems resolved? Did you learn something?

4. Write if you enjoyed the book or explain why you didn’t.

5. Enjoy your “A”.

Start by mentioning the essentials like the title of the book, author’s name and relevant publishing information. You should also specify what type of literature it. For example it could be a sociological analysis, a historical book, a purely academic one or a lighter piece of work. Normally, the background about the writer is not required but one should not omit it if it’s of special relevance – for example a refugee writing on refugees. This helps to put the text in a specific context.

Step 2: Main Section – Description and Summary

The main section ideally consists of two sections – the description and the summary. The description can have excerpts from the book that give valuable insight into the work. However, while reviewing the storyline one has to make sure that the suspense of the story is not given away.

Step 3: The Critical Analysis

In this section, one has to remember not to critically analyze the entire book but take out those points which are intriguing. For example, if the book is on the urban poor, one can perhaps focus on their politics and culture. Your opinion on the book is crucial here as it shapes your analysis. It helps to provide an insight into the attributes of the book – Is it worth reading, is it interesting and so on. This section should also talk about one’s learning’s from the book and whether it holds an important or interesting message that caught your attention.

Using info you already tried to write, put the main points of beginning, middle and end on a piece of paper spaced far enough apart to add the other details you already wrote around them to total about 100-150 words. Then neatly rewrite the whole thing and turn it in. T

The teacher will look for the main points that were required for you to do, and give you points for that. Even if it doesn’t sound that good to you, the grading is done by the teacher looking to see if you included the stuff that was asked for in the assignment.

Thats what I do, and I always get good grades.

This takes less time then if you try to make it sound like a masterpiece……..

🙂

“The Shy Girl” by Anna Frost

In the book “The Shy Girl” by Anna Frost, MS. Frost takes the reader to the teenage years of her childhood. She tells of her struggles in high school: The struggles to fit somewhere in her early highschool years, and how she longed for friendships but was afraid of being too talkative. Too much talk meant punishment at school and more punishment when she got home from her “stage-the-act” punishing father.

The reader will discover, as time goes on near the middle of the 250 page good read, that things aren’t all gloom, despair, and misery. As Heather, the main character of the story, nears the end of her highschool journey, there is a rainbow of hope: An instructor recommends her for advanced classes; it is through those that she really begins to feel that there is a place in the world for her after all.

The book, from that moment on, carries a theme of happy times from one interesting page to the end. Heather begins to learn who she is, gains more confidence and, because she passed through the “halls of highschool enlightment,” she eagerly, though still shy, passes into the exciting world of college and young adulthood.

“The Shy Girl” is a book to which all of us can relate: We were all shy at some point in life. It’s worth the time and the bucks.

I hope this helps you.