Baboon Book Report Leila Ammar Baboon is a great book if you want to learn about nature, and animal habitat. I found Baboon a very interesting read. If I had to rate it I would give it a 4/5. David Jones wrote the novel Baboon, the novel is 169 pages in length. Annick Press in the U.S.A. published this book in 2007. I would compare the novel Baboon with the novel Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan because Koli (main character in Homeless Bird) is yearning to be with her family but has been married, and must stay with her husband’s family. I think these two books are similar because Gerry (main character in Baboon) has been magically turned into a baboon and wants to be with his family, but they are oblivious to the fact that their son has occupied the body of an African animal. Both characters want to be with their family, but can’t. This story is about a 14 year old boy named Gerry Copeland who lives with his baboon-studying parents in Africa. He likes the wild life, but he wants to lead a normal lifestyle. Can you blame him? He is caught in a dilemma when their plane crashes on their way to their camp in Tanzania. The pilot is dead and he is badly injured. But he doesn’t know he is hurt. Why? His mind has possessed the body of a baboon. His parents don’t recognize him and he sees his body, almost dead. How could he be almost dead when he is perfectly fine (if you call transforming into an African mammal okay?) He has to learn how to live in the wild and be a lower-food chain animal. This novel is in third person restricted point of view. It’s restricted because the narrator (who ever he may be) is only following Gerry through this wild adventure. This story was located on a savanna in Tanzania where Gerry was with the Baboon troop. “Living with the troop is hard, living without it is harder. Somehow you have to find a way to fit in.” (p.169) One conflict of the story was when Gerry and his parents were flying to Tanzania to follow the troop, but the plane gets into a crash. This conflict starts off the whole entire story. This is how Gerry is made into a baboon. Not by the crash, but what happens after it. Another conflict is when Gerry (when he is already a baboon) is up in a tree on a branch eating the survival food he stole from the plane, when he smells something horrid. Then he saw a tiger. The tiger chased him up the tree and Gerry barely made it out alive. This is when Gerry decides he needs to find the troop to survive. He sets off on his journey to find the other baboons. Gerry’s traits (I think) are bravery and wits, because when he is in the situation with the tiger he finds a way to trick the tiger to make it think he was going to climb up the tree, and jumped over the tiger onto the ground and ran, giving him a couple seconds head start. To me that seems like bravery because I would be too scared to move. And he is witty because I wouldn’t have come up with something like that on such short notice. I enjoyed this book because I have never read another like it. I mean, who rights about a boy being turned into a baboon? Once I started reading it captivated me and I couldn’t stop. I recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure stories.
Baboon Book Report
Leila Ammar
Baboon is a great book if you want to learn about nature, and animal habitat. I found Baboon a very interesting read. If I had to rate it I would give it a 4/5. David Jones wrote the novel Baboon, the novel is 169 pages in length. Annick Press in the U.S.A. published this book in 2007.
I would compare the novel Baboon with the novel Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan because Koli (main character in Homeless Bird) is yearning to be with her family but has been married, and must stay with her husband’s family. I think these two books are similar because Gerry (main character in Baboon) has been magically turned into a baboon and wants to be with his family, but they are oblivious to the fact that their son has occupied the body of an African animal. Both characters want to be with their family, but can’t.
This story is about a 14 year old boy named Gerry Copeland who lives with his baboon-studying parents in Africa. He likes the wild life, but he wants to lead a normal lifestyle. Can you blame him? He is caught in a dilemma when their plane crashes on their way to their camp in Tanzania. The pilot is dead and he is badly injured. But he doesn’t know he is hurt. Why? His mind has possessed the body of a baboon. His parents don’t recognize him and he sees his body, almost dead. How could he be almost dead when he is perfectly fine (if you call transforming into an African mammal okay?) He has to learn how to live in the wild and be a lower-food chain animal.
This novel is in third person restricted point of view. It’s restricted because the narrator (who ever he may be) is only following Gerry through this wild adventure. This story was located on a savanna in Tanzania where Gerry was with the Baboon troop. “Living with the troop is hard, living without it is harder. Somehow you have to find a way to fit in.” (p.169)
One conflict of the story was when Gerry and his parents were flying to Tanzania to follow the troop, but the plane gets into a crash. This conflict starts off the whole entire story. This is how Gerry is made into a baboon. Not by the crash, but what happens after it. Another conflict is when Gerry (when he is already a baboon) is up in a tree on a branch eating the survival food he stole from the plane, when he smells something horrid. Then he saw a tiger. The tiger chased him up the tree and Gerry barely made it out alive. This is when Gerry decides he needs to find the troop to survive. He sets off on his journey to find the other baboons.
Gerry’s traits (I think) are bravery and wits, because when he is in the situation with the tiger he finds a way to trick the tiger to make it think he was going to climb up the tree, and jumped over the tiger onto the ground and ran, giving him a couple seconds head start. To me that seems like bravery because I would be too scared to move. And he is witty because I wouldn’t have come up with something like that on such short notice.
I enjoyed this book because I have never read another like it. I mean, who rights about a boy being turned into a baboon? Once I started reading it captivated me and I couldn’t stop. I recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure stories.