She's smart, funny, honest - and incredibly experienced in the world of creating children's books. I would recommend this book for people who like a journey through the unknown.Pat Cummings was one of my first illustration mentors, through the SCBWI Illustration Mentorship Program, and I've valued her friendship ever since. The main theme is about the book is a journey of grief. He feels very guilty for his parent's death as he was the only survivor. Through a history, projectTrace learns that this ghost is actually his great grat great uncle Charles Ransom who died in 1863 in an orphange building. He believes he sees what looks like the ghost of a boy and now it haunts him. Trace (Theodore) Carter is a 13-year-old boy who loses his family in a car accident. I like how at the end of the book Trace learns about his family heritage and is able to be happy in his current life. I did not like it when he got drunk and his aunt did not confront him or talk about it with him. Trace feels this way because he loses his family in a car accident and he is the only one that survives. This background Portrays how Trace felt coming to Brooklyn.
Losing his parents getting drunk moving schools. This symbol represents Trace going through all the hardships he's been through. Since his aunt thought it was okay Trace has to make his own decisions from hear on out. Trace portraysthe part of him drinking wine which is totally not acceptable. Quote, 2: "He should've schooled her about what his mom would have thought about him drinking wine.but first, he had to unstick his head from the pillow" (cummings, pg 145). Also this reveals an angry side of Trace we have never seen before. Trace finnaly reveals in the start of the book what happens to his parents and how they died. Quote 1: "Becuase they shouldn't have been on that road at that time in the evening when that stupid deer ran out of the stupid trees"(Cummings 39). In Brooklyn, NY but Trace used to live in Baltimore. Also, it does not allow him to enjoy his teenage life in the present. The antagonist is Traces guilt: Trace's guilt stops him from thinking about the happy times they had as a family. The protagonist is Trace: Trace is an African American 13-year-old boy who loses his parents in a car crash and lives with his aunt in Brooklyn.
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