Charlie's Raven, Jean Craighead George

Significance

The significance of this book is that it teaches you about natural history, myth, and a family narrative about life and death. In this book you receive lots of information about birds and more importantly the Raven. You receive the natural backgrounds of this bird what they do, how they grow, and how they live life with such instinct reactions to certain things. The main character Blue Sky (baby raven), gave an great example of how a raven would live. This was also important because, it showed you as how a family would react toward the thought of life vs death. Making sure they used the things they needed to pursue the goal of staying a live. So, you see lots of family incorporated in this story. The story had lots of importance and was a great book to read for nature and it was a very mysterious book.

Perspective

My perspective of this book is that the author was trying to connect with the readers through a character which was a raven. So the author used different tools to get the readers hooked into the characters. That followed with great education you could have learned. You could learn about religious nature, animal nature, and human nature. It compares three types of nature and how the react and relate to certain things. For example, the ravens knew about Mr. Spinder and gave a call which meant to stay away or danger. That shows animal nature to human nature. My opinion is that this book was great and that the author reached out to all but mostly children. By using compelling animal characters like Blue Sky a raven to show the book.

Evidence

The evidence I received to state my perspective was clearly written in the book. The argument being made was if ravens were good or bad and eventual what mystery did they have. The factual information I received to support this argument was that ravens are good birds but they also a very mysterious at times. These statements in my mind are not facts but opinions because people or other things can have a different opinion of the stuff being stated. For example, in the book Charlie wrote that ravens were good because they know death also for bad and mysterious. Others could have a different perspective or columns that they would have said about the topic. That's why they are opinions vs facts.

Connection

The book connected to lots of things. This book relates to reality because, it shows a bird and many other birds doing things that they would normally do. You found out more here than you would find out in the real world. They use raven talk to show the way the communicate which also ties into the reality aspect. It's been influenced by the past becuase they recieved early information about what ravens did and how they lived by researching prior to writing the book. This book can affect the futre by giving them information about ravens by opinion to see if the are freindly or not and it is a good book to read just to find out key elements you can learn about nature and the background of the bird raven.

Supposition

As I conculed this book I would say it was an excellent book and one of the best animal stories I have ever read. I think life would be the same with this book or without it. This book just made it a little bit eaiser and less complicated to stutied a terrific bird like the raven. If any big part of the book had changed it would have changed my view of the book and made it less interesting. This was a great book, Charlie's Raven and I learned lots of life stories from it.