Essay On Life Of Pi

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The process of putting these books in order from best to least was fairly difficult for the top 3 and even more so for American Sniper and Prisoner B-3087. The fourth book on the list was an easy choice for me because of a couple of different reasons. First off, The Red Badge of Courage was a very difficult book to understand, which made it hard to read and know exactly what was going on in the book. Secondly, I just could not get into the book because to me, it was boring and very slow paced. For these reasons I did not finish reading The Red Badge of Courage and that is why it is at the bottom of my list. Life of Pi was a good book overall and I liked and was surprised by the ending, but it started off very slow and boring. There was also not a whole lot of action and I hated how there was flashbacks in the book and how the author did not go right into the story. The top 2 books were difficult for me to rank because I loved them both. They were both interesting and made me want to keep reading. I picked American Sniper over Prisoner B-3087, because even though I am not finished with it yet I do like it a little better. American Sniper is my favorite because he …show more content…
I put The Red Badge of Courage, as the hardest for a number of reasons. The first reason being it was hard to understand with the big vocabulary and use of Civil War dialogue. Another reason I did not enjoy reading it was the small text and how there were so many words on a single page. Lastly it was boring, I could not get into the book because of how slow it went along and how is was missing action and exciting scenes. Life of Pi was the second most difficult because it also used tough vocabulary and I did not understand all the things he was saying about religion or understand his life in India. The use of flashbacks and scenes that happened at another time or place made the book hard to follow

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