What Kind of a Story is This, Anyway?
The past few weeks, the class has been working on the book Bone: Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith. The story is filled with different types of characters and interesting things that happen throughout the whole book. Bone is a fun book to read, but it has its lessons that people can learn from as they read it. Smith made this book for everyone, even toddlers, to enjoy it in their own way. Also Bone teaches a lot of lesson about loyalty and friendship between the Bone family and friends. Although the book is filled with a lot of action, adventure, romance, and horror it is still inhuman creature in the story. Therefore, the book Bone genre is a fantasy.
In the beginning of the book the three Bone cousins are acting just like a real human family. They are arguing about stupid things and end up getting lost somewhere and then separated from each other. For example, Fone, Smiley, and Phoney Bone are lost in the middle of the desert and they are fighting about a dollar for a map (Smith, 5). The action and adventures begins right then; whom ever read Bone start learning lessons right off the top. Lesson number one: family comes first no matter what through the ups and downs you never know what can happen next.
The Bone creatures do things just as humans can in real life. In the story they are separated most of the whole story, so it was always something interesting happening on each panel in the book. Although the book was written as a fantasy, in each chapter there was some kind of action and adventure to take place. Bone had to watch the baby possums and they end up getting chased by the rat creatures (Smith, 29-34). It is never a dull moment when reading Bone that is why the genre is a fantasy, the reader never knows what is going to happen on the next page. Like on page thirty- eight of Bone, Fone asked the dragon, Cant you breathe Fire? Fone Bone was very mad at the dragon because he did not burn the rat creatures with his fire breathing.
On page forty- four frame three the romance of the story start taking affect, Fone Bone meets Thorn and he falls in love at first sight. Also, on page forty-nine of bone, Fone Bone is showing that he has deep love for Thorn by the hearts above his head while they are holding hands and walking together. Fone show those feelings every now and then throughout this whole book and it is very cute. Phoney Bone returns into the story in chapter three and he meets the dragon on page sixty- one frame eight he shows his mean and aggressive side. He also meets up with Thorn, Fone, and Grandma Rose he does not even care that Grandma is letting them stay, Phoney is more focused on money and being greedy as usual.
In chapter four Fone is falling deeper in love with Thorn (Smith 81), and still has not told her, but it is because he does not want to ruin their friendship that they have. Towards the end of chapter four the story takes a turn into a horror story. The scary rat creatures come out and are heading to Grandmas house after Phoney Bone (Smith 92). Then in the middle of all of that, Thorn is having a bad dream and come to find out her dream has come true (Smith 94).
The last two chapters were the best, the rat creatures are gone because of Grandma Ben and the big red dragon. Fone finally finds both Phoney and Smiley Bone, there are together once again after all that time. Grandma Ben is getting ready for the big cow race. And everyone is just as happy as they can be, but someone is still watching over them.
In Conclusion, Bone teaches lessons about friendship between the Bone family and friends. It is filled with action, adventure, romance, and horror it is still inhuman creature in the story. This story is a great book for anyone to read and learn from. The different chapters in the book have their different meanings which ties the whole story together.
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