7/30/2019 Michael Morpurgo Author Study Essay Umar
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Michael Morpurgo
My author Is Michael Morpurgo. I read three of his books.
Something that is very
interesting about him is that he is British. He was born in 1943
in London. His favorite
lesson in school was French. He began as a primary teacher and
that made him write
stories. He started a foundation to allow city children to work
on a farm. He owns three
farms. I chose this author because he is a very detailed writer
and I have to say I
learned at least 15 new words. He is the best author ever.
One of the books I read is Kensukes Kingdom, a story about a boy
who gets washed
up on an island and found a friend. The second one is Warhorse,
about a boy and his
horse and his horse goes to war. Michael morpurgo released the
movie War Horse in
2012. The last one is An Elephant in the Garden, a book about an
elephant who is very
brave. Michael was a teacher. When he was , his classmates
inspired him to think about
writing a book.In an interview for HarperCollins Children's
Books to announce their
upcoming biography of Michael Morpurgo, he said that when he was
a teacher, he
found that he could maintain the attention of his students late
in the day by reading
stories to them. That habit became telling them stories without
a book, which led him to
his writing career.
In the three books that I read they all are about war and they
always ended up at the
end good. In Kensukes Kingdom a japanese soldier who does not
want to return home
does go home and so does the main character Michael. In War
Horse the horse does
return home. In the last book the elephant returns home. All of
the books had the maincharacters trying to protect and save some
animal. The characters are very interesting.
They make the whole book come alive. I think that he plots his
books to be based on a
war and talks about war and and how the war affects his
characters. Michael is a very
good writer and he is my idol in writing books.
One of the things in Michael Morpurgos writing that I liked is
that they all had a common
theme that is war. In all the books it shows what the characters
had to do to survive
wars even though all the wars were different. All the books were
exciting because
Michael never left you hanging in the books that he wrote. It
was a fast read. In my
opinion the best of the three books was War Horse. It was sad
but the story and thehorse never gave up. My second favorite books
is Kensukes Kingdom. I liked it
because Kensuke stayed at that island for 20 years and was a
japanese soldier. But
even An Elephant in the Garden was a very good book. I totally
recommend these they
are a great read.
