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Angels Gate 
Title: Angel's Gate Author: Gary Crew Publisher: William Heinemann Australia Publishing
Date:
1993 Setting: Angels Gate is set in fairly modern times around about 1980-1990. I know
this
because of the way the people dress and by the way the people talk. The way the people in
the
novel talk is very similar to how people talk now but the people in the novel don't use
as much
slang as most people do now. The way the people in the novel dress is also very similar
to how
people dress now but the people in the novel wear daggy clothes which are out of fashion
now. A
good example of how the people in the novel dress similarly but really daggy to people
now, is
when Julia wore a pink dress with puffy sleeves and silver high heel shoes to a dance. It
is set in a
country town called Jericho and I think the town is in Australia because the bush
landscape around
the town is very similar to Tasmania and the trees in the bush are Australian natives
such as the
gum. I feel that it isn't that important where this book is set as long as it is in a
country town with
bush landscapes. If it were set in the city it wouldn't be very good because the wild
children
wouldn't get very wild because there are always people around. Another reason it wouldn't
be very
good is that the wild children would be found much easier as there are not as many places
to hide
in the city as compared to the bush. Plot: Angel's Gate is about two children Mickey and
Leena
who disappear after the murder of their father Patrick Flannagan. The town's people first
knew the
children were still alive when eggs started to go missing from farm chicken yards on the
outskirts
of town. The people in the town searched for the children but they didn't find them until
one night
when Leena got trapped in a chicken yard and was caught. Leena was taken to a house
called "The
Laurels" which was a doctor's surgery. Leena was looked after in the surgery where she
got to
know Julia and Kim who were the children of the doctor. She told them where her brother
Mickey
was hiding and that he was different. Mickey was eventually caught when Kim and Julia's
boyfriend Bobby went camping. They found where Mickey was hiding and trapped him there
so
the police could get him. Once he was caught they found out that Mickey was the person
who
killed Patrick Flannagan and it was an accident so the people who were going to be
charged for the
murder were released. Main Characters: Kim: Kim is about 12 years old and he is fairly
popular at
school. He can over exaggerate a bit but he is generally truthful and he is very kind and
caring. At
home he is really nice and always helps doing jobs around the house as well as helping in
the
doctor's surgery. Kim really likes art and is also a very talented artist. His dream is
to have a bike
but he is not allowed to have one. Julia: Julia is Kim's sister and she has a boyfriend
called Bobby.
Julia is rather insensitive towards Kim and her family and all she talks about is Bobby.
Julia is in
her last year at school and next year she has to go to a private school on the coast.
Julia doesn't
want to go to the private school, as she wants to become a manager of a hotel. Julia
works at a cafe
kid who has lived on a farm his whole life. He now works on his dad's farm and he gets
paid. He
loves cars and has his own shevy ute which he always uses to take Julia for drives in. He
is really
kind and caring and doesn't care if Kim hangs around him when he is with Julia. Bobby
wants to
move to the coast once he has earned enough money to get a house. Leena: Leena is one of
the
wild children and she is the oldest one of the two. She is very nice to Kim but she
doesn't like the
rest of the family as much as she cares for him. When she was first captured she wouldn't
speak
to anyone but eventually did once she knew the family was nice. Mickey: Mickey is the
other wild
child and he really is wild. He can't speak properly and he makes weird noises like
animals do.
Leena says that he is nice and even caring at times if he knows you and trusts you.
Theme: I feel
the main theme is a combination of adventure, action, friendship and relationship all
rolled into one.
These themes make the book fairly exciting and interesting from the very start and gets
much better
once you get into it. Style: During the whole book Gary Crew has used a blend of exciting
action
and day to day living to create a great novel. Gary Crew has used Kim as one of the main
characters to tell the story about the wild children. Gary Crew writes this very well
because Kim
thinks the same way as I imagine a boy his age thinks. Kim tells about his feelings,
thoughts,
friendships and personal 'experience' and this makes the story very interesting. "We
beached the
raft at an opening in the logs and carried our things to the land. Bobby was faster than
me over the
fallen timber. He seemed to have a way of running low, leaping from log to log, as if he
was born
to do it. I went over on all fours, terrified that I would slip and fall into the
darkness beneath."
Page 213 "I pressed myself flat against the rocks. I felt my knees go weak and was afraid
that that
they would buckle under me. Suddenly Bobby was back. Without a word he grabbed my arm
and
pulled me down the track after him. He stopped beneath the stunted figs. 'Sorry Kimbo,
but I
wanted to get you away. Somewhere in the rock above that clearing there's a cave. I
couldn't see
an entrance, not in the dark, but that's where the fire is. And whoever's in there is
cooking meat.
Can you smell it?" Page 217-218 I found this novel fairly easy to get into because of the
basic
sentences and easy words but it took a while to get exciting which made it long winded.
In this
novel there is not much humor and not much excitement, which makes it boring most of the
time.
Opinion: I felt very disappointed once I had finished the book because I had read 270
pages and it
wasn't worth the time as it was boring and there was not many exciting parts in it. This
has been
the worst book I have ever read and I don't recommend this book to anyone.