In the book The Other Side of the Island by Allegera Goodman, everything is predectable, everybody follows the rules, every family fits right into place, except for Honor's family; everythinga bout them is wrong, they break the rules, they are wild.. and on an island were everything is predictable.. Honor's family is unperdictable..
On island 365 everything, even the weather is predectable. The skys are projected and almost always blue, the temperature is regualted by an island a few 100 miles away so the temperture is almost always hot and it hardly ever rains. How maight this be possible? well the answer is simple.. Encloser. Encloser is a system put into place to close off the island from the surrounding unpredictable world. But even in having Encloser Earth Mother cannot keep all the unpredictable weather out.. every few years or so there comes a big storm.. a hyrricane.. big enough that even Encloser cannot keep it out.
Honor always stood out. Even though she tried to be perfect like all the other girls in her class, she just couldn't do it. From the moment she was born she stood no chance of fitting in with the rest of her year.. Every year since Encloser was put into place, every child taht has been born in that year have names that start with the same letter. Since Honor was born in the 8th year and the 8th letter of the Alphabet is H, all the kids were to be named with an H. Honor's parents followed the rules.. in a way, but at the same time did not because the H in Honor is silent. Honor hated her parents for being unpredictable and tried in everyway to be nothing like them and to make everybody else believe that her parents were normal, just like thiers and that worked for awhile, until her parents had a second child. Having two kids was not allowed.. families were supposed to consit of three people, if by mistake you you have a seconds child you're supposed to give it up for adoption to somebody who was less fortunate than you and could not have a child of their own.. Honor's family did not..
After getting a brother Honor did everything she could to be as much like the other girls as she could be.. And for awhile it worked, that is until her parent wee taken. Having hr parents taken meant that Honor and her brother, QuintIlin were now orphans. Being an orphan meant that nobody would talk to you unless absolutely necessary. Even though most orphans thought their parents were dead Honor refused to believe and she would stop at nothing to find them.
I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend
it to anyone who likes a book that will keep
them on there toes.
