Why I choose Heat by Mike Lupica

I choose this book because I like sport and this book is sports related. The genre of this book is sports fiction genre. I have never read any of Mike Lupica other books but my friends told me that he is a good author and has some really good books related to sports. I can easily relate to this book because i like sports and baseball. I also choose this book because the cover page stood out to me. I think it is a great cover page of a boy throwing a baseball with all the buildings and subway behind it.

Discussion Question: what are the things you look for in your book while choosing one?

Information about Mike Lupica-the author of Heat

The author of the book Heat is Mike Lupica. He was born on May 11, 1952. He is an American newspaper columnist but is known for his sports commentary. He has written about 35 books. Which are mostly sports related. He graduated from the Boston College. He writes for the New York daily news and appears on ESPN. He has won a lot of awards for his writings.

The setting of Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is written by Ray Bradbury. This story takes place in the twenty fourth century and so it is a science fiction novel. It takes place in a unspecified city in the United States of America. The main character in the story is Guy Montag. I don't want to be a spoiler but the story is about a man called Guy Montag. He works as a fireman. He and the other Firemen burn book and the houses they found it in. In the story he meeting a seventeen year of girl who changes his thinking about book.Now he wants to save books and starts fighting against the government. I am very eager to see how he tries to save the books and fight the government. who are completely against him.

I would rate The Right Stuff 9 out of 10 because I liked all the information given in this book. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes planes and rockets and want to know it's history because in this book they gives us some information about planes and rockets as people use them a lot in the story. It is also a good book for the people who want to know about who went to space from US for the first time. They will also get to know about those people's past. This book is also good for the people who like to read nonfiction stories as the story has happened in real life. It is about the seven astronauts for the mercury mission. It talks about what it is. It also gives us information about astronauts and pilots during that time.

The theme of this story is pushing the Envelope. This phase was used a lot in the book. This means to attempt to extend the current limits of performance and to go beyond commonly expected boundaries. This theme is show in the book by many examples like Chuck Yeager breaking the speed of sound. People going to space and orbited the earth these where all known to be impossible during that time. These examples supports the theme as it shows how people went beyond the expected boundaries and made new records. The author uses many more examples like these to tell us what the theme is.  This book is about Pilot who break different record, pilots who became astronauts for the USA. It is about their life. It talks about the mercury mission and about what happened in this mission.

Alan Shepard during the Mercury Mission

Alan Shepard on the moon.

Alan Shepard was an American naval aviator, Test pilot and Astronaut. He was born on November 18, 1923 He was the second man to go to space and the first American. He was one of the seven astronauts from the mercury mission. The rocket in which he went to space for the first time was called freedom 7.He was the 5th man to walk on the moon during Apollo 14 mission. He was the first person to hit golf balls on the moon He has been in space for more then 9 days in total including the mercury and Apollo mission's. He fought in the world war 2. He was in the navy. Severed on destroyer USS Cogswell, it was placed in the pacific ocean. After world war 2 he started working as a test pilot. HE was placed in the astronaut hall of fame.  He died in July 21, 1998 because of leukemia at the age of 74.

Some of the information is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard

Gordon cooper was an American test pilot and astronaut. He was born on march 6, 1927. He was one of the seven astronauts from the mercury mission. He was the last one to go on this mission but was in the space for the most time. He orbit space 22 times in this mission. He was the first astronaut to sleep in the mission and during the countdown. During this mission there where many problems but he successfully to manual control and got the a safe reentry. He went to space for the second time for the Gemini mission. In this mission they were in space for 8 days to make a new record for the most time in space. He was also assigned as a Back up commander for Gemini 12, Apollo 10 and Commander in Apollo 13 but was replaced by other astronauts in the end. He died in the age of 77 because of a Heart failure on October 4, 2004.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper

John Glenn's picture in space.
  .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn

John Glenn was an American Marine corp, Astronaut, Test Pilot and senator. He was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. He fought in the second world war and the Korean war. He was one of the seven astronauts who were selected to be a part of the mercury mission in which US send their first astronauts to space. He was the first American to orbit the earth. He was in space for 4 hours and 55 minutes.He was inducted in the Astronaut hall of fame in 1990. He has gone to space two times in the mercury mission and STS-95 which was a space shuttle program. He was 77 year old when he went for the STS-95 mission becoming the oldest man to go to space. He was in space for 8 days and for a total of 9 days including both the mercury and STS-95 mission. After the death of Scott Carpenter he became the only man from the mercury mission to be alive at the age of 92

 

The movie of this book was made by 1983 directed by Philip Kaufman. I have seen the movie. I think it is a very nice move it include almost every thing from the book. The movie is mainly about the mercury mission and about Chuck Yeager breaking different records as the book is. I think people who like planes and would likes to know about the first seven astronauts from US, this will be a good movie to watch.

While every one was busy over the mercury missions . Chuck Yeager tried making new altitude and speed record in which he succeeded in some and failed in some. one of his famous tries was when he used the NF-104 and risked his life where he had almost died.He had climbed 104,000 feet and got seriously injured but he returned back to flying after 6 weeks. This shows how interested and involved he is in flying and breaking new records.

Deke Slayton was one of the seven mercury mission astronaut. He was supposed to be flying on the second orbit flight but couldn't because of a erratic heart rate. He was replaced by Scott carpenter( one of the seven mercury mission astronaut). He was lucky that he got one more chance to go to space at the age of 51 which was the record of being one of the oldest man to go to space but was beaten by John Young who went to space at the age of 53 and John Glenn who broke Young's record by going to space at the age of 77.  He then died at the age of 69 on June 13, 1993.

"Crossfield, White, Walker, Armstrong,- they no longer had time to even about the Mercury mission." What is project mercury? It was the mission in which USA tried to get their astronauts to space and orbit earth. It took place from 1959 to 1963 done by NASA.NASA had to select 7 astronaut from more than a million of pilot .  They had to select people from some specific size so that they could get into the space shuttle which was too small to get people who where taller than the height 5 feet 11 inches. They had to be able to pass the entire test. They had tests like their health test, they would see if the astronaut could handle the G force from the rocket, They would put people into different rooms to see what they do when they are in zero gravity or when the oxygen level is down. They would note everything including their the number of time they scratched their nose, body how they moved etc. It took them two years to select a seven for the best pilots for the mercury mission. The seven astronauts the selected were, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, Malcolm Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper and Donald Slayton. They started the mission by sending 2 monkey into space Albert 1 and 2 to see if they survive or not. Alan Shepard was the first American to go to space followed by Grissom after him John Glen, after him Carpenter after him schirra, after him Cooper. Slayton could not go on any of the mercury mission because of an erratic heart rate but would go to space at the age of 51.

The author of this right stuff is Tom Wolfe. He was an American author and journalist. He begin his career as a journalist. He wrote many many books. Most of his novel were over the American society. He has a trade mark which is a white suit. He has more than 30 awards for his books. He wrote more then 50 books some of them are the right stuff, I am Charlotte, The electric kool-acid Test, etc.









Some of the information are from-   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolfe

 Yeager is one of the character in the story. He was a army and a test pilot. He fought in the second world war. He was one of the pilot who was caught during the second world But was released. After coming back he continued to be a air force pilot. this shows this shows that Yeager is not scared of anything, he is not scared of death and that he loves his country. He is the first person who broke the speed of sound (mark 1) for the first time.This also shows that he likes challenges and tries till he does not succeed. He also helped his country by being a test pilot 

Jane Conrad and Pete Conrad are some of the characters in the story.Jane Conrad is a character who you can predictable about. As all wife would like her husband to be safe and not die But her husband Pete Conrad is a character who is not predictable as you can't say what he is going to do next.He goes through a big change as he became a astronaut from a test pilot. 

In chapter two the author is comparing ambitious test pilot to a ziggurat an ancient Babylonian  pyramid with its steps and terrace. The author also takes about how pilot have a hard time landing a plane in to a aircraft carrier in a sea as it is only 60 feet above the water and also tell us why it is hard. 

The setting in the book and the movie are completely different. In the book the story starts by tell in us about a pilot called Pete Conrad, and his wife Jane Conrad and how people say that her husband might have died in a plain crash. In the movie the story starts  by telling us about how many people die while trying to brake the sound barrier. They then show how Chuck Yeager one of the American test pilots break the sound barrier. 

In the setting of the book the author tell us about some of the character who are Jane Conrad, her husband Pete Conrad who was a test  pilot. The story takes place in Florida,  jacksonville. This is where they live. They both had met each other at Princeton university. They married 2 years after they graduated from Princeton. They had one son named peter.

 

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

 

I chose this book becuse my father told me that this book was one of his most favorite book. I had also seen the movie of this book which was very good so I decided to read the book.The author of this book is Tom Wolf he is a author and journalist he has more then a dozen books. The story is about some test pilots who become astronauts. The genre of the book is non fiction. I have not read many non fiction books so I am excited to read this.
















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