Sixth Post

I have started the nest book in the installment (yes I know I am really lame), and so far it’s even more eventful than the first. At the beginning of the novel, the author’s oldest brother comes home from Catholic Private School in Salt Lake City. When he hears about “The Great Brain’s Reformation,” he laughs and tells J.D. (the author), that Tom is just fooling their parents in order to get a bike for Christmas. Then times passes quickly until summer vacation, when Swen comes back from Salt Lake City Again, and boy is everybody in for a surprise. He begins to talk with odd expressions that according to him are “popular with us city folk.” When Tom gets sick of being called old man by his brother, he begins to call him grandpa, which everybody gets a kick out of. In response, S.D. begins to call him little school boy kid, which irritates Tom. He asks his father if he can start to work at his newspaper company as a printer, but his father claims he’s too young. Tom then asks for his father’s old, unused printing press, and begins his own paper. This paper, The Adenville Post, is based almost solely on gossip (which he thinks is good news). Though he and his teem of reporters manage to uncover the bank robbers who had recently stolen one-hundred-thousand dollars from the bank, his father is disgusted with the gossip portion of The Adenville Post, and punishes T.D. severely, as well as tells him: “it [the newspaper] showed mw that you are too young to do anything at the Advocate other than deliver papers.” This book also contains moral issues, like publishing private affairs, such as arguments that spouses are having with each other.

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