Dawson's Creek: The beginning of everything else door Jennifer Baker

Title of the book:
The beginning of everything else

Author:
Jennifer Baker

Stage:
five

Before reading the book
1. Why did you choose this book?
I read the summary and I thought: ‘This is a nice story’

2. Is it a book for boys or girls? Why do you think so?
It’s a book for boys and girls because the most important persons in the book are boys and girls. You can see that on the pictures on the book, because these are pictures from two girls and two boys. Also the story is about love and I think that subject is for boys and girls.

3. What kind of book is it going to be? Love and romance, detective, adventure, science, fiction, a fairy tale or something else?
Love and Romance, because the summary says: Dawson meets Jen and he is immediately in love. Therefore I think the story goes about love.

After reading the book
1. What is the title?
The title of the book is ‘The beginning of everything else’.

2. How would you explain the title?
The book is called ‘The beginning of everything else’ because the persons in the book are in the end of their life as children and now is there a beginning of everything else in their life.

3. Who tells the story?
The boy Dawson tells the story because he is the most important person and he tells the story about the life from himself and his friends.

4. When does this story take place?
They don’t give information about the time of the story. But I think it is a story that can be done every time. But it’s a time from a beginning of everything else.

5. Where does the story take place and is that place important for the story? Explain.
The story takes place in Capeside, a small village in Massachusetts. The place is not importont for the story because the story don’t go about the place but about the feelings from the persons in the story.

6. What kind of book was this? See question 3.
Love and Romance because the whole story is about love between girls and boys.

7. Which part did you like best and why?
The last part I like because that’s the part where Jen and Dawson are talking and they tells that they are in love with each other.

8. Which person would you like to be and why?
I like all the persons in this book because everything is friendly and nice.

9. Which person do you dislike and why?
I do not dislike a person because nobody do wrong things. As I say at question eight, all the persons are friendly and nice.

10. Did you like the end of the book? Why (not)?
Yes, the end go about Dawson and Jen. They are talking about their feelings. Dawson tells that he in love is with Jen. Jen answers: ‘Do you want to be my boyfriend?’ Dawson say yes and kissed Jen’s lips. That’s a romantic end from the story.

11. Has the main character changed throughout the story? Why?
Yes, Dawson changed from a child to a teenager with love feelings for Jen.

12. Is there a point in the book where everything changes?
No, there is no point where everything change.

13. What is the lesson in this book?
Your love can be there on a surprised moment. Dawson is outside and suddenly is there Jen, his love. That was a surprised moment for Dawson.

14. Should your fellow pupils also read this book?
Yes, because I like the book and it’s not too easy and not too difficult for pupils from our class. It is also a time from a life where we also be now.

15. What mark would you give this book?
The mark that I give to my book is a eight because it is a very nice story with a lot romantic things.

16. Write a short summary of about 100 words.
In the beginning there are two boys and one girl, they are friends of each other. Joey is looking a film with Dawson each week and after that, she always sleeping with him in the same bed. But on a day she doesn’t want that longer, because her feelings are changing, so for Dawson too. The next day they see a girl. The girl is the granddaughter of the neighbours of Dawson. Dawson loves her immediately. And you see that in the rest of the story.
There is a dance party and a boy has asked Jen for a date. Of course Dawson doesn’t like that. Dawson went in a argument with that boy, but Jen left. Later on, Dawson is sad but then he saw Jen, and they are talking about their feelings for each other. They are in love and on the end Dawson kissed Jen’s lips.