Mon. 19th, 2015 "Schooled"

Prompt: Describe the main characters.

Book: Schooled 

By: Gordan Korman 

   Capricorn Anderson is the main character, he lives(d) at Garland Community. A hippy community where the only two people to live there are Cap and his grandmother Rain. Cap is described as "long blond flyaway hair" and "tall and skinny as a rake." He is also described as wearing "homemade pajamas" and "sandals woven out of cornhusks." You can not only tell he belongs to such a community as Garland, you can hear it in his vocabulary and wording. Not even in the first couple of minutes of him talking to Zachary Powers does he talk about locking ourselves away. Cap says "when we lock our things away, we're imprisoning ourselves." He is defiantly on the unusual side. 

   Rain is another main character. She is one of the founding mothers of Garland Community, she broke her hip while falling out of a tree picking plums. Her real name is Mrs. Rosenblatt but she changed it to Rain. She is Cap's grandmother, although she wasn't his grandmother the entire time. She was only his teacher at first, then she became "the caregiver to my grandson! The only caregiver!" Although she is not described physically in the book, I can picture her as a short, plump woman. I can also picture her with long brown hair and a friendly smile. With flowers in her hair and throughout her clothing.

   Zachary Powers is one of the most popular eighth graders in Claverage (or C Average) Middle School. He is also not described physically but his personally is screamed out: jerk. He automatically "volunteers" Cap as class president and makes him think he has to do ridiculous things as president. Things like know everybody in the school's name and have weekly press conferences. He was the first person to meet Cap and vice versa.

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