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Ms. Garvoille English I, 1st period 14 March 2011

Characters
a fourteen year old boy raised by his mother and stepfather, is the protagonist in the story. something that peak learned towards the end of the book was “The only thing that you’ll find on the summit is a Divine view the things that really matter lie far below.”
 * ’’’Peak’’’,

Peak’s father, a climber, is not there for Peak when he was growing up. He is one of the best mountaineers in the world. “As you can see, Mr wood is a very successful businessman.”
 * ’’’Josh Wood’’’,

,a monk, helps Sun-jo and Peak up Mount Everest. He is one of the main characters. He climbs with peak up mount Everest. “If he agrees to something he’ll do it, but he may not be doing it for the reason you think hes doing it. And he’ll he’ll never lwt you know why he’s doing it.
 * ’’’Zopa’’’

is a Napelese boy, only six days older than Peak, who climbs the mountain with Peak. He is Peak’s competitor and friend. Zopa brought sunjo to the summit to so that he would not have to become a climbing sherpa. A climbing sherpa is a guid that healps climbers up the mountain. jun jos father was a Sherpa and Zopa was a Sherpa. Sun jos father died becouse he was healping josh down the mountain. A quote that describes why zopa brought sun joo is
 * ‘’’Sun-jo’’’

she is a reporter from New york, covering Peaks story, she climbs Mount Everest with them. JR is a camera man,along for the climb with Holly, he his there to cover Peaks story. He is Peak’s English teacher, and mentor, from G.S.S-Greene Street School..
 * ’’’Holly Angelo’’’
 * ’’’JR’’’
 * ’’’Vincent’’’

Plot
Peak, a book composed of the writings of a fourteen year old boy is about him climbing Mt. Everest. The narration is set up in a way that it is supposed to be like you are reading the mole skins in which he records his adventure. In the opening scene peak writes about scaling the woolworht building in new york to tag his blue mountains on them..He is spotted from inside the building. He is arrested for climbing and vandalizing. These blue mountains are a stencil that he spays on the buildings that he had climbed and this was the sixth. After this He is in jail for a while then a boy died trying to copy his stunt of climbing a building. becouse of this the people of New York wanted to make an example of him by giving him a harsh punishment. the question was how harsh would the punishment be? when Peak went to court, his biological father Joshua Wood, came and offered to take Peak back to Thailand to live with him for a while until the situation was less severe in New York. It was either jail in New York, or live in Thailand with Josh, his biological father who he barely knew. There was not much of a choice for Peak so he left to go live with his father out of the country.

In the first flight Josh and Peak flew to Bangkok, Thailand. Josh told Peak that they were not going to Chiang Mai, which was were Peak was expecting to go, but stated they would be traveling to Kathmandu. At the Summit Hotel a hotel in katmandu, Josh leaves Peak and tells him that he is to wait for one of Josh’s friends, a Buddhist monk by the name of Zopa. Zopa would take him to base camp where they would prepare for the long climb up Everest. Then Peak meets Sun jo, a Napales boy, who comes to his hotel room to retrieve Peak and bring him back to Zopa. After thisPeak goes and gets climbing gear that fits him and then prepares for the trip. Sun jo, Peak, and Zopa travel to Tibet in the back of a pick up truck. Fter a long journey they arrive at base camp. when the get there Peak meets Holly Angelo, a reporter from New York, and he learns that she will be climbing the mountain with him. stunningleyPeak also realizes at this point that his father Josh, bailed him out of jail to come and climb Mount Everest. this is important because If he makes the climb, he will be the youngest person to the top of the summit of Mount Everest. Latera German climber was brought down the mountain in a Gamow bag. A Gamow bag is designed to help prevent the spread of a disease called H.A.P.E. a disease that is a type of altitude sickness When Peak saw this, Then they went to ABC camp (advanced base camp).Peak received letters from home making him miss his family.

theme
this is a man vs self storey. A commen theme in the book"peak“ is "the hardest task learning what friendship really means.”

This book"peak"offers much to the readers and (smith) explores“lots of convincing details about the rigors of mountain climbing and the political situation in tebet ad tho the realism of a tale of a boy testing himself against the elements, struggling with the relationship with his father, and making difficult moral dicisions.”