Blog 1

Dear Reader,
I really enjoyed the book King of the Mild Frontier. There were a lot of interesting points and stories. This book was set up as each chapter is set up as a different part in his life with a different problem that his temper has put him in. You may suspect that he would be put into these predicaments as according to when they happened but the order of these situations is used on a much more interesting style. He tells us about his problems so that when he tells of one when he was, say six, he could tell examples or relate it to one when he was twenty or thirty. This has really given me a greater liking of this book because it isn’t the slow moving chronological order of almost everyone autobiography you will ever find but the order helps you understand the book more.
The second reason that I have this book to be one of my favorite is the fact that Chris Crutcher has no problem telling about some of his most embarrassing moments throughout his life. This book has a lot of hilarity and if he would have taken out all of the chapters that embarrass him, the book would no longer be interesting or would most likely not even be a book. King of The Wild Frontier would be no longer than a couple of sentences on each time period of his had there not been the parts that can make anyone smile or even laugh. An example of this is that he once was trying to get into a club at his school that had one of the initiation programs that you see on movies. It was said that during school, Chris and other candidates for this club had to be slaves for the kids already in the club. Now you might think that is bad but that is the best part of the initiation compared to the parts at night. He tells that there are a row of boys that are trying to become members. They are all standing on the basketball court (naked) and awaiting the challenges put in front of them.
So the reasons listed above are just a couple of the reasons that I have found King of The Wild Frontier a tremendous book. There are also reasons that I enjoyed this book about the six+1 traits of writing that can be found on blog two and then more in blog three.