Child abuse

During the course of this book I have come to think that the main point could be either anger management of child abuse. I have decided to do mine about child abuse. Some of the things that happen is, when Chris was young and he had his temper, his parents would let him do what he did but make it painful so he wouldn’t do it again ( King of the Mild Frontier all of chapter 1). I have found one web site that has all of the statistics that I have needed. (Child abuse… statistics, research, and resources). First here are some of the statistics that I found on this website. Most of the children that experience child abuse never are found by the government until they are either old enough to be away from that person or we find a body. This is one of the saddest statistics I have ever heard because I thought that the government found almost all of the children before it was to late. I also found out that this is a problem for a big reason. People don’t want to believe this either because they just can’t come to understand that or they just don’t want to believe this. It is almost impossible to figure out the exact number of children abused is because they either never tell anyone if the survive or the body is never found, unidentified, or has no apparent cause of death. Another reason is because every state and territory has a different line between parenting and child abuse and so every state is different.
This next paragraph of information was all found at Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia has a definition of child abuse unlike each individual state. Wikipedia says that Child abuse is the physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others. There are several causes for Child abuse. The biggest cause is the fact that the abusers were themselves abused. Not that this makes it okay, but it makes you wonder if those people had a reason to do it to others. Other causes are mental illness, or the abusers have some kind of physical or mental deformity. The worst case effect of child abuse is that the children will grow up and in turn abuse their own children, which does nothing but start a vicious chain. Most of the children that get abused end up with mental unrest and detachment issues. 80% of children that get abused have some type of disorganized attachment problems. Most of these children will become depressed at sometime during their life or they may even become suicidal and not except help from any of the several organizations that offer help to abused and neglected children all over the world.

Blog 2

Dear the random roamers of the internet and blogger because you most likely have no life,

There are a lot of stories in the book King of the Mild Frontier that I found enjoyable. In this blog that is what I am going to tell you all about. There is the story of how he tries to get into the C club and has to go through some of the most outrageous challenges of his life. There is also the scene where he gets shot in the head by the bb gun that his older brother brought over. Finally there is the scene where his brother breaks his plaque and tells him Esus is Jesus’s brother. These are my favorite scenes so here they come.
First there is the scene whit the crazy stunts that he pulls to get into the C club. As soon as someone letters it is almost mandatory that they join this club. First they have to go around and do what ever their selected letterman wants them to do. It is mostly running stupid errands and having you do things that will impress whichever lady friends they might want to. Then the fun part comes. At night you have to go to the gym naked and perform dumb things until you are done. First there is the oyster eating contest that you must participate in. They set a plate down in front of you with oysters and to continue to the next task you must eat the entire plate without puking anything up. Then the best part comes. There is a shoe in front of everyone, and an olive at the other end. The contestants had to run down to the other end of the gym and pick up the live in between their butt cheeks and run back to the other end and drop the olive into the shoe. The best part is that if you got last you had to go and eat all of the other olives right out of the shoe with what ever condiment there are on them. There are a couple of more tasks but when you finish them all then you are part of the club and get to go into the locker room and put you clothes back on (King of the Mild Frontier chapter 5)
The chapter about the bb gun was short but still one of my favorites. Chris and his brother have always wanted a bb gun but their father won’t let them. When they learn that their parents are leaving and one of their friends have a bb gun then they know what they must do. When the friend gets there the brother convinces Chris to go and run from tree to tree while the brother and his friend shoot at him. When he gets hit the brother finds a way to get out of getting in trouble for that and the whole subject is never talked about again (King of the Mild Frontier Chapter 8)
The final story is the story of Esus, Jesus’s brother. When Chris went to Sunday school every week for a year he got a prize. It was a glow in the dark plaque that said Jesus on it. Chris loved his new plaque and when his brother came down to look at it he ended up breaking it so that it only said Esus. His brother also got out of this so he didn’t get in trouble but in a quite interesting way. He convinced his brother Chris that Esus was a real person and he was Jesus’s brother and he was the one that made miracles. He also told Christ that if he told anyone people would know that he knew about Esus and no one was supposed to know about Esus. He told him that Esus was a secret and if he told anyone that he knew about it that the plaque would be taken away and he would never be able to see it again (King of the Mild Frontier Chapter 7)

Backround info

In the book King of the Mild Frontier I couldn’t really find much of a plot. There are so many short stories that there is no one plot, there are several small plots. I really didn’t like the way he wrote it with that kind of plot. It was hard to follow the entire stories plot because the whole time you were just trying to figure out which plot that you should be following. This idea was also a good idea because; it was very helpful to follow each small plot. It was like an entire different novel within each chapter. Overall I think that the cons way out the pros and so I think that he should have had one plot that was easy to understand throughout the entire book in a much easier way instead of each chapter individually.

Because this book randomly travels through the life of a certain Chris Crutcher, there is no distinct setting throughout the book. The book King of the Mild Frontier takes place in entirely in Cascade Idaho, a small poor town with many weak athletics. The book revolves around his temper if anything, and he describes it differently in every one of his several short stories. Most are based somewhere in his school or at events for his school but there is the rare few that have nothing to do with the school. Some of the stories are based at his house and there are some that are based at the place of his employment. I think that the setting really changes the way that the story is told. If it had been placed in a big town like Boise or something like that there may have been some serious differences with his book. For one thing he would not have been on any sports team. The only reason that he made it on one in the first place was because everyone that went to his school automatically made it on a team. There also wouldn’t have been a bigger selection of things that he could try so that he wouldn’t have had to join C club and do the interesting tasks that they required Chris Crutcher to participate in, since he had gotten a letter. These are the basic things that the setting would have changed and since I am not a real big fan of this book I think that it would have been a better book if the setting of the book would have been placed in a bigger city so the changes would have occurred.

There are really only two characters really talked about in the book King of the Mild Frontier. There was Chris obviously since the book was an autobiography, and there was also his brother which was only talked about when he was trying to make Chris do something for his own personal game, and when it hurt Chris later either physically or mentally. Chris is the main character in this story. The entire book is based on his life and he is also the author of this novel. He goes from being only a boy of the age of two in one of his stories; to they have him at thirty four in one of the books about his at his current job. He appears to be a boy with good intentions every time until something goes terribly wrong or his temper takes over and he loses all of his control. In one of the stories he is entering a bicycle race to try and impress a girl. When he falls into dead last and the announcer is yelling at him to get off of the race track he raises his had in anger with only his middle finger in the air, and tells the announcer “Shut up you big fat shitburger”(King of the Mild Frontier Page 9) which surprised me quite a bit. The other character is the main antagonist in the story. Chris’s brother seems like the only thing he likes more that getting something for free, is taking that this from Chris and making Chris mad or miserable. He also will tell Chris lies when he does something wrong that makes Chris think that what he did was either good, or telling his parents would make it much worse. So the two main characters in this story are so different and so it makes the book exponentially better than it would have been with old boring characters.

Blog 3

Dear Reader, and or anyone else that could possible conceive to read this random blog about a random book,

I found the book King of the Mild Frontier to be one of the most interesting books that I have ever read in my entire life. It is a mixture of an autobiography and a book filled with so many short stories it could blow you mind off. Each chapter in the book King of the Mild Frontier is a different time period in his life. The time periods seem random. We will tell a story about having to carry olives in his butt, and then he will quote that segment of his book later in the book even though the spot that he uses the quote may actually be a time period before the olive scene. The book has the big problem of anger management. He tells all of his stories as though he is trying to teach his reader not to make the same mistakes he made. He compares a lot of his short stories or chapters into a lessen that he teaches in his therapy. He has grown up with one of the worst tempers a little boy could possibly have. When he was in a race and trying to impress a girl, he never gave up. When the announcer told him that he needed to get off the track so they could start the next race, he raised his hand with his middle finger extended, flicked off the announcer and told him to shut up while calling him a big fat shitburger (King of the Mild Frontier Page 9). A chapter that closely followed this was one of the chapters where the entire story was about teaching a child abuser to stop what he is doing. He asks what he does to his children that the government has classified under child abuse. When he tells him the he puts them in a corner and won’t let them out until they can tell him why they are here and tell it to him backwards. Chris hears this and he can only think of one way to stop him, or maybe he just found this way to be what he thought to be the most successful way. He tells the man to get up and go stand in the corner. When he tries to resist, he tells the man that he has all the time in the world and can go to court and tell the judge that this man was not listening to his counselor and he would never see his children again and would spend time in jail. Finally the man gets up. Chris realizes why the children would get scared of him. He is much bigger than any man that Chris has ever seen. He knows that if he pushes this guy to far that he will forget about the fact that his counselor has the power to throw him in jail, get up and pound Chris into the ground. He tells the man to sit down in the corner. When he does so Chris tells him that he can leave the corner when he can tell him what he did wrong and say in backwards. Eventually the man starts to clench his fist and Chris lets him return so that he may walk out of this room alive. When they get back he explains to the man the reason that this was done. He explains that this was not only an exercise that would show him exactly what it feels like to do this to his children, but also to put him in a situation that might be the only thing that he is scared of. By doing this to him in front of other people he becomes embarrassed and makes him mad. He was able to control his rage and not lash out which also show Chris and himself that he is making progress with his anger in a much less painful way than Crutch himself. Crutch’s temper was delt with in a much more painful way. When he was young he would ply up into the air and fling his legs out from under him. He would land so hard on the floor that his parents were afraid that he would hurt himself. They called the doctor and asked what they should do. He told them that they should roll and alphabet block underneithe him when he was falling. They did this and as soon as Crutch was done sobbing and for the rest of his life, never again did he ever try to take his own personal anger out in the same way as that. He came up with some other interesting ways that were all delt with in the same type of manner but they could never cure him of his intense rage that cursed him when he got mad.

six traits

Dear Reader,
The novel King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher is an autobiography that includes some of the best writing I have ever seen in an autobiography. Crutcher uses the six plus one traits of writing like no one else. For those of you that do not know what these traits are, get ready because here they come. First there is Voice, followed by ideas and content. Next is sentence fluency. Word choice is next in line. Conventions, organization, and presentation are the last ones in the list.
First in Chris’s book, the voice is amazing. He was there and they are stories that have actually happened to him so he is the pro. This part must have come easy to him. Who would know how to describe a situation better than the person that was in that situation? He knows what it feels like in the situation and so he can write the story with great ease and understanding.
Secondly, there is ideas and content which flows much like voice in the story. Having King of the Mild Frontier be an autobiography, the ideas and content are just the stories that have happened in his life. It doesn’t take much to write about because all that has to be done is remembering and writing down the words and scenes that you remember.
Next there is the trait called sentence fluency. The book King of The Mild Frontier has a good sentence fluency. You really can understand what he is trying to say and he easily gets the point across. There are some sentences that could have been altered to make it an easier read. Most of these sentences are ones that were quotes from his life or describing a scene and so he used the words that would be used in everyday speech. Some of these however do not flow as well when in context with the rest of the story and could have been changed. Overall his sentence fluency is very good however
Fourth I have word choice. There are so many quotes that he used form his childhood and the other time periods in his life. The word choice varies excessively throughout the book and so it makes it hard to put all of it in one sentence. When he is not quoting himself or trying to describe himself he has an amazing word choice.
Now there is the convections and organization. All of his convections for King of the Mild Frontier are correct since it is a published book. His organization is one that is not seen very often. He doesn’t use chronological order. He puts them in order so that he can go back and quote his own words in parts of his life that may be before the part of his life the is actually quoting so it makes the whole story easier to read.
Finally, there is the presentation of the book. This is the cover of the book. I think that there is no point of the cover that was chosen. It doesn’t relate to the book at all. The cover is a single boy and the story is about his entire life so I think that there should have been several pictures of Mr. Crutcher. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and I hope that is was extremely informative.

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.