Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
I finished the book called Bill Peet: An Autobiography. To start this off I would like to say that this is a nonfiction, meaning that it's real, it is an autobiography so the person who wrote this was Bill Peet himself. The topic of this story is Bill Peet, a good artist that worked with Walt Disney in the 1900s, in which he also helped in the making of Dumbo, Pinocchio, and Snow White.
This paragraph that can be found on page 110 made me realize something that I never knew:
"Artists need an atmosphere of poverty, a degree of shabbiness to get into a creative mood."
This quote really made think during my 30 minutes, while I was thinking that I used the during reading strategy of visualizing the text, in which I think that what he meant is that in poverty you can imagine a better life, hence the drawing. This could be important to the reader because it lets the reader know what the author thinks of drawing, to which in my opinion he feels excited, as in a enjoyable mood.
The main idea is that Bill Peet grew up at a decent childhood, however during high school his classes were failed until he went to art school and went for the opportunity for Disney art. This is implied. I think I would this story the title of " The Life of a Disney Artist: Bill Peet."
An example of a chain of events happening for one cause are because a friend of Bill Peet from grade school that made him realize his true purpose... to an ARTIST, the effect of that moment is that he went to art school in which later one went to Disney to draw for famous movies. I would compare Bill Peet to Albert Einstein because they much potential that was able to go by people who made them realize. I would contrast Bill with Dave Gill because Bill likes to sleep early to wake up early, while Dave parties all night.
Some strategies I used before reading this book was to skim and scan for text features which I mostly found illustrations made by Bill Peet, and quotations from a dialogue, also the title page, publication page, and the opinions from companies.
This story is organized by chronological order because it was obvious because it gave the dates of the times in his life.
Another strategy I used before reading was to make a prediction.
During reading I have already told you one, but the other one is to confirm my predictions. After reading I asked myself what had happened in the story, and do a reader's journal. The author wrote this book to share the story of Bill Peet to the reader in a first person point of view. The essential message is that if you have a talent or you love to do something don't give up on it, but to enlarge that talent for the better being. Some resources I used to check that this story was true was to go online to Disney website to find out for employees. Another was the library and read more books about him. The last was to check credits at the end of movies he drew in.
Some new vocab I learned was shabbiness which means like used or old. I would relate this to my life because I had to research about Walt Disney and found some info on Bill Peet. This is related to another book called Alexander the founder of penicillin because he traveled to get to his destination where he would work. I would compare this to the world because people are misusing their talents and don't take advantage of it.
Some supporting details in this book were that his dad was a mean person who always went home just to take money from his mother, this is both factual because it happened and that he could be a mean person. Another was that when he went to his grandparents house he would always play with his cousins and their dog that needed happiness, this is factual. Another is that he worked with Disney Annex to work on drawing Donald duck, which is factual. The author only gave his point of view of the story and not other people that helped like Dave and his wife Margaret. I really liked how he resisted his teachers that really annoyed him and yelled at him for drawing things that shouldn't be drawn, for example monsters and such.
I would rate this book 9/10 because when I stopped reading I was excited to read more.
Sincerely,
Juan Diaz 702
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